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(2019)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for disturbing ritualistic violence and grisly images, strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Swedish paintings are shown several times throughout the film, sometimes with nudity. One shows a close up of a vulva, showing in detail how she is trimming pubic hairs to put in food as a sort of love potion.
  • A prolonged sex scene between two characters, watched and encouraged by many naked women.
  • A few sexual jokes are made, mostly by one character.
  • There are a few references to incest
  • A man discovers a female pubic hair in his food. A piece of hair resembling pubic hair, and which a character describes as a "pube," is held up to the camera.
  • Several scenes of graphic full frontal female genital nudity, one very close up and for a length of time. Very graphic.
  • A man runs around the village naked (genitalia visible)

Violence & Gore

  • It is implied that a character drowned offscreen.
  • A man wears another man's face as a mask. This is shown for a split second in a darkly lit shot -- or, in the full-length film, for a prolonged period.
  • A man is shown hanging from the ceiling with ropes tied on his legs and arms. His lungs have been pulled out through his back and are suspended outside his body, similar to a Blood Eagle execution done by the Vikings in ancient times. A shot lingers on the bloody lungs, which are inflating and deflating, indicating the man is still alive.
  • A man gets hit over the back of the head with a hammer and falls to the ground. A little blood is shown underneath his head when he see him on the floor.
  • An amputated leg is shown sticking out from the soil in a garden.
  • In one scene, two elderly people willingly sacrifice themselves by jumping off a cliff in front of a crowd standing by. We a see the graphic impact of the woman's face hitting the ground and getting completely torn apart and then another graphic closeup of her extremely disfigured and torn apart face. The man then jumps off the cliff and doesn't die but it completely destroys one of his legs in an extremely gory way, which is graphically shown in closeup. Another cult member walks to him with a large wooden hammer, and graphically smashes his head apart. This is shot very closeup.
  • 14+

Profanity

  • 35 uses of "fuck". Several uses of "shit" and "ass" as well.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Through out the movie many people consume hallucinogens, both knowingly and unknowingly. The ground distorts behind them though it is hard to notice.
  • A woman takes Ativan during an anxiety attack.
  • Throughout the series of rituals, people drink shots of what is presumably hard liquor; it is unclear whether it is laced with a hallucinogen or not.
  • A man has a powder, presumably a sedative and paralytic, blown into his face.
  • A man is seen vaping occasionally.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The intense, constant brightness and colorfulness of the film matched with some of the onscreen violence is an unusual combination, which may turn some viewers off from watching it.
  • The film deals with an array of themes such as unhappy relationships, trauma, mental illness, etc.
  • Very disturbing and incredibly graphically violent.
  • The many deaths throughout may be difficult for many viewers.
  • The main character has a hallucination in a mirror of a woman with a gas mask. The sunny atmosphere in contrast with the frightening situations makes the whole movie even more disturbing. The chilling score elevates the scares.
  • A child with a horribly disfigured face is shown throughout the movie and it is revealed he was born of an incestuous coupling.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Violence & Gore

  • A man blows dust into another man's face and he is later told that he cannot move or speak.
  • Several people are caught in a burning building at the end of the film.
  • In one scene a bear is graphically cut open and its internal organs are removed. A character is then placed in side the bear.
  • Murder-suicide is shown: the fire service are shown entering a house with pipes leading from a car in the garage. Upstairs, a couple are shown dead in bed; in a nearby room, a young woman is shown dead wearing a mask connected to one of the pipes.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Two men are given "the sap of the yew tree" to keep them from feeling pain or fear.
  • A girl takes mushrooms and goes off on a bad trip. The background behind her starts to contort and grass grows out of her hand. She soon runs into a small shed and her face starts to distort in the mirror.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A tragedy happens near the beginning of the film (see Violence/ Gore for more details). A character whose relatives were involved in it is seen wailing in distress after being informed of their deaths.
  • All of the characters are under the influence of some form of psychedelic drugs soon after arriving at the commune. While they're high, things such as mountains in the background move like waves, and references to the tragedy in the beginning are super-imposed in the background. While extremely subtle, if noticed it can be off putting.
  • A group of people are trapped in a barn set on fire and slowly burn to death.
  • Numerous bloated and mutilated corpses of main characters are seen being piled inside a building and set on fire. The corpses are prepared in various disturbing ways and are extremely realistic looking.

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