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(1972)

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Sex & Nudity

  • A man's bare buttocks are seen for an extended time.

Violence & Gore

  • A man accidentally hits his own thumb with a hammer and screams out in pain.
  • A live fish is speared with an arrow, it is seen impaled and writhing around.
  • A dead body is seen with blood dripping out of it's nose, mouth, and chest.
  • While shooting another man with a bow and arrow, a character trips over and partly impales his own hip with another arrow, which he then has to pull out.
  • A man is seen staggering around with an arrow through his chest before he dies.

Profanity

  • 5 F-words (most of them actually during the first 14 minutes), 4 scatological words, 10 religious profanities, 4 other profane words

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Ed is seen smoking a pipe at the start.
  • Lewis is seen lighting and smoking a cigar.
  • 3 of the 4 men are shown drinking alcohol around the campfire.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Bobby is raped in the film's most intense scene. While not that graphic, the scene is still very disturbing as it displays the victim being chased, held down and taunted during the assault. And after all that, the anal rape begins, with disturbing squealing from the rapist and the victim, but not explicitly visible.
  • The rapists are creepy and unsettling.

Spoilers

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

Sex & Nudity

  • A man is forced to strip at gunpoint after which another man pulls his underwear down and his bare buttocks are exposed in several shots. The man then proceeds to anally rape him (nothing visible,) while forcing him to mimic the sounds of a pig.
  • The rapists say very vulgar things, and one comments that Ed "has a very pretty mouth."

Violence & Gore

  • Ed is tied to a tree by a belt around his neck.
  • A man cuts Ed's chest with a large hunting knife, for some reason the wound doesn't bleed but does leave a red scar.
  • Lewis shoots a man with an arrow. The man is shown slowly dying, with part of the arrow sticking out of his chest and the other part sticking out of his back.
  • Drew is shot, you faintly see it, but Lewis says it over and over again.
  • Lewis injures his leg while being dragged down rapids. When he gets out of the water, part of the bone of his leg is seen protruding out through the injury site.
  • Ed lands awkwardly and is impaled on one of his own arrows; the arrow is seen protruding from his side.
  • Drew's dead body is seen with a dislocated arm wrapped around the back of his head.

Profanity

  • The rapists quote sexual, but very vulgar things.

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