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(1990)

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Sex & Nudity

Violence & Gore

  • A man is in a car crash; his car rolls down a hill and he is knocked unconscious. His face is bloody and we later learn his legs are severely broken.
  • A man is shown in very deep pain throughout the entire film, and his legs are shown very injured.
  • A man who can't walk must drag himself across the floor, he is shown in pain.

Profanity

  • In one scene, when frustrated with Paul's writing, Annie repeatedly uses "effing" (only the abbreviation, not the real word).
  • "Fuck" is said once, aggressively as a direct insult towards the end of the movie
  • A man types the f word during one scene whilst writing a novel. This is intended to be comical.
  • "Cocksucker" is said once toward the end but it's easy to miss. The movie is tame in terms of profanity.
  • One use of the middle finger.
  • "Bitch" is said twice.
  • "Bastard" is said a couple of times.
  • About 2 uses of "shit".
  • A few "damn"s and "hell"s.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man is given pills several times.
  • A man is injected with a sedative.
  • A man and a woman drink wine together.
  • A man is seen smoking a cigarette.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Movie is more disturbing than scary/frightening.
  • The movie is built on the tension of a person being held against their will without anyone knowing about it, as the movie progresses it becomes increasingly intense as the captor goes to extreme measures to keep her victim, who is injured and has limited movement. This movie doesn't contain jumpscares like a lot of other horror films but is very suspenseful and psychologically frightening.
  • One character has some scenes where she is very violent and temperamental, and some scenes that include her in such a state.
  • One scene involves a wheelchair bound man trying to get back into a room before his captor arrives home.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • Annie is hit in the face with a pig statue, killing her.
  • A woman breaks a man's ankles with a sledgehammer. We see her place a block of wood between his ankles and then hit one of them with the sledgehammer. It snaps around the block of wood and we hear a disturbing sound as his ankle breaks, and we see it bend around the block. We see her raise the sledgehammer to do the second one but the camera cuts away to the mans screaming and pained face. No blood or gore
  • A man is shot in the back with a shotgun, and a bloody exit wound appears in his chest.
  • A man in a wheelchair beets a woman over the head with a typewriter. She beats him and shoots him in the shoulder, he shoves burnt paper down her throat and gouges her eyes with his thumbs (blood is shown coming from her eyes). The woman is tripped and she hits her head on a side of a typewriter (not fatal). There is some blood, although the scene is not too graphic.
  • A woman acts violently towards a man in a wheelchair on occasion, including spraying lighter fluid on him while holding a box of matches, injecting him with a sedative, tying him to his bed, and occasionally slamming something on his legs or otherwise harming him.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man attempts to drug a woman by spiking her wine and spliting the pills she gives him full of powder inside. However he doesn't succeed.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • One character has his ankles broken by another character with a sledgehammer.
  • The final fight scene can be quite intense for some viewers.
  • It's revealed that a woman character has murdered children and other people in the hospital where she used to work.

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