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(2019)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for horror violence, bloody images, and some language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • There's one kissing scene of a married couple (a man and a woman).

Violence & Gore

  • All the very gruesome stuff takes place in the final 20 minutes.
  • A man has his Achilles Tendon ripped/sliced open with a scalpel, and the inside of this foot is visible for a split second, with blood squirting out. The man then falls down the stairs.
  • After a man's heel is sliced, a young girl repeatedly stabs him.
  • Not an extreme amount of violence, although more violent than the original.

Profanity

  • 5 uses of "fuck". Two uses of "son of a bitch."
  • Lots and lots of cussing.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Characters drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes.
  • A man drugs another to unconsciousness by putting something in his drink. He doesn't harm him further.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Many nightmarish images on a foggy cemetery.
  • Some jump scares.
  • Victor Pascow has a frightening presence in the movie. He has a body covered in blood and his brain is briefly shown in a few scenes in the film.
  • the sister may be scary to some viewers

Spoilers

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

Violence & Gore

  • There is a graphic scene of a fataly injured man with a ripped open skull and the pulsating brain can be seen.
  • The achilles' heel of one character is cut by a scalpel with gruesome results. Pretty nasty stuff.
  • A cat enjoys killing a bird and rips it open.
  • A character is stabbed in the stomach and tormented before dying. She is slowly stabbed with the knife twisting and turning.
  • One character is killed by an iron bar pushed through his chest.
  • The front half of a semi truck turns too soon to avoid one child, but the back half comes apart and hurtles at 65 mph and hits a little girl in the road, killing her instantly. The impact isn't seen, but some blood and her dead body are seen afterward.
  • Rachel's sister Zelda has spinal meningitis, and crawls toward Rachel as her spine cracks loudly. It can be quite disturbing.
  • The father, Louis, tries to re-kill evil Ellie (a child) by sitting on top of her & strangling her as she struggles & kicks.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • One character returns from the dead and behaves strange before killing other characters.
  • A family returns from the dead and frightens their surviving child in a car.
  • Rachel's sister, who is shown in flashbacks and nightmarish dreams, was deformed, with a twisted spine and protruding shoulder blades, etc.; she is portrayed in an intense and frightening manner.
  • Living beings returning from death appearing dirty, ill and zombie-like can be frightening to some audiences, especially since they are shown to have an aggressive behavior.
  • There is an intense and frightening scene where a very young boy is almost killed by a moving truck; although his father saves him, the boy's older sister (who is also young) is killed a little further down the road by the truck which has now tumbled and fallen over in an attempt to avoid the boy.
  • You see a silhouette of the legendary monster "Wendigo" while one of the character is in the ancient burial grounds. The creature stands in the back looking at the character.
  • Rachel's deformed sister Zelda falls down a dumbwaiter.
  • The father, Louis, tries to re-kill evil Ellie (a child) by sitting on top of her & strangling her as she struggles & kicks.
  • the main theme of the movie is child loss and how much it can destroy parents. This is very sad, as we see what an emotional wreck Ellie's father becomes, as we see his sadness and depression throughout the movie, and he eventually decides to bring Ellie back, however this backfired and she kills her entire family. This movie is very sad, and also very emotional, and it's not like your typical horror movie: many parents will find this movie extremely disturbing.

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