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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for brief sexual content/full nudity.
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A scene of a fully nude man skinny dipping in the mud includes genital and buttocks.
  • A bunch of men washing and playing across a river bank are shown naked. Buttocks are seen.
  • A man takes off his shirt and strokes his body with a scarf, and then slips it down the front of his pants and presumably starts to masturbate - though it is unclear.
  • Full male nudity, both front and back.
  • There are a few sexual references.
  • For about 5 seconds a couple is heard moaning during sex.

Violence & Gore

  • Scenes of explicit, but obscured, predatory animal behavior where animal skins and intestines are cut out by two men. Also scenes of animals being tortured and abused by men.
  • A man castrates a bull while it is being held down. Quick shots of the sac being cut open and testicles being squeezed out, and a man holding the testicles with his bare hand.
  • Two men skin a dead, decapitated cow. Its head is seen on a nearby table, and the skin is halfway down its body.
  • A rabbit is briefly seen dissected with its innards displayed.
  • A man finds a dead cow with a wound on its hindquarters. Close-up shot of the cow's skin being cut, no blood.
  • A man develops a wound on his hand. Shots of it dripping blood on grass, later a shot of the hand submerged in water with blood pooling from it. The hand becomes increasingly infected and severe.
  • A scene of a horse getting beaten and the horse crying out in pain.

Profanity

  • Infrequent language which includes one single use of both "damn" and "bitch."
  • One use of "faggot."

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Alcohol and smoking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Verbal and visually written references to suicide.
  • The film has a lot of tension throughout, mostly owing to the unpredictable behavior of certain characters.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • The ending of the film is very chilling since a man gets infected with anthrax by another man until he dies, this can shock many viewers.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A woman becomes an alcoholic and is emotionally and physically affected by its effects.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The ending is very depressing and may disturb viewers.

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