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- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (1)
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- Spoilers (6)
Certification
| MPAA | Rated R for disturbing violent images and some terror |
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Sex & Nudity
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- There are some kisses between the married couple.
- A braless woman wears a form-revealing shirt. There is nothing sexual about the character interactions in the scene.
Violence & Gore
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- The film opens with full-screen Super 8 footage and we see a family of four standing under a tree with bags over their heads and nooses around their necks: each person is lifted by the nooses and strangled when a large limb on the other side of the tree is sawed off; we see this scene several times and a demonic face with black-triangle eyes and yellowed peeling skin appears.
- Three people die by having their throats slit. Blood is minimally shown, and in the last case is out-of-focus.
- A man watches films that he found in his attic and sees people being murdered in various ways, most of the violence is offscreen, but the camera work and editing really makes it scary.
- We see photos of people with marks on their necks
- A small girl is shown swinging (in a disturbingly playful manner) from the feet of a hanging man.
- A man falls through a weak spot in his attic floor and the camera cuts to an EMT in the kitchen, wrapping the man's left calf with bandages (we see a little blood).
- A man argues briefly with a sheriff twice and argues with his wife several times, escalating shouting and cursing until it's very loud.
- A woman argues with her son and her daughter in different scenes, screaming at them for drawing morbid pictures.
- We hear of a serial killer and a string of murdered families several times.
- We hear that a child is missing after a family is murdered.
Profanity
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- 2 uses of "fuck", both barely audible, and a few uses of "shit".
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Cigarette smoking in one scene, and several instances of alcohol consumption.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- After the pool scene, a man with a demonic looking face rises up from the water.
- The tapes are very disturbing and creepy.
- In close up, a knife is seen approaching a man's neck who is bound and gagged in his bed. The throat cutting is then seen reflected in Ethan Hawke's glasses with a lot of blood pouring out from the wound.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- A man sees glowing green liquid in his coffee and passes out, foaming at the mouth (please see the Substance Use category for more details); when he wakes up, he finds himself and his wife and son bound and gagged.
- We hear a deputy and a crime researcher discuss a case of murdered families across America and that a serial killer murdered them all from the 1950s to the late 1990s; a college professor says that the murders are part of a cult-following initiation that includes blood sacrifice and the cannibalism of children's bodies and souls.
- A girl paints a dead girl swinging from a tire swing on the hallway wall at home and in her bedroom; she also draws four stick people hanging by nooses from a tree with a demonic face on the tree trunk.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
- A glowing green liquid is seen in most of Bughuul's snuff films, which is used by the possessed children (including Ashley) to spike their family's drinks (i.e. Ellison's coffee) to weaken them and knock them out cold (in Ellison's case, he foams at the mouth) before they get slaughtered.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- Some jumps scares, especially the video sequence with the lawnmower.
- The movie is intense and frightening throughout, especially the murder tapes and the ending.
