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(I) (2016)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for violence involving sexual assault, disturbing sexual content, some grisly images, brief graphic nudity, and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • We see a clip of a computer generated monster holding a woman down on a table and using its tentacles to go up the woman's skirt. This clip is seen at least three times.
  • A woman asks a man to show her his penis. He pulls his pants down, but we only see his butt.
  • Sexual violence (violent rape) is depicted on a few occasions. We see the man's bare buttocks after one of the attacks. We see the woman's breasts on a few brief occasions, as well as her buttocks.
  • There are scenes depicting sexual violence where some heavy blows are dealt on the victim, screams and some brief thrusting is seen (See Violence & Gore for more details).
  • The film also depicts some of the characters willingly role-playing "aggressor" and "victim" to derive sexual gratification.
  • In addition, the film features an implied masturbation scene where the female protagonist touches herself while spying on her neighbor, as well as a sexual scene between the female protagonist and her lover on their bed, which features mainly upper body shots with some thrusting visible.
  • The film also contains some scenes of non-sexual nudity, of which there are two scenes of full-frontal female nudity, but these are brief and incidental.

Violence & Gore

  • A woman is raped violently in her home, she is hit several times and there is blood on both her and the attacker.
  • A woman fantasizes about bashing her rapist's skull in with a blunt object, the sequence is violent and has blood and gore visible.
  • Aside from this, there are a few crime scene photographs, where bloody injury and detail are featured.
  • A few mild scenes of violence are shown in a video game, where a video game character is seen to physically assault a female non-player character, as well as a scene where a tentacle assaults another character.

Profanity

  • Uses of "f**k" and "c**t", by the main characters.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Adults are shown casually drinking wine in a restaurant.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A woman is attacked and raped by a man several times.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • A rape victim comes home to find semen on her bed next to a taunting note from her attacker.
  • The film revolves around the female protagonist, a rape victim, who decides to uncover the identity of the rapist herself, rather than to report the case to the police. Later, protagonist finds out rapist's wife was complicit in his crime.

Violence & Gore

  • The protagonist is raped again in a boiler room, where she is thrown against a wall and beaten several times.
  • The protagonist is attacked a third time, in her home, and hits her attacker with a glass vase. Once becoming cornered in a room her throws her to the grown and attempts to rape her. He is violent and hits her.
  • Other scenes of violence are depicted in the film, including one where the female protagonist is seen fighting her rapist with a shot of her stabbing him in the hand with a pair of scissors, and the latter being hit in the head by a weapon with bloody detail.
  • This is shown when her rapist is hit in the head with a bat, and his skull is crushed and the wound is graphically depicted, with bloodletting.

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