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(2020)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for violence, some disturbing images, and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • About 21-22 minutes into the movie, a pole dancer is seen in the background in a bar. She is wearing an outfit that is similar to a black bra and black panties (most of her butt is covered).
  • Mentions of prostitution, e.g, "paying for sex."
  • At about 11 minutes into the movie, a woman's nude (blocked by trees) dead body is found. When the camera comes closer, it only shows her face and above her chest.
  • At 1 hour 11 minutes 26 seconds, another scene where a woman is dancing on a pole, in the background. She's wearing a outfit that looks like she's in her bra and panties with tassels. Scene ends at 1 hour 11 minutes 38 seconds.

Violence & Gore

  • Young women/teen girls are kidnapped, hunted, and murdered; some of the dead bodies are shown with gaping neck wounds.
  • Characters are shot, caught in bear traps, impaled with spikes, and stabbed with spears and arrows; blood spurts are seen.
  • A man stitches a wound in his chest from an spear hit; some blood is seen.
  • Intense fight scenes where characters beat on each other with fists and other weapons, attempt to stab and shoot each other at very close range. Multiple uses of guns during intense scenes.

Profanity

  • Frequent strong and mild language, and middle-finger gestures.
  • This movie contains considerable profanity... fuck is said often...GoD and Jesus Christ is spoken a half dozen times each ...quite a bit of other profanity
  • There are 15 uses of f*ck, 17 uses of sh*t, 7 uses of g*dd*mn.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Rayburn is an alcoholic and is seen drinking beer and whisky throughout; other characters are seen drinking beers.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Young women/teen girls are seen being hunted down and shoot at with arrows and spears in the woods by someone in a gillie suit.
  • Stuffed dead animals are seen in a house.
  • A newspaper story tells how a child was locked up in a barn by their abusive foster parents.

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Violence & Gore

  • A young girl is stabbed in the stomach with a wooden spear; little blood.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A live young woman is seen with an open surgical neck wound, visible for several seconds, hearing her breath through the open wound. No flowing blood blood but very gruesome and may be disturbing.

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