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(2008)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for some violence and terror
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Woman uses flirtatious manner to get out of a ticket, camera pans in on her body shape briefly to convey this idea. As a result, cop eyes her in a somewhat impure manner.
  • No nudity.
  • Leslie, who through most of the film wears a low-cut dress showing cleavage, kisses her boyfriend on a number of occasions.
  • In a provocative and sexually disturbing manner, man repeatedly tells a woman she is "pretty" and that he "wants" her. (There's talk of violating her in his room.)

Violence & Gore

  • Extremely tame for an R rated horror film.
  • The four guests and their three hosts fight to the death in frenetic sequences that largely avoid blood and gore, but feature brutal assaults.
  • Axes, meat hooks, guns, crowbars, candlesticks and knives are the weapons of choice.
  • Heads are smashed during fight sequence but no blood and gore or visuals of damage shown.
  • Torsos pummeled, etc.
  • In a meat locker, pig carcasses take the brunt of quite a few blows, as if the director wanted to show meat being sliced but didn't want to put an ax through human flesh.
  • People are held at gun- or knifepoint. At least four are shot. One is stabbed.
  • Others fall through ice and either drown beneath it or are suddenly awakened from their hallucinations. We see them struggle for air.
  • Jack purposely cuts his hand with a large knife to see if he'll bleed blood or black smoke.
  • One of the couples fights, eventually killing each other. The woman stabs the man in the stomach.

Profanity

  • The word "h---" is once used as a profanity.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Jack jokes about free beers as a payment.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • An old woman and an old mans head start spitting out black smoke
  • little girl falls through ice may be frightening for some viewers
  • There are a few scenes where characters are in a room with satanic symbols on the walls, so some people might get frightened by that.
  • A few scenes where Jack and Stephanie rewatch the moment in their life where their daughter falls through thin ice and drowns, noticeing their faults that caused her death will be extremely frightening especially to parents.

Spoilers

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

Sex & Nudity

  • It's implied that as a child Leslie was sexually molested by her uncle. She relives that nightmarish shame and faces her uncle again via flashback. In it, she's still an adult, but she's dressed in a baby-doll dress and has bright, little-girl-playing-pretend makeup on her face.
  • Woman who experiences distress is embraced by a man who is trying to comfort her; the man is married. In the moment, she attempts to kiss him but is unsuccessful.

Violence & Gore

  • Disturbing scene of man holding gun to his wife right at beginning as she's running from him and afraid. He shoots her.
  • Another disturbing scene of little boy shooting his father with a gun.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Moments where a husband directs a gun at his wife and shoots and a child directs a gun at his father and shoots.
  • When the tin man is revealed and seen in his mask its pretty creepy.

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