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Parents Guide for
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Since the beliefs that parents want to instill in their children can vary greatly, we ask that instead of adding your personal opinions about what is right or wrong in a film, that you instead use this feature to help parents make informed viewing decisions by describing the facts of relevant scenes in the title for each one of the different categories: Sex and Nudity, Violence and Gore, Profanity, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking, and Frightening/Intense Scenes.
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Sex & Nudity

Various sexual scenes shown on a TV

men and women are shown pleasuring themselves

a naked women is beaten on a videoscreen.

one of the characters takes a cigarette and puts it out on her breast (nudity is shown)

Violence & Gore

A man has a slit in his abdominal region in which items are hidden and removed.

Two men are shot with lots of blood shown

A man has his hand "eaten" (very bloody).

Women are bound, beaten, and killed (though not very bloody).

A man is shot multiple times, then tumors form where the gunshot wounds are and they proceed to erupt out of his body (VERY bloody).

A TV is shot and many human organs burst out of it.

On a TV, a man's chest is shot and drips a lot of blood. A women is slapped two times

Profanity

moderate R-Rated profanity

several characters drink and smoke cigarettes

this movie centers around a cable mogul, who gets a "snuff" movie channel for his station. and it seems that the station seems to come to life and forces the man to go mentally insane....he imagines all sorts of things, with very graphic results. he ends up shooting himself at the end of the movie, which is onscreen

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Certification:
Italy:VM14 / Portugal:M/18 / Finland:K-18 (cut) (1983) (theatrical) / Finland:K-18 (cut) (1988) (video) / Finland:K-18 (cut) (2002) (DVD) / Iceland:16 / Singapore:PG (cut) / Brazil:18 / Argentina:18 (re-rating) / Argentina:X (original rating) / Netherlands:16 / Canada:16+ (Quebec) / South Korea:18 / Australia:R / Canada:18+ (Quebec) / Canada:R (Ontario) / France:-12 / New Zealand:R18 / Norway:16 (video rating) / Norway:18 / Sweden:15 / UK:18 / USA:R / West Germany:18 / Germany:BPjM Restricted

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