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A banished Arabian poet is forced to join a group of Norse
warriors and battle beast-like cannibals terrorizing a small village. With Antonio
Banderas, Diane Venora, Omar Sharif, Vladimir Kulich, Maria Bonnevie, Mischa Hausserman,
Sven Wollter, Dennis Storhoi, John DeSantis and Asbjorn 'Bear' Riis. [1:54]
SEX/NUDITY 1 - A little mild sexual innuendo. We see a clothed man and woman
sleeping close together. During one scene we see many men in loincloths.
VIOLENCE/GORE 9 - In several battle scenes between regular men and beast-men
(wearing what looks like bear pelts and claws), we see lots and lots of people sliced with
knives, impaled with knives and arrows through the chest and head, pierced all over with
arrows; they get knocked from their horses, thrown to the ground and get their necks
snapped. We hear lots of slicing sounds and see lots and lots of blood on wounds, faces
and clothing; also, a beast-man rips another's head off (we see blood squirt from the
man's neck and see the beast-man carrying the very bloody head); we also see a
beast-man's claw chopped off. During one-on-one sword fights, a man's chest is
slashed (we see a huge, non-bloody gash on his chest) and a man is beheaded (we don't
see the actual beheading, but we see blood splatter on by-standers' faces and briefly
see part of the head lying on the ground). We see a woman with a snake coiled around her
neck; she fights with a man, who eventually beheads her (we see her head fall to the
floor). A man is shot in the head with an arrow and another is stabbed in the side of his
face. We see lots of blood on the floor of a house, then see some bloody corpses with
bloody chunks taken out of their bodies (one of the corpses is hanging upside down from
the rafters and another's very bloody arm falls off when a man touches the blanket
covering it). We see a corpse being carried to a ship; also, we see a ship, containing a
corpse, set on fire. We see hundreds of skulls and bones in a room and some heads and
skulls attached to a fence. Several horses run into sharpened stakes; we hear the impact
and see them fall to the ground. We see a young boy with mud and bloody cuts all over his
body. A man lunges for another, a man throws mud on another's back several times, a
man falls into a moat and a man falls off his horse and into some mud. Men drink water
from a bowl and spit it back in; after they do so, a man washes his face with the water
and blows his nose into it before passing the bowl to another person. A woman rubs what
she says is cow urine on a man's bloody facial cuts. Torches are thrown at a village
and most of its buildings burn to the ground.
PROFANITY 2 - A few mild obscenities and an insult. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Battling evil, cannibalism, courage, banishment, friendship.
MESSAGE - You can beat the most terrifying foes when you fight
intelligently; don't let fear paralyze you, and believe in your abilities.
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