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Unlike the MPAA we do not assign one inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest, depending on quantity and context. |
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A Stephen King story, adapted and directed by George A.
Romero, about a writer (Timothy Hutton) with a Jekyll and Hyde problem: his pseudonym,
under which he writes best-selling trash novels, comes to life when publicly "killed
off." He then starts killing off everybody associated with his literary death.
SEX/NUDITY 0 - None.
VIOLENCE/GORE 9 - Since this is a George A. Romero film, there's gore
galore, oodles of blood and plenty of violence: the malefactor enjoys slashing his
victims' throats with a razor, and we see every murder in bloody detail. One victim has a
delicate part of his anatomy cut off and shoved in his mouth; we see his shadow on the
wall. One is beaten to death with his own artificial leg. Another is literally flayed and
picked to death by a very large and scary flock of sparrows; we see, in detail, the
various stages of dismemberment. One character drives a pencil through his hand, then
peers through the resulting hole. There are nine very graphic deaths in all. There are
also explicit scenes of an open-skull surgery, complete with a brain tumor which possesses
a blinking eye and a tooth. The camera lingers on assorted oozing wounds. There's even one
scene of torture, where a man pokes at a woman's facial wounds.
PROFANITY 6 - 15 F-words and lots of anatomical and sexual references. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - The supernatural, split-personalities, deceit, blackmail,
murder.
MESSAGE - We all possess a dark side. We have to stand up to it and fight
it.
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Special Keywords: S0 - V9 - P6 - MPAAR |
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