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.
A machine with a taste for blood mangles anyone unlucky
enough to get caught in its cogs.
SEX/NUDITY 2 - A couple of passionate kisses. An insinuation of a sexual
relationship between a man and his niece.
VIOLENCE/GORE 9 - A girl cuts her hand on the machine and bleeds profusely.
A long graphic scene where a woman is pulled into the machine and is rolled through and
crushed: there's a lot of blood, and her mangled body is shown. A police officer vomits
quite graphically. A dead boy is found in a refrigerator. A group of women are sprayed
with steam and one becomes bloodied and blistered; she is shown with gross, yellow, bloody
burns. A couple of men fight a refrigerator. A woman loses a finger in the machine. A
man's arm is caught in the machine and someone hacks it off with an axe. A mangled,
disfigured body is shown in the morgue. Two more people are mangled with a clear, very
bloody view of the process and result. A man is chomped by the machine and is left with
his bloody guts hanging out.
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PROFANITY 7 - About 20 F-words, another 18 scatological terms and a few
milder profanities. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Incest, the quest for power, human sacrifice
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