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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for sexuality, nudity, violence and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • While a man sits in a crowded restaurant the woman seated next to him crawls under the table to perform oral sex. Nothing below the table is shown.
  • A few scenes of full-frontal female nudity, but no full frontal male nudity is shown.
  • In a courtroom, a man is shown with one hand rubbing the underside of a table and the other hand in his pants; no genitals are shown.
  • Full female nudity throughout and no full male nudity.
  • A woman removes her bra in front of other two women and her bare breasts are visible. She invites one of the other woman to feel her breasts and takes her hand and puts it on her left breast.
  • There is another, extended sex scene, starting with a man kissing a woman's breasts then he sees another woman in place of his wife. There is briefly implied oral sex and thrusting. Quite a long scene of sex, at least 2 minutes with glimpses of nudity.
  • Two women kiss and caress each other through clothing, and kiss each other on the neck.
  • A man bites and caresses a woman's clothed buttocks while dancing.
  • A woman is seen in a bra and panties in the bathroom.
  • A man and woman make out briefly couple of occasion.
  • A woman exposes full frontal female nudity.
  • A man and woman kiss few occasion in the movie.

Violence & Gore

  • Dialogue about molestation of a high school girl in a courtroom.
  • Realistic footage on TV of police catching a man slitting the throat of a goat; a lot of blood shown. The goat is shown laying dead and the police arrest the man.
  • Containers full of animal blood and organs are briefly shown in a fridge. A man takes a bloody cow tongue out of the fridge, lays the tongue out on butcher paper, puts a bunch of nails on the table, and is not shown doing anything else.
  • A woman watches people's faces briefly morph into grotesque demon faces in several scenes.
  • Photos of murder victims with a lot of blood on and around their heads and bodies -- one picture is of a child.
  • A woman finds a toddler playing with some bloody ovaries; she then finds blood on her crotch area and screams in terror. It's implied that the ovaries are hers. This scene could be in one of her dreams.
  • Men beat up another man with big sticks, and the victim has blood on his face and arms.
  • A woman has cuts and bruises all over her nude body after being brutally beaten and raped.
  • A man is hit by a car and has a very bloody face afterwards.
  • A woman slits her own throat (a lot of blood on her neck, hands, face and clothes).
  • There is a scene involving gun threatens, and another scene involving scuffles.
  • A man shoots commits suicide, with blood spurting out and onto the face of another man.
  • Conflagration and a charred body is seen.

Profanity

  • Cinemax content advisory: rated R for strong sexual content (SSC), nudity (N), graphic violence (GV), and graphic language (GL). Not for kids.
  • "Christ" and "Jesus" are both uttered. About 55 uses of "f--k," many mild obscenities, many scatological references, and some anatomical references. Sex is discussed in uncompromising terms.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Several instances of cigarette smoking and alcohol drinking. Verbal references to cocaine use and pharmaceutical drugs.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • In a fitting room when a woman gets dressed her face warps into the face of a demon.
  • The scene where police arrest a man for slaughtering a goat happens suddenly.
  • A woman looks down at another woman's body and finds hands and faces pushing themselves out of her abdomen and stretching her skin.
  • At a Catholic Church, during a funeral, a Step-father using his hand to touch his step-daughter's back, in a pervert way. Implied that he and his step-daughter are having sex at home.

Spoilers

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

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Towards the end of the movie, a man shoots another man but he doesn't die. Implying the man is Satan, the devil, and he cannot die.
  • A man shoots himself in the head to avoid making the antichrist and Satan is screaming no! no!
  • The finale sequence, where the events between Kevin, Milton and Christabella become a horrific hellfire scenario, for those that may be seeing the film for the first time, may be too intense for some.

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