We Are What We Are (2013) Poster

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for disturbing violence, bloody images, some sexuality, nudity and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • There is a girl who is tied up to a pole and completely naked. Although she is dead, breasts and genitalia are seen.
  • A young woman is shown having sex with a young man. She is clothed and the man is thrusting on top of her. His buttocks are seen.
  • A dead girl is tied to a table and her breasts are seen.

Violence & Gore

  • This would have a higher rating but there is not a lot of gore throughout the film. However, when there is gore, it is disturbing and realistic. Edit: I'm adding to this comment because it makes no sense - a film doesn't automatically get a higher rating due to having gore. Thank you.
  • A dead woman is strung up on a stake. It is suggested (not shown) that she was skinned and had her flesh torn from her bones.
  • You see a dead woman laying on a table with her wrists slit. Blood is draining out of her, off of the table, into a pot collecting the blood.
  • You see a girl marking lines on another dead girl with red lipstick. The lines are supposed to be where they are going to cut her flesh off.
  • Towards the end, two people are shot, one of which is fatal.

Profanity

  • Two instances of the f word and some other light profanities.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Frank can be seen smoking multiple times throughout the film.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Whenever the family eats the human stew can be very disturbing. Although the food looks completely normal, the idea that it is human flesh is sickening.
  • There is not a lot of gore, but when it is there it is disturbing.

Spoilers

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Sex & Nudity

  • A father kisses his daughter on the lips.

Violence & Gore

  • A woman has her throat slit. At first it seems fine but then she looks down to see her throat gushing blood. This ends up to be fatal.
  • A chained up woman attempts to attack a girl. She ends up being hit over the head with a metal pole. You see blood dripping out of the wound and she starts to have a seizure. The same person hits her over the head again to stop her seizure and kill her. This scene can be disturbing.
  • A woman is seen with blood pouring out of her mouth. She then collapses, hitting her head very hard on a metal pipe and falling into water. She has a seizure and drowns.
  • When two teenagers have sex, you hear a crunch noise and see blood pouring out of the boy. You find out that it was the girl's father hitting the boy in the head with a shovel. This scene can be disturbing.
  • A girl falls and hits her head on the corner of a counter hard, leaving her with a huge bloody wound on her head and she clearly injured her brain because for the rest of the movie she is in a trance kind of state (like a lobotomy).
  • Rose and Iris end up eating their father alive. This scene is very disturbing.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A father tries to kill his entire family by feeding them arsenic. He is caught before anyone can eat it.
  • The scene where Rose and Iris eat Frank is very disturbing.

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