From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) [reclassified 2015]

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Synopsis

Crime/Horror. While on the lam, a couple of violent bank robbers (George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino) and their hostages (Harvey Keitel, Juliette Lewis, Ernest Liu) stop in a Mexican strip club overrun with vampires.

Content elements

• Frequent use of the sexual expletive and variations, some in sexual or aggressive context; frequent use of scatological slang, cursing, profanity, and vulgar expressions; infrequent use of sexual slurs and crude sexual language
• Frequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence, some in a vampire context – blood, dismemberment, and gory detail
• Frequent portrayals of frightening monsters and transformations – some gory detail
• Infrequent breast nudity in a non-sexual context

Thematic elements

• Family bonds
• Trust and loyalty
• Fear and survival

Classification rationale

Rated 18A for frequent, detailed gory violence

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