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18A(18A) Disturbing Content

Synopsis

Horror/Thriller. A woman's (Jennifer Lawrence ) life is interrupted when her poet husband (Javier Bardem ) allows some uninvited guests (Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer) to stay with them in their isolated house.

Content elements

  • Infrequent use of the sexual expletive, some in a sexual context; infrequent use of scatological slang, cursing, vulgar expressions, and sexual slurs
  • Frequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence – breast nudity, blood, and some gory detail
  • Infrequent portrayals of sexual violence – no nudity, little detail
  • Frequent portrayals of nightmarish imagery, most in a disturbing context – some detail
  • Brief buttock nudity in a non-sexual context

Thematic elements

  • Order and chaos
  • Anxiety and paranoia
  • The creative cycle

Classification rationale

Rated 18A for detailed portrayals of violence in a disturbing context

Classification date

September 05, 2017

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