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Restricted(Restricted) Sexual Violence, Disturbing Content

Synopsis

Italian-language Horror. In Fascist Italy during World War II, four powerful men (Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavale, Aldo Valletti) kidnap several teenagers and subject them to sexual torture for several months.

Content elements

  • Infrequent use of sexual slurs, profanity, cursing, scatological slang, and vulgar expressions
  • Frequent portrayals of gun, weapons, and hand-to-hand violence, most in a torture context – some blood and detail; frequent, detailed descriptions of violence and sexual violence – much disturbing detail
  • Pervasive portrayals of sexual assault and sexual violence, most in a torture context – male and female frontal and buttock nudity, some blood and detail
  • Frequent portrayals of sexual activity – breast and buttock nudity, some detail; frequent, detailed descriptions of sexual activity – much disturbing detail
  • Pervasive breast, buttock, and male and female frontal nudity in a non-sexual context
  • Pervasive portrayals of crude bodily functions in a torture context – much detail

Thematic elements

  • Aberrant psychology
  • Sadism
  • Power, control, and corruption

Classification rationale

Rated R for pervasive portrayals of sexual violence and crude bodily functions in a torture context

Classification date

October 05, 2018

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