Pearl (2022)

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Synopsis

Dir: Ti West. Horror. Prequel to 'X'. During the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, a young woman (Mia Goth) who dreams of becoming a movie star begins to resent her oppressive mother (Tandi Wright) and her ailing father (Matthew Sunderland).

Content elements

• Infrequent use of sexual slurs
• Frequent portrayals of weapons and hand-to-hand violence in a horror context, some involving animals - much blood and gory, brutal detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual activity - breat, buttock, and female frontal nudity, some detail
• Infrequent portrayals of tobacco and prescription drug use

Thematic elements

• Family dynamics
• Mental illness

Classification rationale

Rated 18A for gory violence in a genre context

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