Witches (2024)

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Synopsis

Dir: Elizabeth Sankey. Documentary. An examination of motherhood and post-partum depression drawing paralells with witches and witchcraft using film history.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of the sexual expletive in a non-sexual context; infrequent use of vulgar expressions
• Infrequent portrayals of hand-to-hand and weapons violence, all in a film clip context - some blood and detail; infrequent portrayals of dismembered limbs and disembowelment - some blood and gory detail
• Infrequent portrayals of torture, suffering, execution, abortion, and suicide in a film clip context - some detail; frequent references to suffering, suicide, and mental illness - some detail
• Frequent use of nightmarish imagery and phenomena in pictorial and film clip contexts - some detail
• Infrequent breast nudity in a non-sexual context
• Infrequent portrayals of alcohol use in a recreational context

Thematic elements

• Motherhood
• Gender, power, and control
• Mental illness and stigma

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for mature subject matter

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