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Common Sense Media says not for kids This gruesome slasher movie is not for kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie is not for children. It contains multiple horrific murders (by knives, axes, circular saws, and other sharp implements, as well as a shotgun), frightening and frequent jump scenes, a long shot of a girl in the shower, a girl's masturbation, a dead dog, drinking, smoking, cursing, an implied blow job (below a truck window frame) by a decapitated head. Lesbianism is associated with insanity.
  • Families can talk about the enduring appeal and specific gender dynamics of slasher movies. Formulaic and brutal, this subset of horror usually features two types of girls (sometimes overlapping): fearful victims and resilient fighters, as well as monsters whose defeat translates into their own emasculation. Does their doubleness make female characters seem untraditionally strong or stereotypically frail? How does the rural class setting or underclass killer reinforce stereotypes of ignorant, brutal "hicks"?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Serial killer with dirty fingernails.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Slasher movie: lots of dead, dismembered, bloody bodies.
  • sex false5 Sex: Girl masturbates in her bed, implied oral sex in a truck (with a severed head), blood makes girls' t-shirts cling to their bodies.
  • language false3 Language: Translated from French.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Characters smoke and drink.
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