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Certification

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MPAA Rated PG-13 for violence, disturbing images, some partial nudity and thematic material
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • The bare back and the side of a woman's breast can barely be seen when she prepares to take a shower.
  • A woman wears low-cut tops in several scenes. She can also be seen wearing underwear in several scenes.
  • A woman lifts a man out of a bathtub and into a wheelchair. (Only his bare back, stomach and chest can be seen.)

Violence & Gore

  • For a PG-13 film, The Skeleton Key is very vicious and violent, more so than such other modern PG-13 ghost films as "The Apparition" or "The Eye"
  • People are beaten, thrown around, slammed into things, and choked. Bones are broken, but most of this happens with minimal blood.
  • A woman goes into a dark attic room where she finds jars of what looks like organs, a monkey head, and a human head with eyes and mouth stitched shut; she drops a jar on the floor and it breaks -- it contained a skin sack stitched up with something inside it.
  • A woman is seen in a dream with her eyes and mouth stitched up.
  • A character finds a man pulling himself along a roof (He is partially paralyzed) the man falls from the roof onto the ground below (he is not seriously injured).
  • A persons broken legs have large lumps under the skin and gaping wounds. This character drags themselves around and this is very disturbing.
  • A woman cuts her hand with a knife and smears the blood onto the floor around her.
  • A woman cuts the legs and head off a dead chicken.
  • We see alligator heads with sharp teeth in their mouths, and bones dangling from strings.
  • A floor standing mirror falls onto a person knocking them to the ground.
  • A woman drives her car into a locked gate, she tries to ram it in order to open it and crashes into a birdbath.
  • We hear about a man abusing "his help."

Profanity

  • 1 F-word, 4 scatological terms, 2 anatomical terms, 4 mild obscenities, 1 derogatory term for African-Americans, 1 religious profanity, 7 religious exclamations.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • People are shown drinking alcohol in a few bar scenes, and we see people drinking alcohol at a party. A woman drinks tea that has been drugged, and a woman says that she is giving a man a prescription medicine to help with his ailments. A woman smokes cigarettes in several scenes and she says that she smokes a lot and enjoys it.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The movie is not bloody but very intense and very violent.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • In a flashback, a couple are beaten and hung and their bodies are burned. This is disturbing but not graphic.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The end of the film is very scary, and unexpected. It is upsetting.

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