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Sex & Nudity

  • A dead woman's breast can briefly be seen through a sheet of plastic. Not sexual.
  • A man watches pornography and is implied to be masturbating. As the man watching stands up, his butt is briefly shown and he gets strangled by another man.
  • A man attacks a young girl and undresses her until he is interrupted. No nudity.

Violence & Gore

  • A man is seen eating raw flesh, it's assumed that it's the flesh of someone he murdered. Later the cannibal goes to his fridge and opens it, revealing many human limbs and body parts. He then goes and gets one of his victims who is chained and drags them to be slaughtered and eaten.
  • The film is very violent with lots of blood. Some gore is also shown.
  • This film has graphic moments, and it is all in a realistic bloody way. You see people get brutally beaten on the head with iron pipes, stabbings, getting brutally beaten to near death.
  • This is an extremely violent film, one of the most violent films of the last decade. In fact this movie is so violent and dark the Korean film board had to make the director recut the film and remove some of the violence.
  • A man smashes another guy in the balls with a wrench multiple times, it is shown up close.
  • A man sticks his hands into another mans mouth and rips his mouth open. You see the side of his mouth tear up and blood pours out.
  • A man gets kicked and then gets his head violently smashed against a giant rock multiple times, causing him to go to sleep.
  • Strong graphic violence.
  • Two people are stabbed dozens of times with a small blade (in mainly the chests) with bloody wounds seen.
  • A man is hit in the face with a dumbbell (a few hits shown, the rest offscreen). A bloody wound shown above his eye.
  • A woman is hit on the head a few times with a hammer. Some blood on both people's faces. Her body leaves a bloody trail.
  • A woman is hit in the head with a blunt object. Some blood sprays on a screen and drips out the woman's wound.
  • A man dismembers a dead body. Blood shown, but the body itself is mostly offscreen.
  • A woman is decapitated offscreen. No sounds heard aside from the guillotine.
  • A man's motorcycle is hit with a car while he flies off (uninjured). He is then briefly beaten.
  • A pervert is beaten/roughed up and hit twice in the crotch with a blunt object before the scene cuts.
  • A villain's jaw is bloodily broken.
  • A villain's achilles tendon is graphically severed with a scalpel in closeup.
  • A villain is bloodily stabbed through the cheek with an icepick.
  • A villain is hit repeatedly on the head. Some blood shown.
  • A villain is hit repeatedly on the head and upperbody. Bloody wounds seen.
  • A villain is knocked out with two hits to the face. Some blood is briefly seen on her nose.
  • A villain's wrist is broken at the end of a fight.
  • A villain's wrist is broken twice, and his hand is nailed onto a table.

Profanity

  • Strong language
  • 'B*stard' is said at least five times.
  • 'H*ll' is said at least seven times.
  • 'D*mn' is said several times.
  • 'Sh*t' is said many times.
  • 'B*tch' is said four times.
  • All profanity is in Korean, but can be read in subtitles.
  • Multiple uses of 'f**k' and 's**t', and 4 uses of 'b*ch' in Korean. These are seen in subtitles.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The main villain constantly smokes cigarettes
  • The protagonist smokes a cigarette.
  • Some drinking and smoking of cigarettes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The scenes of rape and attempted rape are very frightening.
  • The deaths of sympathetic characters are intense.
  • The many deaths and almost constant violence are frightening.
  • The main villain is very frightening.
  • Overall this movie is extremely dreadful and dark. There is not a single "lighthearted" scene in this movie. It starts off dark and goes from there.
  • The stabbing sequence and other instances of violence could be intense for many viewers.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • A man forces a woman to undress then perform oral sex on him with threat of violence.
  • A man implies to a grieving husband that his wife's killer raped her before murdering her.

Violence & Gore

  • Towards the end, the bad guy finds himself tied from his mouth to the door. If it's open, his head will cut off. When a family opens the door, the bad guy's head is cut as it rolls to the door. The family reacts with fear and panic.
  • A villain is decapitated. His head is shown with some blood.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The cannibal scene may be shocking to some people since it kinda comes out of nowhere.
  • The scene where a man digs through his own excrement could disgust some viewers.

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