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Parents Guide for
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Since the beliefs that parents want to instill in their children can vary greatly, we ask that instead of adding your personal opinions about what is right or wrong in a film, that you instead use this feature to help parents make informed viewing decisions by describing the facts of relevant scenes in the title for each one of the different categories: Sex and Nudity, Violence and Gore, Profanity, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking, and Frightening/Intense Scenes.
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Sex & Nudity

There are several scenes showing the aftermath of sex.

One scene, which is very brief shows the actual sex.

There are several scenes showing brief male and female nudity. Including a couple teleport scenes.

The fly creature is naked for the later stages of it's transformation. However, it does not look human and it has no apparent genitals.

Violence & Gore

A baboon's skin is turned inside-out. It can be seen squirming and screeching in a pool of blood.

A man arm-wrestles another man before breaking his arm so that the bone protrudes from the skin. Some blood shown.

A man peels off his fingernails, no blood is shown but a pus like substance is secreted.

A man's ear falls off, no blood.

A man vomits white milky enzymes over a donut.

A woman dreams about about aborting a giant maggot. It is covered in blood.

A man's teeth fall out. He then places them in a collection of other detatched body parts.

The fly creature vomits over a man's hand, reducing it to a bloody stump. He then vomits on the man's ankle, causing his foot to fall off. The scene is very gory.

The fly creature has it's jaw torn off. Then it's outer skin starts falling off. Almost no blood is shown though.

A horrific amalgamated creature has it's head blown off by a shotgun. It is a mercy kill.



Profanity

There is some language in the film, about 3 F-words

Characters drink and smoke casually in the film

The scenes in the gore section may disturb

A character dreams about aborting a giant maggot

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Finland:K-18 (1986) (cut) / Iceland:16 / Canada:R (Ontario) / Netherlands:16 / Finland:K-16 (cut) (1989) (VHS) / Finland:K-18 (uncut) (2006) (DVD) / Finland:K-18 (cut) (1986) (theatrical) / Ireland:18 / Brazil:14 / Argentina:18 / Chile:18 / France:-12 / Italy:VM14 / New Zealand:R16 / Norway:18 / Portugal:M/16 / Singapore:M18 / South Korea:18 / Spain:13 / Sweden:15 / UK:18 / USA:R / West Germany:18 / Australia:R

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