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- Profanity (1)
- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (3)
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Certification
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Sex & Nudity
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- Film contains strong bloody violence and brief albeit graphic sexuality
- During the "Double, double, toil and trouble" scene, the Witches appear to be reaching into a man's pants and pleasuring him sexually.
- The scene with the drunken porter is the only scene featuring really graphic sexual content. While speaking of urine, the porter actually pulls his penis out of his pants and urinates in the sink. We do not actually see nudity, but it is as close as it can get. After urinating, he then proceeds to supposedly start masturbating while speaking about the effects of alcohol upon the potency of an erection.
Violence & Gore
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- The thane of Cawdor is brutally executed for his betrayal. He is seen with a bag over his face. A man puts a gun up to his head and blows a hole through his head. Blood and brain matter splatter onto the wall. Very gory but brief, and you never actually see his head during his execution since it is covered with the bag.
- Banquo is shot numerous times in a very graphic and sudden way while his little son watches him die. He vomits blood, and blood is seen spraying and pouring out of his body.
- Banquo is then seen again as a ghost coming to haunt Macbeth. He is shown soaked in blood with holes in his body. A very bloody and startling image.
- The opening scene depicts a man soaked in blood and convulsing, seemingly on the verge of death. Blood is seen pouring from his mouth as he tries to speak. Afterwards, the Witches appear as nurses, killing the man by giving him a lethal injection and then pull his heart out of his body. This scene is very gruesome and goes on for a very long time.
- When Macbeth returns to see the Witches, they revive dead corpses to speak and prophesy to Macbeth. This is both very gory and disturbing.
- The murder of King Duncan takes place off screen, but you hear his screams. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are then seen soaked in blood and holding the bloody knives with which they murdered him. They then wash the blood and gore down the sink. Very bloody and gory, though the actual murder is not seen.
- The bloody and intense violence in this production of Shakespeare's tragedy is graphic and practically non-stop.
- Several bombs are suddenly dropped in one scene, blowing many people into pieces and leaving many people burnt, scarred, and missing limbs from the blast. Very gory and intense, with close-up views of death and injury detail.
- Blood is seen pouring out of a faucet into a sink.
- A very bloody scene depicts a man having his heart ripped out.
- Bloody corpses and mortally injured soldiers near death are seen dozens of times throughout. Very graphic and close-up images of soldiers who have lost limbs and/or been maimed in battle. Men are seen with large open wounds and their organs exposed and intestines dangling out on the floor, as well as those who have been severely burned and have infections full of gangrene and puss.
- Many violent and prolonged battle scenes throughout where people are shown being shot, stabbed, impaled, and blown to pieces by explosives. There is a great deal of blood and gore.
- A man is seen being brutally tortured. He is intimidated and then beaten first with fists and then clubs. His nose is broken, and his nose is seen being pushed to one side of his face while blood pours out of his nose. Very disturbing and gory, as well as prolonged and drawn out. Painful to watch.
Profanity
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- None whatsoever.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- In this production, the more Macbeth continues to down-spiral psychologically, the more we see him drinking excessively. But the end, the implication is that he is a full-blown alcoholic, trying to drown his guilt and anguish with liquor.
- One minor character is often seen smoking.
- There is a great deal of alcohol consumption throughout, sometimes to excess and drunkenness by characters lacking in virtue.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- The whole film is a very dark and futuristic interpretation of Shakespeare's tragedy. It is very bloody and gruesome, especially at the end.
- Practically every scene is disturbing and bloody. The film is shockingly violent and depicts very gruesome scenes of murder and brutal torture, as well as a brief but graphic and extremely gross scene of sexual content.
- Banquo's murder is not only gruesome and bloody but also very sudden, frightening, and intense. Banquo screams in pain while his little son watches.
- The witches conjure spirits to prophesy to Macbeth by having them possess the bodies of bloodied corpses. Extremely creepy and terrifying scene. They suddenly convulse and scream their prophesies, and then scream and beg to be released back into death. Very gory and disturbing scene, and probably the most frightening and intense scene in the entire film.
- The film at times seems like a full-on horror movie, especially when the Witches appear. All scenes with the Witches are very surreal and frightening scenes. They suddenly appear, and they summon dark spirits which are seen moving around in the background and possessing lifeless corpses. Very frightening as well as gruesome scenes of horror violence.
- The banquet scene where Banquo comes to haunt Macbeth after having been murdered is a very frightening scene. The lights suddenly go out, and Banquo appears standing upon the table as a bloodied and deformed corpse pointing at Macbeth ominously. Frightening, intense, and very gory.
- In one particularly frightening scene, Macbeth hallucinates and thinks he sees blood pouring out of the faucet into the sink rather than water.
- An already-injured and bloodied man is given a lethal injection which kills him very painfully over a period of about 30 seconds while he screams and convulses. After he dies, his heart is then ripped out of his body. Very disturbing and extremely graphic.
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- The scene where MacDuff's family is murdered isn't depicted but the screams and gunshots are heard and we later see blood pouring and spilling across the floor. No graphic violence is depicted in the event itself but the bloody aftermath is very violent and disturbing. One shot depicts a little girl who had been gunned down in the shower. The shower is still on and blood is seen pouring down the drain and splattered all over the wall. Her little doll is shown lying beside her corpse, drenched in water and blood.
- The ending battle is very graphic and violent, depicting brutal and bloody warfare with guns and artillery
- The final scene depicts MacDuff bringing in Macbeth's bloody and gory decapitated head. It appears as if MacDuff cut Macbeth's head off with his knife after the fight. MacDuff is completely soaked in blood. The decapitated head is likewise soaked in and dripping blood, and pieces of tendons, veins, and bone are dangling from the neck where it has been severed. This (along with the murder of MacDuff's family) is the most explicitly gory scene in the film.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- The murder of MacDuff's family is extremely intense and disturbing. None of it is actually seen but the fact that the initial event is left to the imagination almost makes it worse. We hear the gunfire and screaming, and then we see the very bloody remnants from the murder. It is very frightening as well as extremely sad.
- The ending fight between Macbeth and MacDuff is very intense and drawn out, as well as very gory and disturbing. It involves pistols and then proceeds into a bloody and violent knife fight. After defeating him, MacDuff is then seen coming in with Macbeth's bloody and decapitated head. Very intense and gruesome.
- Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene in this film is particularly disturbing. She is seen scarring her hands with boiling water and pouring bleach on her hands to wash the imaginary blood away while she screams in pain and cries in anguish. Her hands become more scarred and deformed throughout, as she becomes more and more psychotic. Very intense and upsetting.
- Lady Macbeth finally commits suicide. The actual act is off-screen, but we hear her scream, choke, and fall, and we hear her servants scream in horror. Later, we see her pale and contorted corpse on a hospital bed, supposedly having died from ingesting poison. Very realistic and disturbing image, made more disturbing by the way Macbeth simply laughs and is not moved by his own wife's death.
- (Deleted. Personal opinions about suitable viewing ages are not appropriate for the Parents Guide.)
