violence

Rival tribes of raccoons assume human characteristics as they battle each other using sticks as weapons, which are also deployed in a confrontation with actual humans. The violence is mild and without injury detail.

threat and horror

There are moments of mild threat, including a scene in which the raccoons have to make a hurried escape from an abandoned house which they have made their home when a mechanical digger starts knocking it down. In another scene, a sabotaged truck skids off a road an plunges down a cliff. There are also scary scenes in which the raccoons, who have shape-shifting abilities, turn into human beings with featureless faces or into fantastical creatures and giant skeletons.

rude humour

There is a passing reference to "swinging balls". In another scene, the testicles of raccoons expand in comical fashion and are used as weapons.

There is brief sight of blood in the aftermath of a raccoon being run down by a car.

violence

Comic violence occurs during a man's fantasy, involving crunchy martial arts moves, a bite to a man's crotch, and a man smashing through another's chest and pulling out his beating heart, which results in a brief bloody image. Other violence is milder, including harmless gunshots and a beating in a toilet cubicle.

threat and horror

There are brief scenes of gun threat, as well as references to a man's kidnap. A man is mistakenly given rat poison instead of prescription medication for his stomach ulcer after he reacts violently to a planted chilli pepper. A man's trouser leg catches fire, but this doesn't result in serious injury.

language

There is moderate bad language ('slut', 'pussy'), along with other milder terms ('asshole', 'ass', 'bastard', 'son of a bitch', 'crap', 'shit', 'bullshit', 'piss', 'butt', 'Jesus', 'Christ', 'hell', 'God' and 'damn').

sex

There are moderate verbal sex references to 'boning', 'shagging', 'hooters' and pornography. A man uses a carrot and two pieces of coal to replicate male genitalia when dressing a snowman.

nudity

There is brief female buttock nudity after a man lifts up a woman's dress during a fantasy sequence. In the same sequence, a woman's breasts are depicted as flashing headlights.

sexual violence and sexual threat

An undetailed comic reference is made to paedophilia, and there is a mistaken use of 'rapist' to describe a man's wit.

rude humour

A man has to defecate explosively after he unknowingly consumes an excessive amount of laxatives. A police officer drinks a man's urine from a bottle after he mistakes it for alcohol. It is implied a man urinates while riding on the back of a moped.

alcohol and smoking

Adults smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol in some scenes.

violence

People are stabbed and beaten, and there is some use of improvised weapons (for example, a crowbar, a toaster). A plastic bag is pulled over a person's head, followed by scenes in which he struggles to breathe. A character pushes and then hammers a knife deep into a person's body. In one scene, a person is drowned in a bath, and in another scene a character is repeatedly shut inside a freezer before he is left to freeze to death. There is associated wound detail and blood in the aftermath of violence.

threat and horror

In one scene, a character threatens a man with a power drill which briefly cuts into skin. There are also scenes in which characters are stalked.

language

Strong language ('f**k') occurs, as well as milder terms ('bastard', 'crap', 'bloody', 'shit', 'God', 'Jesus', 'Christ').

sex

There are verbal references to pornography, sex phone lines and to sexual arousal.

discrimination

A person makes brief mildly discriminatory verbal references while proposing a toast.

drugs

There is brief comic verbal reference to freebasing, and in one scene a person discovers packages of unidentified drugs.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A person spies on a woman while she lies in bed.

injury detail

In one scene, there is brief close-up sight of bloodstained dismembered limbs wrapped in newspaper. There is also close-up sight of corpses and wound detail.

nudity

There is brief non-sexual frontal and rear nudity.

rude humour

A person briefly urinates in masked fashion.

flashing/flickering lights

This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

language

There is strong language (‘f**k’) and milder terms which include 'bitch', ‘cocksucker’, ‘cock’, 'shit', 'ass', ‘arse’ and 'bloody'.

sex

It is implied that a woman inserts ping pong balls into her vagina, which she then shoots from herself during a strip-tease performance; she also exposes herself to the audience during this sequence, but there is no visual detail or nudity around these acts. There are frequent verbal sex references, often involving crude humour and comic innuendo.

A character remembers an incident in which a man behaved in a sexually abusive way toward him as a child; however, the boy escapes unharmed and comically turns the tables on the man, leaving him in discomfort. A character is punched and forced to the ground in a homophobic attack, before being threatened with further violence; this incident is interrupted when a woman kicks one of the attackers repeatedly in the crotch. There are scenes of, and references to, homophobic, transphobic and cultural discrimination; these are not condoned by the work. It is implied that a character rolls a marijuana joint and another takes a pill which appears to be an illegal substance. There are verbal references to the tragic impact of the AIDS crisis. Characters take part in a drinking game

violence

Scenes show male prisoners being beaten by corrections officers and by other prisoners. There are also blood spurts when a man is shot.

language

There is use of strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker').

sexual violence and sexual threat

There are two scenes in which a man is overpowered and threatened with rape or sexual assault. However, no assault actually occurs.

suicide and self-harm

In one scene a man hangs himself. In another scene a man shoots himself, although only the sound of a gunshot and the aftermath are shown. There is a scene in which a man and woman undress each other as they kiss, although the scene stops short of showing sex. There are also some verbal sex references. There is rear nudity as men shower in prison.

language

There is use of strong language ('c**ksucker', 'f**k').

sex

References are made to oral sex and there are brief sex scenes.

There is rude humour, brief moments of comic violence, and scenes in which adults drink and smoke.

violence

There are frequent scenes of violence including bloody shootings, stabbings and heavy beatings.

threat and horror

There are sequences in which characters are threatened, including with the prospect of torture.

language

There is frequent use of strong language throughout ('f**k', 'motherf**ker' and 'c**ksucker').

sex

There are crude verbal references to sexual activity including oral sex. There is also a scene of implied oral sex.

discrimination

There is frequent use of discriminatory terms relating to race and sexuality, including the 'n' word.

drugs

There is explicit sight of drug misuse, including heroin being prepared, mixed and injected - shown in detail and in close shot - by one of the central criminal characters. Other scenes of drug misuse include a woman overdosing on what she thinks is cocaine, resulting in her passing out and having to be revived using an adrenaline shot.

sexual violence and sexual threat

One sequence shows a restrained man who is about to be raped by another man. Although the rape is not shown, the rape is heard by another character in the adjoining room.

injury detail

There is sight of blood and gore in the aftermath of violent acts, including after a man's head is accidentally blown up by a gunshot.

There is frequent strong language ('f**k' and 'motherf**ker') and some unendorsed discriminatory language. The film also contains some strong sex references.

Violence

Scenes include shootings, stabbings, a dismemberment, and beatings, with resultant bloody injury detail. Sequences of sexual violence include a man raping a hostage, a man strangling a topless woman, a woman being beaten and threatened with rape, and verbal references to child abuse.

There is use of strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker') and brief sexualised nudity.