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(III) (2016)

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Sex & Nudity

  • a guy kisses a girl, no nudity is shown throughout the film.

Violence & Gore

  • A woman is seen killing herself by hanging. We see when she puts the rope around her neck and when she fall, in front of her son.
  • A bathub is filled with blood, and from it emerges a shocked woman. She then fall on the floor and starts to vomits blood. We then later learn that was only an hallucination.
  • We learn that a girl killed a rabbit when she was young. We briefly see several shots of the killed rabbit presented in a very fast sequence as a flashback, including worms eating through the rabbit, and closeups of the knife and the wound.
  • In the very first minutes, a young girl is killed offscreen by the demon. We then see a demon hand showing her head covered in blood.
  • a boy is seen leaving the house, breaking the rule that states not to leave it. As a punishment, we see the midnight man behind his back wrapped in a dark fog falling on him, smashing him to the floor almost vaporizing all his blood everywhere on the white snow. No guts are shown.

Profanity

  • Shit and fuck

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The entire film is about a demon evocated when playing a game. The demon itself can be scary in both voice and appearance, we can see several closeups of his face which can be frightening to young audiences.
  • When a candle goes out, it must be re-lit in ten seconds. This contributes to keep the tension high, since sometimes it tooks quite a lot of attempts (and sometimes they fail to do so)
  • quite a lot of jumpscares throughout the film, especially related with the grandmother appearing suddenly.
  • the grandmother sometimes appears to be possessed, as we hear her saying repeatedly "red is the color of your blood!"
  • The entire movie took place between midnight and 3:33AM, with no lights on apart from three candles held by the participants. As a result, all the frightening scenes are even more intense because of the dark.
  • A girl approaches a humanoid figure under a bed sheet. Later we learn that was only a manikin, albeit quite frightening.
  • After the candle burn out, the manikin is seen moving when the man doesn't look at it. It then disappears, and, moments later, the midnight man appears.

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Violence & Gore

  • A girl kills herself by cutting her throat with a knife, forced to do so by the midnight man who manipulates her mind. We see a lot of blood that spurts from the wound, almost like a fountain.
  • The midnight man kills a man piercing through his face with his hand. This is one of the most violent scenes, as we later see his destroyed face.
  • a woman kills a man beating him several times and breaking his neck. Some blood is seen coming out from his mouth.
  • a girl shots a woman first at a shoulder then at the head.

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