ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture (CAP) Review Summary

(The ChildCare Action Project (CAP) is a nonprofit Christian ministry)

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NOTE: These opinions are not my own and I am not responsible in any way for these comments expressed here (which are a copy of those expressed on the main CAP web site). These opinions are merely reproduced verbatim here for your convenience so you don't need to read all the additional text at the main CAP Web Site.

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Findings / Scorings

Wanton Violence/Crime:

• transporting a dead body
• explosive startle with demon face
• man hanging by rings through the skin on his back
• decayed body ridden with insects
• violent abduction
• graphic pictures of murder victims
• attempted drowning murder
• macabre collection of dolls
• brutal confinement as torture
• many long sequences and series of bizarre imagery
• slicing of a horse into sections, still alive - pulsating organs
• stabbing with scissors to fetch intestine
• spooling of intestines on to a "rotisserie" as it is pulled from the gut of a live man
• arrow impalements
• flesh ripping
• bloody beating, exceptionally graphic
• sword impalements, graphic
• graphic injuries

Impudence/Hate:

• 16 uses of the most foul of the foul words
• 10 uses of the three/four letter word vocabulary
• extremely abusive father; physically, sexually, emotionally
• speaking of (other) father with deep hatred

Sex/Homosexuality:

• form-fitting outfits
• ghosting of female anatomy through clothing
• rear nudity
• full nudity, repeated, some exceptionally vulgar
• cartoon nudity
• mutilated nude body
• decayed nude bodies made up as dolls, long sequence
• man in tub
• nude dead woman in tub of blood
• "demon-possessed" man molesting a woman (clothed)
• picture nudity

Drugs/Alcohol:

• smoking dope
• smoking

Offense to God:

• one use of God's name in vain with the four letter expletive and 7 times without it
• a horse turning into a toy
• demon faces
• portrayal of magic to manipulate or gain
• palmistry

Murder/Suicide:

• drowning murder