The Crow | 2024 | R | – 6.9.8

Why is “The Crow” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “strong bloody violence, gore, language, sexuality/nudity, and drug use.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a sex scene with partial nudity, a couple of implied sex scenes, many kissing and flirting scenes, discussions of love, many violent scenes ending in very bloody wounds and death from gunshots as well as swords and knives, a couple of beheadings, a horse dying after being caught in barbed wire, a few scenes of bloody wounds healing spontaneously, discussions of making deals with the devil, and over 30 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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After a young man and a young woman (Bill Skarsgård and FKA twigs) meet and fall in love, her dark past invades their happiness. When they are both murdered, the young man finds a way to avenge his love but must confront a man with the ability to manipulate the actions of others. Also with Danny Huston, Josette Simon, Laura Birn, Sami Bouajila, Karel Dobrý, Jordan Bolger, Sebastian Orozco and David Bowles. Directed by Rupert Sanders. [Running Time: 1:51]

The Crow SEX/NUDITY 6

 – A young man and a young woman move close together to kiss and the young woman tells him that he smells bad; they kiss and undress (we see her partial bare breast, bare abdomen and his bare back buttocks and legs), lie back on a sofa and he kisses her chest and breast, and thrusts on top of her. A young man has a flashback to kissing a young woman and they romp in bed (part of her bare breast is visible briefly).
► A young man and a young woman kiss and caress in several scenes. A young woman straddles a young man’s lap and they kiss. A young man and a young woman sit in a bathtub together talking and we see their bare shoulders. A young man and a young woman stop a vehicle on a dark road and ride in the open back bed snuggling.
► A young man and a young woman flirt in several scenes. A young man and a young woman talk about love. A young woman playfully sticks her tongue out at a young man and he laughs.
► Several young men and young women sit by a body of water and drink and jump into the water (we see the men’s bare chests, abdomens and backs and the women’s cleavage, abdomens, backs and legs to the hips). A drawing of a young woman’s torso includes bare breasts. A man showers and we see his bare back and buttocks. A young woman wears a bra and underwear that reveal cleavage, partial bare breasts, abdomen, back and legs to the hips including buttocks. A young man wears boxers and we see his bare chest, abdomen, back and legs to the upper thighs. A young woman wears a white tank top that reveals her nipples through the fabric. A woman wears a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage.

The Crow VIOLENCE/GORE 9

 – A young woman cries and says to a friend that she showed a video of something to someone and that she and others are in danger now; she is injected in the neck with a hypodermic needle and we see her unconscious in a different place where a man says something in her ear (in a rumbling indecipherable voice) that causes her eyes to roll back in her head and she uses a sharp knife to stab herself in the neck (blood pours from the wounds and she collapses dead).
► A young man arms himself with a sword and enters an opera house where he kills many armed security guards slashing and stabbing them (one man is stabbed through the back of the head and out the mouth, others are slashed, and a man is struck on the top of the head opening his skull with a lot of blood spraying and gushing from wounds); the young man presses his sword across a man’s mouth cutting it open to the jaw (we see blood and teeth), the young man is shot multiple times, he stomps on one man breaking his neck with a crunch, he fights and stabs several more men and throws one man through glass and he slams to the ground with a splatter of blood, the young man is held on the back by a man and the young man shoots himself through the chest to kill the attacker (blood sprays); the young man is stabbed through the back and he uses the blade sticking through his chest to stab a man he is straddling on the floor in the eye. Two men hold a young woman and place a plastic bag over her head as she struggles and kicks, gasping for air until she dies, while a young man is also held down with a plastic bag on his head and he screams while watching her die.
► A young man shoots at a car speeding toward him, the windshield breaks, the young man is struck and thrown into the cabin of the vehicle where he shoots others inside, he is punched and shot and thrown out of the car in a tunnel where he is run over by a truck and he pulls himself along the ground and is very bloody; he stands up to reveal an exposed leg bone with bloody flesh as he pushes the bone back into the leg and it crunches, he yells and limps away. A man shoots a young man in the chest and we see blood spray and gush from the wound; the young man attacks the shooter with a knife and the young man is stabbed twice, he pulls out the blade and hits the attacker with a liquor bottle that shatters (we see blood on the man’s head and face); the young man is pinned on the floor, punched in the face and choked until he stabs the man in the chest killing him (we see blood and the knife sticking out of his chest). A young man with a gun threatens the driver of a car; he gets in the back seat and shoots the driver through the back (we see a gaping bloody wound in his chest). A man speaks undecipherable words in a rumbling voice into a woman’s ear and her eyes roll back in her head and she jumps from a multi-story building; we see her body crash to the sidewalk in the background of the scene and witnesses scream. A video shows a man speaking into a young woman’s ear and the young woman picks up a knife and slashes another young woman across the throat (blood sprays) and the young woman lies back dead as others in the room scream and panic. Three armed men attack a young man, they throw him around a room, they shoot him, he head-butts one man and we see his bloody nose before he shoots the young man in the chest and he falls back into a bathtub filled with water (the water fills with blood). A young man is shot multiple times as he walks toward the man shooting him, he shoots the man and beats another man with the handle of the gun repeatedly (blood sprays on his face). A man stabs a young man in the chest (blood gushes) and speaks indecipherable words in a rumbling voice into his ear, the man presses his hand against the bleeding chest wound and his eyes begin bleeding black blood. A young man holds a blade to a man’s neck and the man touches the blade cutting his own hand (we see blood). A young man and a man appear in a dark setting where the man is pushed back into dark water where slithering creatures move around him, the young man punches him in the face repeatedly and the man is pulled under the surface by the creatures (it’s snakes or eels); it appears like they are pulling his flesh off as he disappears.
► A man shoots a young man, then holds the gun to his own head and the young man uses a sword to cut the man’s arm off dropping the gun to the floor (we see the severed arm and bloody tissue and bone); the young man then cuts the man’s head off and carries it (we see the severed head with the face covered with blood); the young man slashes a woman (off-screen) and we see him carrying her severed head soaked with blood later as he walks on the stage and tosses the two heads into the audience as people scream and scatter. A young man moans and looks at wounds he has suffered in a mirror; he pushes his intestines back into an open wound on his abdomen and we see it knit closed along with an open wound on his back closing.
► A young woman jumps off a bridge and a young man follows her. A young man and a young woman are dropped in a river and sink, the young man reaches out for the young woman but she sinks out of sight and he surfaces gasping and grieving. A young woman’s body is discovered and pulled out of a river. A young boy cries out when he sees his horse wrapped with barbed wire and bloody cuts and wounds where the wire has cut through the flesh; the child pulls on the wire trying to free the animal and cuts his own hands (we see blood) and the horse dies. A young woman is revived after a near-suffocation and sees a young man dead next to her. Many crows circle around a young man and one flies into his back knocking him down; a man nearby cuts his own hand with a knife and cuts the young man’s hand and they grip their hands together as blood streams down their arms; the young man convulses and his eyes bleed black blood.
► A woman grieves for her daughter after she is killed and says that it was an overdose; she knocks a pitcher of Bloody Mary on the floor shattering it. A young man is bullied in a correction facility by several others that crowd around him calling him names. A young man revives in a dark setting (a purgatory-type place) where a man tells him that when horrible things happen when someone dies, and the soul cannot rest until things are put right.
► A young woman flinches when a young man tries to touch her shoulder and she has a flashback to a time when she says, “I saw things. I hurt people.” A man says that a young woman’s soul is damned. We are told that crows are the keepers of souls. We hear that someone made a deal with the devil to send the innocent to hell.
► A young woman is followed by a man and she runs into a police officer, her purse spills a variety of drugs on the ground and she is arrested and taken to a correctional facility. A young man and a young woman remove their ankle tracking devices and break out of a correctional facility. A young man and a young woman stop a vehicle on a dark road and ride in the open back bed. Many people are gathered at a funeral.
► A young man gets tattoos in a few scenes and he uses the ink to stain his eyes and face in a couple of scenes. A man’s face, neck, arms, chest and back have many tattoos.

The Crow LANGUAGE 8

 – About 33 F-words, 3 scatological terms, 4 mild obscenities, name-calling (crazy, stink, brilliantly broken, degenerate, tiresome, fool, whore), exclamations (oh no), 1 religious exclamation (e.g. Jesus). | profanity glossary |

The Crow SUBSTANCE USE

 – A woman is injected with a hypodermic presumably containing a sedative (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details), a young woman’s purse spills on the sidewalk when she bumps into a police officer and a variety of drugs spill out, a young man and a young woman each take a yellow pill and drink from a bottle of champagne, and a young man and a young woman smoke marijuana together. A woman drinks a Bloody Mary, and several people drink from bottles of beer. A young man smokes a cigarette in a few scenes, a man smokes a cigarette in a couple of scenes, and a woman smokes a cigarette in a couple of scenes.

The Crow DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Death of loved ones, destructive behavior, drug use, recovery, reality, corruption, hate, love, running away, purgatory, hell, nightmares, doubt, eternity, damnation, depravity.

The Crow MESSAGE

 – The world eventually breaks everyone.