X | 2022 | R | – 9.8.6

Why is “X” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “strong bloody violence and gore, strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use, and language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes several sex scenes with nudity while being filmed, a sex scene with nudity, an implied sex scene with partial nudity, a few kissing scenes, discussions of sex vs. love, several deaths by alligator attack, gunshot, being run over by a car and stabbing with bloody results, and almost 15 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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When an ensemble of adult entertainers travel to a remote rooming house to film what they term a “good dirty movie,” they are surprised by what they find and the unwelcoming reactions of the owners of the property. With Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Brittany Snow, Kid Cudi, Martin Henderson, Owen Campbell and Stephen Ure. Directed by Ti West. [Running Time: 1:45]

X SEX/NUDITY 9

 – A man and a woman have sex in an extended scene while being filmed and we see the man thrusting as she moans and rests legs on his shoulders (we see her bare breasts, abdomen and bare legs and his bare chest and abdomen); the woman turns over to her hands and knees (we see her bare back and partial buttocks) and the man continues to thrust, while the man filming gives direction and the man having sex tells him to stop (we hear more moaning from outside the building). We hear moaning and see a young woman thrusting on top of a man (we see her bare breasts, abdomen and back and the man’s bare chest and abdomen) during a movie scene as an elderly woman watches from outside. An elderly woman asks her husband to have sex with her, she opens her top and the man touches her bare breasts (we see part of her chest), they kiss and he removes his shirt (he is wearing a T-shirt); they lie on a bed and we see the man thrusting on top of the woman (we see his bare back and buttocks) as the woman moans. A young man enters a room to see his girlfriend in her underwear preparing to have sex with a man for a movie scene (we see her bare back and underwear); the man lies on a bed with a towel around his waist (we see his bare chest and abdomen), the young woman crawls between his legs (we see her bare breasts), opens the towel (his genitals are not visible) and the scene ends (sex is implied).
► A woman whispers in a man’s ear, “Come with me before Daddy gets home,” in a movie scene, the woman puts the man’s hand on her clothed breast and they kiss (sex is implied). A young man drives a van on a driveway to leave until an elderly woman stands in front of the car, and he stops and tries to help her into the house; the woman tries to seduce the young man, she hugs him and tries to kiss him but he pulls away, and she tells him, “I can show you what I’m capable of,” and begins to open her dress until he tells her to stop (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details). An elderly woman undresses in a dark room (we see her bare upper chest and shoulders) and climbs into bed with a sleeping young woman, she touches the young woman and breathes heavily, and the young woman rolls over and screams when she wakes up and sees the woman. An elderly woman tries to seduce her husband and he says he can’t because of his heart.
► A man and a young woman kiss in several scenes. A woman wipes what is implied to be ejaculate off her back with a towel and throws it on the floor near a young woman that seems annoyed.
► A man puts a young man’s hand on his clothed crotch to feel how aroused he is after watching a scene being filmed. A young woman is startled when an elderly woman touches her bare side; she says, “What are you doing?” and the woman says, “It’s our secret.” A fully nude man stands at a window and we see his bare back, buttocks and legs; a woman teases him about not being as good at sex as he is proclaiming and mimics the sounds she was making while they were filming a scene and he becomes discouraged.
► A woman advises a man filming a scene for an adult film to shoot a man at a gas pump to make it look like he is using his genitals. A young woman tells her reflection in a mirror, “You’re a (F-word deleted) sex symbol.” A sing on a building reads, “Topless Entertainment,” and “Bayou Burlesque,” the words “Plowing Service” are painted on the side of a van, and a bumper sticker reads, “Make Love Not War.” A man talks about hoping to be able to make a film that would compete with “Debbie Does Dallas.” A man tells a young woman that she has the “X-factor.” A comment is made about a man leaving his wife for a young woman. Several people discuss that the sex they are having for a movie is not real and that love does not enter into it; a woman says, “Everybody likes sex.” A young woman says that she wants to be in a movie, and a young man says no and they argue. An elderly man complains about people “enticing my wife.”
► A young woman finds a fully nude dead body hanging from the ceiling in a basement (we see his bare chest, abdomen, genitals and legs). A fully nude man walks through a dark house (we see his bare back, buttocks, legs, chest and abdomen), he stands in a doorway lit from behind and we see his genitals between his legs. A topless elderly woman stands on a pier (we see her bare breasts) and a woman finds her and wraps a blanket around her (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details). An elderly woman shuffles out of a room after a young woman screams and we see the woman’s bare shoulders, breasts and abdomen. A young woman removes her overalls and dives into a pond (we see her fully nude from a distance and her bare breasts and genitals are partially visible); she is shown floating in the water and we see her breasts and she later pulls herself out of the water and we see her bare back and buttocks. A young woman wears a tube top that reveals cleavage, bare shoulders and bare abdomen in a few scenes. A young woman wears overalls without a top underneath and her bare side and the side of her breasts are seen. A woman wears a deeply cut halter-top that reveals cleavage and part of her upper abdomen and her nipples are visible through the fabric. A woman wears short shorts that reveal her bare legs to the upper thighs. A man stands in a shower (we see his bare shoulders, chest, abdomen, back and partial buttocks). A man wearing only bikini briefs (we see his bare chest, abdomen, back and legs to the hips) helps a young woman look for her boyfriend in and around a dark house. A young woman scrubs her arms and sides after waking up in bed with an elderly woman touching her.

X VIOLENCE/GORE 8

 – A young man drives a van on a driveway to leave until an elderly woman stands in front of the car, he stops and tries to help her into the house (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details), and when rebuffed the woman stabs the young man in the throat; he falls to the ground gurgling and spitting blood, the woman straddles him, pulls the knife out of his throat (blood spurts) and stabs him numerous times (blood sprays on the woman and the van and pools on the ground). A man hears a noise and looks through a hole in the wall of a barn, someone outside stabs a spike through the hole and into his eye, pulls it out (blood spurts) and the man falls dead; he is later poked with a pitchfork and covered with hay. A man is shot in the chest and falls back off-screen (we do not see the wound). A woman tries to help an elderly woman back to her house when she finds her standing on a pier; the elderly woman becomes upset and slaps the woman in the face, shoves her off the pier and an alligator bites the woman’s head and she thrashes as the water bubbles up with blood. A young woman screams and runs out of a house where she is shot and falls dead (we later see her face partially blown off and covered in blood). A young woman drives a truck over the head of an injured woman and the head is crushed and spurts blood. A young woman goes to a dark basement to find a flashlight, when she returns up the stairs she finds the door locked, she uses an axe to break part of the door open and when she reaches through the opening someone on the outside of the door hacks her hand with an axe, cutting her fingers (we see blood and a finger partially severed).
► A young woman finds a dead body hanging from the ceiling by his wrists and with his ankles shackled (we see dried blood on the body), and she screams loudly (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details). A young woman threatens an elderly woman with a gun, she pulls the trigger but the gun is not loaded; the elderly woman shoots a shotgun and misses the young woman but is thrown out of a door and onto the ground, where she complains of her hip. A man drags a dead body into a house and the body gasps and startles the man, causing him to fall to the floor, having a heart attack.
► Traffic is stopped on a road and we see the bloody carcass of a cow on the road with blood and tissue on the grill of a truck and a man shovels the remains off the road; a car drives through a puddle of blood and we hear squishing as a young woman in the car gags (she does not vomit). Police officers are shown outside a remote house where there is a body lying outside covered with a blood-soaked sheet and a smear of blood on the floor of the porch; two officers go to the basement where they see something that alarms them (we do not see anything). A man searches for an elderly woman at night around a pond and finds a car partially submerged; he wades into water to retrieve another man’s flashlight and is startled by the man standing behind him. A young woman hides under a bed where an elderly couple has sex (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details); she pulls herself out from under the bed and runs away unnoticed.
► A man walking barefoot in a barn steps on a nail (we hear a crunch), he falls to the ground yelling, pulls the nail out and we hear squishing and see blood on his foot. A young woman dives off a pier and into a pond where she swims and floats and we see an alligator in the reeds nearby; when the young woman swims back to the pier, the alligator follows her but she gets out of the water before it is close enough to attack her (the young woman is not aware of the alligator). A man answers his front door with a shotgun and tells a man standing on his porch, “You’re trespassing and the law says I can shoot”; he does not shoot and says that the gun is not loaded. A young woman searches through a dark house for her boyfriend and a man touches her shoulder from behind, startling her. A young woman runs away from a house and is startled when she nearly runs into a man.
► A man tells another man, “I don’t think I like you.” A young woman says, “I will not accept a life I do not deserve.” A young woman accuses another young woman of being rude for staring at her and not talking. A young man and a young woman argue about her wanting to be in a movie. A man stands in a shower and cries after filming his girlfriend having sex with another man. A song with the lyrics, “Don’t fear the reaper,” plays on a car radio during a murder.
► An elderly woman touches a sleeping young woman’s back and smears blood from her own hand on her skin. An elderly man leans over while walking and coughs deeply; he complains later of having a bad heart. A young woman goes to a house where an elderly woman was standing and waving on the front porch; she enters the house and finds many dirty dishes in the sink, something seems to be cooking on the stove and we hear flies buzzing. A coroner loads a body in a body bag into the back of a car at a crime scene.

X LANGUAGE 6

 – About 14 F-words, 10 sexual references, 7 scatological terms, 8 anatomical terms, 15 mild obscenities, name-calling (church mouse, old codger, sad and lonely, perverts, deviant, self-righteous naysayers, disgusting, Pops, Bohemian, nice girl, prude, whore, rude, crazy, ugly [mild obscenity deleted]), exclamations (heebie-jeebies, [scatological term deleted] from shinola, oh my goodness, oh no, ah, shut-up), 3 religious profanities (GD), 10 religious exclamations (e.g. oh my God, praise the [F-word deleted] Lord, my God, for Christ’s sake, Bless you, forgiving God, glory be to Jesus, God knows, a young woman removes a crucifix she wears around her neck before filming a sex scene, an Evangelist preaches on a TV throughout several scenes in the movie). | profanity glossary |

X SUBSTANCE USE

 – A young woman snorts cocaine in several scenes and a man tells her to take it easy, and a young woman snorts cocaine while driving. A man buys six-packs of beer. A young woman smokes a cigarette outside, and a man buys a woman a pack of cigarettes.

X DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Pornography, the adult entertainment business, loss of youth, attraction, aging, living the life you want, the Civil War, Vietnam, avant-garde films, infidelity, love, morals.

X MESSAGE

 – Being unhappy with your life can drive some people to extremes.