"Another Kind of Torture Porn"
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What You Need To Know:
AFTERSHOCK includes violent bloody images of gruesome deaths. Also, at one point, two of the women are gang-raped. The gang also burns to death one of the Americans. Even the help of a local priest can’t save this group from meeting violent, often gruesome, ends. Despite some positive Christian references, the filmmakers are more interested in shocking and disturbing their audience rather than edifying, much less enriching, them. AFTERSHOCK could have been a redemptive disaster movie. Instead, it descends into hopeless, ultraviolent, humanist angst. AFTERSHOCK also includes plenty of strong foul language and some drug references. AFTERSHOCK is a new kind of torture porn. This time, nature is the heartless killer.
Content:
(HHH, B, C, LLL, VVV, SSS, NN, AA, DD, MM) Very strong humanist worldview with some characters trying to help other characters and a positive depiction of a priest and other Christian symbols, but the movie ends in hopelessness; 52 obscenities (mostly “f” words) and six light exclamatory profanities, plus vomiting scene; ultraviolent scenes of people injured during earthquake and aftershocks, including people impaled and crushed, plus graphic rape scene, implied rape scene, fighting, people fall, and man crushed under stone but still alive is gruesomely burned to death; graphic rape scene, implied rape, and some sexual dialogue and swimming/nightclub scenes with men and women; rear female nudity in swimming contexts and upper male nudity; alcohol use and drunkenness; smoking and some drug references; and, deceit, gangs, escaped convicts.
More Detail:
AFTERSHOCK is a horror movie about a natural disaster. It starts off well enough, but eventually descends into hopeless, ultraviolent humanist angst. With more restraint, and a more uplifting, even redemptive, worldview, the movie could have been really good. However, despite some positive Christian references, the filmmakers are more interested in shocking and disturbing their audience rather than edifying, much less, enriching, them.
The movie opens with a couple Americans being shown around Chile by a guy named Pollo. They meet some women in an underground nightclub when a terrible earthquake shakes everything. They try to get to higher ground and, eventually, out to sea, but a series of violent aftershocks, some looters, and escaped convicts from the local prison are placed in their way.
AFTERSHOCK includes violent bloody images of gruesome deaths. Also, at one point, two of the women are raped by a local gang. The gang also burns to death one of the Americans. Even the help of a local priest can’t save the group from meeting violent, often gruesome, ends.
AFTERSHOCK could have been a redemptive disaster movie. Instead, it’s an ultraviolent humanist exercise in hopelessness. The movie contains plenty of strong foul language and some drug references. One of the rape scenes is particularly graphic. It and the hopeless ending push AFTERSHOCK over the edge into a new kind of abhorrent torture porn. This time, nature is the heartless killer.
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Now more than ever we’re bombarded by darkness in media, movies, and TV. Movieguide® has fought back for almost 40 years, working within Hollywood to propel uplifting and positive content. We’re proud to say we’ve collaborated with some of the top industry players to influence and redeem entertainment for Jesus. Still, the most influential person in Hollywood is you. The viewer.
What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.
You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.
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