THE CURSED (2022)

(PaPa, OO, CC, B, AB, L, VVV, S, NN, A, M):

Mixed pagan worldview in a story about a gypsy clan placing a werewolf curse on a French nobleman’s family after the nobleman slaughters many clan members to remove them from some disputed land, so movie’s content includes strong occult elements, but there’s also some Christian and moral elements where the nobleman’s wife prays to God for her son to be protected from the gypsy curse, a heroic pathologist tries to stop the curse by fashioning four silver bullets made from the mechanism of the curse, which happen to be a pair of silver fangs created from the 30 pieces of silver paid to Judas to betray Christ, the pathologist urges the townspeople to find refuge and sanctuary in the local church, but a clergyman sanctions the slaughter of the gypsies in the early part of the movie;

One “f” word and no profanities;

Extreme gory, bloody violence includes mustard gas sprays onto French soldiers in a trench and many cough loudly and painfully; in a field hospital many bloodied and wounded are seen and a man’s left leg is amputated with a bone saw (there’s much blood on bodies, the amputation is briefly shown, and the limb is dropped into a bucket), a wounded man has bullet holes in his stomach that gush blood and a surgeon digs into the punctures to get the bullets out (much gushing blood, screaming, and focused images on the bullet’s removal), a gypsy camp is attacked, tents and wagons burned, and people beaten and shot; a man’s hands and feet are chopped off and his body is raised in the air on a tall crossbar like a human scarecrow (much blood from severed limbs and agonized screams), a gypsy woman is buried alive, a boy is possessed and bites another boy’s throat, a boy is seen in bed breathing very hard and covered in spreading brown roots and blood is seen on the sheets, a young man’s hand is slashed nearly off (blood splatters on his face and clothes) and his body (decaying body with blood dried slashes) is later found in a dilapidated hut, a woman is attacked by a creature who bites deep into her throat (much blood flowing), woman is temporarily saved by a man who the creature kills (much blood splatters the woman’s face), a woman in a torn frock stumbles through the woods and screams as brown roots spring out of the ground to pull her down into a pond where she’s drowned, a girl with roots growing out of her is seen in the woods, a creature falls into a trap and is impaled on sharpened wooden staves, creature is then shot dead; the body of a white werewolf-like creature is cut open, a young girl covered in white slime and sprouting slimy white roots leers at a man before he shoots her in the face with a rifle, a woman is attacked by a creature and bitten in the stomach (much blood splatter on body, sheets, and clothes), a man is attacked in a bedroom and mauled by a creature before shooting it in the face at pointblank range (some blood is seen), a man burns himself alive to avoid being transformed into a werewolf (much screaming and flailing about), werewolf creatures enter a church and many people are maimed or killed in a literal bloodbath, a man fires a rifle and the bullet passes through a woman and into the body of a creature (blood all over the woman as she dies);

A woman takes a bath splashing water on her naked upper body (back, neck, and breasts are partially visible) and a man enters and stares before leaving;

Some partial explicit and natural nudity includes a woman splashes water on her naked upper body (back, neck, and breasts are partially visible) in a bathing scene, nude woman washes blood from her arm and body (her back, legs and buttocks are shown), and a nude child is shown briefly after a transformation (no genitalia);

Some social drinking;

No smoking or drugs; and,

Man cuts the mouth off a skull and it is later used in a gypsy occult ritual, gypsies practice a satanic protection ritual, and a gypsy woman is said to have cursed a rich family’s land.