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How bad is the rape scene


I just watch the red band trailer and saw that this movie has rape in it and was wondering how bad that scene really is .I am so sick of Blanking movies that have to have rape in them just to sell the movie .It's BS and should not be aloud .I enjoy disaster movies and really wanted to see this but now I find out it has rape well I don't think I will make me sick

I have written to the so called MPAA and they never email me or called me back they just don't give a *beep* .

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If you feel so strongly then don't see the film.

I didn't know there would be a rape scene so I was taken aback. I think it was gratituous and really ruins the film. It's not really graphic but it's disturbing.

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Thanks I'll pass on this movie than there no reason why this movie had to have a stupid rape scene in it none whatsoever .

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I was interested in seeing the movie until I saw Eli Roth was involved. I knew there would be sex/rape/gore after that. That's all he does. Not surprised it first got a NC-17 rating.

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Yeah why put sex/rape/gore in a horror film when rapists escape from a prison. It is puzzling

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I completely agree and its good to see other people who are disgusted by it too. There is two rape scenes in the movie and neither of them serve a single purpose. I kind of ranted for a second on this in our review of the movie because Im sick of seeing it...... Have it off camera or mention that it happened there is no reason to show it.. If you can't show how ugly the situation is without resort to rape or killing kids than you don't need to be making horror movies.

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Get over it! Tired of ppl wanting movies to sugar coat and hide/conceal raoe. that only adds to the acceptance and normalization of it. If it's gonna be in a movie it should be shown not glossed over or hinted at. It's a horror. And if others horrors are shown like ummmm MURDER! Than so can rape. And I'm a 24 yr old female. It doesn't titilate me at all and honestly the rape in this movie is nothing compared to other films. The second guy that rapes the woman that you do see, you see from behind. His bare butt. Looks almost like normal sex. No beating, punching, and no view of him trying to kiss her or groping her etc. It's almost unrealistic.

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Stop showing romance in film, just as bad as rape, its misleading and unrealistic, also ruins film.

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So why is it acceptably to show adults being killed, but it isn't acceptable to show rape or children being killed? What makes rape worse than murder? What makes a child's life more valuable than an adults? Please explain.

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Have a kid first. Then speak.

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you dont see anything with the rape. yes it happens, yes it makes sense, especially when you see all the crazy stuff done to everyone else.

this movie is GOOD. you know why? you will DEFINITELY have an emotional reaction to it.

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The prisoners are the ones raping. The same girl gets raped twice by two different men. The first one you hear but don't see. The second one you see too much.

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Y ARE SON SICK BASTARD

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It's entirely used as a point of moral conflict (and exploited later when there is a reveal at the end of the film).

The idea is would you risk your life to save someone you just met from rape. One guy, who's been an *beep* up to now, decides he will. The scene is less about the rape and more about the moral decisions to help others in need. The film does this through many extreme situations. The girl being raped has just had to decide
whether or not to help a person she just met who is trapped under debris.

The scene is perhaps made more intense because she has just gone on about her son and others had said to her how strong she is and proud of her he must be. But in the scene the act of rape is not exploited, feels awful and does not glorify rape in any way. The second rapist dies horribly.

The movie does not have rape in it to 'sell the movie'. It has rape as an exploration of the worst things people do to each other; as part of exploring how far people go to help or hurt each other in a terrible disaster-like situation. In doing that it uses extremes of human nature.

I would not recommend this movie unless you want to be tested in that way. It's not a very 'fun' movie, but it never claims to be, so you have to deal with what it is or ignore it. That's your own choice.

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The idea is would you risk your life to save someone you just met from rape. One guy, who's been an *beep* up to now, decides he will. The scene is less about the rape and more about the moral decisions to help others in need.


I agree with jordanlucker42. Some people were willing to help others even after seeing other people getting screwed for helping others, for others their self-preservation was more important. I think it was like that saying, no good deed goes unpunished.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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Agree with this.

It is set up as a moral conflict and to make the 2 'hero' characters involved (the guy who gets burnt and the rape victim) suffer as much psychologically and physically as possible.

It's a horror movie - horrible things are meant to happen in them.

This is just a particularly bleak horror movie, in which everyone suffers for their particular character set ups.

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im 100% agaisnt rape and violence towards women, this type of act shouldnt be allowed in movies, i find if such act is filmed, the movie should be banned totally and distoryed


So you are saying that if a women gets raped and survives it then writes a book and has a movie made about her experience to help heal and tell others about the man or men who wronged her, then we should deny her that chance at closure?

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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Well, Anikan said he/she is 100% against violence and rape toward women. Presumably then he/she is totally fine with violence and rape towards men.

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... you do know that it's not real, right? Rape isn't allowed in movies, rape is illegal. Actors simulating rape, however, is not a crime.

What about murder? I presume you're 100% against that too, but do you think movies should be allowed to depict murder?

These bastards!

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I'm against it too. I'm against murder. I'm against racial hatred. I'm against poverty. I'm against child abuse. You could say I'm against a lot of things......but not in a film. When I choose to watch a certain type of film, I usually expect to see a certain type of behaviour that "I'm against".

Oh and you know when you said "im 100% against rape and violence towards women".
Just wondering what your views are on male rape in movies. Is that OK?

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There was no need for the double rape scene.

This is avery curious movie, it takes so much time in introducing the characters who are not very likeable anyway and then decides to dispatch them in various gruesome ways.

It's a shame because in amongst the mess there is a decent disaster / horror movie trying to get out. In the hands of a better film maker and a better script, this may have succeeded. The ending was quite good if completely predictable.

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Quit being a puss. Of course the MPAA doesnt care, someone has to pull your safety blanket off and show you how society functions. 15 girls probably got raped while I was writing this reply. Welcome to Earth.

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