Cold in July (2014) Poster

(2014)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for disturbing bloody violence, language and some sexuality/nudity
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • A man plays a porn film and we see a large-busted woman wearing a bikini with a thong bottom (the woman's significant cleavage, abdomen, full buttocks and thighs are seen) and says, "She ain't even old enough to drive"; the woman straddles over a man who wears a Lucha-libre mask along with an open shirt (chest and stomach are shown) and boxers; the tape is grainy, but it appears that the man's penis is partially revealed and against the crotch part of the woman's thong as she looks over her shoulder and smiles at the camera, then writhes her buttocks for the camera until a second man appears wearing a football helmet, open shirt and boxers and the two men stuff socks into the woman's mouth as she kneels on the bed, screaming as the snuff scene unfolds (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details); the man watching the film tells another man that the law will not punish the pornographer because the filmmaker is in the witness protection program and nobody cares about the woman.
  • After a shootout (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details), a man sits against a table with his legs bloody and spread wide, wearing boxer shorts also covered in blood; the fly is partially open and reveals blood-covered testicles.
  • A husband says to his wife, "Drunk and randy; that's how I thought you liked me" (please see the Substance Use category for more details); sex is implied as they hug and the camera cuts away.
  • A woman lies on a bed with her wrists handcuffed above her head to the headboard wearing an undergarment like a one-piece bathing suit.

Violence & Gore

  • In a porno tape it is implied that a woman is getting hit in the face with a baseball bat sever times.
  • Three men select sawed off shotguns and pistols to hunt down a man, they smudge grease on their faces and follow a crew to a dirty, decrepit mansion where one of the men begins to get out of the vehicle and the driver points a gun to his head to stop him and all three men enter the mansion together and a prolonged gunfight ensues.
  • A man wears a gauze bandage on his earlobe, which bleeds through a small amount and another man wears a large patch of gauze on his shoulder, where blood has dripped down his undershirt.
  • A train speeds toward a man lying on the tracks as a male bystander pulls him to safety; the bystander takes the unconscious man to a secluded cabin and chains his ankle to a heavy table.
  • A couple fearing that a man will kill them receives police protection and the officer wears a bulletproof vest while detectives stand in the nearby woods with guns drawn to watch for cars; a car drives by slowly, stops, then moves on and the detectives find an abandoned car a short distance away; the camera cuts to the police guard, dead on the floor, face down in some blood and a young boy cries and points to an open window, a detective says that a criminal was hiding in the crawlspace for some time and the homeowners gasp and shake.
  • At a fender-bender in a driveway a man strikes a police officer on the shoulder with a ball bat; the officer kicks the man in the stomach, then punches him and when the man begins to get back up, the officer kicks him in the head, unconscious.
  • Two men take an elderly man from jail at night in an unmarked car to a railroad crossing, where they inject him with a sedative, lay him on the tracks and break a bottle of liquor over him (please see the Substance Use category for more details).
  • A three-year-old boy puts a wooden gun into his backpack for preschool before his father removes it and says no; the boy grabs it, points it at his father, shouts, "BANG! You DEAD!" and his father grabs him by the shoulders and firmly tells him no gunplay and no guns at school.
  • A man wakes up with a start one morning to a pistol shot, walks outside and finds an elderly man shooting bottles and cans, which shatter or fall.
  • An elderly man lies in bed at night pointing a pistol at the ceiling, practicing his aim.
  • A man finds his front door glass broken, the shattered glass crunching as he walks on it; he has iron bars installed on windows and doors before finding the front door locks hanging loose and the burglar alarm ripped from the wall, as well as the bars on his young son's window swinging free and a trail of bullets leads to a mound of bullets in the boy's bed.
  • A father curses at his young son in a restaurant and slams his fist on a table as the boy stares blankly.
  • At a graveyard, a preacher reads a Bible to a pine box as it is lowered into the ground; an elderly man approaches a parked driver on the cemetery lane and says that he saw the driver's fine family photo in the paper causing the driver to fear for his young son's life and he picks him up from school, calls his wife and they argue about safety.
  • A husband and his wife argue about a new couch and the husband argues with the police and his customers in a store.
  • A man convinces two male friends to go with him to kill a pornographer.

Profanity

  • About 17 F-words and its derivatives, 15 scatological terms, 3 anatomical terms, 12 mild obscenities, 4 religious profanities (GD) and 4 religious exclamations (God Bless, Oh my God, Jesus and Jesus Christ).

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Two men inject another man with a sedative and break a bottle of liquor over his unconscious body (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details).
  • A man says to another man on the phone, "You owe me a beer."
  • Two men walk into a café where many beer bottles are shown on tables and they order three beers and carry the bottles to a car.
  • Two men drink from beer bottles.
  • A man orders and drinks a bottle of beer at a café in the morning (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details.)
  • A man tells another man that he needs a drink... "I haven't even had my coffee yet."
  • Two men play poker and a short glass of whiskey sits on the table.
  • A detective smokes a cigarette in his office.
  • An elderly man sits on a bench by a store and holds a lit cigarette in one hand.
  • A woman in a driveway smokes a cigarette after a man lights it and he walks away with a lit cigarette (not smoking.)
  • A woman sits in a café and holds a lit cigarette (not smoking).

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There are several scenes that are quite intense. The film ends with a shootout and has lots of blood.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • A wife awakens to a noise in her home and rouses her husband who loads a pistol with shaking hands as she lies in bed, whimpering; the man points the gun forward and steps slowly into the living room, catches a burglar dressed in black with a dark face kerchief and shoots him in the upper chest (we see a wide spray of blood up the wall to the ceiling as the burglar sits straight down on the couch, dead); the wife steps into the dark room, her husband turns, points the gun at her shouting at her unannounced presence as she turns on the light; blood covers a large painting, a clock, family photos, the wall and part of a couch and we see the couple cleaning all night and setting out blood stained cushions and the painting for the trash; the husband pours a bucket of bloody water down the toilet and flushes it.
  • An elderly man bleeds from a chest wound, while a younger man bleeds from a wound in the side; the elderly man kneels on the floor in front of the younger man and shoots him between the eyes (we see a black hole in the forehead as he falls backward, dead); the older man leans back against the wall and dies (blood covers the younger man's abdomen and groin area (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details).
  • A woman screams in the upstairs area of an old mansion while two men rush to her rescue, finding her handcuffed to a bed (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details) with a dead man lying face down on the bed and with a bullet hole through his jacket and some blood showing.
  • Fingers of the hands are cut off and raw at the first knuckles, with the fingerprints removed.
  • An elderly man taunts a younger man.
  • A man pours kerosene onto the frame of a house entryway, lights it and a large fire fills the screen.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A wife asks her husband if he's been drinking and he says he had a couple of beers.

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