Pearl: parents' guide

Bloody and shocking: a man is stabbed repeatedly with a pitchfork, a woman is hacked with an axe and dismembered, a mother is burned and left to die, a disabled father is smothered, a daydream shows a soldier exploding, and animals are killed and fed to an alligator.

Very little swearing; the harshest word noted is "whore," along with insults like "stupid." The cruelty comes through cutting words between mother and daughter rather than profanity.

A projectionist shows the lead an old stag film with full nudity and sex that runs close to a minute. She later wakes in his bed after implied sex, and she writhes on a scarecrow to orgasm. A bathing scene shows nothing graphic.

The lead swigs morphine straight from the bottle, and characters smoke cigarettes. Drug use is brief rather than a running thread.

A slow, creeping descent into madness, with jump scares, a nightmare sequence, a rotting pig crawling with maggots, an alligator lurking in the pond, and decaying corpses posed at a table. The lead's long breakdown monologue is unnerving.