The Plagues of Breslau

This movie is extremely violent. Dead, mutilated bodies are found in what police identify as a meticulously-planned revenge plot. One live victim is sewn inside a cowhide, which shrank sufficiently to crush him. The next is torn apart by two frightened racehorses galloping off in different directions. City crowds are trampled by the manic horses. A police officer is kicked in the head and put into a coma by one horse, his brain turned "to mush," according to the doctor. A man's limbs are sledge-hammered to pieces that will fit on what looks like a wagon wheel, which is thrown through a window for dramatic emphasis. The gruesomeness continues with graphic autopsies and scenes of the killer branding a live victim, sledgehammering another to break his bones, and rolling another in a steel drum down a busy hill full of pedestrians. A man is seen on a slab at the morgue, his right arm and leg torn from his body. A tortured woman is burned before a live opera audience. The foreman of a meat packing plant is described as a sadist who locked workers in freezers and wouldn't allow bathroom breaks. He forced some workers to drink large amounts of water to make the torture worse. A reporter kicks her cameraman when he's on the ground. Someone recalls that a perp sent a man's genitals in a jar to the victim's wife. Someone describes a severe reaction to a hornet sting that resulted in a coma and eventual recovery. A poor woman reports that a sadist tried to sell her kids to pedophiles. A head is chopped off by a guillotine, the aftermath featuring all the blood you might expect.

A woman says a sadist tried to sell her kids to a pedophile. Several nude, tortured, and severed bodies are shown. A man who has been torn apart lies in the morgue with his genitals on display.

"F--k," "s--t," "c--t," "ass," "bastard," and "bitch."

Adults drink alcohol.

Parents need to know that The Plagues of Breslau, in Polish with English subtitles, is a graphically violent police procedural in which a detective, mourning the loss of her fiancé, searches for a murderer who is bizarrely torturing and assassinating seemingly random Polish citizens in spectacularly public ways. Several nude, tortured, and severed bodies are shown. A man who has been torn apart lies in the morgue with his genitals on display. One live victim is sewn inside a cowhide, which shrank sufficiently to crush him. Another is torn apart by two frightened racehorses galloping off in different directions. City crowds are trampled by the manic horses. A police officer is kicked in the head and put into a coma by one horse, his brain turned "to mush," according to the doctor. A man's limbs are sledge-hammered to pieces that will fit on what looks like a wagon wheel. The gruesomeness continues with graphic autopsies and scenes of the killer branding a live victim, sledgehammering another to break his bones, and rolling another in a steel drum down a busy hill full of pedestrians. A tortured woman is burned before a live opera audience. Someone recalls that a perp sent a man's genitals in a jar to the victim's wife. A poor woman reports that a sadist tried to sell her kids to pedophiles. A head is chopped off by a guillotine, the aftermath featuring lots of blood. Adults drink alcohol, and language includes "f--k," "s--t," "c--t," "ass," "bastard," and "bitch."

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