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    "headline": "Robert Eggers’ Werwulf rated R for gore, sexual assault and disturbing violence ahead of Christmas relea",
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    "articleBody": "Robert Eggers’ Werwulf has its rating, and it is about as heavy as an R gets. The Motion Picture Association’s ratings database lists the Focus Features release as “Rated R for strong bloody/disturbing violent content, gore, sexual assault, graphic nudity and strong sexual content.” That is five separate warnings stacked onto one certificate, number 56032. The rating arrives six weeks before the 13th-century werewolf story opens in American theaters on December 25, 2026. Universal Pictures handles the international rollout, with British audiences getting it on January 1, 2027. Listings put the running time at two hours, and some cinemas are already selling tickets for 35mm prints on Christmas Day. What an R rating means for a Christmas release Under the MPA’s voluntary system, an R means anyone under 17 needs a parent or adult guardian with them. It is one notch below NC-17, the adults-only tier that most big theater chains refuse to book. So Werwulf keeps its wide holiday release, but families planning a December 25 outing should read the descriptors before they buy seats. Those descriptors are the real story. The MPA began attaching short explanations to R ratings in 1990, and most horror titles collect two or three. Eggers’ film carries violence flagged as both “bloody” and “disturbing,” plus gore, plus sexual assault, plus two kinds of sexual and nude content. Counting them out, that is five flags against the two or three that a typical studio horror title receives in a weekly ratings bulletin. Badiyaa has tracked how R-rated horror has been playing this fall, from Jessica Chastain’s Other Mommy turning a $19 million budget into $111.5 million to DC’s Clayface opening at No. 1 with $24 million. Werwulf lands in the most crowded weekend of the year with the harshest label of the bunch. The film behind the rating Eggers co-wrote the script with the Icelandic novelist and poet Sjón, his partner on The Northman (2022). The dialogue is in Middle English, and the pair consulted two University of Oxford professors to keep it authentic. Eggers has described it as the darkest script he has ever written, and the MPA’s wording suggests the finished cut lives up to that. The premise is simple: a town in 13th-century England is haunted by a ravenous beast that threatens a man and his family. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays the Man, Lily-Rose Depp the Woman and Willem Dafoe the Old Hunter, with Ralph Ineson as the One-Eyed Hunter. Taylor-Johnson, Depp and Dafoe all worked with Eggers on Nosferatu (2024), and Ineson goes back to his debut, The Witch. September 2025: principal photography begins at Sky Studios Elstree, outside London. November 2025: crews shoot on Sharp Tor in Dartmoor and in Bourne Wood, Surrey. December 2025: the production moves to the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire, with Wales also used. January 2026: cinematographer Jarin Blaschke and Ineson post that filming has wrapped. April 2026: first footage screens at CinemaCon in Las Vegas. Blaschke shot on Super 35mm film in the boxy 1.37:1 Academy ratio, building an orthochromatic look by bringing black-and-white grain into color stock. Robin Carolan is back on the score for a third Eggers collaboration, and Ethel Cain has a song on the soundtrack titled “Wynter Waxeth,” written with Carolan and Eggers. The Dartmoor set, built between Widecombe and Postbridge, was used for only about a minute of footage. Audiences can judge whether that minute was worth it when Werwulf opens in the US on December 25 and in the UK on January 1. Further reading Wikipedia: Werwulf Wikipedia: Motion Picture Association film rating system Image: PunkToad, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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