Wolfman, The is rated R: for bloody horror violence and gore.

Release Date: 12 February 2010

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Synopsis:

Some families have skeletons in their closets, but it appears the Talbots have werewolves—or so Lawrence Talbot (Benicio Del Toro) discovers when he retuns from America to his ancestral home only to be bitten by an ancient curse.

Director: Joe Johnston

Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt

Studio: 2010 Universal Pictures. Visit the official movie site.

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This additional information about the movie’s content is taken from the notes of various Canadian Film Classification boards:

Violence:

- Frequent and prolonged portrayals of graphic violence and gory images.

- Frequent monster and hand-to-hand violence (blood, gore and detailed wounds are shown).

- Four scenes of explicit violence depicting decapitation and dismemberment.

- Scenes depicting electrocution, beatings and shootings.

- Frequent disturbing scenes.

- Frequent portrayals of corpses (in gruesome detail), and several scenes depicting the mutilation of dead bodies.

- Brief graphic portrayals of torture.

Sexual Content:

- Nudity is seen in a non-sexual context.

- Embracing and kissing

Language:

-Infrequent mild cursing

Werewolves also make an appearance in the Twilight Saga: The New Moon and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Benicio Del Toro plays a man who is cursed by addictions in the R-rated movie Things We Lost in the Fire. Two of the co-stars of The Wolfman play other characters with secrets: See Anthony Hopkins in Hearts in Atlantis and Emily Blunt in The Jane Austen Book Club.