Birth/Rebirth

What’s it about?

A pathologist revives a little girl, but to keep her alive she needs to harvest pregnant women. When the girl’s mother discovers her re-animated child, the pair agree to work together and resort to desperate and dark measures.

The facts

• Directed by Laura Moss
• English language
• Runtime: 99 minutes

Why did it get this rating?

This film was classified by Te Mana Whakaatu, Classification Office.

Cruelty

A character conducts inhumane experiments that often results in violence and dehumanising conduct. For example, a character revives a little dead girl without consent, forcing the mother of the dead child to be an accomplice in committing murder to sustain their re-animated child’s lifespan.

A character cruelly harvests a pregnant patient. The patient undergoes a painful and cruel experience. This may be distressing for some viewers.

• They manipulate the results of a patient’s pregnancy test. This coerces the patient to undergo an invasive procedure multiple times allowing the character to extract fluid from the pregnant belly. This is distressing for the patient who fears for the baby’s health and painful for them as the procedure involves inserting a long needle in the belly. This is shown and we also see it on the ultrasound video on a monitor.
• The patient is drugged to induce labour. They seizures and foams at the mouth. They later die after delivering the baby. A gaping bloody cut on her stomach is shown.

A pig is beaten with a metal pole. We see the repeated arm motions of the character and hear the high-pitched squeals.

Content that may disturb

A character conducts inhumane experiments that can be disturbing.

There are detailed images of human and animal corpses.

• We see a dissected dead human’s open torso as a pathologist extracts internal organs, showcasing exposed intestines and bloody flesh.
• A dead pig lies on the autopsy table. A character is seen sticking a sharp object deep into the pig.

A character masturbates a man in a toilet, we hear heavy grunting.

A character impregnates herself and uses serum from her aborted fetuses to sustain the re-animated child. They are seen bleeding out in urinal and later with blood-stained pants.

Offensive language

Infrequent use of offensive language in high stress situations.

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