Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic murders matching those in his pulp novels, which are soon discovered to be the work of Stark himself. Looking like a maniacal version of his counterpart, Stark is not so willing to quit the writing game – even if it means coming after Thad's wife and their baby.
Multiple murders involving a razor blade (bloody but not very graphic).
Many dead bodies are found.
We see the silhouette of a dead tortured man whose penis has been stuffed in his mouth.
A man stabs himself in the hand with a pencil.
A man is kicked so hard into an object he dies instantly.
At the end of the movie, countless sparrows rip the flesh off a man and pluck out one of his eyes, in a rather long and gruesome sequence. The man's body is literally destroyed, and only his bloody skeleton remains. Very graphic and disturbing.
profanity
Some mildly strong language is heard, although not excessively nor constantly.
alcohol
Cigarettes smoked in one close up scene.
A lady smokes on a pipe.
Brief alcohol drinking.
frightening
The scene where many sparrows devour a man's body is very intense and gory, absolutely not for young or sensitive viewers.
The whole movie is about the murderous alter-ego of a man.
Rated R for violence/gore and language
