Devil in the Dust
strong violence, injury detail, solvent misuse, sexual violence
Director(s)Ned Crowley
Production year2025
Genre(s)Thriller, Western
Approx. running minutes108m
CastGuy Pearce, Dewanda Wise, Raoul Max Trujillo
Devil in the Dust
strong violence, injury detail, solvent misuse, sexual violence
Western thriller in which a doctor and a freed slave go in search for a faith healer to help a child thought to be posse ...
Western thriller in which a doctor and a freed slave go in search for a faith healer to help a child thought to be possessed.
violence
People are strangled, stabbed, hit over the head and shot with strong bloody detail and sight of brain matter. There are verbal references violence. A person attempts to drown a child.
drugs
There are scenes of solvent abuse in which a character sniffs clear liquid from a cloth and then hallucinates.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There are verbal references to rape and in one scene a woman recalls being sexually assaulted with visuals showing sight of a man thrusting.
injury detail
Scenes of strong injury detail involve sight of severed limbs, severed scalps and bloody injuries. A dead body is briefly seen with a grisly facial gunshot wound. There is sight of a dead person clutching their own heart with a hole in their chest. A person vomits a black substance.
additional issues
There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k') and milder terms such as 'son of a bitch', 'damn' and 'God'. There are references to adultery and a boy briefly looks at a woman bathing but looks away, knowing it is wrong. A person mimics male genitalia with their pistol. Characters are threatened with violence and death, including a child and adults being held at gunpoint. A person points a gun to their head but does not pull the trigger. There are verbal references to a person taking their own life. A person with learning difficulties is called discriminatory names, although this is condemned. There are references to slavery in a historical context. Upsetting scenes center on bereavement and a sickness that has taken many lives. There is brief breast nudity as a woman bathes.
strong violence, injury detail, solvent misuse, sexual violence
Classified Date:
26/08/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Signature Entertainment
violence
People are strangled, stabbed, hit over the head and shot with strong bloody detail and sight of brain matter. There are verbal references violence. A person attempts to drown a child.
drugs
There are scenes of solvent abuse in which a character sniffs clear liquid from a cloth and then hallucinates.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There are verbal references to rape and in one scene a woman recalls being sexually assaulted with visuals showing sight of a man thrusting.
injury detail
Scenes of strong injury detail involve sight of severed limbs, severed scalps and bloody injuries. A dead body is briefly seen with a grisly facial gunshot wound. There is sight of a dead person clutching their own heart with a hole in their chest. A person vomits a black substance.
additional issues
There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k') and milder terms such as 'son of a bitch', 'damn' and 'God'. There are references to adultery and a boy briefly looks at a woman bathing but looks away, knowing it is wrong. A person mimics male genitalia with their pistol. Characters are threatened with violence and death, including a child and adults being held at gunpoint. A person points a gun to their head but does not pull the trigger. There are verbal references to a person taking their own life. A person with learning difficulties is called discriminatory names, although this is condemned. There are references to slavery in a historical context. Upsetting scenes center on bereavement and a sickness that has taken many lives. There is brief breast nudity as a woman bathes.
Classified date26/08/2025
LanguageEnglish
violence
People are strangled, stabbed, hit over the head and shot with strong bloody detail and sight of brain matter. There are verbal references violence. A person attempts to drown a child.
drugs
There are scenes of solvent abuse in which a character sniffs clear liquid from a cloth and then hallucinates.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There are verbal references to rape and in one scene a woman recalls being sexually assaulted with visuals showing sight of a man thrusting.
injury detail
Scenes of strong injury detail involve sight of severed limbs, severed scalps and bloody injuries. A dead body is briefly seen with a grisly facial gunshot wound. There is sight of a dead person clutching their own heart with a hole in their chest. A person vomits a black substance.
additional issues
There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k') and milder terms such as 'son of a bitch', 'damn' and 'God'. There are references to adultery and a boy briefly looks at a woman bathing but looks away, knowing it is wrong. A person mimics male genitalia with their pistol. Characters are threatened with violence and death, including a child and adults being held at gunpoint. A person points a gun to their head but does not pull the trigger. There are verbal references to a person taking their own life. A person with learning difficulties is called discriminatory names, although this is condemned. There are references to slavery in a historical context. Upsetting scenes center on bereavement and a sickness that has taken many lives. There is brief breast nudity as a woman bathes.
Director(s)Ned Crowley
Production year2025
Genre(s)Thriller, Western
Approx. running minutes108m
CastGuy Pearce, Dewanda Wise, Raoul Max Trujillo
strong violence, injury detail, solvent misuse, sexual violence
Classified Date:
26/08/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Signature Entertainment
violence
People are strangled, stabbed, hit over the head and shot with strong bloody detail and sight of brain matter. There are verbal references violence. A person attempts to drown a child.
drugs
There are scenes of solvent abuse in which a character sniffs clear liquid from a cloth and then hallucinates.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There are verbal references to rape and in one scene a woman recalls being sexually assaulted with visuals showing sight of a man thrusting.
injury detail
Scenes of strong injury detail involve sight of severed limbs, severed scalps and bloody injuries. A dead body is briefly seen with a grisly facial gunshot wound. There is sight of a dead person clutching their own heart with a hole in their chest. A person vomits a black substance.
additional issues
There is infrequent use of strong language ('f**k') and milder terms such as 'son of a bitch', 'damn' and 'God'. There are references to adultery and a boy briefly looks at a woman bathing but looks away, knowing it is wrong. A person mimics male genitalia with their pistol. Characters are threatened with violence and death, including a child and adults being held at gunpoint. A person points a gun to their head but does not pull the trigger. There are verbal references to a person taking their own life. A person with learning difficulties is called discriminatory names, although this is condemned. There are references to slavery in a historical context. Upsetting scenes center on bereavement and a sickness that has taken many lives. There is brief breast nudity as a woman bathes.
Classified date26/08/2025
LanguageEnglish
