Meat Kills has set a first-ever report for a horror movie with an NC-17 score. First utilized in 1990, NC-17 is the strictest score issued by the Movement Image Affiliation’s movie score system, and is usually given to films that the MPA considers inappropriate for anybody below the age of 17.
In response to ND Photos, Meat Kills is the primary Dutch horror movie to ever obtain an NC-17 score. Try the trailer for the movie under, billed as “the bloodiest Dutch horror movie ever.”
Directed by Martijn Smiths, with a script written by Paul de Vrijer, Meat Kills follows an animal rights activist and her group who sabotage a pig farm, and the farmer’s household retaliates, setting off an unrelenting cycle of vengeance and violence.
The Dutch horror film’s forged contains Caro Derkx, Sem Ben Yakar, Sweder de Sitter, Emma Josten, Derron Lurvink, Bart Oomen, Chardonnay Rillen, Juliette van de Weerdt, and Tommy Zonneveld.
Meat Kills premiered at Improbable Fest 2025, and although it does not have any evaluations from Rotten Tomatoes-approved critics, it has obtained reward from publications corresponding to Dread Central, whose assessment by Mary Beth McAndrews was significantly enthusiastic:
Nasty, imply cinema is again, child. Meat Kills is a European excessive horror traditional within the making, becoming a member of the ranks of movies like Calvaire, Excessive Pressure, and Frontier(s). That is the evolution of European horror, which continues to ship gnarly societal indictments which are unafraid to make the viewer uncomfortable. Dehumanization is the secret in Meat Kills, and it goes deeper than only a assertion about animal cruelty; it is a harrowing examination of human cruelty dedicated within the title of a self-declared good trigger.
Moreover, Steve Ramsey of Shade Studios writes:
I do not assume I’ve ever seen a film as nihilistic and ugly as Meat Kills. The kills are visceral and brutal, with top-notch sensible results. Tons and plenty of guts and gore, with an equal quantity of pressure and scares. I by no means needed to take my eyes off the display… it is inconceivable to foretell what’s going to come subsequent.
On the time of writing, Meat Kills solely has two user-submitted evaluations on Rotten Tomatoes, which is not sufficient to qualify for an viewers rating, although each of the evaluations price the movie 5 stars and reward its contemporary, trendy method to horror, which blends darkish comedy with social commentary.