Upland: Police Pack

**Upland: Police Pack** is a 2023 3D-animated horror comedy-drama film. Produced by 1001 Spears. Continuing off of the events of Upland: Fusion Force, the film follows the Upland Warriors, a militia waging war on the Black Parable, a Neo-Nazi private military organization, on two fronts; Upland, a parallel universe, and Ghraib, a city in Nevada that the Black Parable has just occupied.

Production of the 3D animation feature took place at 1001 Spears' studio for three years, with the animation stage of production lasting two years and starting in late 2021.

Upland: Police Pack was officially released on September 29, 2023 in NA and AU and on October 8, 2023 in EU, by Columbia Pictures. It received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics, who praised its animation, drama, and dark humor, and was a box office success compared to its predecessor, earning $214 million worldwide against its budget of $120 million. The film won that year's Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film.

## Parents Guide

### Sex & Nudity

Moderate

* There's a scene in a porn set with screens depicting obscured footage.
* A pretty graphic sex scene between Chuck and Rex, granted no contact is shown since this is a PG-13 film but the latter's butt is shown exposed for some time and they're seen thrusting in a hot tub.
* Dillon comments on Rex stashing pictures of naked men in her underwear.
* Video billboards for a casino show one woman in nothing but pasties emitting money from her crotch and another's breasts expanding and bouncing after being tipped.

### Violence & Gore

Severe

* The zombies look very gory and decayed, they're dismembered, decapitated, and disemboweled with blood and visible wounds many times throughout the film. One has an eye impaled and ripped out onscreen with bloody detail (a similar level of detail to Shuma-Gorath's death in Doctor Strange 2).
* There's a shocking amount of human gore and dismemberment for a PG-13 film, including a scene where a guy's ear is torn off (worse than the part in M3GAN).
* An extended dark joke involves Dillon struggling to take the Necronomicon from the corpse of a preteen who was just murdered, a gory throat slash is visible and blood comes out of it whenever it's touched.
* People have arms and legs shot off during gunfights and one is shot in half with his intestines coming out, graphic.
* A guy gets shot through the eye with his brains splattering onto a wall, at least as gory and graphic as the scene from True Grit.
* A Neo Nazi is decapitated after getting hit by a car, gory.
* A woman's face is slammed into a metal table with her teeth and gums getting mutilated and lodged into it.
* A Neo Nazi is hit by a sledgehammer which grotesquely fractures his jawbone, it hangs off of the side of his mouth with a visible wound, before his head is squashed with blood coming out of it.
* A city hall is the site of a terrorist attack where a bomb goes off and people, including children, are burned alive. The terrorists proceed to hunt down and shoot the survivors with onscreen bloodshed and there is also blood visible under the corpses.
* Daymare's powers are horrifying and deadly, she causes gigantic razorblades to shoot out of the ground, impaling a preteen boy, and she uses agonizing magic electricity to torture another with visible wounds.
* A ton of discrimination and abuse.
* Dillon finds the corpse of Croc Piercer who has just been shot, which sends into a rage where he beats Eyeangle to an almost-literal bloody pulp.
* People are brutally cut by blades with blood spray.
* A man has his brain torn out from behind with blood on it and inside his fractured skull.
* Two parents are shot and murdered with an extreme amount of blood.
* During a drug-induced hallucination, Dillon is shot many times in bloody detail.
* A killer uses a shuriken to commit suicide, violent but bloodless.
* Three characters' heads are squashed and torn off at different points in the film, two with bloody results. Eyeangle holds the head of one of them and ridicules the victim.
* A prison riot is quite violent, with the Black Parable gang shooting, impaling, crushing, throwing around, and exploding countless guards, police officers, and fellow inmates, only the shootings are that brutal as blood is shown.
* Shawoman is mauled to death offscreen, we hear her shriek before blood is seen all over the room and her attacker.
* A man gets a throwing knife through his hand, some blood seen. He's then shot to death for no real reason with blood spraying and staining the ground.
* During his battle Professor Pupe is severely beaten and is seen bleeding excessively, also having his arm broken and getting bludgeoned with a war hammer, his nose is also broken with some blood coming out of it and his mouth. He is than cut through the forehead with blood leaking into his eyes and paralyzing his other arm, before his legs are fractured and he is beaten into a coma.
* Bulltergeist gets a shuriken through his hand with some blood shown before he is shot to death with blood spraying and staining the ground.
* Chief Roxon is shot in the hand and knocked out, plenty of blood is visible.
* A Neo Nazi tries to maim an abducted baby with a knife before getting glass in his hand and beaten to death by Kylie.
* Goldarch impales a reporter's throat with a shattered ceramic vase, the stabbing is partly obscured but a copious amount of blood splatters onto Goldarch and the vase chunks with the reporter later depicted lying in a pool of blood.
* A henchman is crushed to death by a machine's cogs, from an overhead perspective you see his head enter the cogs before an enormous blood spray gushes out.
* There is a prolonged battle between Emily and Ye, they beat each other with more blood as the fight goes on, Emily throws shurikens at him and two are impaled in his shoulder while the third is lodged in his eye with an extreme amount of blood. Emily proceeds to strangle Ye before he impales her many times with a razor blade until she breaks his neck non-lethally with a rifle butt (paralyzing him), he then kills himself by snapping his neck.
* Dillon and Eyeangle battle in a crystal room where both are cut by shattered gems, the latter slams Viqueen into crystal walls with graphic and copious amounts of blood coming out.
* The Prince tears out the eye of a young boy, it is shown onscreen with the optic nerve stretching and tearing before blood pours down his shoulder. Blood is still visible before he falls down a stairway in front of a car and gets crushed to death (mostly offscreen) with his corpse briefly depicted.
* Emily's ear is ripped off onscreen, we see it stretch and tear with blood getting on her shirt.
* Kylie uses a razorblade to impale an unsuspecting Neo Nazi in the back before stabbing another in the throat, the latter is offscreen, we later see the two corpses with blood everyone, graphic.
* Dillon is hanged by Eyeangle, he struggles to breathe with his eyes rolling up in the back of his head before Emily cuts him down.

### Profanity

Moderate

* 1 use of "f\*ck", 17 uses of "shit," a cut-off use of "c\*\*t," 2 uses of "dick," 1 in a sexual manner, 1 use of "c\*ck," 1 use of "pussy," 3 uses of "tits."
* Homophobic slurs, and the R-word, all exclusively used by the villains.
* Pervasive strong crude material, including a ton of sex jokes, wetting and soiling pants, vomiting, farting, spitting, and other rude jokes.

### Frightening/Intense Scenes

Severe

* The whole film and especially Daymare will probably horrify and disturb more sensitive viewers.
* Dillon is homophobically abused, victim-blamed, and almost forced into corrective rape throughout the film.
* There is a scene where a 10-year old girl is hanged onscreen, extremely disturbing although it's shown in black-and-white.
* There are a few scenes of people in horror and upset after being caught in complex booby traps.
* The tone is pervasively dark and frightening, with scenes of gun violence and terrorist attacks. Extremely intense and horrific scenes of torture including shock therapy are present throughout the film, very unsettling and dark.
* A suicide bombing suddenly occurs at the capitol of Ghraib, blowing a police officer's face off and murdering many people, most offscreen. The terrorists proceed to hunt down and shoot the survivors with onscreen bloodshed and there is also blood visible under the corpses.
* Eyeangle is a terrifying Neo Nazi murderer whose design is based on The Zodiac Killer' in this film. His presence is super scary and the scenes where he suddenly speeds up the pace of his speech and/or screams at nothing could disturb or jump-scare viewers.
* We hear a conversation on the phone between two characters, a young girl hyperventilates and has an anxiety attack while speaking to a man. When the conversation ends it is quiet for few seconds before the girl shrieks in a blood-curdling manner for half of a minute before her neck is heard snapping, a character listening infers she is being hanged. The static alongside the shriek adds to the horror and are unexpected.
* A kidnapped police officer is seen with a steel cage around his head and his mouth sewn shut, snakes biting his toes and Achilles' tendons. He struggles to breathe and is heard squirming before asphyxiating.
* Not only is Dillon bloodily beating Eyeangle violent, the detailed and dramatic animation of him going into this rage can scare viewers.

Rated PG-13 for strong violence, scary action, disturbing images, terror, mature thematic content, suicide, strong crude and sexual material throughout including nudity, and strong language.

## BBFC

15 for Discrimination, horror, violence, disturbing scenes, suicide, sexual references, sexual assault, domestic abuse, injury detail, mental health theme

Upland: Prison Pack is an animated drama about a bloody war between Neo Nazis and the United States that spans two fronts; Earth and a fantasy world known as Upland. Scenes of discrimination, horror, violence, and an instance of sexual violence are intense but condemned.

**Violence (4/5)**

There is strong bloody violence throughout with hand-to-hand fights involving punches, blows, headbutts, and kicks, as well as the use of guns, swords, and heavy objects, all resulting in blood sprays and bloody impacts. Other strong violence includes an eye being torn out, a character being shoved into the path of car, a character being shot with a nail gun and sprayed with a toxic substance that burns her, stabbings, cutting with chainsaws and a man choking as he is suspended in the air by a noose. Blood is also seen leaking out of wounds when weapons are removed from impaled characters and one character has steel spikes shot through his limbs with bloody detail. There are sequences in which people are repeatedly punched or bludgeoned, one of which including blood spurts and images of bloody injury in its aftermath. A fantasy being makes a man explode, spraying bodily tissue over the walls. Disturbing scenes of terrorist violence include the shooting of non-combatants with sight of blood spurts. A man prepares to cut out another’s eye with a razor blade, but the scene ends just before the blade makes contact. A sword is thrown and impaled through a man's head. There are scenes of physical and emotional domestic abuse, child neglect, and abandonment, including a scene in which a man strikes his wife and children. A trans woman is surrounded by Neo-Nazis and struck across the head.

**Threat & horror (4/5)**

Intense and occasionally sustained sequences of strong horror include the terrorising of characters by monstrous demonic entities, sudden jump scares, and people's bodies contorting grotesquely as they advance menacingly on other characters. There are other protracted suspenseful sequences involving supernatural horror, as demonic ghosts slowly reveal themselves in the dark, and possess characters while they are sleeping. Jump scare moments involve fingers, toes, and eyeballs bursting out of inanimate objects and characters being plunged into darkness. Elements of body horror also feature in some scenes, with a focus on people puking up blood and vomiting. Other scenes of strong threat include people in states of terror and distress after being placed in elaborate death traps. There are many scenes in which zombies menacingly pursue, attack, and eat human characters. There are scenes in which masked men torture a man and threaten him in various unsettling circumstances. A woman is grabbed from behind during a burglary and knocked to the ground many times while trying to escape; her dead body is seen lying on the ground shortly after. There is an implied scene of hanging. The tone is frequently dark and menacing and includes scenes of gun and knife threat. Armed terrorists threaten people; victims are hooded and gagged. A woman is injected with an unknown substance.

**Sex (4/5)**

It is implied that a teenager uses a used condom to cast a spell, placing its - unseen - contents in a bottle and then smearing them over another teenager’s pillow. There are infrequent moderate sex scenes, with brief thrusting detail but no visible nudity; verbal sex references are also moderate and infrequent. There are also brief sequences of below-frame masturbation.

**Discrimination (4/5)**

A villain copiously calls autistic characters 'spaz' in one scene. Other discriminatory slurs are infrequently used (“n\*\*ger,” “f\*\*got”). Neo-Nazis behave in a condescending, violent, and discriminatory manner towards minorities. There are references to the discriminatory killing of Jewish people and other minorities by Neo-Nazis villains. Discrimination is clearly condemned by the work as a whole.

**Sexual violence & sexual threat (4/5)**

A queen is forced to become a man's wife as part of a royal ritual after he kills her husband. It is implied they have sex, and she is seen looking upset after the encounter. It is implied that a pregnancy results from this encounter. In another scene, the man attempts to rape her but she fights him off.

**Suicide (4/5)**

There are scenes of a young person's suicide attempts - and they subsequently commit suicide offscreen. There are references to a young person's self-harming, which includes brief sight of scarring on his arm.

**Language (3/5)**

There is infrequent use of strong language (“f\*\*k”), middle gestures, use of moderate terms ("bitch," “prick”, “pussy"), and milder terms such as “shit,” “dick,” “bastard,” “piss,” “ass,” and “crap.”

**Injury detail (4/5)**

There are blood spurts, brief burning of skin on a person's face, and sight of bloody injury and dead bodies in the aftermath of violence. A bloody neck stump and bisected corpse with visible intestines are briefly seen. Characters are decapitated and dismembered onscreen with little bloody detail. Mutilated bodies are found at crime scenes, and there is sight of a severed toe. There is focus on a character's bloody hand wound. We see blood oozing from a painting. Horror sequences also occasionally depict a monstrous ghost eating flesh.

**Sex (4/5)**

It is implied that a teenager uses a used condom to cast a spell, placing its - unseen - contents in a bottle and then smearing them over another teenager’s pillow. There are also brief sequences of below-frame masturbation.

**Disturbing images (4/5)**

There are frequent scenes at a war hospital showing injured people including children, often bloody and in pain. A mother examines the badly injured and swollen corpse of her young son. There are also scenes in which victims of chemical gas attacks are shown. Dead bodies are disposed of at sea. A dead body is emphasized during a funeral service.

**Theme (4/5)**

There are disturbing references to murders. A transcript of one is read out, which records in vivid terms the dismemberment and disposal of a body. There are upsetting scenes centered on a young person's fragile mental health, which adults struggle to understand and cope with. The narrative features an extended focus on a parent's grief after the murder of her son in many upsetting scenes.