[JCEccles]

Apocalypto has less gratuitous violence than a typical slasher move and far less horror than most teenager movies.

I and mine will take your word for it and continue to avoid Gibson gorefests, mad slasher movies, and teenage-oriented horror flicks alike.

[x_plus_one]

FYI - the movie is far from being a gore fest, don't let the smoke of anti-christian secularists obscure the truth - bem Shapiro got it all wrong. the movie is about why Christianity and the spanish took over so easily. The next movie should start where this one ends - with the conquistadors and their 30 rifles subduing the entire Mexican civilization.

After five hundred years of fighting moors in spain the spanish were masters of whatever they did.

[proud American in Canada]

I and mine will take your word for it and continue to avoid Gibson gorefests

At least with The Passion, there was a reason for the violence. IMO, the violence demonstrated just how much Jesus Christ endured for the sake of humanity. However, it was a very hard movie to watch and I had to turn away several times.

OTOH, blood and gore for its own sake... no thanks.