Parents Guide for
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) More at IMDbPro »Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (original title)

10/10

The subject of the film includes many sexual acts and torture. Every sexual act imaginable is shown directly at one time or another, but usually without showing direct sexual contact.

-One scene is where a nun forces a dressed woman to strip in front of 4 clothed men. The nun pulls up the woman's sweater and blouse high enough to expose the women's nipples and lower breasts. She then pulls down the woman's dress and then pulls the woman's panties down to her knees. The nun purposely pulls the panties down far enough to explicitly show the women's vagina and the woman' s stockings underneath. This action exposes the woman's nipples, breasts, labia and buttocks as the nun has the woman awkwardly turn to the side and around for a complete explicit view of humiliation. The woman is left standing with her nipples hanging out and her genitals in plain view while all the men and the nun are fully clothed looking at her stripped humiliation.

-There are many graphic sex scenes. These few examples are representative of the types of scenes frequently seen in the film. A man mounts another man in a dark room; we see them waist-up; one of them thrusts violently; they both fall to the ground, and the man continue to thrust as his buttocks is exposed; they both climax and stand up to kiss briefly. We see two women in bed passionately kissing; we see their hips and backs as the kiss. A man is on top of a woman thrusting, we see the man's buttocks both of their hips, backs, legs and side of the breast.

-There are several rapes, some are obscured by objects hiding the act, other scenes are very explicit.

-The movie contains much full frontal nudity of women including lingering close-up shots.

-Several scenes include masturbation. We see many people caressing their usually-covered genitalia.

A women is told by a man to urinate on him, this is shown graphically.

Violence & Gore: 10/10

Several acts of torture and physical mutilation including burning, scalping, hanging and eye gouging.

A woman is forced to eat human feces. Dinner is served later of the same.

Profanity: 5/10

Mild swearing (shit, pussy) occasionally. There is explicit description of sexual fetishes.

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: 5/10

Several characters smoke throughout the film.

15/10

Among one of the most disturbing and depraved films ever made. Most definitely not for children.