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(1982)

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Sex & Nudity

  • A woman gets gang raped by a group of juvenile delinquents. The boys pin her down on her bed, rip her gown and take turns raping her. The girl members of the gang take photos. No nudity.
  • In a bar, a woman strips her entire body, exposing her nudity.
  • A girl is made to strip naked as part of an 'initiation' to join a punk gang. She takes all of her clothes off slowly, exposing her entire nude body and buttocks. Full-frontal nudity with hairy pubic area covering her vagina.
  • A teenage girl makes a sexual motion with a baton by rubbing her hand up and down on it.
  • Pictures on the wall in the music room depict a crude drawing of anal sex.
  • At a rock concert, a girl can be briefly seen flashing her breasts in the crowd.

Violence & Gore

  • Constant fights and beat downs throughout the movie.
  • A teacher goes into a psychotic break and threatens his students with a pistol.
  • A student is knifed in the cafeteria.
  • A student/gang member has his arm cut off with a table saw and is then thrown onto the spinning blade, killing him
  • A student/gang member is set on fire.

Profanity

  • Constant cursing almost every sentence has a few swear words
  • The full spectrum of profanity is used throughout the movie.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Drugstore is seen shooting heroin throughout the film. Fallon is on steroids
  • High school students are shown snorting cocaine.
  • A high school student is shown using intravenous drugs.
  • Several high school students are shown smoking weed.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Some scenes of violence and conflict can be too intense to some views
  • A group of students (part of the then-vilified punk subculture) continuously threaten and harass a teacher until he reaches a breaking point and goes after them.
  • The aftermath of a group of animals being murdered and skinned. Their bloody corpses are seen scattered around a classroom.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • One of the teachers is driven insane by the constant harassment of the punk gang. He threatens them at gunpoint in his classroom and later attempts to run them over outside their favourite nightclub. He dies when his car flips over another car and then explodes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A student is chopped up when he and a teacher struggle over a circular saw bench. The student's forearm is sliced off on the rotating saw blade. He's then slammed down onto the blade and it rips into his spine, killing him. Very frightening.
  • The film's climax is intense: a punk gang is wiped out as retribution for raping the protagonist's wife. He kills one on a circular saw bench, burns one alive, causes another two to be crushed under a car lift, and punches the gang leader through a glass ceiling, causing the gang leader to accidentally hang himself.

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