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Sigourney Weaver and Carrie Henn in Aliens (1986)

Parents guide

Aliens

Content rating

  • Motion Picture Rating (MPA)
    Rated R for monster violence, and for language

  • Sex & Nudity:
    None
  • Violence & Gore:
    Moderate
  • Profanity:
    Moderate
  • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking:
    Mild
  • Frightening & Intense Scenes:
    Severe

Sex & Nudity

None
216 of 372 found this to have none
A space marine says people on colony need to be rescued from their virginity.
Brief female nudity displayed on a wall, via several magazine centrefolds plus magazine posters.
At 18.41 minutes, Sigourney Weaver is seen In her sleep pod, awakening from her deep sleep. Sigourney Weaver is shown wearing only her blue hipster bikini underwear, and her blue tank top. Her thick black pubic hair (OR her merkin) is very visible on her right leg near her blue hipster bikini underwear.

Violence & Gore

Moderate
148 of 270 found this moderate
Moderate action violence throughout with death scenes (some offscreen) that contain little or mild blood spurts. No gore or violent death details.
A baby Xenomorph is burned to death by a flamethrower.
An alien attacks a woman offscreen, but you see blood splattering on the windows of the cockpit she was in.
Dead corpses are seen wrapped in cocoons; a chestburster alien rips through a living woman's chest. Some blood pours out, although not as much as the chestburster from the first movie.
A woman has a dream that an alien bursts out of her; the alien can be seen under her skin just before she wakes up.
Several times, people are killed both on and offscreen with minimal blood.
A Marine character is seized by an alien and in a panic, discharges her flamethrower, setting her comrade alight. In a blind panic, he accidentally falls over a railing a plummets to his death. In the process, he drops his flaming bag of ammunition, which explodes and throws two other Marine characters. One of them is hurled into a wall and snaps his neck.
A Marine character shoots an alien in the head.

Profanity

Moderate
145 of 255 found this moderate
Shit, fuck, and bitch are used sparingly alongside lesser profanity like ass.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Mild
164 of 205 found this mild
Tobacco use.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Severe
165 of 269 found this severe
There is one intense scene where Ripley and the girl are both in mortal danger of being "impregnated" by a crab-like creature that crawls around in an empty laboratory while they sleep.

Certifications

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  • Argentina
    • 16original rating
    • 132004, re-rating
  • Australia
    • M
  • Brazil
    • 14
  • Canada
    • 18A
    • 14AAlberta, British Columbia
    • 18AManitoba, Saskatchewan
    • RDirector's Cut, Nova Scotia, Ontario
    • Roriginal rating, Nova Scotia, Ontario
    • 13+Québec
  • Czech Republic
    • 15
  • Denmark
    • 15
  • Egypt
    • Not Ratedself-applied
  • Finland
    • K-161989
    • K-181986
  • France
    • 12new rating
    • 13original rating
  • Germany
    • 16
  • Greece
    • K-16
  • Hong Kong
    • IIB
    • Not Ratedvideo rating
  • Hungary
    • 18
    • 16original rating
  • Iceland
    • 16
  • India
    • UTV rating, special edition
    • A1987, Bombay
  • Indonesia
    • 17+self-applied
  • Ireland
    • 18
  • Israel
    • 15+self-applied
  • Italy
    • T
  • Japan
    • PG-12
    • R15+Prime Video
  • Malaysia
    • 18
  • Mexico
    • C
    • A2016, re-rating
  • Netherlands
    • 16
    • 14re-rating
  • New Zealand
    • M
    • RP13original rating
  • Nigeria
    • 15
  • Norway
    • 16Disney+ rating
    • 181986
  • Peru
    • 14
  • Philippines
    • R-18
  • Poland
    • 12
  • Portugal
    • M/16
  • Russia
    • 16+
  • Saudi Arabia
    • R12
  • Singapore
    • M18
    • PG13edited TV version

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