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Sex & Nudity

  • A wounded man shoots the penis off one of the men as the other one flees, and the injured man holds and waves his severed penis (it looks like a deflated red balloon) saying that his penis was blown off.
  • A woman clad in white bikini dances in a shower of blood on the street (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details).
  • Throughout the film, a woman working as a prostitute wears a low-cut top that reveals significant cleavage and high-heeled boots with tight black short-shorts that reveal most of her bare thighs and legs. Once she wears fishnet hose.
  • In a brief scene, several scantily clad women stand together on a street while their pimp demands money from them and they run away.
  • A man pushes a woman into a corner on the floor, jams his forefinger into her mouth, and says he will have sex with her.
  • A thug and a police officer harass a woman working as a prostitute using numerous crude and sexually explicit slurs.
  • A man tells a woman working as a prostitute, "I'm gonna break off your legs to get to your sweetness."
  • An injured prostitute (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details) lies on a gurney in a hospital while a nurse and doctor give her CPR and the nurse yells a derogatory term for prostitute.
  • A woman uses a sexually explicit term to describe what she does for a living.
  • Three women, including one clad in bras and panties and two only in panties and topless, swing baseball bats in the background (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details). The camera cuts briefly away and back to a waist-up shot of their bare breasts.
  • A child molester dressed as Santa Claus drives away with an 8-year-old girl screaming in the rear window in a sexual kidnapping.
  • A woman works as a prostitute in a small town, but we do not see any sex acts.

Violence & Gore

  • Two men attack another man and a woman and we see serious wounds and much blood; the wounded man shoots the penis off one of the men as the other one flees, and the injured man holds and waves his severed penis (it looks like a deflated red balloon) saying that his penis was blown off.
  • There is a huge fight with many people: a woman kills a man, and another man cuts off one of her hands in a lawnmower and she uses her forearm bones to stab the man several times in the chest (we see a lot of gushing blood, bare bone and gore).
  • A man throws a woman on a bed and saws her clavicle and throat with a hacksaw amid flowing blood.
  • Three masked robbers hold a woman and a baby hostage, and another man grabs a loaded shotgun, blasts holes in the robbers' stomachs and shoots one in the head amid gushing blood.
  • A man forces another man to kneel and kills him with shotgun shots amid showers of blood.
  • Two men fight, and one shoots the other in the head and we see brains and blood flying.
  • Many people with different tools and weapons begin hacking homeless people apart and we see dozens of bloody bodies of men and women fall in heaps.
  • A man wearing a hockey skate kicks another man, catches the blade in a toaster and gets electrocuted and charred, but lives.
  • A man wearing a hockey skate cuts a man's head off with the blade.
  • A police chief and another man beat a man, carve the word "scum" into his chest with a knife, and then toss him in a dumpster; we see some blood on the man's chest and rotting garbage on the street.
  • A man hides in a shopping cart under intestines, human heads and garbage.
  • A man finds another man who pays people to hurt themselves while he films them; the man eats glass for money and we see blood and blood clots stream from his lips.
  • Two men fight until their faces are bloodied in front of a camera.
  • A Molotov cocktail blows up an alley dumpster where a woman and a child are hiding and we see smoke and flames.
  • After killing a "bad cop" that is about to rape a prostitute, a man is chased by several people, shouting and waving ball bats, hoes, shovels, axes, clubs, and lit torches.
  • Two men walk into an arcade and harass a boy until a woman intervenes and one of the men takes her outside and says he will kill her; another man knocks him out with a cane and a sock filled with coins.
  • A man takes a criminal to the police and tells them to round up all the criminals, put them in dump trucks and bury them in the dump.
  • A man announces that he will execute a man in the town square.
  • A man fires a gun into the air several times and tells a crowd watching a man being decapitated to cheer, and they do; a manhole cover is put around the latter man's neck, he is placed onto a manhole, and a coil of barbed wire is put around his neck and tied to a pickup truck that zooms off, cutting the neck in two and producing a gusher of blood (a woman sheer bra and panties dances in the blood and lies down in it while bystanders cheer at gunpoint).
  • A man shoots kidnappers of prostitutes, pimps, gang members and bullies (all the dead are male), amid gushing showers and rivers of blood in the streets: he shoots a pedophile dressed as Santa Claus (please see the Sex/Nudity ca category for more details) at close range in a station wagon (we see only that the car fill with blood).
  • Two men fire a flamethrower on a school bus full of kids; we see many flames, hear screaming, and then see the face of one small boy screaming in a flaming window.
  • Three people are hacked with a ninja sword (there's a lot of blood) and then hanged by the neck from the ceiling in a corridor.
  • Three women dance around a man hanging by his feet from the ceiling. They laugh and hit him with baseball bats (we see some blood). A man brings out a bat covered with razor blades and swings it as we hear the hanging man scream and see blood splatter as the women laugh.
  • Two men put on hockey skates and stomp on people's feet (we see a lot of blood). A man pounds another man's foot with a sledgehammer and explodes into gushing blood.
  • Women hanging from the ceiling by their wrists are covered in blood but we cannot see wounds; two men keep them in that position in a basement until ready to go work the streets.
  • In a hospital scene, a doctor grabs crutches and walkers away from patients, pushes them out of the way, and draws a gun and fires unsuccessfully at an armor-clad demon.
  • A duo of armor-clad demons live in a basement dungeon with a huge octopus, whose waving tentacles are seen in a doorway; on one wall is a collection of portraits of assassinated people with red slashes painted across the eyes, suggesting the two killed them all (from Caesar to Lincoln to Jesus Christ and others).
  • An old man tells a woman that a bear's claw will rip a face right off a skull.
  • A vampire statue vomits blood in a graveyard.

Profanity

  • 'D*ck' is said at least twice.
  • 'P*ssy' is said.
  • 'Godd*mn' is said at least three times.
  • 'H*ll' is said at least five times.
  • 'B*tch' is said at least twice.
  • The Lord's name is taken in vain, including 'Jesus Christ' is said.
  • 'Sh*t' is said several times 15 times.
  • 'Wh*re' is said.l at least five times.
  • Many negative stereotypical references to bystanders, the homeless, drug users, prostitutes and child molesters are said.
  • A derogatory term for homosexuals is said once.
  • Many instances of name-calling, including crazy, androids, murderer, pervert, fool, worthless, street man, garbage man, crack heads, dopers, homeless.
  • About 68 F-words, 9 sexual references, 15 scatological references, 13 anatomical references, 14 mild obscenities, stereotypical references to bystanders, the homeless, drug users, prostitutes and child molesters, 1 derogatory term for homosexuals, name-calling (crazy, androids, murderer, pervert, fool, hero, worthless, street man, garbage man, crack heads, dopers, homeless), 8 religious profanities, 12 religious exclamations.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The main character smokes cigarettes in several scenes throughout the film.
  • The main character drinks from a flask.
  • One man asks another man to light his cigarette, and he does so.
  • A man shoves a teenagers face in a pile of cocaine.
  • A man is given a bag of cocaine.
  • Alcohol is both consumed and used to tend wounds.
  • The head crime boss is a cocaine dealer and is seen using it and selling it.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The many deaths many be difficult for some viewers.
  • The main character is in danger during a large portion of the film.
  • The villains are meant to be disturbing and frightening.
  • The deaths and injuries of some sympathetic characters are intense.
  • The film is intense and not for the squeamish. This is an exploitation film, meaning that it challenges the audience to watch it by shocking with extreme gore, including graphic mutilation and disfigurement of the human body.
  • The film contains an extreme amount of violence and gore.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • Near the end of the film the Hobo blows the Drakes head off. This is shown quickly but is very gory.
  • A man yells, "We've got homeless to kill!" Other men gather and fire guns and rifles, killing a man in a deluge of rushing blood; many townspeople kill several men in another rush of blood and gore as a woman screams from offscreen at the massacre.
  • A woman incites a mob to attack a man, she confronts him in an alley and threatens to kill his son, but the man kills his son first.
  • A duo of armor-clad demons riding motorcycles drag a coffin behind them; they stop and pull a man out of the coffin and beat him up with some blood appearing.
  • Two men run into a TV station broadcast, kill the anchorman with a hockey skate blade to the chest (there's some blood) and demand on air that all homeless people be executed; townspeople form mobs and hunt down transients.

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