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(2011)

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MPAA Rated R for strong bloody violence, language and some teen drinking
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Mild. No sex scene. Sexual references. We see a man and a woman sleeping together in bed; the man wakes up and he is wearing boxers and a T-shirt.
  • A teen boy makes a crude remark about a teen girl's chest and says that she will never "sleep with" him.
  • A teen boy jokes that he hopes a horror movie will lead to "scenes of nudity."
  • A teen girl walks around in her bra, for a couple of minutes.
  • The bare back of a young woman is seen in a movie as she takes off her robe.

Violence & Gore

  • This is by far the most goriest and most brutal movie in the franchise.
  • A teen boy with bloody cut on his forehead holds a blood-covered knife to a woman's neck, and he shoves the woman into the arms of a masked man who stabs the woman in the stomach (we see blood coming from the wound on her stomach as she drops to the ground and she is later seen recovering in the hospital).
  • In a creepy parking garage, a woman screams when she sees a masked man on the hood of her car, she gets out of the car and runs to the stairwell, she tries opening the door however the knob falls off and the man attacks her, pinning her against a wall, and stabs her in the stomach (we see blood pour from the wound and she drops to the ground). Then he throws her corpse onto a news van in public.
  • A girl and a boy are doing a stabbing rehearsal and the teen girl deliberately stabs the teen boy in the chest with a knife, blood pours from the wound and he drops to his knees; she stabs him again in the stomach and blood is later seen covering his dead body.
  • A teen girl grabs a shard of glass and attempts to kill a woman, the woman shoots the girl in the heart, she falls to the ground with a thump and we briefly see the bloody bullet hole in her chest (Very bloody).
  • A woman stabs another woman in the stomach, we see blood coming from the wound and bubbling up into her mouth, the injured woman gasps for help and is stabbed a second time; her head slumps over, blood coming from her mouth and we see the two stab wounds in her torso, with blood coming from both as she dies.
  • A man watches a live feed of a masked man lunging at a woman, the masked man grabs the woman as she attempts to fight back, shoving him to the ground, the masked man stabs her in the shoulder and then shoves her from the loft where they are fighting; the woman is later seen being rushed to a hospital and then lying on a hospital gurney with bloody gauze covering the wound on her shoulder and blood spraying on her neck and chest.
  • In a barn, a man attacks a woman and stabs her. We see the bloody wound on a woman's stomach and chest, she's stabbed in the stomach again, blood spurts from the wound and the woman falls to the ground; she is later seen being rolled on a stretcher and recovering in a hospital.
  • After learning that her cousin is not dead, she then goes to her room and tries to kill her. She gets on top of her lying in a hospital bed, and she attempts to choke the woman but the woman shoves her off; they throw one another around the room, the teen girl shatters a glass door when she shoves the woman into it, and we see the girl stepping on the woman's stomach (we know she had been stabbed in the stomach)
  • A man discovers a teen boy dead on a porch with a bloody stab wound in his back, and he walks into a room and discovers two dead teen boys, one with bloody bullet wounds in his head and crotch and the other with multiple bloody stab wounds and a bloody cut on his forehead; he also finds a teen girl with a bloody stab wound, cuts on her face and neck, and a woman bleeding from a wound in her stomach and a cut on her face (they are later seen recovering in a hospital).
  • A teen girl tries to appear as a victim and uses a dead teen boy's hand to scratch her face, and she then uses his hand to pull out a clump of hair from her head then braces a knife against her shoulder and runs into a wall, she screams in pain, runs into the wall again and falls to the ground; she then throws herself through a glass coffee table and crawls next to a woman who is bleeding to death.
  • A teen boy knocks on the glass door to a room where a woman and a teen girl are standing, we see blood on the boy's hand and he tells the girl that the blood is from a dead body he discovered. A masked man slams his head into a glass door and we see him taped to a patio chair with a bloody cut on his forehead.
  • We see footage as two teen girls watch a movie, which includes a man shoving a zombie woman onto a spike that stabs her through the stomach (blood pours from the wound) and a man's bloody and mangled face. Several teens watch a movie, and we see footage of a man breaking through a window and chasing a teen girl through rooms; blood is visible on the dead body of a teen girl.
  • A masked man appears behind a teen girl and stabs her in the wrist; a small amount of blood is visible dripping from the wound, a woman kicks the masked man down a flight of stairs and shoves him to the ground, and we see a small cut on the woman's face and the teen girl's arm is seen bandaged.
  • A masked man breaks through the door of a house, a woman kicks him in the face, he stumbles down a flight of stairs and the woman and a teen girl run to safety. He then chases the woman around the roof of a house, she loses her footing and slips, grabbing the gutters for support, the masked man draws a knife and is about to stab the woman's hand when she lets go and lands in a bush, unharmed.
  • A teen girl who was a patient holds two people hostage at the hospital shoots a police officer in the chest and we see her drop to the ground; we later see that she was wearing a bulletproof vest and threatens another girl who is another patient. A woman holds up defibrillator paddles to a teen girl's temples as another woman holds the girl at gunpoint; sparks fly from the paddles, and the girl drops to the ground with blood dripping from her nose and mouth.
  • A police officer realizes that the killer is in the hospital, he rushes there and finds an injured woman on the ground, a teen girl then uses a bed pan and smacks him in the head multiple times knocking him out. A woman enters the room where a teen girl is attempting to beat up another woman, the teen girl holds her gunpoint and then a police officer saves the woman by tackling her, hiding behind a hospital bed.
  • An aftermath of a killing is shown, blood is seen all up the walls and on the floor, there is a corpse on the bed with its intestines hanging out.
  • A masked man stabs a teen girl in the chest with a knife, blood pours from the wound and she hits the ground; he stabs another teen girl in the neck, she slumps to the ground and copious blood pours from the wound, covering her neck, chest, and body.
  • A teen boy with a bloody cut on his forehead, grabs a teen girl, pulls her close and stabs her in the stomach twice, telling her it takes longer to die than she has seen in the movies; we see blood pouring from the wounds in her stomach as she drops to the ground and blood is seen pooling behind her head and body.
  • A teen girl hears a gurgling noise over the phone as she jokingly threatens another teen girl, and she discovers her moments later as a masked man shoves her dead body through a window; glass shatters, the dead girl's body hits the ground, and stab wounds are seen in her neck and stomach, and blood is seen coming from her mouth.
  • A masked man chases a teen girl through a house, he stabs her in the back, she falls down a flight of stairs, she opens a garage door and crawls half way out, and the masked man lowers the garage door on her back (we hear the crush of bones); he then lifts the door and drags the teen girl into the garage, screaming, he holds a knife over her head and the screen goes black (we later learn that she had been stabbed to death).
  • A masked man stabs a teen boy in the chest, blood pours from the wound as he tries to run away, the man stabs the boy in the back, he falls to the ground, and the man flips him over and stabs him in the stomach; blood pours from the three wounds and we see blood on the boy's chest and stomach and pouring from his mouth.
  • A teen boy grabs another teen boy from a closet and throws him to the ground, his hands and feet bound with duct tape and his mouth taped closed; a teen girl kicks the teen boy on the ground, and shoots him in the crotch and then the head with a gun (blood spray is seen behind the boy's head and a massive pool of blood is seen at his crotch) then he is shot in the head.
  • A masked man stabs a door as two women struggle to close it; one of the women collapses against the door and we see blood bubbling at her lips, the other woman pulls her body away and we see a bloody knife sticking through the mail slot of the door and a massive wound in the woman's back (we later hear that the woman had died).
  • A masked man stabs a cop in the back, and the man falls to the ground as another man watches from inside a police car; the masked man approaches his partner in the car and stabs him in the forehead (we see blood pour from the wound, covering the man's face, arms and body) as he struggles to run away and he then collapses on the ground, dead.

Profanity

  • Severe.
  • 36 uses of "fuck" and its derivatives.
  • 2 obscene hand gestures.
  • 7 sexual references.
  • 20 scatological terms.
  • 12 mild anatomical terms.
  • Some mild name-calling.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Moderate.
  • Teenagers are seen drinking at a barn party to the point of inebriation.
  • A teenage boy is seen drunk. We see him stumbling and slurring his speech while he records himself.
  • A teenage girl says that she will "drink for" her friend who couldn't make it to a party.
  • Two teenage boys instruct a group of other teenagers on how to play a drinking game.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The Ghosface killer in this film is actually for real very menacing and creepy, often pops out of shadows in jumpscares.
  • The chase scenes involving ghostface are often intense and end with bloody results.
  • A teen girl is killed in her bedroom by Ghostface. The aftermath is later shown with the walls drenched in blood and her intestines hanging out of her body. Very graphic and unsettling.
  • Intense and disturbing death scenes throughout.
  • Several jump scares.
  • The climax of the film is intense. Several main characters' lives are put at risk.
  • Although many scenes are intense and gory, there is also a comedic approach to the film.

Spoilers

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Violence & Gore

  • A teenage girl unties a teenage boy. He then stands up and stabs her twice in the stomach. She falls to the ground.
  • On a cellphone screen, a teen girl shows a woman footage of a woman being murdered: we see a small amount of blood as a masked man stabs the woman in the back.
  • The blood-covered, deceased body of a woman is tossed from the top of a parking garage and crashes into the roof of a van as a crowd of people watch; a man examines the body and we briefly see the woman's mangled body covered in blood.
  • There are two police officers discover posters of a woman's face in the trunk of a car, smeared with blood.
  • A teen girl rips the IV out of her arm and takes off her monitor in a hospital and walks out of the room.
  • On multiple occasions we hear a male voice on phone threaten people: he tells a teen girl that he is going to "cut through your neck until I hit bone," the teen girl hands the phone to another teen girl, who the man also threatens, saying he will be the last person she speaks to before she dies; he tells a teen girl that he has enough time to slice another teen girl open.
  • A masked man tells a woman that he will slice open the woman's eyelids so she can watch him kill her; he tells a woman he is going to make her suffer; he tells a woman that he would be happy to put her in a morgue; and he implies to a woman that he is going to kill her friends and family.
  • On multiple occasions we hear two teen boys explain how they believe horror movies should occur, including mentioning that the killer should be filming his murders, that two girls had been killed, a teen girl was maimed and then a huge party occurred where a large number of people were murdered.
  • A teen girl tells another teen girl that she had received threatening texts and Facebook messages from a teen boy saying that he will kill her.
  • A strong reference where a woman half-jokingly threatens another woman, saying she will "revitalize" her face.
  • A woman half-whispers, half-shouts at a woman and then slams a door on the woman's back.
  • A woman tells a man that two men had been found stabbed to death.
  • A woman tells a man that two women had been found dead.
  • A man tells a teen girl that a group of teen boys, girls and a woman had been found either injured or dead.
  • A teen girl reads out loud to a classroom of teens a text that two teen girls had been killed the previous night.
  • We see footage of a television reporter announcing that a woman had been stabbed and was in serious condition at a hospital.
  • Two men discuss how police officers are typically killed in movies, including being shot; one of the men jokes that he might be found with his tongue hanging out and eyes gouged out, and the other man jokes, "Dead man walking" when he gets out of the car.
  • Two teen girls discuss how a movie called Saw is "torture porn," and one teen girl says she does not like all the blood and gore of a movie.
  • A teen girl makes a remark to another teen girl and a woman that a woman must have a lot of scars from knife wounds; the woman says she has scars as well, implying emotional scars.
  • A woman jokingly tells another woman that she can continue to convince people not to jump off bridges.
  • A man is spooked when another man jokingly plays dead, slumping over a steering wheel until the man shakes him.
  • A teen boy whacks his head against a hanging potted plant; he is unharmed but startled.
  • A woman screams when she is surprised by a car alarm going off, and she runs in the opposite direction.
  • We see a girl with a scars in her face in the hospital
  • A woman is stalked in a parking garage and after attempting to run away to a nearby door, she breaks the handle and is immediately stabbed in the stomach. This is a drawn out moment as we see the knife retracted with pouring blood. She is later thrown from a roof onto a news van.
  • A woman is shot. We later learn that she is wearing a bulletproof vest.
  • A teenage girl is stabbed in the shoulder, then she is stabbed through the hand, and briefly tries to escape the killer but is stabbed again in the lower back. She is then thrown onto her bed (now covered in blood) and stabbed repeatedly in the stomach while blood is seen splattering all over the walls. She is then picked up soaked in blood and is thrown through a window to showcase her death to her friends next door. Later she is shown to have her intestines ripped out in a pile in front of her corpse. Extremely brutal and violent.
  • A teenage girl tries to stage a murder scene. She stabs herself, rips out her own hair, runs into a glass frame hanging on a wall, and falls onto a glass table in order to make herself look like a victim.

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