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Sex & Nudity

  • A scene shows multiple pages torn from pornographic magazines featuring women mostly spreading their (fully visible) labia. It is shown while a real child wakes the man up, in full view of the child actor.

Violence & Gore

  • A dead woman is shown hanging half out of her bedroom window with a hairdryer cord wrapped around her neck and holding on her hairdryer. In the uncut version, there is a precursor of this that shows her getting ready for the day, and her hairdryer begins to float telekinetically, and strangles her with the cord. It blows hot air in her face and she dies.
  • In the cockpit of an ice cream truck, we see its driver's dead body tucked in between the seat and driver door. (uncut version only)
  • A woman is shot to death, you see the bullets hitting and blood soaking her clothes.
  • A woman is killed by her airbag while she is driving her car.
  • Many cars flip over when a draw bridge goes up while people are driving on it. Many people fall off the bridge or get ran over.
  • A man is hit by a semi-truck. Blood flies out of his chest and head. We later see the semi truck with blood on the front of the grill.
  • A woman's hand and foot are cut open by a turkey knife. Blood is on her arms/feet and the knife.
  • A man is killed when a soda machine shoots a can at his head. Blood is seen on his head.
  • A young boy is run over by a steamroller. The normal version shows him being run over with no blood, but the rare unrated edition shows his head exploding. In either version, his death is very clearly seen on camera, and is very disturbing.
  • A man is electrocuted to death.
  • Many dead bodies are seen in gruesome detail.
  • A bloody corpse is seen. The corpse is completely mangled and barely looks human. We later see that the body was run over by a lawn mower, with the upper half grounded up by it. Uncut version only.
  • Two people find a dead body. It is unclear how the man was killed, but looks to have had a chunk of scalp and ear sliced off (possibly by the clock), with his skull crushed in and legs ran over by the disobedient killer tow truck. His back drenched in blood.
  • A man is run over by a semi truck. we see the man's carcass fall into a ditch and blood all over a semi truck. In the uncut version, his face falls off.
  • A man shoots two semi trucks with a rocket launcher.
  • Another bloody corpse is seen rotting inside a destroyed school bus. The camera zooms in on the corpse's face. (uncut version only)
  • In the uncut version, a woman jogging is shot in the head by the attack helicopter. Her head gouges out blood.
  • The main building in the movie explodes. A man is killed.
  • We see an airplane that has crashed into a bus carrying many people.
  • We see a pizza delivery car that has been destroyed by an airplane/helicopter that shot at it. The pizza delivery car crashed into a tree. The body of the driver is seen with a bullet hole right through his head. In the uncut version, we see this as a precursor.
  • A man is run over by a semi truck. briefly seen.
  • In the uncut version, a dead man is shown with a chainsaw in his neck.
  • A dead woman is shown who has been killed by her car window.

Profanity

  • A selling machine calls a man an asshole.
  • 17 F-Bombs and derivatives (motherfucker, fuckface, fuckerama, etc.), 14 uses of shit and derivatives (bullshit, shithead, shit-for-brains, ect.), 1 use each of the words "pussy", "dickweed", "cock", and "vagina", and many uses of words like hell, damn, ass, etc.
  • A kid curses.
  • Heavy profanity through out.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Some minor smoking and beer drinking is seen
  • The movie takes place in a truckstop.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • A blood covered lawnmower chases one of the characters.
  • There is a scene in the movie where one of characters is riding around a neighbourhood ravaged by machines there are dead body's everywhere.
  • When a death is about to happen loud intense music plays may scare younger viewers.
  • A dog is seen dead by a curb with a toy police car in its mouth with blood dripping out of its mouth.
  • a 9-year-old boy is run over by a steamroller
  • A man in ditch screams for help. We then hear one final scream and a truck horn. It is implied he was run over by a semi truck offscreen.

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Violence & Gore

  • 3 people are shot with a machine gun. Their chests explode with blood and blood floods their clothes. In the uncut version, only the third person is shot and killed while the first two are unscathed, and among the survivors. Television version and overseas version Hendershot is also left alive.

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