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Sex & Nudity

  • There is a moment in the film where a drunken gang of characters sings out a crude sexual song about a friend of theirs: "OOOHHH... there is a young barmaid named Harriet, who's never been robbed of her cherry yet! For try as she may, this girl can't get laid! (wolf howling noises are made), That poor Valentine's virgin named Harriet!"
  • Intimates and panties are seen in a laundromat. Nobody is wearing them.
  • Pat Hemingway has some cleavage scene.
  • There isn't any real sex or nudity, but there is a scene in which a couple are kissing under a blanket and a condom is shown. In the opening of the film, there is a woman who pulls down her mining suit to her hip, and is seen in her bra. Overall no strong or explicit sex or nudity is shown.
  • During the scene when they're in the bar, pictures of topless women are shown.
  • One scene features a group of naked coal miners showering together (only their top halves are shown). One of the miners grabs himself and discusses his sexual plans in vulgar detail. No nudity is visible
  • Patty and Hollace frequently flirt with each other in childish ways, such as tickling each other, hugging and kissing to no end.
  • Mabel has a silly crush on Chief Newby, but not in an intimate way.
  • The miners get the evening off and have a car race towards the union hall. As they leave the mine, Hollace's pants fall down, revealing his boxer shorts. Howard, not wanting to be last in the race as he's hitching a ride with Hollace, tries to pull Hollace's pants up but Hollace kicks him in the butt as they reach the car.

Violence & Gore

  • The uncut version contains graphic violence
  • *cut R' version - one brief long shot of a pickaxe point about to protrude from a woman's breast as she is pushed back onto it. *uncut version - two shots of a pickaxe point about to proturde from a woman's breast and a closeup of the point protruding from the top of her breast with blood flow.
  • *cut R' version - An older woman is terrorizied by the killer and yanked by the back of her head and is killed offscreen by a pickaxe. Later her body is found in a tumble dryer with a quick shot of her scalded head as it drops forward. *uncut version - There are several more shots of the scalded damaged woman's body spinning around in the dryer with a graphic closeup of her glazed eyes.
  • *cut R' version - A quick shot of a man who has a pickaxe stabbed up under his chin and then a shot of his body being dragged away by the killer. *uncut version - A quick shot of a man who has a pickaxe stabbed up under his chin and then 3 graphic shots of the pickaxe under his chin and protruding from his left eye with viscera and blood flow before having his body dragged away.
  • *cut R' version - A young man has his face briefly pushed into a pot of boiling water. Later on there is a shot of his dead body in a refrigerator with red and white blisters covering his face.
  • *uncut version - A young man has his face pushed into a pot of boiling water with some POV shots of his face from inside the pot starting to burn and blister his face. Later on there is a shot of his dead body in a refrigerator with red and white blisters covering his face.
  • *cut R' version - a young woman is terrorized as miners suits start to drop from the ceiling along with a quick shot of a dead body. The killer then grabs her by the side of her head and lifts her off the ground and carries her into the showers where you see a pointed shower pipe. Later on there is a fuzzy shot from the side of her head with water flowing out.
  • *uncut version - a young woman is terrorized as miners suits start to drop from the ceiling along with a graphic shot of a bloody dead body. The killer then grabs her by the side of her head and lifts her off the ground and carries her into the showers where you see a pointed shower pipe which you see graphically impale the back of her head. You see blood flow out of her mouth onto her shirt and onto the floor dripping near the miner's boots. Later on you see close up shots of water spraying from her mouth.
  • *cut R' version - a couple are found impaled with a large drill bit with the implement sticking out of a man's back implying that he has been skewered and impaling the woman underneath him. uncut version - A closeup shot of a woman's face bleeding and then the couple are found impaled with a large drill bit, with the implement sticking out of the man's back implying that he has been skewered and impaleing the woman underneath him.
  • *cut R' version - a man has a nail gun hammered into his left temple and a POV shot of his blurred vision. Later he is found dying with two nails sticking out of his head.
  • *uncut version - a man has a nail gun hammered into his left temple making him stagger and get blurred vision. He is hammered again in his forhead with shots of the nails sticking out with blood flow. Later he is found dying with bloody shots of the nails in his head.
  • * cut R' version - A man is hung from the top of a rung ladder with blood splashing on the face of a woman when the rope gets taught. His body is seen falling to the ground.
  • uncut version - A man is hung from the top of a rung ladder with blood splashing on the face of a woman when the rope gets taught. His body then briefly detaches from his head with a brief shot of his head swinging in the rope around his neck. His body is seen falling to the ground.
  • *cut R' version - A woman is stabbed in the stomach with a pickaxe which you see breifly protruding from her stomach.
  • *uncut version - A woman is stabbed in the stomach with a pickaxe and you see expression of pain and horror on her face as she slumbers to the ground with a brief shot of the axe protruding form her stomach.
  • Two men are seen fighting with each other going hell for leather with their fists and pickaxes and shovels. Not graphic but brutal fighting.
  • *cut R' version - a crazed man missing an arm is seen walking away from rubble that had buried him earlier.
  • *uncut version - a crazed man graphically slices of his own arm to escape the rubble that had buried him earlier.
  • In both versions there are scenes of miner's in an explosion with dead bodies.
  • There are a few scenes of bloody human hearts in candy boxes and a coroner's lab.
  • There is a brief shot of the scalded woman from the dryer with her chest ripped open with a card inside being pulled out.

Profanity

  • Frequent uses of "sh*t"
  • One usage of a flatulent noise (directed towards a bartender).
  • Various sexual comments and slang: "get laid", "virgin", "hot time on Saturday night, yee-haw!", "straight to the heart" (said while a man makes thrusting motions back and forth with his crotch), "suck it in and zip it up" and similar phrases.
  • "asshole" is said frequently, mostly by the bartender.
  • "Piss on Harry Warden" is said a number of times.
  • "Hell", "Jesus Christ", "God/oh my God" and "damn" are all said on numerous occasions.
  • "Bastard" is said several times, and at one point is even screamed down a mine shaft.
  • There is some coarse language during the film, the obligatory F-word is used five times
  • Hollace wears a redneck trucker hat that says "Kiss My", followed by a photo of a cartoon jackass (donkey) as a joke.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A character is heavily implied to be using marijuana; he uses the phrase "I've got the munchies" twice and behaves strangely throughout the film, including dancing with a paper cupid stencil.
  • There is drinking at the party and the bar, and smoking. No other drugs are seen.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The film is pretty intense in its use of violence, gore, scares.
  • It contains several chase scenes as well as a large body count.
  • There are also some (very) vaguely tense scenes involving domestic conflict over a love triangle.
  • Some deaths may be considered disturbing, and all are very graphic.
  • The miner may frighten some.
  • The whole movie is also very mean-spirited.
  • The uncut version is very graphic, frightening and gory throughout

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • Harriet is known as the town virgin, and when she and Mike go off in the coal mine together, their friends make jokes and innuendo about them having sex. They are later impaled on top of each other by a large mining drill.
  • Sarah and Axel frequently French kiss, and then Sarah falls for T.J. again and passionately kisses him on a beach near coal mines. This causes a love triangle between the three friends and Axel tells Sarah that "oh, well you just love this, don't you?"
  • Tommy comes into the mine to search for Sylvia (unknowing that she's been impaled on the showerhead). When he hears the showers running, he says "hey, all right! All right!" excitedly, assuming that she's going to shower with him. He tells her that he's going to come in and shower with her but instead he finds her body.

Violence & Gore

  • In the uncut version, a man opens a door to be greeted by another man in a miner suit with a pickaxe. The miner hacks the pickaxe through the man's throat and through his eye, completely tearing it out.
  • Both versions: a flashback sequence of a man who has a pick axe stabbed in his chest and a bloody shot of the killer tearing out the dead man's heart breifly.
  • *cut R' version - flashback sequence of a man with a pick axe in his chest and a shot of his young son hiding under a bed.
  • *uncut version - flashback sequence of a man with a pickaxe in his chest having his heart ripped out briefly. His young son hiding under a bed gets splattered with blood.
  • One man is seen eating the arm of a dead body.

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