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(2000)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for strong horror violence and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Mild. Several instances of sexual innuendo (including references to rape) and a few kisses. We see a nude woman's blurry shape through a shower door (we see her bare back and briefly see her upper buttocks), a woman wearing a towel, a woman wearing a slip and several women in cleavage and midriff-revealing tops.
  • No sex scene. The movie industry is described as an environment where vapid starlets boost their careers by having sex with influential men.

Violence & Gore

  • This is the tamest Scream film to date as this film has the most comedic tone compare to the other Scream movie, but it's still strong in impact and reasonably bloody.
  • Some violent stabbings (although a few are offscreen), close-range shootings, and hand-to-hand punching and strangling.
  • Severe. There's less extreme bloodshed here than in the other movies features, stabbings and throat-slittings are still abundant, matched with (sometimes exceeded by) the swearing.
  • Many people are stabbed and sliced; sometimes we hear squishy or slashing noises, sometimes we see the knife sticking out of the body and most of the time we see blood on the victim's clothing or body.
  • During struggles people are hit with various objects (lamps, chair, shelves, etc.) They're also punched, kicked, and thrown around. This often results in blood, and it is intense.
  • In the middle of the film while everyone is really freaked, one very rare scene occurs where the killer taunts people in & out of a house (power out). One character remains inside the house, receives a message, & lights a match to reads the message ("the killer will give mercy to whomever smells gas"), almost immediately the character screams for a couple seconds as he's engulfed in flame. Next shot, characters outside watch in horror as the house explodes.

Profanity

  • Moderate.
  • 28 F-words, a profane finger gesture, 14 anatomical references, 19 scatological references, 17 mild obscenities and some insults.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Mild.
  • Several characters drink alcoholic beverages and/or smoke cigarettes in various scenes throughout the film.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Severe. Vicious stabbings, close-range shootings, and hand-to-hand punching and strangling.
  • There's less extreme bloodshed here than in the other movies features, stabbings and throat-slittings are still abundant, matched with (sometimes exceeded by) the swearing.
  • Many intense and suspenseful scenes.
  • Many "jump" scenes.

Spoilers

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

Sex & Nudity

  • A person remarks to Sidney how one man and his friends raped her mother in the 70's.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The initial death of Roman is emotional and can be upsetting for some viewers, especially when he grabs Sidney's hand and she starts to cry as she comforts him.

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