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Sex & Nudity

  • Early in the film, a female character strips fully naked while dancing on a grave. She looks like she's displaying her fully shaved vulva (but in reality they put prosthetics on her to hide her labia to avoid an X rating)
  • A fresh cadaver comes back to life early in the film but only his bottom is shown.
  • A sweaty naked woman rubs her naked crotch on her boyfriends leg. She continues to rub herself against him until he puts his hand on her chest and pushes her away. Breasts, butt, and bare pubic area are visible.
  • A deceased male is seen on a morgue's slab but the genitalea are covered by a towel.
  • A fully naked woman is seen running for shelter when it starts raining in a cemetery. Her breasts are again visible when she dries herself off in the car.
  • The decayed breasts of a reanimated female corpse with no legs are visible while she's strapped to an operating table.
  • Dozens of zombies break through a police blockade. A fully naked female zombie can be seen running over people and attacking them.
  • The "fully naked woman/zombie" mentioned above is responsible for most of the nudity in this movie, butt and breasts shown (as a human and then as a zombie). In addition, her hairless crotch is seen repeatedly.
  • There are various nude pinups on a refrigerator that are shown in the background of many shots. Somewhat out of focus but pretty easy to notice. At one point, a picture of a fully naked woman is more clearly seen in the background. Breasts and pubic hair are visible.
  • A calendar with a black and white photo of a topless woman is visible in the background of multiple shots.
  • One female character wears an outfit that includes leather shorts with a skull printed on her groin and on each butt cheek. The same character tends to spread her legs and draw attention to her crotch frequently in the beginning of the movie.
  • A female character strokes her thighs while fantasizing about death. She then stands up and rubs her chest before tearing her shirt open, revealing her breasts. She proceeds to rip the crotch off her pants (showing her bare crotch) and then takes her shirt and pants off completely, leaving her in only a pair of stockings while she dances on a grave.

Violence & Gore

  • A half female zombie is tied up, showing her decaying bare breast and her cut waist, moving around, for some people could be disturbing.
  • Two men are swarmed by zombies and their brains get eaten and later in the movie you can see there corpses later.
  • Removed waste of space.
  • Two police shoot at zombies but they are killed by them, the police come back as zombies.
  • Ten police officers get attacked by zombies it is hard to see but a helicopter flashes light on it and you can see the zombies eating them.
  • The zombies charge at about fifteen police officers who shoot at the zombies but it has no effect then the zombies kill the police officers.
  • The first thing to be reanimated by the trioxin is a taxidermized and mounted dog that has been split in half down the middle, exposing it's embalmed internal organs. One witness freaks out and briefly attempts to beat it to death with a crutch.
  • 9+ movie. It's a comedy, and it's hilarious!
  • Lots of scenes with decaying, skeletal and gross looking corpses both dead and reanimated.
  • Many people are bitten on the head by zombies, sometimes with brain matter exposed. The goriest moment is when one guy is bitten in the head and a torrent of blood squirts from his skull.
  • Several zombies are shot up or chopped up but it's rarely realistically gory.
  • Disembodied limbs flail around.
  • Slimey zombie man covered in drippy black goo with skeletal head.
  • A zombie eats brains out of a dead guys head.
  • Brains drip from a skull

Profanity

  • 50+ uses of the word fuck along with some uses of other bad language (namely "bitch" or "shit").

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • A man asks teens if they are on PCP

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The tarman can be considered scary to some
  • The film has many creepy, gory or disturbing moments, but much of it is darkly comical in nature.

Spoilers

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

Sex & Nudity

  • A fully naked female character, previously seen dancing in the cemetery, was killed by zombies and revives. She is still naked when running around killing other people.
  • The naked female zombie's bare breasts are visible while staring up to the sky while a nuclear bomb drops on the city.

Violence & Gore

  • Suicide gets his skull bit by tarman and there is blood and brain matter.
  • Trash gets surrounded by zombies and killed by zombies and she comes back as a zombie.
  • Scuz get some bit on the head and blood goes everywhere.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Freddy turns into a zombie and chases Tina then Burt hits him on the head with a pipe a few times the spider hits him twice with a sledgehammer then Freddy tries to attack spider but Ernie throws acid on his face he screams with pain then we see his face.
  • All of the main characters die.
  • The film ends with the military dropping a nuclear missile on the city, killing the zombies and the surviving characters.

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