From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) - Parents Guide Movie Rating

MPA: R BBFC: 18 Maturity Rating 18+

MPAA Reason: Rated R for strong violence and gore, language and nudity.

Sex & Nudity

moderate

Half the movie takes places in a strip bar, where topless women are seen periodically. Once the people go into the strip club you see dozens of prolonged close ups of breasts. One of the Gecko brothers daydreamed that the Fuller girl briefly asked him for oral sex. A character rapes and shoots a woman. This is not seen, but her dead body covered in a bloody sheet is. A vampire's breasts are seen Women dance seductively in a bar while a bunch of male spectators watch. Some sexual references.

Violence & Gore

severe

A person is shot in the head at point blank range. Blood is splattered on the face of a person standing close by. This person is then shot in the shoulder, lots of blood. A person is shot in the hand, and we see the hole through his hand on occasions. There is a short shootout which ends when a man is doused in alcohol and then set on fire. He screams in pain but continues to shoot as he burns. A man rapes and kills a hostage in a motel bedroom. This happens offscreen but there are some split-second shots of the victim and the blood-covered room. A man has his finger and nose broken by one man and gets kicked in the ribs by another man while he's down. Not very disturbing as it is very unrealistic Some use of gun violence at the liquor store where Peter Bottoms (John Hawkes) served and a load at the Mexican bar they called "The Titty Twister" Inc when both Jacob (Harvey) and Scott (Ernst Lui) was bitten by vamps and had to be killed off as when Richie Gecko (Quintin Tarantino) also one use of a punch by Seth Gecko (George Clooney) at dawn in Carlos nose a lot of vampire related violence The violence is mostly cheesy and unrealistic: tons of vampires exploding and heads spewing body fluids and collapsing. Countless vampires are staked, shot, impaled, beaten up, blown up, set on fire, and ripped apart with blood splattering everywhere. Holy water is thrown at the vampires, and it melts them and causes their organs to spill out. Most vampires that are killed subsequently burst into flames and melt into a puddle of gore. a table is overturned and 4 vampires are impaled on the legs In a (slightly) more realistic scene, a boy is being devoured alive by vampires, they tear at bits of his flesh while he begs for a mercy kill, which someone tearfully complies with. A man impales a vampire in the stomach with a shotgun and shoots other vampires through the hole, using the open wound to pump the gun before each shot. In one scene in this film, Richie is stabbed in his hand with a knife by Razor. Richie stabs Razor multiple times. He then gets bitten by Santanico Pandemonium. Later, Seth stabbed Richie and he melts.

Profanity

severe

Use of various racist, ableist and homophobic slurs throughout. extreme very frequent strong language, no less than 105 uses of the f bomb, a lot of it is use in anger and a lot of uses of the s word. Other, more mild obscenities are also present.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

moderate

A man is seen smoking a cigar for roughly 10 minutes of the film. A fair amount of drinking, but not much else.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

severe

Despite being gory and violent, this movie doesn't take itself too seriously. A man is seen on fire and shooting for some seconds before he presumably dies in an explosion. Other parts could also be intense (perhaps). But the overall movie is more crime thriller than horror, and it's actually one of Tarantino's softer stories.