| nudity |
Displaying a playboy magazine (no nudity)
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| violence |
A man and a woman are stabbed repeatedly in the back and the abdomen. We hear crunching with every blow and blood stains are seen on their clothes. (bloody)
Two people are shot while sitting in a car (blood spurts and sprays on the windshield), one is shot repeatedly (we see her twitching and the shooter shoots her several more times), and the other is shot once in the head and then in the knee. (graphically bloody)
Someone is shot in the back of the head. Blood and matter spurt and spray on the inside of the car and we see the man slumped over later. (graphically bloody)
We see a photo of a dead woman on the ground (blood covers her clothing, she lies in a pool of blood and we hear that she was stabbed). (some blood)
We see a man with blood stained hands. (nothing much)
We hear that someone jumped out of a moving car for their own protection (nothing too bad)
All the violence occurs ONLY in the first hour/hour and a half of the movie. The rest of the film is more dialogue driven, although it still includes several disturbing and intense sequences of threat. |
| profanity |
8 F-words
4 obscene hand gestures
5 sexual references
2 scatological terms
1 anatomical term
8 mild obscenities
1 derogatory term for law enforcement officers
10 religious exclamations.
Name-calling (shorty, boyscout and retard.) |
| alcohol |
A man snorts cocaine and a man has drug paraphernalia lying around his house. This is brief and hard to notice.
Young men are shown drinking alcohol and driving.
Almost every character is shown drinking or smoking cigarettes in several several scenes.
A man takes prescription drugs in a couple of scenes. |
| frightening |
Some intense, disturbing and violent scenes although they occur mostly in the first half of the film. The rest of it is basically dialogue driven and suspenseful.
Many scenes including strong, slightly disturbing threat.
In one scene a character visits a suspect's house and this scene is very suspenseful and tense.
Overall feel of the film is very scary, as it revolves around a serial killer
Police officers and reporters discuss the deaths in some detail.
Overall, Zodiac isn't as innaporpraite as it may seem. All of the graphic violence in the first hour or so of its two and a half hour runtime. It's mostly talking after the first hour, although it remains intense throughout.
Suitable for 13+ |
