There's an intense car chase in which the Terminator pursues Sarah and Reese. Both cars ram into each other and crash in the end, and several gunshots are also exchanged.
There's an intense chase near the end in which the Terminator pursues Reese and Sarah on his motorcycle. Reese throws dynamite at him, which explodes, but he survives, and commandeers a truck. The truck is then blown up, causing a massive explosion.
A man is beaten up while trying to fight the Terminator. He is violently thrown about the room and finally crashes through a wall and dies.
A woman is shot in the back by the Terminator.
A woman gets blown to pieces by turret.
The overall violence is moderate as it has little bloody images.
When the Terminator is pulling his fake eye out it can be pretty disturbing as there is a slight amount of blood and gross noises.
The violence in the first Terminator is exaggerated.
Very violent with a lot of blood. No extreme gore, such as organs but the amount of blood is on par with some horror films.
R violence type: blood and gore.
A punk is killed by getting punched through the chest (partially offscreen). The Terminator's bloody hand is seen.
The Terminator goes to a gun store to purchase weapons and upon receiving the goods, shoots the clerk. We only see the end of the gun as it fires; we do not see the clerk die.
A woman is shot several times, offscreen. Later, a police photograph of her corpse is briefly seen.
There's a lengthy shootout in a police station in which the Terminator kills many cops. Some blood may be visible, but it's not graphic for the most part, though the scene is dark and intense, and many people are shot and killed.
Several people are shot apart in a dark room with a large laser/machine gun weapon. Minimal gore, but still violent and disturbing.
The Terminator cuts open its arm with a scalpel to repair it. Bloody flesh is shown. Moments later it cuts out its damaged eye, revealing its true robotic eye. Some blood in a sink and on a towel that cleans the wound.
There's a shootout in a club between Reese and the Terminator, and gunfire is exchanged. Several objects are destroyed, and the Terminator is shot several times by Reese before getting knocked backward through a window and onto the street.
A man is killed by an explosion. We briefly see his corpse up-close, with some blood on his body.
Sarah is implied to have broken her leg after an explosion; she pulls a bloody piece of shrapnel from a gash in her thigh, and we see her crawling, unable to walk and in pain.