Dawn of the Dead (1978)

Francine and Stephen are seen in bed together, implying that they had sex offscreen. Francine's breasts are also seen albeit under dim lighting.

There is a shootout sequence at the beginning of the film. Several people and zombies are shot with bullet holes and blown apart wounds, with lots of blood splatter. One man's head is completely blown apart with a shotgun, with chunks of it seen flying briefly.

A zombie accidentally walks into a helicopter wing, which slices his head open. Blood is seen oozing everywhere from a distance.

The film features gory carnage throughout. The camera does not always linger on the details for very long but it sometimes does. In one scene we see someone graphically torn apart and eaten alive by zombies. They rip open his stomach and chew on his guts and tear him apart limb by limb and we see all of them feasting on his insides and body parts. This scene is EXTREMELY graphic and shown for a very long time. By far the worst part in the film.

Zombies are shown attacking victims, biting (in close-up), tearing flesh and disemboweling their live prey. The creatures can only be killed by decapitation or destruction of the brain, so the characters are forced to defend themselves with firearms and bladed weapons, inflicting bloody bullet wounds, decapitations, dismemberment, gruesome blunt-force trauma and vehicular homicide on their undead attackers. Most of the killings are gory and detailed, but shown only briefly. There are many, many, many zombie killings. It should also be noted that the human-on-zombie violence is largely "kill or be killed".

Blood splatters in tremendous amounts for both humans and zombies.

3 uses of f**k, 1 use of b**tard, 1 use of What the H**l, 3 uses of son of a b***h, 1 use of N***er, and 4 uses of s**t.

8 uses of fuck in the directors cut.

2-3 uses of "Goddamn".

Some strong language is used, albeit fairly infrequently. There are 4 uses of the word 'fuck' and its derivatives, as well as some of the common scatological and anatomical swear-words. One racial slur ('chocolate man') is directed at a main character.

Characters are seen smoking and drinking throughout. A minor character is shown desperately looking for a cigarette. A man drinks alcohol to numb the pain of an injury, and is later given morphine to cope with the agony. No drug abuse. A character drinks to a dead friend.

Scenes of 'cannibalism', the constant threat of the hungry zombies clawing and struggling to reach the characters, and the transformation of sympathetic characters into bloodthirsty ghouls will all likely be disturbing to children and those of a sensitive disposition. Many adult viewers, even those with strong stomachs, will likely be shocked by the visual images of extremely gruesome horror present in the film.

The film's handling of the concept of "zombies" is also frightening in itself; they are "us" technically, except they also like to eat us.

Some upsetting deaths.