Mohs Scale Of Violence Hardness / Film Levels 6 To 7

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Level 6

• 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
• 2012 (2009) ^note  For Gordon's death, wherein he's bloodlessly but graphically crushed by the Ark's gears.
• The Accountant (2016) ^note  Many non-graphic headshots, bloody pools, and odd mild blood splatter.
• Aces Iron Eagle III (1992) ^note  There are numerous non-spurting blood squibs during the action scenes and the villain is bloodily impaled several times by a booby trap. On level 5, there is an attempted rape that ends up with the attacker getting a knife through the throat.
• The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) ^note  A small, spider-like, non-sapient alien creature is stomped to death, with fairly messy results. Would be higher if it were remotely human.
• Alphaville (1965) ^note  Blood is briefly shown oozing down a man's face from an unseen gunshot wound under his hat.
• American Fiction (2023) ^note  For a fairly bloody gut shot and a man getting shot multiple times by FBI agents storming in, with some moderate squibs. Possibly could be rated higher if the former scene wasn’t a dream sequence and the latter scene wasn’t a Fake-Out Fade-Out that was presented as a script idea.
• Assassin's Creed (2016) ^note  A few large sprays of blood briefly seen in the first fight scene, although they aren't particularly graphic. A man's throat is graphically slit; very little blood drips out and he is later seen lying dead in a small pool of blood. A woman is graphically stabbed in the throat; a small pool of blood seen in the aftermath.
• Austin Powers (1997) ^note  Cartoony decapitation.
• Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) ^note  A man is shot offscreen with a large machine gun: He is seen dying, covered in large bloody bullet wounds. A photo is briefly shown of a dead man with the word 'piece' written in blood on a wall behind him. A robot cuts off a man's arm below the frame: blood is heard splattering, but not seen; the stump is shown, but not graphically.
• Avengers: Endgame (2019) ^note  It's this high largely for the unsettlingly realistic burn scars at varying points, the decapitation in one of the early scenes, Clint somewhat graphically slitting the throat of a Yakuza boss, and Natasha's death. Otherwise, the movie sits comfortably at a hard 5.
• Avengers: Infinity War (2018) ^note  Mainly for the mildly gruesome image of an impaled Tony Stark, the fantastical torture of Doctor Strange, and some other isolated scenes of intense death. Otherwise, it’s intense but basic and completely bloodless sci-fi violence is somewhat containable at level 5.
• Badlands (1973) ^note  For the fairly bloody shootings of a dog, 3 bounty hunters, and Cato.
• Bat*21 (1988)
• Batman Returns (1992) ^note  A fairly hard 6 for very brief sight of the severed hand the Penguin carried in a bag, the infamous scene where the Penguin bites a man's nose, and Shreck's death by electrocution with brief sight of his corpse, Would potentially be at a higher level if it wasn't stylized and cartoonish. Otherwise, a fairly hard 5, amplified by the darker tone than the other films in the Burton/Schumacher series.
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) (Theatrical Version) ^note  A man is graphically shot in the leg with a grapple gun, resulting in a small blood spurt. The Ultimate Edition is a soft 7.
• Battlefield Earth (2000) ^note  A soft 6 for non-graphic dismemberment.
• Big Jake (1971)
• Big Trouble in Little China (1986) ^note  This one might've rated a bit higher if some of its content (a character taking a knife to the bare forehead, another character expanding until literally bursting, etc.) wasn't so comedic, fantastical, and cartoonish.
• Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) ^note  An over-the-top and comedic scene where a man imagines (among other things) a SWAT team member being graphically shot with large CGI blood splatter (borderline 7). In a play-within-the-movie, a man plays a character who commits suicide by gunshot: We see blood splatter out of his head (pretty graphic). Later, the same man attempts to actually commit suicide by gunshot, but instead survives and blows his nose off. This is not shown graphically, but he is later shown with a facial splint. A scene of attempted rape.
• Birds Of Passage (2018) ^note  Blood-soaked bodies, a couple of non-graphic headshots, and a fairly bloody squib on one kill.
• The Birth of a Nation (1915) ^note  Implied rape and bloodless but somewhat rough violence would put this at a 5 normally, but the virulently hateful propagandistic tone drives it up here.
• Blade Runner (1982) ^note  Depending on which cut of the film, it might be a hard 6. The Final Cut is a 7 though.
• Blind Fury (1989) ^note  Assorted slicing and dicing with a bit of blood and mild dismemberment. The most graphic being Slag sliced in half non-graphically (cut not seen, the body separates bloodlessly from a distance with undetailed pink meat visible) which borders on 7.
• Blue Sunshine (1977) ^note  Woman burned alive; brutal but non-graphic and we get a partial view of aftermath. Another falls from a great height and a blood pool forms. Blood pools and smears at a crime scene.
• The Book of Henry (2017) ^note  For some bloody but not explicitly gory Gears of War gameplay. Otherwise a hard 1 for a child dying of brain cancer, very subtly inferred child abuse, an assassination plot, and an offscreen suicide.
• The Bourne Identity (2002) ^note  Bloodless headshot to bare forehead, falling victim seen in pool of blood.
• Brick (2006) ^note  Silhouetted headshot execution with blood mist seen. Borderline 7. There are also many scenes of punching, beating and tripping, with some blood, but nothing else on that level.
• Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974) ^note  Somewhat bloody bullet impacts. A severed, rotting head is a plot device (we don't see it, but the bag is very bloody and there's a partial glimpse of the neck stump).
• Bucktown (1975) ^note  There are a few moderate blood squibs and a vicious, bloody, yet non-fatal, knifing.
• Bullitt (1968) ^note  Fairly bloody shooting of 2 men, with wall splatter and wet wounds. A burning corpse's bare flesh briefly starts to char. A corpse with a bloody strangulation wound (borderline 7). A shooting at the end is a hard 5.
• Carrie (1976) ^note  A woman is killed by being graphically struck by multiple knives; some blood is seen afterwards. A pig is killed with a hammer offscreen; a character is later doused in its blood.
• Carrie (2002) ^note  A pig is killed with a hammer offscreen; a character is later doused in its blood.
• Child's Play (1988) (1988) ^note  A man is graphically shot in the chest; a lot of blood is shown in the aftermath. A man is stabbed in the leg (a lot of blood sprays out, not particularly graphic though); he is then graphically electrocuted to death, bloodying his eyes and mouth. A living doll is graphically shot in the chest, causing a lot of blood to spray out.
• Cloverfield (2008)
• Cobra (1986) ^note  Bodies are seen bloodied after shootings and axings. Some brief blood splatter from shootings on a couple of occasions. Villains are burned alive without any gory detail. One is impaled on a hook before being sent into a furnace. Unarmed civilians are gunned down with little blood. Other cheesy, bloodless hard 3 gun violence and menace akin to an old western.
• Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind (2003) ^note  Some blood splatters on a windshield from a shooting, blood covered bodies, Jim bleeding out in a pool.
• Constantine (2005) (2005) ^note  For when Constantine cuts his wrists offscreen to meet The Devil and we see small puddles of blood next to each later.
• The Creator (2023) ^note  Defenseless victims shot and seen soaked in blood. Man kicked in the face repeatedly with blood spurts. Mild gibs from explosion.
• Critters 3 (1991) ^note  A critter attacks a man and gnaws at his shoulder, causing blood to splatter. He gets the critter off of him, after which we see him bloodied.
• Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
• Defiance (2008) ^note  Some gunshots leave smears on walls. At least 1 slightly graphic charred body. Light 6.
• Devil (2010) ^note  There are several rather bloody wounds, many fatal.
• Die Another Day (2002) ^note  A chandelier falls on a man in water, resulting in the water becoming very bloody (seen briefly, looks rather comical).
• Dillinger (1973) (1973) ^note  It's a pretty hard 6, though, thanks to plenty of blood squibs during the shootout scenes, though the blood from them doesn't really spurt or splatter in a noticeable manner.
• Doctor Strange (2016) ^note  There's a swift, bloodless decapitation and some dripping blood in a different scene.
• The Don Is Dead (1973) ^note  There are a few moderately blood-squibby shootings and some other miscellaneous brutality.
• Don't Look Now (1973) ^note  A man is stabbed in the neck by an elderly midget in a raincoat costume, and has blood spurt out of the wound as he bleeds to death. Otherwise a 2 for drowned but bloodless bodies.
• Dog Day Afternoon (1975) ^note  A bloodless headshot on bare forehead.
• The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
• Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
• The Elephant Man (1980) ^note  A badly bloodied and/or burnt man is shown on a Victorian Era operating table. The titular character has some of the worst body abnormalities imaginable.
• Equilibrium (2002) ^note  While there's little blood, the manner in which mooks are disposed of is violent enough for this level; such as shotgun blasts to [masked] faces and a very unrealistic sliced-off face.
• Escape from New York (1981) ^note  It could be considered a fairly harsh 6, due to stuff like the severed head on a spike or the death by ninja star to the bloodied, bare forehead.
• Escape from Sobibór (1987) ^note  It's a very, very brutal film, but the gorier stuff is left offscreen.
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) ^note  A couple of very bloody squibs, a stabbing with a shard of glass, and a scene where a head explodes into confetti instead of gore (brief and comical enough to not reach a 7). The rest is a solid level 4 for lots of martial arts action with some occasional blood and crunchy blows.
• Executive Decision (1996)
• Fade To Black (1980) ^note  One very bloody and pretty graphic blood squib when a man is shot with a revolver. A man is repeatedly shot with a machine gun, a couple of blood squibs are seen. The main character is shot a few times, leaving him bloodied.
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore (2022) ^note  For the somewhat disturbing throat-slitting of a cute, defenseless creature, with sight of pooling blood and some sights of its corpse, as well as the depictions of the somewhat gory regurgitated remains of the prison inmates eaten by a manticore. A man is strangled by a chain, which leaves marks on his arm and neck. Otherwise, the film contains relatively mild genre violence, death, brief torture, and destruction, which would all be easily containable at a 4.
• The Final Countdown (1980)
• Final Prayer (2013) ^note  For when 2 men's faces start to blister and bleed as they are digested in an Eldritch Abomination's digestive tract.
• Fist of the North Star (1995)
• The Fly (1958) ^note  A character commits suicide by hydraulic press; mostly offscreen, but there is a lot of blood on the machine and the body afterward.
• Flyboys (2006)
• Forrest Gump (1994) ^note  A hard 6 for the Vietnam sequence, which begins with a soldier being shot through the helmet (with blood puff) and the bloody injuries and burns on the soldiers throughout. Otherwise a level 5 for some non-explicit verbal references to Jenny's father committing sexual abuse against her and her sisters.
• For Your Eyes Only (1981) ^note  A man jumping into a pool is shot with an arrow in midair; a large cloud of blood is seen in the pool next to his body. Sharks eat a man; not clearly seen, but again a large cloud of blood is seen.
• Force 10 from Navarone (1978) ^note  A man riding in a vehicle is bloodlessly beheaded by a trip-wire.
• The French Connection (1971) ^note  Split second headshot with some blood on face. Unrealistic blood pouring from wounds.
• The Frogmen (1951) ^note  It's a soft level 6 for some underwater blood clouds from people being attacked by knives.
• The Gentlemen (2020) ^note  Blood splatters from on and offscreen gunshots. Some minor blood from headshots. Blood pool seen under fallen body.
• Gettysburg (1993)
• Ghostbusters II (1989) ^note  Characters see a short-lived vision of rotting severed heads mounted on stakes in a scene that might've rated higher if not for the scene's brevity and fantastical nature.
• Ghost in the Shell (2017) ^note  Some surprisingly bloody CGI squibs for a PG-13 movie. Some headshots with white fluid bursting out and splattering surfaces. Cyborg flesh bloodily rended.
• The Ghost Writer (2010) ^note  For a brief, graphic depiction of waterboarding and Lang getting shot in the head with little blood.
• Glass (2019) ^note  For a bloody, shirtless gut shot, and a character who falls and breaks all their bones with blood stains on their clothes.
• Gods and Generals (2003)
• Happy Death Day (2017) ^note  A woman falls to her death: The impact is not seen, but a lot of blood is seen splattering. She is seen lying in a pool of blood after this. A soft 6, since this scene is comical.
• Happy Death Day 2U (2019) ^note  A woman kills herself by jumping into a wood chipper: Her death is not seen, but a huge amount of blood is seen spraying out and her legs are seen jerking. A woman jumps to her death: The impact is not seen, but lots of blood splatters on two people. A woman is graphically shot with a small amount of blood spraying. A man is shot with a moderate amount of blood spraying, although this isn't particularly graphic. The comedic tone brings this movie down from a soft 7 to a hard 6.
• Hard to Kill (1990) ^note  There is some intense, brutal gun violence (with plentiful blood, but it never appears to spurt/splatter) and some bone-snapping martial arts moves.
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) ^note Some dead bodies shown in close up. Harry’s forearm is slit with a knife - the bloody knife is shown, and we later see the bloody incision. A bone is seen being taken from a father's grave that a man later claims he murdered. A man slices off his hand with a knife - there’s a partial reveal of the bloody stump. Other genre violence and gruesome imagery involves upsetting torture via magic, a campsite accosted by fire and explosions, a trampling, some people held in contorted positions, deformed fetus like creatures, and attacks by magical animals like grindylows, devil's snare, and dragons to sometimes injurious or unsettling effect.
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) ^note  A teacher forces a 15 year old boy to write lines with a quill that causes the words to be magically cut into his hand, his blood deposited onto the paper; it's shown that she does the same to many other students. A man is repeatedly attacked and badly injured by a snake; we see close-ups of his severely bloodied body and face - the camera movements make the moment disturbing. Other genre violence involves elements of torture and bodies strewn about.
• The Hanoi Hilton (1987) ^note  It can be very brutal, but it's not exactly gory.
• Haywire (2008) ^note  Body with a bullet hole in it's forehead and a slash across its neck (minimal blood), Another in pool of blood and a fairly leaky gut shot. Otherwise a 4 for brutal, lengthy fistfights with glass smashed into faces, headshots through pillows, and a fairly brutal curb stomp; as well as gunshots with very mild blood.
• Hellboy (2004) (2004) ^note  A man is impaled with a sword; he falls and his blood fills a huge pattern etched on the ground. It's briefly seen that a man is missing his eyelids and lower lip. Otherwise level 5.
• Hidalgo (2004) ^note  An onscreen decapitation of a hooded man during a fight, although no blood is seen and it isn't particularly graphic.
• Honest Thief (2020) ^note  There is a moderate blood squib from bullet impact in one scene, but that's as graphic as it gets.
• Horror of Dracula (1958) ^note  Blood from neck wounds, implied sexual assault imagery, and Dracula's disintegration sequence. The uncut version of the aforementioned scene is an 7, with shots of his fingers disintegrating off the bone and his face disintegrating.
• Hudson Hawk (1991)
• The Hunger Games (2012) ^note  A hard 6 for the very brief flashes of flying and splattering blood when the games begin, which would be at least a 7 if it was seen more clearly. Some mild injury detail in the form of bloody cuts and slashes. We see shots of prone bodies lying about. A girl gets a second-degree burn on her leg. There's a brief, blurry image of a girl's marked face after she was stung to death. A young girl pulls a spear from her chest; there's a tiny bit of blood present, and the wound is hidden by clothing. A boy has his neck snapped by another boy - this is only depicted from a distance. There's also the fact the film involves children attacking and killing other children (the tributes are aged 12 to 18)
• The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)^note violence is intense and sometimes disturbing, but surprisingly bloodless. Much of the violence of the games is quickly cut, and viewed from a more removed perspective (as it's being watched from the outside by a key character). Nevertheless, fighting with bladed weapons, bludgeonings, and bites by synthetic snakes feature. Briefly depicted war violence involves adults being hung or shot in crowds by peacekeepers. The central theme (kids killing kids) does a lot to make the film a 6.
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)^note A soft 6; it's less graphic than the first film. A teenage boy is whipped; it's largely out of focus although we see a brief glimpse of the bloody marks on his back. There's lots of fatal, frenetic fighting and violence (including stabbings and throat slitting) in the arena; some incidental blood is present, but the violence is overall very non-graphic, as cuts are quick. One of the gorier moments involves a woman being fatally bitten in the throat by an animal; we see puncture wounds and a moderate amount of blood. Genre violence includes a poisonous fog that causes painful burn-like marks and blisters. Two people get electrocuted by the arena's defenses, in the form of a lightning strike.
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) ^note  It's a somewhat hard level 6, showing several non-spurting blood squibs, a character being beheaded by a giant, circular blade (offscreen), with the head bouncing across the ground (neck stump not clearly shown), and another character rapidly aging into dust in a matter of seconds (the audience sees his skin decay, his eyes sink back into his head, his hair grow out, etc.).
• Iron Man 3 (2013) ^note  A super-powered man's arm is graphically sliced off during a fight, but he grows a new one and no blood or gore is seen (the man glows red). A super-powered man is seen with slightly gruesome-looking charred skin after surviving an explosion. People are briefly seen being tortured with experimental drugs; they start to glow red and one of them explodes (no blood or gore seen).
• The Island (2005)
• It Comes at Night (2017) ^note  Bloody body, bloody dying dog, and offscreen shooting of a toddler.
• Jackie Brown (1997) ^note  Shooting leaves significant blood splatter on a window. Otherwise, level 5 for some repeated but bloodless shootings.
• Jarhead (2005) ^note  For a headshot through helmet with some red mist seen, and some badly burned skeletons.
• Jeremiah Johnson (1972)
• John Carter (2012)
• The Killing (1956) ^note  For surprisingly graphic for the time buckshot pellet wounds on a character's face. Other level 2 and 3 violence.
• Knives Out (2019) ^note  For when Harlan slits his throat, with some blood seen afterwards.
• Lawrence of Arabia (1962) ^note  Blood soaked corpses.
• Legionnaire (1998) ^note  A few of its blood squibs do push the boundaries of level 6, though.
• Lethal Weapon (1987) ^note  There are several blood squibs, but the liquid from them doesn't spurt or splatter, and a man is brutally tortured by electric shock while having water poured on him.
• Live and Let Die (1973) ^note  A man appears to have a part of his head graphically blown off; however, it's revealed seconds later that he is merely some sort of animated mannequin.
• Live Free or Die Hard (2007) [theatrical version] ^note  A man falls into a turbine of sorts and gets shredded to death; not particularly graphic, although a lot of blood is briefly seen on the turbine afterwards. Some graphic shootings resulting in briefly seen bloody wounds. The unrated version is a solid 7.
• The Living Daylights (1987) ^note  An animal heart is shown being preserved in a medical cooler. Otherwise level 4.
• The Lobster (2016) ^note  Blood pools after a character attempts suicide by falling. Knife to chest causes large blood stain. Bloody murdered dog. Bloody hunted rabbits. Non-graphic, but disturbing torture by toaster.
• The Magnificent Seven (2016) ^note  This would probably be a level 5 if it wasn't for several moments like Jack Horne (Vincent D'Onofrio) being shot through the bare hand with an arrow and the disembodied deer heart (or whatever it was).
• The Magnificent Seven Ride (1972) ^note  There are blood squibs when people get shot, but the blood from them doesn't spurt or splatter in a noticeable way.
• Man of Steel (2013) ^note  A super-powered character kills a man by destroying his head: The head is squeezed until it bursts into a gory mess. However, this is shown from a distance, is partially obscured by shaky camera work, and is so brief that some viewers possibly won't even notice it.
• The Man Who Would be King (1975) ^note  Some severed heads, including a rotting one, with mild blood. On a lesser note, there are also some blood squibs.
• The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) ^note  Headshot to bare forehead results in a bloody bullet hole.
• The Mask of Zorro (1998) ^note Several characters are stabbed or shot bloodlessly or with some blood shown on clothing or a weapon, three men are about to be executed by a firing squad at the start of the movie, a character shoots himself bloodlessly and is decapitated by another character in a Discretion Shot, the severed head is later shown to another character in a jar with minimal detail visible, the villains nearly blow up an entire group of mine workers in order to conceal their actions, and a character comically and non-maliciously tears off a woman's shirt with a sword.
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) ^note  A room practically painted with blood in the aftermath of battle, a non-graphic headshot and some tastefully presented surgery on a man's head.
• The Matrix (1999) ^note  Tank's electrical burns. Neo getting shot and splattering blood on a wall. Bloody bulletholes in some guards during the iconic lobby shootout. Bloodless bullets and knives to the head.
• Martin (1977)
• The Mission (1986) ^note  There are some moderate blood squibs.
• Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (2023) ^note  A light 6 for Denlinger having his throat cut with a blood pool forming beneath him. Other violence sits on the 2-4 range.
• Mr. Majestyk (1974) ^note  There are a few moderate blood squibs from shotgun blasts.
• Moonrise Kingdom (2012) ^note  For the bloody aftermath of a dog that was accidentally killed with an arrow to the throat.
• Mortal Kombat: The Movie (1995) ^note  Frozen body somewhat graphically shattering, fairly brutal but bloodless impalement, the fight with Scorpion would be at least level 8 if he didn't bleed magma, with him getting sliced three times before his head cartoonishly explodes.
• The Mummy Returns (2001) ^note  A character's hand is shown after being reduced to slime and bones. This character is also later ripped apart into multiple pieces (no blood, brief, and shown from a distance) by a scorpion monster.
• The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) ^note  A decapitated head (with a charred, burnt, bloodless neck stump) briefly flies through the air.
• No Time to Die (2021) ^note  It's a soft level 6 for the scene where a man's arm is snapped at the elbow.
• Octopussy (1983) ^note  A sheep's head is presented as dinner; a man is seen taking a bite out of its eyeball. Headshot resulting in a bloody bullet hole to bare forehead.
• The Ωmega Man (1971) ^note  Characters' clothes are very bloody after getting shot, but it all looks very fake. Also the protagonist takes a very bloody spear to the chest; drenching their clothes and the water beneath them in blood.
• The Onion Movie (2008) ^note  A man's head bloodlessly flies off his shoulders after he gets into a fender-bender while wearing seat-belt for his neck and, later on, a character is bloodily, yet very cartoonishly, smashed by a monster's massive club.
• Ophelia (2018) ^note Ranks here mostly because of the violence in the climax, including a man being fatally stabbed through the chest (we see the bloodied blade go through the back of his chair and the hilt sticking out of his bloodstained chest) and some small blood splashes during a massacre, including a brief shot of a man having his throat cut with blood spray. It also ranks at least a 5 for scenes of sexual violence: a woman is pushed to the ground by men who intend to assault her until another woman intervenes, and a woman is non-consensually groped by a man with the strong implication he intends to rape her (she fights him off). There are sword fights, fist fights and poisonings, some of which show a little blood but aren't as graphic, ranking around Level 3 or 4.
• Pale Rider (1985) ^note  It's a borderline 7. Two different instances of characters being repeatedly shot before taking bullets to the head, but it's not too bloody and the actual headshots are bloodless. Not too graphic bullet hole through hand. Hammer to clothed crotch. Fairly intense attempted rape scene.
• Parasite (2019) ^note  For non-lethal blunt head trauma that produces a fairly large pool of blood, lethal blunt head trauma that produces a smaller pool of blood, and a victim covered in blood after a stab to the shoulder.
• Pathaan (2023) ^note  There are moderately bloody shootings and a virus causing blistering on the skin/face of victims exposed to it.
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017) ^note  A close-up in which two decapitated human heads are shown in a basket with some blood around them; however, this is in a comedic context.
• Point of No Return (1993)
• Prom Night (2008) (2008) (both versions: theatrical and unrated) ^note  Two throat slittings with large blood sprays, however they are not particularly graphic. In the unrated, graphic blood squibs are seen as a man is repeatedly shot, although the blood doesn't explicitly spray.
• Psycho (1960) ^note  A very light 6 for the iconic shower scene; which has blood pouring in the tub after repeated, semi-offscreen stabs on naked victim.
• Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) ^note  One or two of the blood squibs in it push the limits of level 6, though.
• Rambo III (1988) ^note  Like Rambo: First Blood Part II, this one has a few blood squibs that push the boundaries of level 6 a bit.
• Red Dawn (1984) ^note  Blood soaked bodies and blood pools. Fairly bloody squibs. Gunning down of many innocent civilians/prisoners.
• Robin Hood (1991)
• Romero (1989)
• Rough Riders (1997) ^note  The film's battle scenes contain a fair amount of blood squibs, but the liquid from them doesn't exactly spurt or splatter in any noticeable way.
• Run, Man, Run (1968) ^note  The finale, which shows a man with a thrown knife bloodily lodged in his bare throat, may be enough to push it into light level 7 territory.
• Sahara (1995)
• The St Valentines Day Massacre (1967) ^note  If one looks closely enough during the scene where a man is beaten over the head with a baseball bat, you can see some airborne blood, but it's so brief and difficult-to-notice that it can fit in on level 6.
• The Salvation (2014) ^note  While there is a lot of brutal, bloody, high-impact western violence (bloody, sometimes repeated, shootings that don't really spurt blood, some implied rape, a knife being jabbed in a man's eye, etc.), the film generally avoids graphic or gory images (hard level 6, though).
• The Sand Pebbles (1966) ^note  It's largely rated this high for the torturous fate of Po-han (Mako).
• Santa's Slay (2005)
• Scary Movie 4 (2006) ^note  A boxer bites and spits out the ears of many people; a large pile of severed ears is seen. A man saws off his foot offscreen. A man accidentally shoots himself in the (clothed) crotch. A woman is seen with her lower jaw missing (slightly gruesome, but not gory). All of these scenes are over-the-top and played for laughs.
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) ^note  Lots of gross body horror. A guy unknowingly eats a severed toe, a corpse like creature is shown with its toe missing, spiders crawl out of a girl's swollen cheek, and a monster removes and reattaches its limbs and head.
• Serenity (2005) ^note  For the bloody bodies of the Reavers near the end, and Book's open stomach wound.
• Shenandoah (1965) ^note  It gets this high of a rating due to the unusually bloody (for 1965 standards) headshot a Confederate soldier receives during the last battle scene.
• The Sign Of The Cross (1932) ^note  In one of the most violent films of The Pre-Code Era, a man is bloodily punched in the face by spiked-knuckle gloves, it is implied that a bound woman is raped by a gorilla, a person is beheaded onscreen (no blood, other than on the sword afterwards), and a person is impaled through the gut by a sword and paraded around by the impaler.
• Skyline (2010)
• Son of Saul (2015) ^note  Aftermath of a gas shower is shown, with many bodies and lots of blood soaking the floor. A young boy survives but is then suffocated to death.
• Soylent Green (1973) ^note  Blood pool is seen after victim is crushed by a vehicle.
• Space Truckers (1996)
• Spartacus (1960) ^note  It's rated this high primarily for the soldier's arm being cut off, complete with blood squirt (which might be enough to push it into level 7 territory).
• Spawn (1997)
• The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) ^note  A couple of large clouds of blood underwater resulting from violence.
• Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) ^note  There are many decapitations and limb-severings from lightsabers (no blood), a man is killed by electrocution, and a man catches on fire, with his badly burned body being shown clearly a few times. Many characters are shot, some wearing armour and some not; a few are children. An alien is graphically killed by his organs lighting on fire and his brain and eyes exploding. A pregnant woman is strangled until unconscious, and there are scenes of surgery being done without anesthesia. Would be at least a 7 if the weapons weren't bloodless.
• Summer of Sam (1999)
• Taken (2008) [unrated cut] ^note  The extended version of the torture scene is right at the 6/7 borderline because of its sheer sadism, however.
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) ^note  2 men killed by quick and bloodless hammer fractures to the back of the head. A woman is hanged on a meat hook (again, no bloody details but her pain is obvious) and then locked in a refrigerator alive. Disabled man is sliced up by chainsaw offscreen, with small blood splatters being visible. Woman is roughly manhandled, restrained, sadistically tortured and non-fatally attacked by a hammer and knife until she's limping and covered in blood, and one of her captors is ran over bloodlessly by a car. Grotesque sculptures made of human bones and some dessicated but bloodless corpses. The absolutely relentless and brutal tone makes it a borderline 7.
• Three Thousand Years of Longing (2022) ^note  A defenseless victim gets brutally strangled with a bow string, with slight focus on the string cutting his neck and drawing some blood (but not copious enough for a higher level, and further mitigated by the fact that it appears in a story). A soft 6.
• Throne of Blood (1957) ^note  A man gets impaled through the side of the neck with an arrow after being struck with many other arrows, although only the neck arrow has any blood, and not much of it. A somewhat soft 6.
• Thunderball (1965) ^note  A few instances where a large cloud of blood is seen underwater resulting from people being stabbed or fed to sharks. A man is stabbed in the eye with a harpoon (not graphic, slightly obscured by the diving mask he is wearing).
• Titanic (1997) ^note  For the brief shot of Lovejoy’s extremely bloodied face and Officer Murdoch shooting Tommy and then himself, with a fairly graphic squib in the former shooting. Otherwise, level 5 for plenty of disaster related peril and violence, including tastefully handled depiction of frostbitten and frozen corpses.
• Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) ^note  A man falls into a printing press, dying offscreen; a large amount of bloodied newspapers are seen coming out of the press.
• The Twilight Saga (2008 - 2012)^note The film series as a whole generally ranks here at highest due to numerous occurrences of vampires being decapitated and dismembered onscreen; however, these scenes are much less gruesome than is typical because the vampires lack blood, with their heads and limbs instead breaking off like stone or clay. Blood is generally kept to a minimum, with the exception of Breaking Dawn Part 1 (which consequently ranks a level higher than average)
  • Twilight (2008)^note A soft 6 for non-graphic and bloodless decapitation and dismemberment of a vampire; these scenes are brief and shot from a distance, and in the dismemberment shot the camera is blurry and distorted. Also for some gruesome-looking drawings of vampires drinking blood or dismembering people. Otherwise a 5 for attempted rape (Bella is followed and surrounded by men who intend to rape her, but is rescued before anything happens) and some harsh but minimally bloody violence (mostly in the climax). Two people are killed offscreen by vampires; we simply see the vampires knocking them over. The villain tortures Bella, including throwing her into a mirror (she pulls a bloody shard of glass from her hand) and stomping on her leg to break it, with realistically agonized reactions from Bella. There's a brief shot of a vampire biting Bella's wrist and several shots of the slightly bloody bitemark. Two vampires have a brutal but bloodless fight, including throwing each other into walls and across the floor (a human would easily be killed or severely injured).
  • New Moon (2009)^note A 6 for a brief scene of a vampire bloodlessly having his head and arms ripped off. Otherwise a 4. Bella is accidentally thrown into a glass table and cuts her arm; there's blood and a scene of the wound being stitched up. Bella crashes and falls off a motorbike, getting a bloody cut on her head. Two werewolves viciously but bloodlessly fight, biting and clawing; neither are seriously injured. A vampire grabs a man by the throat; she's chased off but the man has a fatal heart attack. Bella gets battered by waves and hits her head against a cliff wall, nearly drowning. A vampire uses mind powers to torture Edward, making him collapse in pain though without any visible injuries. Two vampires get into a brutal yet bloodless fight, with one getting smashed into a floor. Completely offscreen massacre of innocents, including a child; we only hear the screams.
  • Eclipse (2010)^note A flashback strongly implies Rosalie was violently gang-raped; we only see her struggling and pleading with her fiance as he tries to pull off her clothes, before it cuts to Bella's reaction and Rosalie saying she was left dying in the street. A woman stabs herself in the chest with a knife, with a close-up of the clothed yet bloody wound. A battle scene features many vampires being dismembered, decapitated and ripped apart; the violence isn't lingered on and it's completely bloodless. A vampire grabs a werewolf and crushes some of his bones, leaving him in agony. A vampire is graphically decapitated and there's a lingering shot of the head, although it's not as gruesome as it sounds as there's no blood.
  • Breaking Dawn Part 2 (2012)^note We see some slightly bloody bodies following a massacre. A child vampire gets chucked into a bonfire; nothing gory shown and it doesn't look too realistic. Particularly in the climatic battle, there are dozens of vampires getting their heads and limbs torn off, including an evil vampire getting his head slowly and graphically ripped off, lingering close-ups of decapitated heads and a vampire torn in half, though as there's no blood or gore whatsoever the gruesomeness is toned down (if it were more realistic and/or bloody it would rank much higher). A young werewolf's neck is fatally snapped by a vampire.
• UHF (1989) ^note  Thumb accidentally sawn off, with spurting blood. It would deserve a higher rating if the violence wasn't so hilarious.
• Ultraviolet (2006) (2006)
• Unbreakable (2000) ^note  For the train crash victim who starts haemorrhaging with a growing blood stain appearing on their chest as they gasp for life.
• Unlawful Entry (1992)
• Vacancy (2007) ^note  Brutal and slightly bloody stabbing of innocent victims, including a nude one. Some blood splatter from a car crash. A bloody but not graphic shooting.
• A View to a Kill (1985) ^note  A man is shredded by a fan underwater, with a large cloud of blood obscuring the details.
• War of the Worlds (2005)
• We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) ^note  A bow-and-arrow school shooting occurs offscreen; multiple bloodied corpses of teens are seen in the aftermath with arrows sticking out of them. A little girl loses her eye in a supposed accident offscreen; pus-covered cotton swabs are seen when she is getting bandaged. A dead little girl is seen bloodied with an arrow in her back.
• Where Eagles Dare (1968) ^note  There is blood squib usage, but the blood from them doesn't exactly spurt or splatter in a noticeable or explicit way.
• The White Ribbon (2009) ^note  Here for invoked offscreen sexual violence against minors; including a description of a teen boy who was raped/tortured and what appears to be the aftermath of a young girl molested by her father. There is also a young, mentally impaired boy who is seen with a bloody face and broken nose.
• Wicked Spring (2002)
• The Wicker Man (1973) (1973) ^note  Dried umbilical cord hung on sapling. Jars of preserved foreskins and animal fetuses. Bloody dead rabbit. Non-graphic burning alive of animals and human.
• The Wind and the Lion (1975) ^note  It's a pretty hard 6, by the way, thanks to some blood squibs, a few decapitations by sword (no blood, other than that on the sword afterwards, or gory detail), a severed head hanging by a beached ship (neck stump not shown), a severed tongue and some blood appearing on a wall next to a German soldier who gets shot.
• The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) ^note  A photograph of a blood-soaked bathtub is shown and there's some mild airborne blood from people being punched in the face.
• The Wolverine (2013) (Theatrical Version) ^note  Graphic charred flesh is seen after a super-powered man is burned by an atomic explosion. However, his wounds heal quickly. A super-powered woman kills a man by spitting poison on his face: We see his face graphically blistering. A man's hand is graphically pinned to a table by an arrow (some blood is seen): He is then interrogated by having alcohol poured into the wound. A scene in which a super-powered man with healing abilities is seen removing a parasite from his body: The process is mostly offscreen, but we do see some blood and the man graphically (but briefly) making an incision on his abdomen. The extended version is a 7.
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) ^note  Wolverine graphically decapitates Deadpool in slow-motion, although no blood or gore is shown. Wolverine's bone claws are broken by being stomped on. A wolverine's severed head is shown, blood is seen on the neck. Otherwise, level 5.

Level 7

• 2 Guns (2013) ^note  A few graphic blood splatters from bullet wounds. Chickens are buried in sand and have their heads shot off.
• 3:10 to Yuma (2007) ^note  Fairly graphic headshots and squibs. Neck repeatedly stabbed with a fork.
• The 15:17 to Paris (2018) ^note  A man's bald head is bloodily sliced and his thumb is cut off. A civilian is shot and bleeds a lot from his neck as people sustain him for an elongated time (borderline 8). There is also a medical practice dummy with injuries that would be a 9 if they were real.
• 21 Bridges (2019) ^note  Shootouts with blood splatter, bloody headshots, man shot in eye, bloody shot throat, etc.
• 21 Jump Street (2012) ^note  A level 0 until the second half, where it still remains a level 2/3 until being pushed up to a pretty hard 7 by the extremely violent climax with very bloody (blatantly CGI) splatters to body and neck and a comically severed penis .
• 40 Days and 40 Nights (2002) ^note  A woman rapes a man while he is asleep and handcuffed to a bed. She is seen riding him in a couple of brief blurry shots.
• 48 Hrs. (1982) ^note  There are a couple instances of blood spurting and of bullets bloodily impacting on bare skin.
• 1917 (2019) ^note  There are a few mildly graphic rotting corpses and some wounded soldiers with blown-off limbs (that the camera doesn't linger on).
• 1939: Battle of Westerplatte (2013)
• 1944 (2015) ^note  A blood-spurting headshot is as graphic as it gets.
• 65 (2023) ^note A hard 7; it's surprisingly gruesome at times for a PG-13 film. We see burnt, blackened corpses following a crash. A man gets a shard of metal in his side; there's a close up of him pulling out the shard and treating the wound, with pouring blood. A man beats a dinosaur to death with a gun in self-defence; a Gory Discretion Shot is used though we see the bloodied corpse. There's a close-up of a dead dinosaur's torn, rotting and maggot-covered flesh. A predatory dinosaur is bloodily stabbed in the eye, then fatally burnt by a geyser; we see gorily burnt and blistered skin, though there's little blood. Blood sprays when dinosaurs are shot are common, with blood droplets spattering the camera at one point.
• The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) ^note  Grotesque deaths are common, perhaps the most grisly being a frog mask tightening on a man's head until it kills him (with blood pouring out of the mask and nasty skull-crunching sound effects) and rats bloodily biting up a man's flesh as he pilots an airplane.
• Above the Law (1988) ^note  Blood is shown squirting out of a man's wrist stump shortly after his hand is chopped off by a machete (extremely brief), with other, oft-bloody brutality on levels 5 and 6 also being commonplace.
• Across 110th Street (1972) ^note  There are a few graphic blood squibs and it's probably worth mentioning that a character dies non-graphically in agony after an offscreen castration.
• Action Jackson (1988) ^note  A man's bare hand is briefly, yet bloodily, impaled to a door by a knife, several gunshot wounds spurt blood, and a pair of severed, preserved testicles is shown in a jar.
• Age Of Heroes (2011)
• Air Force One (1997) ^note  This one gets a 7 because a couple of its headshots are a tad too graphic for a level 6.
• Alien (1979) ^note  Alien bloodily bursting out of chest. Gory decapitation of white-blooded android.
• Aliens (1986) ^note  Chest-bursters, chunky obliteration of yellow-blooded aliens, gory impalement and slicing in half of android.
• Alien vs. Predator (2004) ^note  Slicing of humans with some blood splatter. Messy dismemberment of aliens.
• Alita: Battle Angel (2019) ^note  Surprisingly brutal for a PG-13 movie. Dismemberment, eye gouging, head impaling of blue-blooded androids. Live, somewhat bloody severed head. Human non-graphically cut in half (we briefly see a bit blood near one half). Some fairly bloody slicing/stabbing.
• American Assassin (2018) ^note  A borderline 8. Blood spurts are seen as civilians are massacred. Bloody headshots and stabbings. Blood splatters when goons are hit and crushed by cars. Fingernail-pulling torture, ear bitten off.
• An American Werewolf in Paris (1997)
• Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie (2014)
• Another 48 Hours (1990) ^note  A few brief blood spurts can be seen.
• Antwone Fisher (2002) ^note  For offscreen but very obvious and audible child molestation, and a bloody headshot.
• Anzio (1968) ^note  It gets a very light 7 because of the unusually bloody (for 1960s standards) squib on Jack Rabinoff (Peter Falk) when he gets shot.
• Apaches (1977) ^note While the deaths themselves are level 4-5 at worst, the extremely distressing nature of the film gets it up here (the fact that the deaths are suffered by children doesn't help).
• Army of Darkness (1992) ^note  It gets a level 7 for the geyser of blood that comes out of the castle's pit and for the blood splattering on the camera after the chainsaw decapitation during the pit fight.
• The Art of Self-Defense (2019) ^note  Nose brutally/bloodily bashed in. Arm bloodily snapped. Victim killed by having head bashed into a fire hydrant (bloody graphic wound). Another hits the back of their head on pavement as a blood pool forms and they suffer great pain before presumably dying offscreen. Throat bitten out by a dog offscreen with bloody aftermath.
• The Art of War (2000) ^note  It's a pretty hard 7. Bloody headshots, including one that borders on 8; bloody strangulation, character slammed into mirror repeatedly before being executed with shots to chest, disturbing decaying corpses of refugees.
• Assassination Nation (2018) ^note  A hard 7 for a bloody but brief headshot suicide, another slightly less bloody headshot, a body shot with exaggerated blood spray on a windshield (no graphic wound or impact seen), blood and matter seen flying out of a window from offscreen headshot, a pool bloodied by a fight with a nailgun, a bloody bathroom with a corpse wrapped in plastic, a bloody throat slashing (no wound seen), and a highschool teen (played by an adult) almost molested.
• Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) (1976) ^note  Somewhat graphic squibs, little girl shot in the chest. Some gang members swear a blood oath by bloodily cutting their bare arms with knives and pouring the blood into a bowl.
• Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) (2005) ^note  Fairly bloody headshots, a few somewhat bloody neck stabbings, badly burned flesh from a grenade.
• Atonement (2007)
• Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) ^note  For the cruel hunt of a whale-like creature called a Tulkun. After it is harpooned and the hunters go inside the carcass, a drill is seen going into its brain, and a valuable gold liquid from its brain cavity, called Amrita, is seen falling into a vial. While the Tulkun is a fictional creature, the hunt is graphic, realistic, and genuinely upsetting enough to reach this level. Neytiri's murderous rampage deserves mention as well, as we see her brutally clawing, shooting, hacking and slashing all of Quaritch's squad in animalistic fashion with fatal results and, although the sequence doesn't show any lingering shots of the carnage left on Neytiri's wake, her lack of mercy and the brutality of the sequence is enough to also get it here. Otherwise level 6, being Bloodier and Gorier than its predecessor, complete with blood being shown onscreen fairly often, as well as a character getting his arm graphically severed on-screen, with said arm being seen flying.
• Baby Driver (2017) ^note  Some bloody headshots, bloody splatters after brief impalement.
• Bad Ass 3 Bad Asses On The Bayou (2015)
• Bad Times at the El Royale (2018) ^note  Bloody headshots, shotgun shot leaves moderately large blood pool and splatter.
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) ^note  Fairly graphic Western violence, including bloody headshots and arrows to the throat. Some scenes, like a man having all of his fingers being shot off, would be higher if they weren't played for laughs.
• The Batman (2022) ^note  For multiple scenes of the severed thumb from Mayor Mitchell’s corpse, used as a prominent plot point while dimly lit, the chopped bone and muscle are fairly visible; and another victim's mangled face briefly seen eaten by rats in a black and white photo. Much of the other violence peaks at level 6 - some brutal beatings, less graphic images of crime scenes and corpses, bombings with innocents as victims, but all with liberal use of Gory Discretion Shots and Bloodless Carnage.
• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) (Ultimate Edition) ^note  A couple of large CGI blood splatters resulting from gunfire, one being graphic. A soft 7. The theatrical version is a 6.
• Battleship Potemkin (1925) ^note  For the woman being bloodily shot through the eye during the infamous Odessa Steps sequence. Worth nothing that this was quite graphic for 1920s standards. Otherwise a 5 for less bloody scenes of civilians being massacred during the same sequence.
• Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
• Beyond The Law 2019 ^note  Blood spurts/splatters from gunshot wounds on several occasions.
• The Big Lebowski (1998) ^note  Comical scene where a man's ear is bitten off and spit out.
• The Big Racket (1976)
• The Birds (1963) ^note  A brief but graphic close-up of dead man with empty eye sockets. A hard 7.
• Bitch Slap (2009)
• Black Adam (2022) ^note  For SABBAC's death at the hands of Teth-Adam, getting getting graphically torn in half with all of his molten magma entrails spilling out on the ground. Would be level 9 if it was actual blood and gore. Otherwise level 5.
• Black Mass (2015) ^note  Bloody headshots.
• Black Swan (2010) ^note  A woman stabs herself repeatedly in the face with a nail file, resulting in graphic blood spurts. A woman pulls a glass shard from a slightly gory wound in her abdomen (this wound starts to bleed profusely later on). A woman graphically pulls a large piece of skin off her own finger.
• Blade Runner (1982) [The Final Cut] ^note  It's primarily here for a blood-gushing double-eye-gouging and a man impaling his bare hand with a nail (some blood).
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017) ^note  Missile strikes briefly blow bodies into bloody shreds, a couple of bloody headshots. Other level 6 violence.
• Blair Witch 2 Book Of Shadows (2001) ^note  Bloody slashing and brutal stabbing of bare torsos. Other level 6 violence.
• Bloodsport (1988) ^note  There are a few graphic blood spits and a compound fracture on somebody's leg.
• Bloody Birthday (1981) ^note  A teen girl is graphically shot in the eye with an arrow. The arrow is removed offscreen after which the bloody wound is seen.
• Bonnie and Clyde (1967) ^note  Some fairly bloody headshots. Repeated, somewhat bloody shooting. A light 7.
• The Boston Strangler (1968) ^note  For the dead woman who has been raped offscreen with a broom; the broom clearly protruding from between her bare legs.
• Bottoms (2023) ^note  Quite a bit of bloody punching and kicking with slow motion blood spurts, nearly all of it between teen girls as part of a fight club. This comes to a head in the climax, where the fight club gets back together and goes against a group of football players in a bloody brawl, and one of the football players gets bloodily Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by a prop sword.
• The Bourne Supremacy (2004) ^note  A few dead bodies with bloody bullet holes in and pools of blood behind the head. A light 7.
• The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) ^note  For when Ross is shot in the head by a sniper, with a blood puff seen and a sizable pool afterwards.
• Boy (2010) ^note  For a comical fantasy image of a man stabbed in the eye with a spoon spewing blood everywhere. Would be at least an 8 if it was serious/real.
• Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988) ^note  It's here for a badly charred corpse, a few blood spurts from gunshots, and a bloody, graphic headshot received by one character.
• The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) ^note  Arm ripped off, with lots of blood smearing. Victim has part of his neck somewhat graphically bitten away. Would be higher if not for the lack of spurting blood. Otherwise, a level 5, due to a living severed head being a main character and the slightly gruesome body horror of the monster.
• Braven (2018) ^note  It's mostly a level 6, but a character taking a thrown axe to the bare face (with blood splatter) pushes it here.
• Breakheart Pass (1975) ^note  It gets rated a level 7 for the bloody headshot received by the telegraph operator.
• Breaking Dawn Part 1 (2011)^note Due to the gruesome and blood-drenched birth scene; it's easily the most graphic and bloody of the Twilight films. A heavily-pregnant Bella's spine visibly snaps and her placenta tears. There's an attempt to give her a C-section (without anaesthesia) with a scalpel, before Edward bites his way through her abdomen to get the baby out; we don't explicitly see the cutting and biting but there are unpleasant sound effects, lots of blood and Bella's agonized reactions. We also see the aftermath with Bella covered in blood (the wound is hidden by a nightgown), and both the baby and Edward's mouth and arms coated in blood. When Bella turns into a vampire, there are several shots inside her body, showing the venom changing her organs and fixing her broken spine. There's also a nightmare sequence where a bloodstained Bella and Edward are standing atop of a pile of bloody bodies.
• Breakout (1975) ^note  The top half of a character is ground up in an airplane propeller (some blood), but it's obviously a dummy.
• A Bronx Tale (1993) ^note  It's a soft level 7 for the scene where a man is briefly shown being shot in the head with minor blood spurting.
• Bruiser (2000)
• Buffalo '66 (1998) ^note  Very bloody aftermath of imagined headshots.
• Bullet On The Run (1982) ^note  A metal wall is practically painted red with blood splatter from a bad guy's gunshot exit wound.
• Cam (2019) ^note  Very bloody slit throat and headshot simulated in-universe. Gruesomely broken nose.
• Cape Fear (1991) ^note  A man graphically bites off a chunk of a woman's cheek and then rapes her offscreen. A man is strangled with a piano wire, with blood shown oozing out of his bare neck. There's also a large blood spurt from an offscreen shooting victim.
• Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) ^note  A scene in which an evil henchman is briefly but graphically killed by propeller blades, with an extreme amount of CGI blood seen for less than a second (he basically disappears in an explosion of blood). This would get an 8 if it wasn't so brief. An old man is shot with a pistol, with blood graphically spraying out of an exit wound on his back.
• Captain Marvel (2019) ^note  For the Skrall autopsy; otherwise it's a light 4.
• Carlito's Way (1993) ^note  A brief but very graphic throat-slitting; no blood aside from the wound but the man's bloodied corpse is seen afterwards. A man is beaten with a harpoon; two hits are shown to graphically bust his head open (blood sprays out, but no gore). A couple of graphic blood splatters during shootouts.
• Carrie (2013) ^note  A teen boy is graphically crushed between sets of bleachers, causing him to spit out a lot of blood. A teen girl smashes through a windshield in slow-motion; glass shards graphically pierce her face as some blood sprays out of the wounds.
• Casino Royale (2006) (2006) ^note  A torture scene in which a naked man is beaten with a knotted rope. It is heavily implied that the victim is hit in the genitals, although the genitals are not seen. This scene is disturbing, but not particularly graphic, although it is clear what is happening.
• Catch Me If You Can (2002) ^note  For the surprisingly graphic compound fracture seen up close on a patient in the hospital.
• Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
• Child's Play 2 (1990) ^note  A close-up of a stabbing with blood spraying. A living doll gets his hand stuck and graphically dismembers himself to get free; blood sprays out of the fleshy stump. A man gets his eyes gouged by a machine (not that graphic, slightly obscured). A living doll's head graphically explodes in slow motion.
• Chinatown (1974) ^note  For Evelyn's graphic eye wound after being shot offscreen (borderline 8). Otherwise a 3 for Jake getting his nose sliced non-graphically with some blood, and Hollis' corpse with bloody cuts on it's face.
• Clash of the Titans (1981) ^note  Medusa gets decapitated, with a fair amount of blood oozing from the neck stump, and her head is repeatedly shown with the stump visible.
• Climax (2019) ^note  For Lou mutilating herself by cutting several times. It's not very gory but the combination of her being tormented by her drugged/ raving-mad peers and possibly having miscarried by Dom kicking her in the gut for "lying" about spiking the punch and her potential pregnancy raise it up.
• The Club (1981) ^note  A man is shown from a distance being killed by two detached boat propellers, with blood splattering on windows.
• Cold Pursuit (2019) ^note  The film contains some blood splatter and some shenanigans with a bloody, severed head.
• Collateral (2004) ^note  A man is shown having part of his ear shot off, with a large blood spurt. Occasional blood sprays from shootings, including headshots.
• Commando (1985) ^note  It's a fairly strong level 7 (mainly the director's cut), with a man being shot in the bare forehead, with blood briefly appearing on the site of impact, a brief close-up a bare throat being bloodily cut with a knife, a goon being scalped by a thrown buzz-saw blade, another hostile receiving a thrown buzz-saw blade in the neck (with blood squirt), and a man's arm being lopped off with a machete (with a fair amount of blood oozing out of the wound).
• Con Air (1997) ^note  A man is bloodily killed with handcuffs to the throat, another is shown after being impaled with a pipe, and there are some bloody headshots.
• Conan the Destroyer (1984) ^note  Blood is sometimes shown spurting/splashing about when humans or a god-monster are slashed with bladed weapons. A severed head bloodily flies through the air.
• El Condor (1970) ^note  It's rated this high for the scene where a significant amount of blood splatters on the wall after one of the naked soldiers is stabbed.
• Cop Car (2016) ^note  For the shootout at the end.
• The Counterfeiters (2007)
• Crawl (2019) ^note  It's a pretty hard 7. Victim torn apart from multiple angles with little gory detail but lots of blood in water. Bodies covered in bloody lascerations. Compound fracture shown at length. Arm brutally torn off with surprisingly little blood.
• Creep (2004) (2004)
• Crimson Peak (2015) ^note  Head very bloodily bashed into a sink, bloody stabbings.
• Cube 2: Hypercube (2002)
• Cujo (1982) ^note  For the bloody aftermath of Cujo tearing out a man's throat.
• The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) ^note  The monster's grotesque, corpse-like appearance, as well as the scene were it is shot in the eye and begins gushing blood, get it up to here. Would have been a 10 in 1957.
• Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019) ^note  Occasional, relatively minor blood spurts put it on this level.
• The Dark Knight (2008) ^note  It's rated this high because of Two-Face's hideous appearance with flesh and bone exposed.
• The Dark Knight Rises (2012) ^note  A soft 7 for brief flashbacks to The Dark Knight, showing Two-Face's graphic appearance. Otherwise a soft 6.
• Darkness Falls (2003)
• Dead Heat (1988) ^note  Moderately graphic squibs. Character cartoonishly riddled with bloody bulletholes. Character cartoonishly explodes into a bunch of blood. Graphic rotting with no real blood but an arm and face melting off with gross, messy black mush. Fairly gory re-animated poultry in butcher shop.
• The Dead Pool (1988) ^note  There's a somewhat graphic gunshot to the bare forehead and a somewhat large quantity of blood dripping/splattering on the ground after a man is knifed.
• Dead Silence (2007)
• The Death of Stalin (2017) ^note  Several fairly bloody headshots.
• Death on the Nile (1978) (1978) ^note  For a blood-spurting headshot that is later seen again in flashback. Otherwise level 6.
• Death Wish (1974) ^note  The rape scene gives this one a level 7. Otherwise, it's probably a 6.
• Death Wish 3 (1985) ^note  The rape pushes this one to a level 7. The non-sexual violence is on level 6, though.
• Decision to Leave (2022)^note  Very tastefully handled crime scene gore in several scenes, most notably when a decomposing corpse is shown with an ant crawling over its eyeball.
• The Departed (2006) ^note  Numerous bloody headshots, body splattered on ground with lots of blood, no gore. Bloody severed hand seen inside a translucent bag.
• Desperado (1995) ^note  Lots of generously pouring squibs and splatters. Bloody bullet through hand. It's a borderline 8.
• The Devil's Advocate (1995) ^note  Bloody slit throats, headshot suicide, bloody crime-scene photos.
• Devil's Pass (2013)
• Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) ^note  Neck stabbing with brief blood spurt, offscreen headshot with lots of blood, body non-graphically cut in half.
• Dirty Harry (1971) ^note  It's a soft level 7 for the scene where a swimming woman is shot in the bare back with bloody bullet impact shown.
• Django (1966) ^note  A man's ear is severed (we only see the bloody ear) and then fed to him; he is then shot dead as he runs away. Mexican soldier bloodily shot in the eye. Django's mangled hands in the final act.
• Dogma (1999) ^note  Heads cartoonishly explode, civilians bloodily massacred. It's all played for laughs.
• Dolls (1987)
• Donnie Darko (2002) ^note  For Frank's bloody eye wound.
• Don't Breathe (2016) ^note  Shot to neck pours blood. Moderate blood spurting from gunshots. Headshot with some blood. Brutal beatdowns that leave very bloody/gashed and swollen faces. Other level 6 violence, most notably a brief but intense and graphic scene of attempted rape where the assailant uses a turkey baster filled with his semen.
• Double Impact (1991)
• Double Team (1997) ^note  It would be a level 6 if it wasn't for the somewhat bloody and painful-looking scene of a character slicing off their thumbprint.
• Drag Me to Hell (2009) ^note  Monster's eyeballs bloodily popped out.
• Dream Scenario (2023) ^note  Dreams include a face repeatedly and bloodily hit with a hammer and a blood spurting arrow to the neck. A finger is graphically severed in the real world.
• Duck, You Sucker (1971) ^note  It gets rated a level 7 for the rape and the pub flashback, which shows two British soldiers being shot (with slow-motion blood spurting) and another man being shot in the bare forehead, with blood oozing out of the wound in slo-mo.
• The Duellists (1977) ^note  A man's shoulder is sliced, with skin hanging off the cut. Another man is slashed across the forehead, with a blood-spurting wound. Mostly level 5 otherwise.
• Dune (1984) (1984) ^note  There's a lot of grotesque, bizarre imagery, including (but not limited to) a hallucinogenic vision of a bare hand burning/melting, blood pouring out of a wound on a man's bare forehead, a bloody severed head, and a knife bloodily lodged in a man's bare throat.
• Dune (2021) (2021) ^note  A depiction of mass death of innocents at the hands of the Sardaukhar army for their blood ritual, the effects of Duke Leto’s poison gas tooth (including a very brief shot of Piter’s eyeballs getting disintegrated), and some focus on blood dripping from swords after battles. Otherwise, level 6.
• Dune: Part Two (2024) ^note  As with the first part, there are several scenes of mass death that are a bit too graphic for level 6, including piles of corpses being burned by flamethrowers. Feyd-Rautha slitting the throats of his defenseless concubines and drugged participants in gladiatorial combat, Rabban repeatedly and sadistically smashing a soldier’s head into a ship control panel, and water being drawn out of corpses are brutal enough to reach this level even though they are not particularly graphic. Otherwise, level 6.
• Eastern Condors (1987)
• Eden Lake (2008) ^note  A restrained man is tortured by being cut up and stabbed; not very graphic, but he does bleed quite profusely later on. A teen boy is graphically stabbed in the neck with a glass shard, and an even younger boy is doused in gasoline and set on fire (seen briefly from a distance). Surprisingly tame for a film of this sort.
• Elektra (2005) ^note  It's rated at this level because of McCabe's graphical beheading in the director's cut version. Otherwise, level 4.
• Emperor (2012) ^note  It's here solely for the scene where blood splatters on a door window after a Japanese officer shoots himself in the head.
• The Enforcer (1976) ^note  The silhouette of the top of a corpse's head being removed during an autopsy is shown as a shadow on the wall. There's also a blood-splattering headshot later on.
• The English Patient (1996)
• Escape from L.A. (1996)
• Escape Plan (2013) ^note  CGI spurts just bloody enough for this level.
• Escape Plan 2: Hades (2018) ^note  It's not a particularly hard 7, but there are some headshots graphic enough for it to qualify for this level.
• Ex Machina (2014) ^note  For Caleb slicing his wrist and Nathan's bloody death.
• Extreme Prejudice (1987) ^note  There's almost, but not quite enough, spurting blood for this to reach level 8.
• The Fate of the Furious (2017) ^note  It gets rated this high solely for the scene with blood splattering on the wall after a bad guy is ground up in a submarine propeller (offscreen).
• The Faculty (1999) ^note  Slightly graphic/gross sci-fi dismemberment.
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) ^note  Teetering on the edge of levels 6 and 7, this film is an interesting case: it’s actually something of a level 4 film when it comes to detail, but, in combination with the genre violence pertaining to burning and incineration in (magical) fire, discussion and depiction of torture and the removal of tongues, gruesome shots of a worm-like parasite being pulled out of a man’s eye and a man being granted with a forked tongue to replace his amputated one, the murder of a magical creature, morally gray murder via magic, murder by magical creature attack, and other dark miscellanea like a human skull with a hookah pipe attached to it, intense assaults and attacks, and some gruesome transformations, the thematicized and off-screen violence is so dark (the murder of an entire family and the offscreen murder of an infant via magic, with sight of caskets, the drowning death of an infant, with an obscured image of its body, thematic rape, forced marriage, and death by childbirth, a couple images of prone corpses, and visions of World War II with atomic bombs, guns, tanks, dogfighters, and Jews shown lined up in a brief vision of the Holocaust) that the movie ends up climbing all the way to a mild level 7.
• Fantasy Mission Force (1983)
• Faster (2010) ^note  Fairly graphic headshots, bound victim has their throat cut slowly with little blood; photo of a graphic, empty eye-socket and gruesome head lasceration; man brutally stabbed many times with no blood, but they are then bloodily shot when they are being operated on.
• Fatman (2020) ^note  Bloody shot to neck, man bloodily shot multiple times in the back, man shot in the shoulder (his coat is drenched in blood) and then in the head, man is stabbed in the back and then shot in the eye (not graphic, he survives and we see a very bloody bandage).
• Final Cut (2022) ^note  A zombie is decapitated amid a lot of spraying blood; the graphic stump is seen later. However, this is later revealed to have been an in-universe special effect used during the making of a movie.
• First Blood (1982) ^note  It's a relatively light 7, due to John Rambo's (Sylvester Stallone) flashback of being tortured by having his bare chest bloodily sliced with a bayonet and the scene with Rambo sewing up the blood-gushing wound on his bare upper arm.
• The First Purge (2018) ^note  Frequent very bloody and occasionally graphic shooting, slashing and stabbing. A hard 7.
• Five Nights at Freddy's (2023) ^note  It's implied through shadows that a woman is bitten in half by an animatronic (some blood-splatter is seen through the shadows); her lower half is dropped on the floor, but no gore is seen. A soft 7.
• For a Few Dollars More (1965) ^note  This one would be a 5 if it wasn't for the rape.
• The Foreigner (2017) ^note  There's a fairly graphic scene depicting the aftermath of a terrorist bombing, as well as some blood spurting/splattering from gunshots.
• Four Brothers (2005) ^note  For a compound fracture by falling. Otherwise a 5 for a relatively mild but noticeable squib, some onscreen executions (of villains and allies) by repeated shooting with little blood and Jack's brutal but only slightly bloody death.
• Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981) ^note  A decapitated and decomposed head is shown a couple of times. A few graphic slashings and stabbings with blood shown.
• Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988) ^note  Jason has a decomposed zombie-like appearance in this one (no blood or gore, though); for example, his spine is visible. Jason kills a man by graphically punching a hole in him and breaking his neck; the mildly gory wound is seen afterwards.
• Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) ^note  Jason very graphically punches a man's head off; we see the head fly through the air in slow-motion (neck stump visible); however, no blood spray is visible and the scene is comedically over-the-top. A man's throat is very graphically slit in slow-motion (no blood aside from the wound). Jason burns a hole to a man's abdomen with a hot rock; mostly obscured, but some graphic detail is seen; the man is seen bloodied and dead afterwards. Jason is killed with toxic waste; his face is seen graphically melting; no blood or gore, but still gruesome.
• The Frighteners (1996) ^note  Cartoonish exploding head, etc.
• Galaxy of Terror (1981)
• The Getaway (1972)
• Get Out (2017) (2017) ^note  Is a Level 2 until the violent climax with A bizarre brain surgery with brief cuts of the top of the head being cut off and some brutal (but justified) killings from Chris.
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) ^note  For Snake-Eyes (bloodlessly) stabbing a mook in the eye, as well as his final fight with Storm Shadow and a henchman gruesomely decaying.
• The Girl Who Played With Fire (2009) ^note  A bloody crime scene of civilians executed by headshot. Brief flashback to the Lizbet's rape in the original film.
• The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest (2009) ^note  A bloody headshot. Brief sight of Lizbet's rape on recording.
• The Godfather Part II (1974) ^note  A defenseless elderly man's clothed stomach is carved open with a knife; mostly offscreen, but a second of the process is graphically shown onscreen with blood dripping out; the aftermath is briefly shown with the man bloodied and the knife stuck in him. Otherwise level 6.
• Godzilla Minus One (2023) ^note  A soft 7 for the grisly flesh wounds Godzilla takes from explosives that quickly heal. Violence against humans peaks at 6 with some bloody bodies seen after the first rampage in the beginning. Most other violence is hard 2/3 stuff.
• Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) ^note  A soft 7 for notable scenes of monster gore; such as a graphic severed eyeball, Kong graphically tearing off a beast's head and drinking it's gushing green blood, and Mecha-Godzilla vertically slicing a monster in half with tons of yellow slime and guts falling out.
• The Golden Compass (2007) ^note  Gets rated this high for a surprisingly brutal scene where a polar bear gets his lower jaw swiftly but graphically torn off. Otherwise, it's as low as a 3.
• Gone with the Wind (1939) ^note  For a surprisingly bloody scene of a man being shot in the face, with aftermath sight of blood and possible brain matter. The man's body is later moved, with blood being smeared across the floor. Surprising for a color film released during the Motion Picture Production Code.
• A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) ^note  Brief, non graphic slicing by helicopter blades.
• The Good German (2006) ^note  For the clothed rape scene that ends with the rapist's brains splattered on a wall, which borders on 8 but the black and white palette obscures some gore.
• The Good Son (1993) ^note  Character falls off of cliff and impacts in bloody heap. Attempted murder against children.
• The Green Knight (2021) ^note  2 graphic decapitations, one borders on 8 but it's on an immortal who puts his head back on shortly after; and a forced handjob.
• Green Zone (2010) ^note  Some bloody headshots

• Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) ^note  This could be considered a harder level 7 for the scene where Michael Myers stabs his finger through a man's bare forehead (with gushing blood) and the scene where Myers almost rips out a man's throat (complete with gushing blood).
• Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) ^note  Some of the stabbings/impalings and blood splatter are strong enough to reach level 7.
• Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998) ^note  A character is shown with a hockey blade bloodily lodged in his bare face, a throat is bloodily slit, and there's a mostly bloodless decapitation by axe.
• Halloween: Resurrection (2002) ^note  It's a somewhat harder level 7, thanks to some of its blood spurting and bloody impalings.
• Hard Target (1993) ^note  It's a hard (pun?) level 7 for a borderline-level-8 amount of spurting blood, as well as a snake's head graphically exploding (from a gunshot) and an arrow somewhat bloodily impaling a man's bare neck.
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows^note In general there are far more fight scenes of a serious nature compared to other entries – many involving teenagers – resulting in cuts, bruises and bloody clothes. The violence is also more brutal and bloody, and more likely to be fatal.
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010)^note We see the graphic aftermath of George's ear being blasted off, with a lot of blood present. Ron’s arm gets bloody gouges from a teleportation gone wrong - we see muscle. A snake emerges from the crumpled body of an old woman - we hear the neck crack and see a room with blood splattered on the ceiling and flies buzzing around - the implication is that all or part of the old woman’s body is hidden in that room as the woman’s flesh acts as a container for the giant snake. In an animated sequence, we see depictions of a throat slitting (with animated blood splatter) and a Suicide by hanging. A teen girl is tortured offscreen; we only hear her screaming though we later see that a Fantastic Slur has been cut into her arm. She has a knife held to her throat later.
  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011)^note  We see several bloody bodies lying around in the aftermath of a massacre and a huge battle in the climax. In said battle some of the fighters are teens; the actual fighting mostly involves spellcasting although many characters get bloodied and bruised. We briefly see a bloody and somewhat gory injury on a deceased girl's neck - a man leans over her with blood on his mouth - he was shown to be eating her. A character’s throat is magically cut before he’s repeatedly bitten by a snake; we don’t see this happening clearly, though we see the aftermath with some blood splatter on the window and the dying character covered in blood. The part of Voldemort's soul in Harry is represented as a bloody, emaciated fetus-like creature.
• Heat (1995) ^note  Some bloody headshots.
• Heathers (1989) ^note Here for a man's middle finger being shot off with blood seen spurting out of the stump. Otherwise a 5 for some brutal, sometimes slightly bloody murders that are made to look like suicides.
• Hell or High Water (2016) ^note  Its a very light 7, mainly for the aftermath of Tanner's Death.
• Highlander (1986) ^note  Multiple graphic decapitations, but without much blood spray. Otherwise level 6.
• High Plains Drifter (1973) ^note  There's a rape and some graphically bloody gunplay.
• High-Rise (2016) ^note  For graphic surgery on a cadaver head in two scenes. Otherwise level 6 for Royal's blood-soaked corpse, the bloody remains of a cooked dog, blood splatters from a suicide, and an abstracted image of Richard being stabbed to death by multiple people with some airborne blood seen. There's also level 5 violence including a heavily implied rape, vicious beatdowns with not too graphic visuals but a vivid description for one, various characters with first and second-hand blood all over their clothes, and a dog with blood on it's fur from an offscreen beating.
• The Highwaymen (2019) ^note  It's probably a level 6 until the blood-spurting/splattering deaths of Bonnie and Clyde.
• The Hitcher (1986) ^note  Bloody squibs, very bloody bodies, victim tied and torn in half by trucks offscreen.
• Hitman: Agent 47 (2015) ^note  Several bloody headshots, offscreen grinding up of victim with blood stream shown, offscreen slicing by helicopter. Onscreen bloody slicing by blade.
• The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) ^note  Frequent large CGI blood splatters that are at times graphic, mostly resulting from gunshots. The comedic tone lessens the impact a little.
• The Hobbit
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) (Both versions) ^note  A few graphic decapitations of goblins. An orc's forearm is dismembered (not particularly graphic), a lot of black blood is shown dripping out of the stump as he clutches it. A dwarf's decapitated head is brandished and thrown to the ground. A large goblin's stomach is very graphically sliced open.
  • The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013) (Both versions) ^note  Gory and mutilated dead animals are briefly seen on the ground along with huge pool of blood; we see a severed leg and a decapitated head of a deer-looking animal (this is borderline 8). Decapitations of orcs, most of them onscreen, some graphic and at least one accompanied with black blood splatter. One side of an elf's face starts to melt very graphically, exposing bone and muscle, but regenerates quickly afterwards.
  • The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) (Theatrical version) ^note  A fair amount of decapitations of orcs, some of which are accompanied by black blood splatter. The R-rated extended edition is level 8.
• Horror of Dracula (Uncut) (1958) ^note  For Dracula's uncut disintegration sequence, with no real blood or gore but shots of his fingers disintegrating off the bone and his face graphically disintegrating. Otherwise a 6 with blood from neck wounds and implied sexual assault imagery.
• The Host (2006)
• Hulk (2003) ^note  Mainly for the exploding frog scene. Otherwise, level 5
• I Come in Peace (1990) ^note  There's a somewhat graphic headshot, a flying razor-disc weapon causing blood squirts upon contact with its victims' throats, a bloodless, yet still pretty harsh, head-stabbing to extract endorphins, and some white-colored humanoid alien gore.
• I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) ^note  Tame for a slasher film. Rated this high because of a brief graphic dismemberment. The rest of the violence is level 6.
• Inland Empire (2006) ^note  A woman is shown with a screwdriver bloodily lodged in her bare side. A different woman graphically pukes up a lot of blood.
• Innocent Blood (1992)
• Interview with the Vampire (1994) ^note  Bloody decapitation, body briefly cut in half, slit throat pours lots of blood.
• In the Fade (2017) ^note  For the aftermath of Katja's offscreen suicide attempt where she has slit her wrists, with brief sight of blood flowing out of her wrists in a bathtub. Otherwise, level 6 for tastefully handled depiction of a nail bombing and its aftermath that would normally fit at 5, but is racially motivated and has Katja's husband and child as the victims. There are also very graphic verbal descriptions of violence in a courtroom setting.
• In the Line of Fire (1993)
• The Invisible Man (2020) (2020) ^note  Bloody slit throats. A graphic kneecapping.
• Iron Angels (1987) ^note  Blood sometimes graphically spurts or smears.
• Iron Man (2008) ^note  Borderline 6/7 for the surgery scene near the beginning in which bloody tissue is very briefly seen being removed.
• Jarhead 3 The Siege (2016) [standard version] ^note  It's mostly pretty 4ish or 5ish in the violence department, but there are a couple of brief moments that are more 7ish in nature.
• Jaws (1975) ^note  At least one bloody severed limb and head. Shark bloodily blown up. Man slides into shark mouth and is eaten. Child eaten (we only see blood in water). Dead shark sliced open. Black and white medical images of grisly wounds from shark attacks.
• Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)
• Joe (2013) (2013) ^note  For when Gary's dad bashes in a homeless man's skull with a pipe (blood and a gross dent is seen) and Joe bloodily taking buckshot to the shoulder and performing self-surgery. Other level 5 violence. A fairly hard 7.
• John Wick (2014) ^note  Frequent bloody headshots and stabbing, sometimes repeated. It's a very hard 7.
• John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) ^note  Blood spurts from headshots and slashings. Brutal bloodless carnage.
• Judas and the Black Messiah (2020) ^note  A prisoner is seen with words graphically carved into his chest. Otherwise a 6 for minor squibs from shootings and very gruesome descriptions of torture.
• Judge Dredd (1995) ^note  One brief but graphic leg dismemberment by gunfire in the opening action sequence. A light 7, since it isn't obvious. Otherwise level 6.
• Jurassic Park
  • Jurassic Park (1993) ^note  It gets a very mild level 7 for a brief shot of a dinosaur chowing down on another prehistoric creature and for the brief appearance of a somewhat meaty, severed human arm and bloody severed goat's leg falling on a car. Other violence ranks at a 5 or 6. A few people are mauled and eaten by dinosaurs onscreen, but it's kept brief and bloodless with nothing graphic shown.
  • The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) ^note  There is some dinosaur gore related to such creatures eating each other. Violence against humans is probably containable to level 6.
  • Jurassic Park III (2001) ^note  It gets a level 7 rating solely for the violence directed at dinosaurs, which includes a depiction of a half-eaten one being munched on by another one. The carnage directed at humans is probably on level 6.
  • Jurassic World (2015) ^note  There are a couple of instances of blood splattering after humans are munched on by dinosaurs, as well as some mild dinosaur gore.
  • Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) ^note  Mild dismemberment and impalement, as well as brief blood splatter from both human and dinosaur.
• Kickboxer 2 The Road Back (1991) ^note  Lots of blood goes flying through the air from blows to the head during the brutal martial arts fighting (one fight has the combatants glue broken glass to their wrists).
• Kickboxer 3 The Art Of War (1992) ^note  There are some blood spurts from gunshots (some in slo-mo).
• Kickboxer 4 The Aggressor (1994) ^note  In addition to some level 7 footage from Kickboxer 2 The Road Back (1991), there are some graphically bloody images, including a man who bloodily takes a thrown knife to the bare forehead.
• The Killer (2023) ^note  A hard 7 for the Lawyer getting shot with a nail gun in the chest at close range - while the direct impacts are only briefly seen, he can be heard slurring his speech as his lungs fill with blood. The fight scene with the Brute is also a borderline 8, with much use of improvised weapons and one of the fighters getting impaled with a fireplace poker and a chair leg - however, it’s mostly shot in the dark making the blood limited. Numerous less graphic killings, mostly bloody headshots.
• The Killer Elite (1975) ^note  For The Defector being bloodily shot in the head (the squib is a borderline 8 but it's a split second and there is no mess left behind), Locken's bloody bullet wounds being operated on, and the graphic squib on Hansen's death. Otherwise a fairly light 6 for characters who have a lot of blood on them from non-lethal injuries, and some mild but noticeable spurting squibs from shootings.
• Killing Down (2006)
• The Kingdom (2007) ^note  Pouring squibs, some fairly bloody headshots, people missing limbs from bombings, bloody autopsy. Brief, somewhat bloody torture.
• King Kong (1976) (1976) ^note  A giant snake is killed by having its jaws very graphically torn apart (borderline 8). King Kong is shot down with Gatling guns: A lot of blood is seen graphically spraying out of wounds.
• The King of Staten Island (2020) ^note  For a bloody headshot from The First Purge on TV; and a graphic, bloody stab wound to the gut (the stabbing isn't seen).
• Kingsman: The Secret Service (2015) ^note  Cartoonish dismemberment and head explosions. Brutal stabbings and headshots with blood but without much spurting.
• Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017) ^note  Stylized violence like the above, including men thrown into meat grinders.
• Kiss of the Dragon (2001) ^note  Body non-graphically blown in half, death with Blood from Every Orifice, etc.
• Knox Goes Away (2023) ^note  Some blood splatters on a wall when someone is shot and killed.
• Kong: Skull Island (2017) ^note  Victim torn apart in silhouette, moderate dinosaur gore.
• Kung Fu Hustle (2004) ^note  Blood splatter from a cat being sliced in half in silhouette. Protagonist imagines a tsunami of blood emerging from a door. Other cases of level 6 violence.
• Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) ^note  Catherine Morgan (Ziva Rodann) is raped and murdered in the opening scene, but this is only heard, not directly seen.
• Lawman (1971) ^note  There are several graphic, very bloody squibs with blood splashing/oozing. A man spits up quite a bit of blood into the air after being shot in the back. There's a suicide-by-gunshot-to-the-chin with spurting and gushing blood. It could be considered a somewhat harder level 7.
• The Lawnmower Man (1992) ^note  A graphic headshot with a lot of blood splattering on a wall.
• Legion (2010) ^note  Moderate blood spurts and lascerations; including headshots and a bleeding neck. Character is hung on a cross and has grotesque welts grow on him until they burst into acid; severely burning the back of (and killing) another character.
• Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) ^note  There are a couple of blood spurts from gunfire and a couple of bloody bullet impacts on people's bare foreheads.
• Lethal Weapon 4 (1998) ^note  There is some squirting blood (whether it be from being shot or being impaled by a metallic rod) and a couple of graphic headshots.
• Lion of the Desert (1980)
• Little Big Man (1970) ^note  It's not a strong level 7, but there is some mildly graphic violence, such as some blood splashing through the air after a man is shot in a saloon.
• Live by Night (2016) ^note  Throat slittings and bloody headshots.
• Live Free or Die Hard (2007) [unrated cut] ^note  This one might've rated a level 8 if the CG blood splatters looked more realistic.
• Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
• The Lone Ranger (2013) ^note  A scene in which it is heavily implied that a man kills a wounded man by slicing open his chest and tearing out his heart, after which he eats the heart. This is all offscreen, save for a brief out-of-focus shot in which we see the man eating the heart, although this is shown from a distance and in silhouette. Afterwards the dead man is shown with a bloodied chest, although no viscera is shown. Otherwise a hard 5.
• The Lord of the Rings
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) [theatrical version and extended edition] ^note  Both versions contain two brief graphic decapitations of orcs, accompanied with splatters of black blood. Both versions also contain one graphic, although brief and bloodless, dismemberment of an orc's arm. The extended edition contains one additional dismemberment of an orc's arm, with black blood spurting from the stump. The rest of the violence is a hard level 5.
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) [theatrical version and extended edition] ^note  Mild gore in the orc cannibalism scene: An orc is decapitated offscreen (we see the head fall and, in the extended edition, the neck stump). A group of orcs then devour the headless orc's corpse: we briefly see gore flying through the air, including what looks like an intestine. Two graphic, but brief, decapitations of orcs (the other shown in slow motion). The extended edition also contains an additional brief, but very graphic decapitation of an orc and a very graphic dismemberment of an orc's leg. The rest of the violence is a hard level 5.
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) [theatrical version and extended edition] ^note  Decapitated human heads are launched from catapults (brief close-ups of the heads), a giant lizard creature is bloodily and very graphically decapitated and a hobbit's finger is bitten off (obscured: the hobbit is invisible during the act, but blood is shown in the aftermath). Additionally in the extended edition: A villainous man is graphically decapitated with a sword (blood sprays), an orc graphically and bloodily (the blood is black) smashes another orc's head with a big round stone (this is very brief) and an orc's arm is graphically dismembered with black blood splatter. The rest of the violence is a hard level 5.
• Mad Max (1979) ^note A brief shot of a dead animal's (looks like a dog, hard to tell) gory and mutilated body hanging from a tree (borderline 8). A man is tortured by being shot in the knee (very brief close-up with a lot of blood graphically spurting out) and then having his arm run over by a motorcycle (very brief graphic close-up). A man is killed by being run over by a truck; not particularly graphic, although some of his body parts are seen on the road afterwards (no blood or gore is seen).
• Magnum Force (1973) ^note  There are a few graphic blood spurts/splatters from gunshot wounds.
• The Manchurian Candidate (1962) ^note  A man is shot offscreen, with blood spraying onto a portrait of Stalin.
• Man on Fire (1987) ^note  There is some mildly graphic, bloody gunplay.
• Man on Fire (2004) ^note  Bloody fingore, decapitated body in bloody pool.
• Maps to the Stars (2015) ^note  Fairly graphic burning alive (there's no blood but we see their flesh disturbingly go black). Head bludgeoned, causing a profusely bleeding gash.
• Marathon Man (1976) ^note  Bloody sliced throats, impalement, brutal dental torture without blood or graphic details.
• March Or Die (1977) ^note  A few of the headshots in this movie are a bit too graphic for a level 6, so it's a pretty light 7.
• Marked for Death (1990) ^note  There is some relatively minor blood splatter, a split-second blood squirt from a beheaded body, and a graphic double eye-gouging.
• Matewan (1987) ^note  It's a soft level 7, getting this rating for some of the blood splatter during the final shootout.
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003) ^note  A man is graphically impaled by a metal support beam, causing a lot of blood to splatter on computer screens. A few graphic sprays of blood resulting from gunfire.
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003) ^note  A man's eyes are graphically burned with an electrical cable; he is blinded, and his scorched eye sockets are later seen. A man is graphically slashed across the face multiple times in quick succession by robots; A lot of blood splatters and his wounds are seen later.
• Maximum Risk (1996)
• Max Manus (2008)
• Mayhem (2017) ^note  Fair bit of blood splattering from stabbing, bludgeoning, etc; but without gory detail. Heavily stylized, very bloody neck stabbing seen in the intro (would probably be an 8 if it was more realistic). Severed tongue is seen (severing is not). Body briefly, but bloodily, splats on ground.
• The Missing (2003) ^note  Naked body bloodily pierced with arrows, eyes bleed out, human heart found in dirt, man stabbed and bludgeoned to death (we later see his very bloody body), toddler dies of thirst, bloody bullet wound stitched up, man brutally falls to his death with blood under his head.
• Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983) ^note  Gory slapstick violence, including bloody removal of liver and an exploded stomach
• The Mechanic (2011) (2011) ^note  Fairly bloody headshots, brutal fight with some moderately bloody stabbing, face hit hard by car; splattering the headlight with blood.
• Mechanic Resurrection (2016) ^note  A few graphic CGI blood splatters.
• Meet the Spartans (2008) ^note  A man sliding along the ground is briefly but graphically decapitated when his head hits the ground; however, he is shown to be fine seconds later. Played for laughs.
• The Meg (2018) ^note  Bloody, gory violence is directed at whales and megalodons. Carnage against humans probably peaks at a level 6, when a bloody, yet partially clothed, severed arm is found at the site of a megalodon attack.
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)
• A Midnight Clear (1992)
• Mimic (1997)
• Minority Report (2002) ^note  A man is shown with empty eye sockets. Some scenes where detached eyeballs are handled. A man is graphically shot and blood is briefly shown pouring out of the wound (this scene is shown a few times).
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) ^note  Detached eyeballs and eyeball eating.
• Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985) ^note  It's a lighter level 7, but some acts of violence, like the headshot received by one character, push it here.
• Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018) ^note  Would likely sit at a hard 5 if it weren't for Walker's death and the noticeable... ahem, residue from the headshot received by the fake John Lark at the Grand Palais.
• Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) ^note  It gets a light 7 for the unusually bloody (by PG-13 standards) headshots received by the IMF Secretary (Tom Wilkinson) and his driver.
• Mississippi Burning (1988)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) ^note  Bloody head impalement, multi-dismemberment and decapitation of characters fully covered in armor. Would be higher if the violence wasn't so comical.
• Mulholland Dr. (2001) ^note  A decomposing corpse is shown on a bed.
• National Lampoons Movie Madness (1982) ^note  A woman is raped barely offscreen (the audience hears a part of it) with a stick of butter.
• Network (1976) ^note  It's a soft level 7 for a man being bloodily shot in the bare forehead (among other places) during the final scene.
• The Nice Guys (2016) ^note  Bloody bullet wound in head, body falls off building splattering blood on ground.
• Nicholas and Alexandra (1971)
• A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) ^note  An invisible entity attacks a teen girl; slash marks graphically appear on her chest and she is then thrashed and dragged around the room until she bleeds out (a lot of blood is shown, borderline 8). A teen boy is pulled into a hole after which an exaggerated geyser of blood erupts from the hole; it is implied the boy was killed. Freddy's face is pulled off, revealing a cartoonish, but slightly gory-looking skull underneath.
• Nil By Mouth (1997) ^note  For a pregnant woman severely beaten and stomped. Most of the blows are offscreen but we see her deformed face and then learn she miscarried..
• 9th Company (2005)
• No Chance (2020) ^note  There's a fair amount of somewhat graphically bloody, yet comedic, violence, with the most violent incidents being a pistol exploding in a man's hand (with blood-squirting stump) and a part of an intestine falling out of a man's chest.
• No Escape (2015) ^note  Bloody headshots, squibs, throat cutting, attempted gang rape, blood splattered all over a wall from offscreen machete killing of a tourist. A hard 7.
• No Mans Land 1987 ^note  A man's bare hand is bloodily slashed with a box-cutter-like blade.
• Oldboy (2003) ^note  Off-screen tongue slicing with bloody results, bloody suicide by headshot, brutal dental torture, etc.
• On Deadly Ground (1994) ^note  It could probably be considered a fairly hard 7 with graphic wounds but little blood spurts or splatters.
• Operation Delta Force (1997) ^note  There are a couple of instances of blood splattering on windows (otherwise, there are plenty of blood-squibby deaths on levels 5 and 6).
• Out of Reach (2004) ^note  It's a soft level 7, primarily being rated here for the bullet-removal scene and maybe some of the blood squibs during the bordello shootout.
• Out of Time (2003) ^note  For a couple of surprisingly graphic charred bodies. Otherwise, level 3.
• The Outpost (2019) ^note  Two or three grisly war wounds are shown.
• Outside the Law (2010)
• Pain & Gain (2013)
• Papillon (1973) ^note  Decapitation with blood spurt, bloody impalement by spikes, etc.
• Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
• Payback (1999) ^note  For when a body is used as a meat shield with several squibs used. Otherwise level 6.
• Penitentiary II (1982) ^note  There's an intense, fatal rape.
• Pineapple Express (2008) ^note  Bloody headshots, foot obliterated.
• Piranha (1978)
• Piranha Part Two: The Spawning (1981)
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007) ^note  A sea-creature pirate with an eel head is briefly, but very graphically decapitated in a battle, spraying a lot of red blood from the stump. Another sea-creture pirate kills a man by forcing his tentacles into the nose, ears, eyes and mouth of the man; we see some graphic detail of this, but most of the process is not particularly graphic; we see the dead man's bloodied face out of focus afterwards. A man imagines himself as a sea-creature grown into the wall of a ship; he pulls himself out of the wall, exposing his brain; he then takes his brain and licks it. A man has his heart carved out of his chest offscreen; the man is unharmed, but we see the heart and a scar on his chest. A sea-creature pirate is killed by having his disembodied heart graphically stabbed.
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) ^note  A very brief, but very graphic borderline 8 shot in which a raven pulls a man's eyeball out with some blood/gore seen (it's unclear if the man is dead, but it looks like he is). Severed human toes are seen; a man tries to eat one and takes a bite, but spits the small piece out (presented comically). Cannonballs very graphically tear chunks out of a giant octopus' tentacles (gore seen); in another scene, one of the tentacles is very graphically severed with an axe, resulting in a lot of blood spraying.
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) ^note  A man dies by being blown apart by wind; we see flesh very graphically ripped off his bones until only a skeleton remains (the air around him turns red with blood); would get an 8 if it wasn't for the fantastical context.
• Platoon Leader (1988)
• Posse (1993)
• Prisoners (2013) ^note  Suicide by gunshot to head, with blood splatter. Brutal torture leaves victim's face bloodily deformed.
• Prom Night (1980) (1980) ^note  A man is very graphically decapitated with an axe with the neck stump visible. No blood sprays out, but some blood is seen as his head rolls across the floor. Some bloody slashed throats seen briefly.
• The Protector (2005) ^note  It's a very light 7, though.
• Public Enemies (2009) ^note  Moderately graphic blood puffs, with some very bloody, gushing wounds. Dillinger's headshot is probably just graphic enough for an 8.
• The Punisher (1989) (1989) ^note  A few graphic blood spurts from gunshot wounds.
• The Punisher (2004) (2004) ^note  Knife to neck with brief spurt, arrow to bare neck, very light 7.
• Puppet Master (1989) ^note  A tied up man is killed by leeches; they are graphically shown draining his blood on his bare skin (some blood is also shown). A woman's throat is graphically slit (some blood is shown). Otherwise level 6.
• The Purge (2013) ^note  A couple of shootings and a scene of a man struck with an axe where CGI blood graphically splatters out of wounds. A dead body is seen with its head destroyed (very bloody), although from a distance and in night vision. A man graphically stabs another man once through his shirt (a lot of blood soaks the shirt later), with the perpetrator deriving sadistic pleasure from the act.
• Quantum of Solace (2008) ^note  A graphic and mildly gory photograph of a dead man with his eyelids and lips missing, although this is brief.
• The Quick and the Dead (1995) ^note  A hard 7, bordering on 8 at times. Fairly bloody squibs, sometimes stacked. Man gets shot in both hands before being fatally shot in the chest. A headshot with a huge hole left behind. Another headshot with some blood spray and a smaller hole. Rapist with some blood shown on his clothed crotch after being shot. Audio-only rape.
• Rage (2014)
• Raging Bull (1980) ^note  There are several graphic blood spurts from people's faces during the boxing scenes.
• Raw Deal (1986) ^note  Moderately graphic shootings throughout.
• Red Tails (2012) ^note  It's a very light 7, because some blood spurting is briefly noticeable.
• Regeneration (1997)
• Requiem for a Dream (2000) ^note  A scene depicting the amputation of a gangrenous arm in a medical context: The process is mostly offscreen, but we do see the saw start cutting the skin and blood splattering on the patient's face as he is being sedated. The same scene contains torturous and cruel electoshock therapy done to a patient (not the same patient) who is conscious during the therapy and in great pain. Two additional scenes where a man is shot (blood sprays on another man's face) and where a fork is stabbed into a man's hand (blood is seen).
• Revenger (2019) ^note  Mild dismemberment, large but extremely fake looking CGI blood splatters, bloody cutting of bare skin.
• The Revenger (1990) ^note  A character is raped.
• Revolution (1985)
• Riders of Justice (2020) ^note  There is some blood splatter/spurting from gunshot wounds and a man is briefly, bloodily shot in the face with a submachine gun.
• Rim of the World (2019) ^note  Head with bloody hole through it, monster painlessly, but bloodily rips itself in half. Level 6 violence includes bloodless head ripping and some bloody bodies.
• The Ring (2002) ^note  The film's infamous black-and-white video tape contains two brief scenes that get it here: What looks like an intestine pulled out of someone's mouth and a nail graphically piercing a finger in close-up.
• Rise: Blood Hunter (2007)
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011) ^note  An ape graphically bites a man's finger off: The bloody stump is briefly seen and a little blood is seen on the ape's mouth afterwards. A soft 7. Otherwise a soft 6 for some puffs of blood resulting from gunfire.
• Road House (2024) ^note  For the climactic fight with Knox involving several bloody stabbings with wooded shrapnel to bare flesh. Before that it's a 5 with lots of bone-crunching beatdowns with little blood that are mostly non-fatal. Theres also an alligator mauling with some blood in the water, a mildly bloody shooting, and a man whose arm is on fire.
• Road to Perdition (2002) ^note  It's a pretty light 7, though with just enough blood splashing on surfaces to count.
• Robin Hood (2010) [director's cut]
• RoboCop (2014) ^note  Two scenes of mild gore: A cyborg's armor is disassembled, revealing his brain, spine and lungs in glass cages; the same cyborg has his brain operated on in a later scene. A car explodes next to a man: Afterwards a picture of him on a hospital bed is shown, with burned skin and an arm and a leg amputated and bandaged. Otherwise level 6.
• Rocky (1975) ^note  Solely for when the swollen flesh under Rocky's eye is bloodily sliced open to reduce swelling. Otherwise a light 4 for fairly brutal boxing with severe bruising and bloody faces.
• The Room (2003) ^note  A soft 7 for the finale, where Johnny commits suicide by eating his gun and leaving behind a very bloody mess. Otherwise, level 1 for occasional fisticuffs resulting in minor injury at most.
• The Rover (2014) ^note  Bloody headshots, gurgling victim with blood coming from neck, pouring squibs, child accidentally shot offscreen (we see some blood on their clothes).
• Run Lola Run (1999) ^note  Primarily here for a Blipvert containing split-second images of a woman’s mangled body from a car crash, resulting surgery, and death by suicide with sight of her slitting her wrists over a sink. While brief (and split-second at that), the images are too graphic for any level below this one. Otherwise, a solid level 5 for a couple of bloody fatal squibs and a man getting hit by a car with some resulting blood.
• Safe (2012) ^note  Some fairly bloody headshots.
• Safe House (2012) ^note  A man in a car is shot in the forehead quite graphically, with blood spraying from the wound; some blood is seen on the windshield afterwards. A graphic scene of waterboarding.
• Sanjuro (1962) ^note  For the blood gushing from Muroto's death. Otherwise, level 3 for rough but mostly bloodless stabbing and slashing.
• Second In Command (2006) ^note  This one would probably be a level 6 if it wasn't for the eye-gouging scene.
• Scary Movie 2 (2001) ^note  A man's head is opened up; his head is hollow and a tiny man is dancing inside. Played for laughs.
• Scary Movie 3 (2003) ^note  A dead woman's head rolls off her body (neck stump graphically seen). A dead body explodes, sending body parts flying all over (no blood or gore, only stumps are seen). Both scenes played for laughs.
• Scary Movie 5 (2013) ^note  A chicken has its head ripped off, causing an exaggerated geyser of blood to erupt from its neck. In an over-the-top parody of Evil Dead, multiple demon-possessed people start to dismember themselves offscreen, but with a lot of blood spraying around; the somewhat graphic aftermath of this is seen.
• Scream 3 (2000) ^note  Pretty bloody stabbing but not as graphic nor gory as the other movies.
• Shake Hands With The Devil (2007)
• Shame (2011) ^note  For Sissy in a pool of blood after a suicide attempt.
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994) ^note  For the squibs in Tommy's death, the warden's fairly bloody headshot suicide and the several vicious beatdowns Andy recieves before being gang raped offscreen. A somewhat light 7.
• The Shining (1980) ^note  Split second images of a hallway drenched in blood with 2 dead girls, tsunami of blood emerges from an elevator, man bloodily axed in chest.
• The Siege of Jadotville (2016)
• Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) ^note  A teen girl is impaled on deer antlers; a graphic close-up is seen (borderline 8). A couple of instances of bare skin being cut open with knives. A man is killed with a hammer offscreen; blood and a tiny amount of brain matter is seen spraying. A teen boy is decapitated with an axe offscreen; the graphic stump is seen for a few seconds. Two scenes of attempted rape.
• The Sisters Brothers (2018) ^note  Bloody headshots/wounds. Severed limbs in a dream sequence. Badly infected gash on horse, some pretty graphic chemical burns.
• Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
• Sleepaway Camp (1983) ^note  A scene of attempted child rape; all we see is the man unbuckle his pants before he is stopped. A teen girl is forcibly penetrated with a hot curling iron offscreen. Several children are killed offscreen in their sleep; bloody and shredded sleeping bags are seen afterward. A teen boy's decapitated head is briefly seen (graphic neckstump visible).
• Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989) ^note  A firecracker explodes after being placed in a teen boy's nose, killing him; the somewhat gruesome aftermath is seen in a blurry shot.
• Snakes on a Plane (2006)
• Snatch. (2000) ^note  It's a very light 7. For some blood splatter from implied headshots.
• Sniper (1993) ^note  For an indirectly shown bloody eye shot, and a brief flash of a body with a somewhat bloody eye and some severed fingers. Otherwise a 6 for a somewhat bloody neckshot, a brief shot of a knife tip protruding from a man's neck, headshots with minimal blood, a bloody foot stabbing (through shoe), torture by breaking fingers (out of frame), and some miscelaneous light blood splatter.
• Solomon Kane (2009)
• Son of a Gun (2015) ^note  For when an inmate kills himself by neck stabbing. There's also a couple of at least level 6 gunshot wounds.
• Sorcerer (1977) ^note  Fairly graphic exit wound in head. Bloody shot to eye.
• Sound of Freedom (2023) ^note  Heavy implication of repeated sexual abuse of small children. A photo of a prisoner with his throat cut with lots of blood. CCTV archive footage displays real abductions taking place perhaps making this a hard 7.
• Southland Tales (2006) ^note  A couple of squibs reach this level as does the original Taverner's eye wound after being grazed in the face by a bullet, which is focused on for a long time. Otherwise level 6.
• Speed (1994) ^note  A couple of squibs and an ear stabbing are just graphic enough for this level.
• Spectre (2015) ^note  A graphic torture scene in which a man is drilled into with a small remote-controlled drill: A small amount of blood drips from the drill afterwards. An explosive explodes next to man's face: Not particularly graphic, but we see blood splatter, and later we see his scarred face. A man with metal fingernails presses his thumbs into another man's eyes: The act is partly obscured, but we do see graphic detail of the thumbs being pressed into the eyes, while the man is screaming in pain (blood is seen on the thumbs afterwards). After this, the man kills the victim by graphically breaking his neck.
• Spenser Confidential (2020) ^note  Graphic head exit-wound, cat impaled to a door, woman brutally beaten to death by several thugs.
• Spring Breakers (2013) ^note  For bloody headshots in the climax.
• Spy (2015) ^note  There are graphically bloody gunshot wounds, some gore dripping off a metallic rod that just impaled someone, someone's throat graphically dissolving after drinking acid, and a knife bloodily impaling someone's bare hand.
• Spy Hard (1996) ^note  "Weird Al" Yankovic's head gorily, yet very comedically, explodes while singing a long note during the opening credits.
• Stigmata (1999)
• The Stone Killer (1973) ^note  It's a level 6 until the blood-spurting finale.
• The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (2011) ^note  Two disturbing but offscreen male-on-male rape scenes in the latter of which you can hear the victim screaming.
• Street Law (1974)
• Streets of Fire (1984) ^note  A partially obscured onscreen rape in the beginning, and a few very bloody squibs. Other level 5 and 6 violence throughout, including an onscreen attempted rape and many brutal (albeit mostly bloodless) fistfights and gunfights, culminating in a final fight scene where the main hero and villain pummel each other with sledgehammers. Notably, rated PG and released mere weeks before the PG-13 rating was introduced.
• Sucker Punch (2011) [both versions] ^note  A woman kills a baby dragon (that's larger than an adult human) by very graphically slicing open its neck, leaving a bloody wound; she reaches into the wound and pulls out two stones. An orc is graphically sliced to pieces by propeller blades, causing a lot of black blood to splatter. The Extended Cut contains additional instances of orcs being graphically sliced and impaled by swords, accompanied by large black blood splatters. A soft 7, since all of the aforementioned violence is imagined by the main character.
• Super 8 (2011) ^note  A character's head is bloodily smashed against a window, but the lighting of the scene reduces the impact, making it a soft level 7.
• Superbad (2007) ^note  For Seth imagining getting his throat bloodily slit.
• Suspect Zero (2004)
• Taken 2 (2012) [unrated cut] ^note  A man peering through a bullethole in a wall receives a headshot with brief exit-wound blood spurt (soft level 7).
• Taken 3 (2014) [unrated cut] ^note  There are a couple of instances of blood spurting/splattering from gunshot wounds.
• Tequila Sunrise (1988) ^note  It gets a very light 7 for the scene where Carlos (Raul Julia} is shot in the side of the face.
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) ^note  A man is repeatedly shot in slow motion with graphic and large blood sprays. A man is graphically shot in the shoulder, accompanied by a large blood spray. A nightmare sequence in which a nuclear weapon detonates near a playground: Women and children burn alive until their carbonised bodies are disintigrated by the blast wave; One woman is shown screaming as her flesh is graphically ripped off her bones, leaving behind a skeleton. A terminator graphically cuts its forearm and rips the skin off, revealing the metal skeleton underneath.
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) ^note  A terminator graphically impales a man with its arm: A lot of blood and some gore briefly sprays out of the wound (borderline 8). A man is shot three times, accompanied by CGI blood sprays.
• Terminator Salvation (2009) ^note  A cyborg is injured in an explosion; some of his human insides are graphically seen afterwards. A cyborg graphically tears a control chip from the back of his head, causing blood to drip out of the wound.
• There Will Be Blood (2007) ^note  Head bashed to death with a pretty large blood pool. Brutal blood spurt when head is hit by falling debris.
• They Live! (1988) ^note  Moderately bloody shootings.
• Thor: The Dark World (2013) ^note  A man's hand is very graphically severed. This turns out to be an illusion, though. A soft 7.
• Thor: Ragnarok (2017) ^note  It ranks this high for the scene where Hela manages to very graphically and bloodily cut off Thor's eye, with the aftermath clearly shown and lots of surprisingly detailed blood and gore. Otherwise level 4 for fairly standard superhero violence.
• Time After Time (1979) ^note  A room where someone was murdered is shown with blood splattered all over the walls and a severed hand on the ground. Otherwise peaks at 5 or 6.
• Time Cop (1994) ^note  The most graphic this film gets is a character turning into a somewhat gory CGI blob.
• The Time Machine (1960) ^note  For the Morlock seen rotting away in a surprisingly gruesome fashion, with an eyeball graphically falling out. Otherwise, level 4 for another Morlock spitting up quite a bit of blood.
• The Tin Drum (1979)
• Tombstone (1993) ^note  For some bloody shootings including headshots. Otherwise level 6.
• The Tomorrow War (2021) ^note  Human-eating aliens are destroyed in various ways, like being shot repeatedly, being buzz-sawed, and being melted, often with non-red blood and slime flying about.
• Top Secret! (1984) ^note  A bull forcibly mates with a man disgusied as a cow.
• Train to Busan (2016) ^note  Some bloody, but not gory or very graphic flesh biting. Bloody hit and run by car.
• Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen (2009) ^note  Gets a soft 7 for a very brief moment in the final battle in which a soldier is decapitated by a transformer: A lot of CG blood is seen, but it's not particularly graphic and it is seen from a moderate distance in the background; easy to miss if you're not looking for it.
• Tremors 2: Aftershocks (1996) ^note  A creature is seen trying to graphically tear a man's leg off, with blood dripping from the wound. A creature is very graphically blown apart by a sniper, splattering red and orange blood and gore around. A pair of severed hands are shown, with the gory stumps visible.
• Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001) ^note  A creature is blown up, resulting in a lot of red gore splattering against a wall. A soft 7.
• Triangle (2009) ^note  A man is fatally accidentally stabbed in the back of the head, with the wound and blood being visible. People are shot and killed multiple times, a part of the ship has numerous dead bodies of the same woman. and A child dies in a car crash.
• Triple Frontier (2019) ^note  A few bloody headshots and CGI spurts place it here.
• True Grit (2010) ^note  A man's fingers are cut off, and his assailant is shot in the face; both are bloody, especially for a PG-13 movie. A battle later in the film ranks at a softer 7, for some brief blood spurts from gunshots.
• True History of the Kelly Gang (2020) ^note  A dead rapist is seen with their own scrotum protruding from their mouth. A corpse's ear is graphically carved off. The final shootout has graphic squibs, but the lighting makes it a little difficult to see. The participants and the floor are covered in blood. Graphic burned corpses out of focus.
• True Lies (1994) ^note  Moderately bloody squibs.
• Truth or Dare (2018) ^note  The unrated version gets here for a self-inflicted eye stabbing that's not very graphic, but after which the pencil is seen in the man's eye with little blood dripping from it. After this, the man kills himself by slamming his head into a wall, forcing the pen deeper (small bloodsplat on wall). The PG-13 version of this scene is level 6. The rest of the unrated is also level 6.
• The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
• The Unborn (2009)
• Uncut Gems (2019) ^note  Compound fracture and a couple of headshots just graphic enough for this level.
• Unfaithful (2002) ^note  For when Paul is very bloodily bludgeoned to death with a snowglobe.
• United 93 (2006) ^note  Bloody stabbing of passenger and beating of hijackers.
• Unleashed (2005) ^note  For when Danny's mother is shot in the head. Otherwise a fairly hard 5.
• The Usual Suspects (1995) ^note  Blood and what looks like brain matter is seen splattered on a wall after a shooting. A man is seen briefly raping a woman in a blurry shot.
• The Valachi Papers (1972) ^note  There is some blood spurting and splashing about. It should also probably be mentioned that there's brutal (although mostly offscreen) castration scene with a fairly bloody aftermath. Borderline 8.
• Valentine (2001) ^note  Victim with neck impaled on glass shard. Bloody but without gory detail. Ax to bare back. Level 6 violence including offscreen throat slashing, a cut on shoulder that bloodies a hot tub (which is then electrocuted), a face scalded with iron, victim shot with multiple arrows.
• The Veil (2017)
• Venom (2018)^note  It's a light 7; for when Riot briefly slashes a merchant's throat (with a large CGI blood spurt), his host's compound fracture, and Eddie getting somewhat bloodily impaled through the chest. There's also the fantastical torture of human lab rats.
• Waar (2013) ^note  Graphic shootings, including a huge massacre of trainees at a boot camp. Would be an 8 if the CG blood looked more realistic.
• War Pigs (2015) ^note  This one might've been rated higher if some of the computer-generated blood spurts looked more realistic.
• The Way of the Gun (2000) ^note  Shot to neck pours blood, arm slashed up by glass shards, bloodless shot to groin, etc.
• Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022) ^note  During a hallucination scene, "Weird Al" Yankovic's face briefly and comedically melts off. There's some other acts of violence that may have been on level 7 if they were not presented as comedically as they are. It's a fairly soft level 7, considering how humorous everything is.
• We're the Millers (2013) ^note  A light 7 for brief close ups of Kenny's badly swollen genitals after being bitten by a tarantula. Otherwise mostly a 1 save for Pablo getting non-lethally shot and Scottie getting punched with a little bit of blood seen.
• Westworld (1973) ^note  It's a pretty mild 7, though. For pouring squibs on mostly android victims.
• The Wicker Man (2006) (2006) ^note  Man's legs broke and face stung by bees before being left to burn to death (not seen). Dead body with eyes sewn shut.
• The Wild Geese (1978)
• The Wolverine (2013) (Extended Cut) ^note  A few instances of men being graphically impaled by metal claws amid CGI blood splatter. A scene in which a couple of men are killed with a snow blower: The deaths are offscreen, but an extreme amount of blood sprays out. The theatrical version is a 6.
• The Woman King (2022) ^note  A man’s neck is snapped in half. A woman’s arm is broken and the bone is painfully shifted back into place, shown in some detail (the bone moving under the skin). A few severed heads. Onscreen flashbacks to a mass rape (not graphic and mostly conveyed by pained facial expressions). Lots of throat slittings, stabbings, and bullet impacts with some moderate blood spurts. Overall, a fairly hard 7, and surprisingly brutal for a PG-13-rated film.
• World War Z (2013) (Theatrical cut) ^note  It's a light 7 for a couple of slightly bloody headshots. The Unrated version is an 8.
• Would You Rather (2012) ^note  A disturbing sequence in which a man is whipped by four people, each striking three times (the last one striking him while he's unconscious): Most of the strikes are offscreen and onscreen ones are not particularly graphic, but we do see large bloody lacerations on his clothed back. A quarter stick is taped to a man's hand: It explodes offscreen, but blood is seen splattering and we see his mangled hand afterwards. A man slices his own eyeball open offscreen: The eye is seen closed later with a minimal amount of blood.
• The Wrestler (2008) ^note  For Randy's fight with Necro; involving staples, shattered glass, and barbed wire, lots of blood, and close-ups of wounds; including the aftermath where both get patched up/have staples removed.
• X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963) ^note  Lots of horror images related to eyes: a severed eyeball is seen in a jar, a man removes his eyes, with aftermath seen, and a man's eyes get progressively more hideous looking. A man can see through people; including broken bones and organs.
• X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) ^note  Two men are graphically killed by being reduced to gory skeletons via super powers; brief, but would be an 8 if it weren't for the fantasy context.
• X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014) ^note  A man is shot in the neck: Shown very graphically in slow motion as the bullet goes through the side of his neck, accompanied by CG blood spray. A woman has a bullet graphically extracted from a bullet wound in her leg via telekinetic powers, resulting in CG blood spray. A couple of graphic CG blood sprays as a super-powered man is shot; however the wounds heal quickly afterwards. A soft 7.
• X-Men: The Last Stand (2006) ^note  Borderline 6/7 for a scene in which Jean telekinetically shreds skin off of Wolverine's chest, briefly exposing his adamantium ribcage (graphic), although him being Wolverine, this injury is quickly healed.
• Yoga Hosers (2016)
• Yojimbo (1961) ^note  The most violent this film gets is a dismemberment with blood spray, but it's too brief to get an 8.
• Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) ^note  A man is graphically sliced in half horizontally underwater, a large cloud of blood is seen. Graphic decapitations and dismemberments of humanoid alien creatures, at times accompanied by large red blood splatters.

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