8 Million Ways to Die (1986) Poster

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Sex & Nudity

  • A woman is in a bathroom doorway naked. Nipples and Bush shown.
  • It is implied that 2 characters are prostitutes. One tries to seduce Scudder, but he refuses. In the same scene, she is shown fully nude from the front, with breasts and pubic hair fully visible.
  • A woman is shown topless from the side and behind, but no unmentionables visible.

Violence & Gore

  • A woman is killed by having her jugular slit in the back of a van, blood splatters on the back window. She is found dead afterwards in a river.
  • At the film's climax, 2 men are killed, the first one bloodlessly, but the second is shot in the neck, and then in the forehead, with his eyes turning red and blood dripping out of his mouth.

Profanity

  • 100+ uses of F*ck, 1 use of C*nt, several uses of Sh*t.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The film concerns an alcoholic sheriff's deputy uncovering a drug ring.
  • The main character, Scudder, is shown drinking liquor from a concealed flask during a bust.
  • Characters are shown snorting cocaine, sometimes graphically.
  • Scudder wakes up in a drunken ward suffering from alcohol withdrawl. He walks with a limp, and is shown foaming at the mouth.
  • In the later half of the movie, Scudder and an acquaintance discover fake wooden logs filled with cocaine in the back section of a market store.
  • During a drug deal, Scudder sets fire to a kingpin's pile of cocaine, and remarks that he's getting high off the fumes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

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Violence & Gore

  • In the beginning of the film, a man is about to be arrested by sheriff's deputies when he hits one of them with a baseball bat, forcing one of the deputies to shoot him in the chest, killing him.
  • Near the end of the film, a violent shootout ensues during a drug deal. Two men are killed, one of them is shown flinching on the ground as a result of his nerves still being active.

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