Parents Guide for
V for Vendetta (2005) More at IMDbPro »

Sex & Nudity: 4/10

-There are a few brief shots of showgirls who are wearing thongs, parts of the buttocks are shown.

-A group of men attack a woman, and its implied that they plan to rape her.

-Two women share a passionate kiss, shortly thereafter two men are shown, asleep, lying next to each other in bed, nothing sexual is happening, however it's implied that they're same-sex partners.

-A woman looks at pictures hanging on the wall that show homosexual sexual acts, we see a close ups of a man's buttocks with a hand covering it, close ups of what appears to be sexual acts between men (they are shown very briefly, and you don't get to really see them as they are off in the background).

-A Bishop is a pedophile who loves to "play games" with children, in a scene he's forcing himself on top of a woman, but he's interrupted.

-A ditch full of naked dead bodies, mostly blurred nudity, we see two people throw a corpse; we see it's buttocks from a distance.

Violence & Gore: 8/10.

-A man is hanged at the beginning of the movie, and shown as he dies.

-A scene where a woman is about to be beaten and raped, but then the attackers are stopped, the two men then get beaten with punches, kicks and throws while he's holding a knife.

-Several fights that result in people being slashed or impaled by knives, blood is shown in low quantities.

-A man injected poison into a woman, we see her dead.

-In a flashback a man is burning alive, but somehow survives

-A man is shot in the chest repeatedly, gets up, blood is somewhat visible, then proceeds to eliminate the gunmen by throwing razor-blade knives at them with blood spurting with every slash (however no dismemberment)

-In one scene, a pile of dead beaten naked bodies is shown.

-Several times characters are shot in the upper body and head point-blank execution style, including a young girl is shot several times, and later shown dead, face down lying in a pool of her blood.

-A woman is forced into a chair and forcibly held down, and someone shaves her head, she's tortured with steam and water drowning, she is not killed.

-A man is brutally beaten with a baseball-bat-type weapon, then his bloody face is shown. then they shove his head in a suffocation bag.

-Several scenes of milder violence.

Profanity: 5/10.

2 F-Words, 1 Use of C-word.

Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: 2/10

A man injects others with a poison to kill them. (off screen)

the two detectives smoke cigarettes

a man is shown opening a cabinet door and there are legal and non-legal drugs in his cabinet.

a woman has a drink or two with a male friend.

a man is shown smoking a pipe.

a man is shown smoking a cigar.

All of these do not direct attention to themselves, they are just a factor in the scene which they occur, and are not depicted graphically.

Frightening/Intense Scenes: 5/10

the first two scenes of the movie involve a man getting hung (he dies onscreen) and a girl who is almost raped, but is rescued.

a woman is shown crying and yelling in severe emotional pain after living in a jail cell for a long time, then passes out due to the stress.

a scene with a man burning alive, screaming in pain (shown from a distance).

not as graphic as other R-rated movies, such as watchmen.