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Psycho III (1986)

Parents guide

Psycho III

Content rating

  • Sex & Nudity:
    Moderate
  • Violence & Gore:
    Severe
  • Profanity:
    Mild
  • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking:
    Mild
  • Frightening & Intense Scenes:
    Moderate

Sex & Nudity

Moderate
21 of 45 found this moderate
There's porn naked (poster size) photos on wall. This scene leads up to two people gonna have sex.
A man and woman kiss and end up on a motel bed. He is on top of her, they continue to kiss, fully dressed and they stop. She says let's continue to hold each other. She kind of makes a sound and nothing else happens.
Norman sees a naked woman poster. It shows for 11 seconds.
There naked photos on a motel room wall, showing at a distance, so not so visible where you can make out clearly, for about 11 seconds, in the background.
More porn photos of women (one visible woman is topless). Shown for about 2 seconds.
A man starts acting perverse and attempts to molest a woman while she is sleeping.
A man spies on a woman undressing through a peephole, her backside butt is shown.
A man and a woman are about to have sex, bare breasts and butt are shown. We see the woman nude after they have sex.
A woman takes off her shirt because it is inside out. Bare breasts are shown.
There's a painting on the wall of a naked (full frontal) woman.

Violence & Gore

Severe
20 of 25 found this severe
A suicidal woman shoves her nun's hand away, causing her to fall off the side of a bell tower and falls all the way down. The thud is heard, and the body is shown, but no blood.
Dead birds are stuffed with sawdust. this is called Taxidermy
A flashback of a dead woman's arm is seen being sewn up.
A woman is forcibly pushed out of a motel room.
A woman is stabbed to death repeatedly while in a phone booth.
We see a woman who has slit her wrists in a bathtub. (The water is red and we see blood pouring from her wounds.)
A woman has her throat slit open and is stabbed through the stomach.
We see a dead body in an ice machine with patches of red ice around it.
A man tries to choke another with a wire.
A man beats another man with a guitar several times.

Profanity

Mild
14 of 22 found this mild
Several uses of "shit". A woman gives a man the middle finger. "Whore" is used quite a few times.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Mild
15 of 18 found this mild
Adults smoke and drink alcohol in some scenes throughout.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Moderate
10 of 22 found this moderate
The film has a dark and unsettling tone to it. The murder scenes can be intense and graphic. A couple are repeated in flashback.

Certifications

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  • Argentina
    • 18
  • Australia
    • Roriginal rating
    • MA1995, re-rating
  • Brazil
    • 14video rating
  • Canada
    • 14AManitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario
    • Roriginal rating, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Ontario
    • 18+original rating, Quebec
    • 13+2005, re-rating, Quebec
  • Finland
    • K-161988, cut
    • K-181986, uncut
  • France
    • 16
  • Germany
    • 162007, uncut
  • Iceland
    • 16
  • India
    • A
  • Italy
    • VM18
  • Netherlands
    • 16
  • New Zealand
    • R16
  • Nigeria
    • 15
  • Norway
    • 15DVD rating
    • 161986
  • Philippines
    • R-18
  • Portugal
    • M/16
  • Saudi Arabia
    • R15
  • Singapore
    • PGcut
    • M18digital streaming
  • Spain
    • 18
  • Sweden
    • 15
  • United Kingdom
    • 18
    • 152003, re-rating
  • United States
    • TV-14TV rating
    • Rcertificate #28111
  • United Arab Emirates
    • Not Rated
  • West Germany
    • 16theatrical and VHS version, cut

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