Parents Guide for
Hardware (1990)

Moses (Dylan McDermott) and Jill (Stacey Travis) are seen taking a shower together, both are seen topless.

Moses and Jill are seen having sex together with Jill on top, she is seen on top. Later on Jill is seen naked through an infra red telescope, although naked her image is digitized and coloured blobs.

A butcher is seen hacking away at a joint of meat, various other bits of meat are seen hanging around him.

Jill (Stacey Travis) turns the TV on and flicks through several channels which breif shots are shown from including a man being shot in a very grainy black and white image, a man whipped in what looks like an S&M scene, there is an incredibly breif shot from a slaughterhouse and a shot of a man hung upside down by his feet and his head submerged in a large tub of water.

A robotic hand stabs Alvy (Mark Northover) in the neck with a couple of syringes protruding from the tips of it's fingers. His dead body is seen later with a few blood splats on his face.

The M.A.R.K. 13 robot inserts it's fingers into a man's eye's and gouges them, there is a shot of the robots fingers inserted into his eye sockets. The M.A.R.K. 13 then bores a drill through his stomach which exits out of his back, there is a side shot of the robot holding the man and the drill entering and exiting his back with a lot of blood spray, there are also other minor shots of blood splattering on nearby objects. The man is dropped to the ground and there is a close-up of his face with bloody wounds where his eye's were and a blood stained face.

Jill is knocked backwards.

Moses cuts his own arm with a large army kinife, the first cut is seen from a distance while the next cut seen is a close-up and the knife cuts deeper. His arm is also seen later on with extensive cuts and covered in insects like cockroaches and worms.

Jill hits a man around the face with a baseball bat.

A man is cut in half by a mechanical door, the upper half of his severed torso is seen. While he is dying he shoots someone else in the forehead, blood splatter and the bullet wound are seen.

The dead man is then dragged across the floor by the M.A.R.K. 13 and goes on to cut him in half with a chainsaw, there is a close-up shot of the two halves of his body seperating.

Jill is thrown through a glass shower door, she is seen bloodied and there is a close-up of her feet and lower legs that have been cut by glass.

The final shots of the film are of a blood stained shower cubical floor.

Frequent use of strong profanity and bad language.

Jill is seen smoking what looks like cigarettes, it is established later on though that it is cannabis.

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