A very young Helen Hunt plays the lead character, Lena. She is putting on skin-tight clothes in the beginning of the movie, showing her back, but nothing else. Some talk about making love in the same scene.

Jack picks up Lena and you see her legs and thighs when he sets her into the convertible Thunderbird.

Lena and Jack begin to kiss, on his bed off-and-on, but there is no nudity or sex shown. Later, you see Jack and Lena in bed together, sex is implied.

Towards the end, there's some insinuation about one character showering together with Lena.

shootings include small doses of blood (squibs leave holes with blood in people when shot)

The first Trancer gets shot by Jack Deth in the opening scene in a diner, where the alien is vaporized by their energy weapon. Various other people get "vaporized" by energy weapons throughout the movie.

Jack Deth beats up the mall "Santa Claus" who is really a Trancer who traveled back in time to 1985. The Trancer shoots the main character using a security guards' gun, and Jack Deth shoots him back. A boy yells, "That man just shot Santa Claus!"

Lena shoots a Trancer cop in an abandoned building.

Main reason for the rating.

4 uses of f**k.

Multiple uses of s**t, bi**h, bit**in, d**n, G*d d***it, a**, "kick your a**", "don't piss me off", pissed, I'll see you in h**l, h**l, what the h**l.

A punk band is singing in a club and the lyrics are questionable.

It should be noted that the actor playing the character Hap Ashby was actually intoxicated while filming much of his scenes and the effects show on screen, including his genuine reactions to be led through the streets by jack and forced into a cold-shower.

Jack Deth is smoking and drinking throughout the movie.

Vagrants are in an abandoned building playing stick-ball / baseball with empty liquor bottles, are shown drinking from liquor bottles and appear drunk.

Multiple "zombie"-type scenes of Trancers, who appear to have blackened eyes and blotchy skin, and who bite humans.