GORE IN HIS BLOCKBUSTER TRILOGY

IN TAKEN, Neeson plays a retired CIA operative who travels across Europe to rescue his daughter after she’s kidnapped in Paris by sex-traffickers.

In the two sequels, he fights off further threats to himself and his family, killing between 60-80 people along the way.

Murders are carried out in various horrific ways, such as a man’s neck being smashed against a pipe (with the sound of his bones snapping), a skull hit with a fire extinguisher, a man placed in a choke-hold and having his neck snapped, and a blade stuck into a victim’s chest and the hilt kicked so it drives into his heart.

Neeson straps a man into a chair and stabs a nail into each of his thighs, then straps electrical cables to the nails and tortures the victim for information.

The films also graphically depicts rape, kidnapping and young girls being abused.