Bring Her Back: parents' guide

Gory and disturbing: a boy bites a knife until his gums are sliced and teeth break, tears flesh from his own arm, and gnaws on a frozen corpse. Ritual videotapes show a hanging. Drownings, a car slamming into two people, and a crushed body.

Frequent f-words: Plugged In counted about 20 and Movieguide about 35. Common Sense also notes "shit," "piss" and "bloody hell," and there is a misuse of Jesus' name.

No sex, but the father's dead body is shown fully naked, genitals included, and the image recurs in flashbacks. The foster mother makes the teen kiss his dead father at an open-casket funeral. A young boy is often kept nearly naked.

In a long party scene, the foster mother pours shots for the teen siblings until all three are very drunk and one passes out. She also secretly drugs the son's food to keep him asleep at night.

Sustained horror with a creepy, silent boy, nightmares, demonic resurrection rituals on grainy tape, and cannibalistic acts. The grief over a dead parent and a dead child, and an adult's calculated cruelty, may hit harder than the supernatural scares.