Crimson Peak: parents' guide

Graphic and bloody: a man's head is smashed repeatedly into a sink until his face caves in, people are stabbed in the chest, face and side with spurting blood, a cheek is slashed in a knife fight, and a skull is crushed with a shovel.

One f-word and an s-word, plus mild British terms such as "bloody." Otherwise the dialogue is formal, in keeping with the period setting.

One sex scene between a married couple: oral sex is implied, then they have sex with movement and part of his bare buttocks shown. A brother and sister are revealed as lovers, half-dressed and groping. A bath scene, a bare-breasted ghost and an erotic drawing are brief.

Guests hold drinks at parties and someone mentions drinking too much. The heroine is slowly poisoned with tea that makes her cough blood, a plot point rather than drug use.

Grotesque, skeletal ghosts in deep red appear with screeching sounds, one with a cleaver lodged in its head, a corpse rises from a pit of red clay, and the house seems to bleed. Jump scares are fewer than in most horror, but the images are disturbing.