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Movie · Horror, Comedy · 2009 · PG-13

Drag Me to Hell: parents' guide

13+our pick

Best for ages 13 and up. Rated PG-13 for sequences of horror violence, terror, disturbing images and language.

A gross-out horror ride for teens who like their scares with a wink: a bank loan officer refuses an old woman an extension and is cursed by a demon that will drag her soul to hell in three days. It's PG-13 but intense, with constant jump scares, a ghost who bites and chokes, maggots and fluids spewed onto faces, and the heroine sacrificing her pet kitten, which is killed offscreen but heard. The opening shows a boy pulled into a fiery pit, and the ending is bleak. Swearing is mostly mild apart from two s-words and one barely audible f-word. The relentless terror makes it a 13.

What's in it

Violence

Moderate

A ghostly old woman bites, chokes and pummels the heroine, who fights back with a stapler and a ruler; an anvil dropped on the ghost pops her eyes out, a demon hurls people into walls, and blood gushes from a nose. More cartoonish than gory.

Language

Moderate

Plugged In counted two s-words, and Common Sense notes one barely audible f-word. Otherwise frequent hell, plus damn, ass, bitch, pissed, whore and about 15 misuses of God's name.

Sex and nudity

Mild

Kissing, a couple waking up fully clothed in the same bed, some cleavage and a wet T-shirt, and old book illustrations showing nude women. No sex scenes.

Drinking, drugs and smoking

Mild

Adults drink wine at a family dinner, and two characters mention growing up with alcoholic parents. No drunkenness, smoking or drug use.

Scary or intense scenes

Strong

Relentless jump scares and gross-out moments: a fly crawls into a sleeping woman's mouth, a shadowy goat-headed demon attacks, a séance turns violent, and a child is dragged into hell in the opening scene.

Sensitive topics

  • Animal death
  • Death of a child

Worth talking about

Christine denies the loan partly to impress her boss. Does her punishment fit what she did, and what do you make of the film turning a Romani woman into its villain?

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Checked October 13th, 2026 against Common Sense Media, Plugged In, the MPA, movieguide.org, bbfc.co.uk. The age is our judgment, not an official rating, and every family draws its lines differently: read the notes, not just the number. Spotted something we missed? Tell us. How we rate.