Movie · Horror · 2023 · R

Evil Dead Rise: parents' guide

17+our pick

Best for ages 17 and up. Rated R for strong bloody horror violence and gore, and some language.

An extremely gory possession horror film for adults, set in a run-down Los Angeles apartment block where a demon takes over a single mother and turns her against her three kids and her visiting sister. Expect floods of blood: an eyeball bitten out, a scalp torn off, glass eaten, shotgun blasts, and a chainsaw and wood chipper in the finale. Children are killed, and so is a parent. Language is infrequent but strong, and there is no sex. The relentless gore and the sight of a mother hunting her own children are why we suggest 17.

What's in it

Violence

Strong

Nonstop graphic gore: an eyeball bitten out and swallowed, a scalp ripped off, a leg blown off by a shotgun, stabbings with glass, scissors and a spike, a beheading, a cheese grater on skin, and an elevator filling with blood.

Language

Moderate

Infrequent but strong: Plugged In counts three f-words, seven s-words and one c-word (Movieguide counts five or six f-words), plus a few uses of a--, b-tch, bastard and slut, much of it spat out by the possessed mother.

Sex and nudity

Mild

No sex scenes or nudity. The Book of the Dead contains sketches of bare breasts, the possessed mother taunts her sister about her love life, and a positive pregnancy test sets up the story.

Drinking, drugs and smoking

Moderate

Brief beer drinking and cigarette smoking, and a character brags about slipping someone an anti-anxiety pill to calm her down. No drunkenness.

Scary or intense scenes

Strong

Intense from start to finish: a possessed parent stalking her children, jump scares, vomited maggots, demonic voices, a building cut off by an earthquake, and kids in mortal danger throughout. Children die on screen.

Sensitive topics

  • Death of a parent
  • Death of a child
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Checked October 13th, 2026 against Common Sense Media, Plugged In, Wikipedia, the MPA, movieguide.org. 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.