Resident Evil (2026): parents' guide
Best for ages 17 and up. Rated R for strong bloody violence, gore and language throughout.
An extremely gory survival-horror reboot for adults and older teens with strong stomachs. A medical courier tries to survive one night as an outbreak turns people and animals into monsters. Expect relentless body horror, including corpses fused together, heads bursting, a woman torn in half, a mutated little girl and a deformed newborn. The hero shoots infected attackers in the head, a young girl and a dog among them. Jump scares are constant and profanity is nonstop, with over 100 f-words in two separate counts. There is no sex or drug use, but the gore and terror make this a pick for 17 and up.
What's in it
Violence
StrongRelentless graphic gore: heads rupture, limbs are hacked off, a woman's halved body shows entrails, infected rats spill from a man's burst belly, and infected people explode on impact. The hero shoots infected attackers in the head, a young girl and a dog among them.
Language
StrongNonstop profanity: 112 f-words in one count and more than 125 in another, a handful of 'motherf' variations, about 30 s-words, frequent misuse of God's and Jesus' names, and other crude words and insults.
Sex and nudity
MildNo sexual content. A couple discusses an unplanned pregnancy, the hero is briefly shirtless, and a naked, grotesquely mutated infected person appears with private parts obscured.
Drinking, drugs and smoking
NoneReviewers report no drinking, smoking or drug use.
Scary or intense scenes
StrongSustained terror and disturbing imagery: monsters leap from rooftops and splatter on the street, tendrils snatch people, a man mutates into a creature with a mouth in his belly, and a little girl and a newborn are shown horribly mutated.
Sensitive topics
- Death of a child
- Animal death
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Checked October 13th, 2026 against Common Sense Media, Plugged In, movieguide.org, the MPA, Wikipedia. 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.