The Host: parents' guide

The creature tramples, swallows and flings people in a long daylight attack; body parts hang from its mouth and it vomits bones. The family fights back with guns, flaming arrows and Molotov cocktails, protesters clash with riot police, and a brief surgery scene shows drilling.

Subtitled swearing is frequent. Plugged In tallied about a dozen f-words among roughly 36 profanities (Movieguide's count was lower), plus several s-words, 'goddamn,' 'bastard,' 'bitch' and misuses of Jesus' name. Family members trade insults constantly.

No sexual content or nudity. The only references are a remark about the girl's mother running off after giving birth and a brief shot of schoolgirls' legs under a table.

The grandfather smokes, a father hands his young daughter a beer, and an uncle reportedly turned up drunk at a school and carries a whiskey bottle to a memorial. A homeless man drinks soju, and doctors sedate a character.

Long stretches of dread as a girl is held in a dark sewer lair full of corpses, and families wail at a crowded memorial. An early scene shows a man leaping from a bridge to his death. Two children die, and one death is shown and mourned.