The Night House: parents' guide

Brief but harsh: a man grabs a woman by the throat and smashes her head into a mirror, a woman is strangled in bed and thrown down stairs, and bloody crime scenes and plastic-wrapped corpses are shown. A gunshot suicide is discussed.

Frequent strong language: Movieguide counted 19 obscenities, mostly f-words, including motherf-----, plus shit, bulls---, a--hole and Jesus Christ as an exclamation.

A man's bare buttocks are seen from behind. Passionate kissing with some undressing, sexual dialogue, talk of a husband's possible affairs and secret photos of women, and a man pinning a woman to a bed by the neck, with no rape implied.

The grieving heroine gets drunk at a bar and needs a ride home, then drinks wine and whiskey heavily at home. No drug use.

Persistent dread for a woman alone at night: noises in the house, a shadowy presence that seems to be her late husband, an eerie sculpture of a woman pierced by spikes, and jump scares. In the climax she is nearly persuaded to end her life.