The Shining: parents' guide

An axe to the chest kills a man. A father stalks his wife and son with an axe and hacks through a door; she fights back with a bat and knife. Murdered girls flash by in a bloody hallway, and a past murder-suicide is described.

Not constant, but there are f-words, some shouted angrily at his wife, plus 'goddamn,' 'bitch,' 'son of a bitch' and 'a--hole.' A ghost uses a racial slur about the hotel's Black cook.

A young woman steps out of a bathtub fully nude and kisses the father before turning into a naked, rotting old woman. Bare bottoms are seen twice, a brief bizarre image implies a sex act, and nude paintings hang in the cook's apartment.

The father is a recovering alcoholic who drinks at a ghostly bar; his past drinking is tied to an injury to his son. Adults smoke cigarettes and cigars.

Creeping, sustained dread with sudden shocks: ghostly twin girls, an elevator gushing blood, a decaying woman, and a small boy hiding from his own father. The isolation and slow breakdown are deeply disturbing.