Verity: parents' guide

A cyclist is killed by a car early on, spattering a bystander with gore. A mother presses a pillow to her baby's face and tips a canoe to drown her children, a boy gashes his mouth on a knife, and a woman is strangled and smothered.

Frequent f-words (Plugged In counted about 10 spoken, plus about 5 more written in the manuscript), one c-word, and regular s-words, along with ass, hell, damn, and God's name used as an exclamation.

Several sex scenes of varying length, mostly semi-clothed, show bare breasts and buttocks. A woman masturbates in a bathtub with her breasts visible, an affair drives the plot, and a manuscript describes sex, including oral sex, in graphic detail.

Adults often drink wine, champagne, cocktails and hard liquor. The lead regularly takes a dead parent's prescription Xanax and vapes throughout. Someone is drugged before being harmed, and one man appears to smoke a cigarette or a joint.

Sustained psychological dread in an isolated house, a seemingly catatonic woman who may be faking, and a manuscript describing a mother's urge to harm her babies. A woman vomits after reading about a child's death.