Violent Night: parents' guide

Constant and graphic: people are shot, stabbed and impaled with ornaments and ice skates, fed into a woodchipper, crushed with a sledgehammer, beheaded and torn in two, with blood spray and gory remains. Santa stitches up his own bloody wound.

Around 50 f-words and more than 25 s-words, plus "motherf---er," "c--ksucker," "bitch," "whore" and "asshole," with God's and Jesus' names misused several times.

No sex or nudity. A married couple kisses, there are a handful of crude references to genitals and sex, and a man is stripped to his boxer shorts during a torture scene.

Santa drinks heavily, beer in a pub and in his sleigh and brandy with the cookies, gets very drunk and vomits on someone. Other adults drink wine, vodka and cocktails with no consequences.

A family, including a young girl, is held at gunpoint for most of the film, with guns and knives pressed on hostages. The comic tone softens the threat, but the gory sights can disturb.