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Certification

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MPAA Rated PG-13 for disturbing images, sequences of terror, thematic elements and language including some crude sexual references
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • 2 teenagers make out/kiss each other for 10 or so seconds before being interrupted. A few minutes later they go to make out again but get interrupted before making contact. Nothing further happens.
  • It's implied that 4 girls watched porn over at a sleepover. We never see or hear this, only implied.
  • Mention of a "circle jerk" jokingly to a group of guys

Violence & Gore

  • Strong violence.

Profanity

  • 1 use of "Jesus
  • At least 5 uses of hell and which 1 use of hell appears on a text on a phone screen.
  • 2 uses of the middle finger 2 uses of the F-word

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • 4 girls drink a bunch of vodka once there at a sleepover
  • Katie's father is an alcoholic and is almost always drunk on screen. This causes Katie great stress.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The movie is chalked full of jumpscares. Will definitely scare easily scared viewers.
  • Slender Man may be frightening for some viewers
  • A girl while in her room receives a email on her phone that is revealed to be a recording of someone outside her house moving towards it in a first person perspective, she moves towards her door even as the mysterious figure slowly moves into her house and up the stairs towards her. A truly frightening scene that people who have experienced actual stalking will likely feel deeply disturbed by.
  • Slender Man sounds like a cicada when he apears. Like the Jaws theme when the shark apears, Slender has his own song.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Violence & Gore

  • In biology class, a girl stabs a eye, though nothing happens except juices come out. It may be frightening for younger watchers.
  • All of the main characters die.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • All of the girls that go into the woods to summon slenderman die. Note: None of the deaths are graphic because the movie was cut down.
  • The movie really plays up the potential horror of both the internet and pop culture as nearly all these incidents would be dismissed as a joke or at least insane if real which the movie acknowledges. A character becomes a crazed board line cult member by simply entering a chat room and listening to just one person in their paranoia and desperation. A scene with a phone video is very similar to something a stalker would actually do and with social media likely could do.
  • There is a scene in which Hallie (one of the main characters) has a hallucination while at a hospital checking on a girl named Lizzie (her sister; which has been traumatized by Slender Man after presumably watching the video) which shows a few scary visuals. Tentacles popping out of eyes and mouth of a disfigured Hallie, images of trees, and then finally Slenderman outstreching his hand and gliding towards one of the girls (Not graphic, just scary.)
  • There is a scene at a library where Slender Man starts chasing Wren; one of the protagonists in the movie. The creature then attacks her, making her face disappear (she then wakes up for it to be a horrifying daydream). Possibly one of the best scenes in the movie.

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