Unlike the MPAA we do not assign
one
inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE
and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest,
depending on quantity and context.
After a mother and son discover their neighbor's corpse, a
poltergeist shows up and attempts to destroy their lives. With Ally Sheedy, Costas
Mandylor and Vincent Hanlon. [1:31]
SEX/NUDITY 1 - In one scene, a man in a robe and a fully clothed woman kiss.
A woman wears some cleavage-revealing tops.
VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - A man falls through a glass door and dies (we see his
bloody body lying on the ground). A woman falls from a ledge (it's implied that she dies)
and a woman is hit by an electrical bolt (we see a small bloody circle on her forehead as
she falls to the ground). A man clutches his chest and apparently has a heart attack. It's
implied that a dog has eaten part of a corpse (we only see some blood on the corpse's
shirtsleeve). Several scenes of paranormal activity and property damage: books fly off
shelves (one hits a boy in the head), a basketball bounces around a room and destroys most
of its contents, papers ignite, knives fly through the air and nearly hit a woman's head
and a refrigerator pushes a woman against a wall (we later see her with a bruised face). A
woman is nearly smashed in a door that repeatedly opens and closes. We see a dog barking
and growling at people a few times throughout the movie; and a dog chases after two boys
and nearly attacks one of them. Lightening strikes a house; we see lots of sparks and part
of the roof caves in, nearly hitting people. A man loses control of his car and flips it;
we later see him lying in a hospital bed with bloody cuts on his face and bandages on his
arms.
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