Why is “The Home” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “strong bloody violence and gore, language and some sexual content.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a sex scene with nudity and a group sex scene with partial nudity, discussions of sex, people having needles pressed into their eyes, nightmare sequences with people ripping off their own flesh, a man killing several people with an ax and a hammer, many scenes of people being maltreated and experimented on in a nursing home setting, discussions of suicide, aging and death, many arguments and at least 32 F-words and other strong language. Read our parents’ guide below for details on sexual content, violence & strong language.

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When a man (Pete Davidson) is assigned community service time at a remote retirement home, he has no idea what he will have to face to survive. Also with John Glover, Victor Williams, Ethan Phillips, Bruce Altman, Marilee Talkington and Matthew Miniero. Directed by James DeMonaco. [Running Time: 1:37]

The Home SEX/NUDITY 6

 – A man hears moaning coming from behind a door and he goes inside to find a man and a woman wearing masks and having sex (we see thrusting and bare shoulders and the man’s chest and abdomen). People chant and writhe in a room and begin to undress and have sex (we see bare breasts, abdomens, as people kiss and caress each other) and several people mimic suckling from a breast.
► A man enters another man’s room and finds him covered with blood (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details) he falls to his knees and we see that he is fully nude (his bare chest, abdomen, and genitals in shadow are seen). A man engages in a video chat with a woman dressed in beads and wearing a mask with distorted facial features (we see the woman’s breasts and nipples through the beads and her bare abdomen and legs to the hips).
► A man and a woman dance in a party room.
► People talk about having sex all the time.
► People wear swimsuits in and around a swimming pool in a couple of scenes and we see men’s bare chests and abdomens, and women’s cleavage and bare legs to the hips. A man is shirtless in a few scenes and we see his heavily tattooed chest, abdomen, shoulders and back. A man sits on the floor wearing underwear and an open robe (we see his bare chest, abdomen and legs).

The Home VIOLENCE/GORE 9

 – A woman falls from a roof and lands on a spiked fence (we see spikes through her body as she twitches and blood oozes from the wounds and we see her face torn apart and an eye and bloody tongue are exposed); we are told that the woman left a note about joining her deceased son. A man’s eye is held wide open with a metal device as another man talks about draining nectar from his eye; we see a needle being pressed into the man’s eye in close-up. A man removes a spoke from his wheelchair and uses it to drain fluid from several other people’s eyes (we see the spoke being pushed into the eyes in close-up and the liquid being collected in a glass; the liquid is then given to a man to drink. A man stabs a woman in the neck repeatedly as blood sprays on him and the glass door behind her; the man arms himself with a hammer and an axe and attacks numerous other people, hacking and pounding them (we see bloody gashes in the heads and throats, a person is slashed across the abdomen and intestines pour out, and one man’s hand is snapped at the wrist exposing the bone and blood); he throws an axe at a person hitting him in the head, pulls the axe with a crunch (we see the bloody head wound) and hits another man with it repeatedly as blood sprays and gushes; a man holds a gun on the attacker and shoots repeatedly hitting another man he is using as a shield, and then a hurricane blows through the area and throws the roof off a building, hitting a man and a woman running away.
► A man enters another man’s room and finds him with bloody wounds and blood dripping from his mouth (it is implied that he has pulled teeth out); he falls to his knees (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details), hands the other man one of his bloody teeth and yells. A man bites his own finger and uses the blood to scrawl on a window. A man hits another man, falls back hitting his head against a piece of furniture and is knocked unconscious (we see blood on his head); he seemingly wakes up as a doctor puts a pair of pliers in his mouth and pulls out a tooth. A man is injected in the neck with a sedative and falls unconscious; he wakes up shackled into a chair and he yells at people standing around him that talk about draining him of his essence.
► A man has nightmares that wake him with a start; he hears someone calling his name and wakes up to hear loud moaning coming through a ceiling vent, he imagines a woman wearing a mask climbing in bed with him while he is sleeping and stabs him in the abdomen with a long knife (we see blood) while a man wearing a mask stands over him and strangles him and he screams and wakes up. A man dreams that he goes to a room that is off limits and he is attacked by a man standing in a corner and other people in the room are shown with gaping wounds where intestines and blood leach out, and a man sees people pulling the skin off their faces (revealing muscle and blood underneath).
► A man follows people into a basement room where a man with a dog stands outside the door; we hear a woman screaming in pain, men telling her to be quiet and the sounds of drills or saws until the man runs away when he is seen. A man picks a lock on a door that takes him to a floor that he is told never to go to; he enters a room where he finds several people in wheelchairs, all with blood dripping from their eyes, saliva oozing from their mouths and decaying flesh and nails; one man falls to his knees, pulls himself toward the man, lunges at him and they struggle briefly before other people enter the room and intervene. A man crosses a police crime scene tape to look inside a dead woman’s room.
► A man tells his young son that the boy’s brother is “gone” and that he left a note and the child cries. A woman says that she had an argument with her son before he died and she feels guilty for that. A man talks about his father dying alone and that he feels guilty for not being there. A man talks about elderly people dying from boredom. A woman tells a man that there is something wrong with the place where they are living. A man says that he sleeps like death. A man reads about an experimental brain procedure. A woman tells a man, “They’ll kill you too.” A man tells another man, “I fear I am about to disappear.”
► A man climbs out a window and runs away from a place where he has been working and experiencing unusual things. A man is given a black light that illuminates a warning painted on his wall. A man tugs on a cleaning cart inside a closet and a dummy sits up from through clothing startling him (we see the dummy with exposed muscle and tissue) and the man pulls one of its eyes out (we see something sticky on it). People pound on a man’s door to wake him and tell him that he has to clean up a mess of excrement painted on a wall (they reveal that they are joking later). We hear several news reports about a hurricane bearing down on land. A man paints graffiti that reads “Our Future is Burning” on a wall and is arrested; we see him in a cell later. “Rise or Die” is painted on an apartment wall.
► A woman’s head bleeds from under her hair while she is in a swimming pool and drips down her face and into pool water spreading in the water and others move quickly to get out of the water; one person remarks about the woman having had a procedure. A woman pokes herself in the hand with a knitting needle and we see blood. A man goes to a dark basement incinerator room where we see rats skittering and eating from the remains of a dead rat with blood and bones exposed. A man finds a secret room with a shrine to a goddess of youth and a collection of objects and photos.
► A man in a jail cell pounds on a glass divider and spits blood on it (we see the blood). A man wakes up and coughs deeply before lighting a cigarette.

The Home LANGUAGE 8

 – About 32 F-words (and its derivatives), 8 scatological terms, 3 anatomical terms, 1 mild obscenity, name-calling (old folks home, reckless ways, awful, loopy, sick, animals, outlandish, bogeyman), exclamations (shut-up), 1 religious profanity (GD), 8 religious exclamations (e.g. good God, for God’s sake, Jesus Christ, oh my God, thank God). | profanity glossary |

The Home SUBSTANCE USE

 – Drug paraphernalia is shown on a table in an apartment. A man smokes cigarettes in a few scenes. People toast with champagne and drink. A man drinks an energy drink.

The Home DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Foster families, death of loved ones, suicide, aging with dignity, disappointment, youth, community service, fountain of youth, following rules, wisdom, murder, experimentation, climate change.

The Home MESSAGE

 – Seeking never-ending youth can drive people to do unthinkable things.