Why is “Bring Her Back” rated R? The MPAA rating has been assigned for “strong disturbing bloody violent content, some grisly images, graphic nudity, underage drinking and language.” The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes full non-sexual male nudity, some partial non-sexual nudity, many very grainy images of people seemingly performing a ritual that brings people back from the dead, a boy biting a sharp knife with a lot of blood, a boy biting a woman’s arm, a boy biting his own arm with blood and tissue seen, a person struck by a car and killed, a person being drowned in a puddle, people are seen consuming dead bodies, a person drowning in a swimming pool, a missing child poster is seen, discussions of child abuse, discussions of foster care, many arguments and at least 16 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 teen boy (Billy Barratt) and his stepsister (Sora Wong) are sent to a foster home after their father dies, they begin to suspect that everything is not as it should be, and are not sure that they will survive while trying to get help. Also with Sally Hawkins, Mischa Heywood, Jonah Wren Phillips, Stephen Phillips, Sally-Anne Upton, Kathryn Adams, Brian Godfrey, Brendan Bacon and Olga Miller. Directed by Danny & Michael Philippou. [Running Time: 1:39]

Bring Her Back SEX/NUDITY 6

 – A fully nude man lies dead on a floor (we see his bare chest, abdomen, genitals and legs).
► A teen boy looks at his father’s body in a coffin and a woman tells him that he needs to say goodbye properly; she tells him to kiss him, and he kisses him on the forehead; she then tells him to kiss him on the lips (and she does), but the teen refuses.
► A teen boy sits next to his sister’s bed while she is sleeping and a woman says that that it is kind of creepy.
► A man wearing jockey shorts is seen on a grainy video several times and we see his bare chest, abdomen and legs to the hips. A young boy wears swim trunks that reveal his bare chest, abdomen, back and legs to the knees. A woman bathes a young boy (we see his bare shoulders and chest) and we see a bloody wound on his hand and blood-tinged water. A teen boy showers in a couple of scenes and we see his bare chest, abdomen and back.

Bring Her Back VIOLENCE/GORE 10

 – A teen boy serves a slice of fruit on the end of a kitchen knife to a boy that takes the knife away from the teen and chews on the blade, cutting his gums, lip and teeth (we see a lot of blood); the teen tries to take the boy to the hospital and he screeches, thrashes and whispers, “Help me,” when he crosses a white line outside the house. A young boy covered with blood and with his eyes discolored throws things around a kitchen, and attacks a woman when she comes in: he pulls a handful of hair out of her head and bites her on the arm (we see a large bloody bite mark on her arm), and he then bites pieces off a wooden table (we see his teeth break off and blood dribbles as he chews the splintered wood); he proceeds to bite his own arm and pulls strands of flesh off (we see the flesh pulling off his arm and blood and bone beneath). An outbuilding door is opened and we see a young boy leaning over a dead body in a freezer, eating pieces; when the boy leans back, we see that an eye is missing.
► We see a very grainy and deteriorating video of a ritual being performed presumably to bring someone back from the dead; what looks like someone being hanged and thrashing is seen, with people chanting around a circle and then people seem to devour the dead person (we see blood and matter). A teen boy and a teen girl call out for their father and worry when he doesn’t answer behind a locked bathroom door; they use a knife to open the door and find the man lying dead on the floor (please see the Sex/Nudity category for more details) with blood on his face and chest (we later see what looks like vomit on his mouth while his teen daughter tries to perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation). We see very grainy images on a TV screen of a person’s gray-tinged face with cloudy eyes, as the person seems to groan and whimper. A video shows a person eating another person, chewing on the face with blood and tissue visible, as subtitles read, “Consume the old body.”
► A teen girl runs away from a woman and slams into a wall hitting her head and knuckling herself out; the woman drags the teen to a swimming pool, where she holds her under the water to drown her. A teen boy becomes enraged when a woman won’t let him leave with his younger sister; he pins her against a wall and punches a hole in the wall next to her head before storming out. A teen boy panics when he sees what he thinks is his father through a steamy shower door and the teen slips and slams his head on the floor knocking himself unconscious (he revives in the hospital). A woman pins another woman against a wall and yells at her; the second woman gets away and runs outside where she is struck by a car and slammed into another car (we see her dead with a very bloody face later); a teen boy is struck and falls into a rain puddle, where the woman presses his face into the water drowning him. A boy and a teen girl fight briefly and she falls over a ledge hitting the ground hard and moaning; the boy leans over vomiting blood and matter (we see goo).
► A boy covered with blood thrashes on the ground and screams. A young boy locked in his room, pounds on a glass door until it shatters, cutting his hand (we see blood and the open wound). A young boy slams a fly against a window and eats it. A woman puts a clump of hair into a boy’s mouth and he eats it. A young boy with discolored eyes, bloody mouth and face and a very swollen abdomen walks into a swimming pool. A woman takes a young boy to an outbuilding at night (we do not see what happens). A woman takes a teen girl out in the rain and we hear loud thunderclaps. A woman watches a grainy video and we hear someone crying as a man draws a large circle on the ground.
► A teen girl finds a dead male body covered with blood and tries to revive him. We see a person’s dead body in a freezer (the flesh seems to be frosted with ice). A woman looks at messages on a teen boy’s phone and he lunges toward her to grab it away from her; she recoils and acts as if he was going to strike her. A woman sprays herself with a teen boy’s body spray and stands over a sleeping teen girl; she hits her hard in the face and leaves the room (we see the teen with a black eye later). A flashback shows a teen girl floating motionless in a swimming pool with blood-tinged water and a woman jumps into the water to retrieve her. A woman embraces a dead body while floating in a swimming pool.
► A teen boy lifts a heavy barbell and grunts in a few scenes. A teen boy says that he hit his younger stepsister because he was jealous of her relationship with their father. A teen boy looks at his father’s body in a coffin and a woman tells him that he needs to say goodbye properly; she tells him to kiss him and he kisses him on the forehead; she then tells him to kiss him on the lips and she does, but the teen refuses. A man’s body is shown in a coffin at his funeral. A woman bathes a young boy (we see his bare shoulders and chest) and we see a bloody wound on his hand and blood-tinged water.
► We hear that a man physically abused his son; the teen talks about his father hitting him so hard. A teen girl says that she wants to kick her stepbrother in the groin. A woman tells a teen girl that an angel is going to put her daughter inside her after the woman drowns the teen in a swimming pool. A woman says that she used to stay at a cemetery for days after her daughter died. A woman says that her teenage daughter drowned and that she has had trouble dealing with the grief. We see a missing child poster. A teen boy is described as a “trouble kid.” A teen boy says that his father hated him.
► A mirror in a bathroom shatters and a woman screams. Three teen girls tease another teen girl when she tries to befriend them; they make faces at her and imitate her movements for being vision impaired. Chickens squawk in a coop and we later see one bird dead and bloodied. A cat screeches when a young boy holds and squeezes it. We see a taxidermied dog in several scenes and a woman pretends to make it bark, startling a teen girl. A teen boy wakes up with drool on his face and a urine stain on his pants a few times. A woman cuts a lock of hair from a man’s body at his funeral. A woman lifts her skirt and urinates in a measuring cup (we see and hear the stream), and then pours the urine on a teen boy’s crotch while he sleeps.

Bring Her Back LANGUAGE 6

 – About 16 F-words (1 not fully enunciated) and derivatives, 2 scatological terms, 1 anatomical term, name-calling (pedophile, defensive, weirdos, disgusting, abusive, judgmental, crazy, creepy), exclamations (shut-up, jeez, bloody). | profanity glossary |

Bring Her Back SUBSTANCE USE

 – A woman and two teens drink shots of liquor and dance wildly when they become inebriated, and a teen boy says that he wants to “get hammered.”

Bring Her Back DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Death of a child, death of apparent, child abuse, cannibalism, kidnapping, mother’s grief, foster families, step-siblings, misery, child abuse, murder.

Bring Her Back MESSAGE

 – The death of a child is hard to overcome.