Day 13 | 2020 | NR | – 3.5.5

Why is “Day 13” rated NR? The MPAA has not rated this film. The Kids-In-Mind.com evaluation includes a few kissing scenes, many scenes of surveilling a house and finding unusual activity, a few confrontations and arguments, some bloody remains discovered, discussions of demonic rituals and child abduction, and at least 1 F-word 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 (Alex MacNicoll) becomes aware of some unusual activity in a seemingly vacant house in his neighborhood, he starts a surveillance scheme that leads him to discover some nefarious activity and drives him to launch a rescue mission for a teen girl (Genevieve Hannelius) he is convinced is being held against her will. Also with Martin Kove, Darlene Vogel, Shakira Ja’nai Paye and Meyrick Murphy. Directed by Jax Medel. [Running Time: 1:31]

Day 13 SEX/NUDITY 3

 – A teen boy and a teen girl lie on a bed kissing (we hear smacking), and the girl gets up and leaves. A teen boy and a teen girl sit on her bed and hug; they kiss and are interrupted by a knock on the door.
► A teen boy asks a teen girl to go out with him and she declines because of her strict father. A teen boy says that another teen boy needs to watch him “put the moves on” a teen girl. A teen boy tells another teen boy, “We need to get you a girl,” and makes a comment about “that girl situation.” A woman and her teenage son argue about her dating young men after her husband (and the teen’s father) left them.
► A woman wears a low-cut dress that reveals cleavage. A teen girl showers and we see her bare shoulders briefly. We see the silhouette of a teen girl (there’s no detail) through a frosted bathroom window. A preteen girl is shown wearing a two-piece swimsuit while seated in a small pool (bare shoulders, abdomen and partial legs are seen). A teen boy watches a house at night and sees what he thinks is a man watching or listening to a teen girl through a bathroom door while she is showering.

Day 13 VIOLENCE/GORE 5

 – A man raises an axe over a teen boy that’s on the ground and two police officers taser the man. A plastic bag is held over a teen boy’s head and he falls into a hole in the floor as he struggles (we understand that he is OK Later). A man carries an axe over his shoulder as he walks through a house, he finds a teen boy hiding in a room and throws the axe as the boy runs away pinning his backpack to the wall. A teen boy climbs out a window and jumps off a roof to the ground below (he lies moaning for a moment before running away and we see a scrape on his chin later). A teen boy climbs a trellis on the outside of a house, moves across a roof and breaks a window to enter the house; he finds an altar with a case containing daggers. A teen boy hides in a teen girl’s closet in her room when a man enters and they argue; the man moves toward the closet and the girl screams pushing the man out of the room by the sound waves and we see glass shattering. A teen girl walks through a house and past a sleeping man; the man wakes up and grabs the girl, dragging her back to her room. We see a girl pounding on a window from inside a house seemingly crying for help when police arrive at the house and then leave. A teen boy has a nightmare, where a man holds a dagger over a teen girl strapped onto a table, and the man walks out of a house and along a street where lights flicker and go out as he passes (the boy wakes with a start). A teen boy finds a blood soaked bed and when he lifts the sheets we see bloody remains of something (bones and tissue; probably from animals). A teen boy finds a teen girl with straps on her wrists and she appears ill.
► Flames burst out from under a door and we see smoke billowing in the distance of a town that is in rubble, as a creature flies through the air and another with glowing eyes, pointed teeth and darkened veins under the skin, swoops down behind a teen boy; a plane in flames crashes in the distance, a building is set ablaze and we hear people screaming as the scene ends. A teen boy hears creaking and movement in his house and walks through the dark room carrying a fireplace poker; when a man comes around a corner, the teen nearly hits him and he argues with his mother about who the man is. A teen boy walks around a seemingly vacant house and finds heavy chains and a lock on a storage door in the back; a teen girl confronts him about what he’s doing and they talk briefly. A teen boy walks through a dark house carrying a camera to light his way; a teen girl grabs him and pulls him into her room to avoid being seen by a man. A teen boy discovers a hidden room where there are many photographs of young and teenage girls on a wall and a crate with a child’s clothing and shoes inside.
► A man performs a ritual and cuts a hank of hair using a dagger; we see a teen girl in a bed writhing and coughing at the same time (her skin is beginning to turn gray). We hear a man’s voice chanting in an unidentified language as he performs some type of ritual by candlelight; we see a glimpse of the man wearing a hooded garment.
► A teen boy watches a seemingly vacant house at night in several scenes and we see what looks like candlelight moving through rooms and a silhouette in a window. A teen boy watches a house at night and he sees a man cutting off a teen girl’s long hair. A teen boy watches through binoculars as a man unloads something from the back of a van at night. A teen girl leaves a house, begins to cough and gasp, falls to her knees and crawls back to the door, where a man inside helps her back in. Teen boys throw things at a house and another teen boy remarks about a teacher living there.
► A teen girl is shown with bruises on her wrists and she says that she fell. A teen girl says that she can never sleep and that she has nightmares. A preteen girl tells a teen boy that her cat is missing and she goes searching for the cat one night; she hears meowing and we do not see what she finds. Police tell a teen boy that his activities could be considered harassment and an invasion of privacy. A teen boy says that a teen girl is going to die if he doesn’t save her. A woman and her teenage son argue about her dating young men after her husband (and the teen’s father) left them. A teen boy and a preteen girl argue in several scenes. A preteen girl startles a teen boy when she sneaks up next to him and accuses him of doing something he shouldn’t be doing. A teen girl confronts a teen boy about watching her and she finds a surveillance set-up with cameras and monitors. We hear that an entire neighborhood burned down and one residence survived (we see some newspaper headlines). We read newspaper headlines about a child having gone missing and suspicions of satanic ritual abuse. A woman talks about wildfires being out of control. When hanging up from a phone call a teen boy tells another teen boy, “Don’t die.” A preteen girl confronts her older brother for saying, “The S-word.” There are a few discussions of devil worship. There are discussions of human sacrifice by a group of people and a teen boy says, “They take cats.” A teen boy says that his mother believes in the “laying on of hands.”
► Eerie music accompanies the opening credits.

Day 13 LANGUAGE 5

 – At least 1 F-word, 1 not fully enunciated F-word derivative, 34 scatological terms, 4 anatomical terms, 18 mild obscenities, name-calling (Big Homie, dummy, lamer, creepy, stupid, overkill, fat [F-word deleted] house cat, midnight creeper, sick, weird, scaredy-cat, strict, insane, disturbing, crazy, hysteria, miserable old bastard, pervert, Peeping Tom, pushy, he’s old, not well, boring, ghosted), exclamations (watch it, I swear, hey, you’re going down buddy, I’ll kill you, shut-up), 7 religious exclamations (e.g. God, Jesus, Oh God, For The Love Of Almighty God). | profanity glossary |

Day 13 SUBSTANCE USE

 – A teen boy vapes outside his house and in his house in a few scenes.

Day 13 DISCUSSION TOPICS

 – Single parenting, arson, rituals, evil beings, intrusion, privacy.

Day 13 MESSAGE

 – It’s better to leave strange neighbors alone.