The Little Stranger

A small girl is mauled by a dog (largely offscreen); she's shown with bloody wounds and blood puddles/stains all around. A woman with bloody hands/wrists, with broken glass nearby. Characters die. A main character is covered with burn scars. Characters rage, with one smashing a drinking glass on the ground. Dog put to sleep via injection. Room on fire. Mother slaps a young boy. Scary noises/scary stuff.

Couple briefly shown kissing and groping in a car (she stops him from going further). Reference to a man being an "octopus," (i.e., hands all over the girls). Other brief, sex-related dialogue.

Single uses of "ass," "hell."

A young girl drinks alcohol at a party and claims she once smoked a cigarette. Character gulps down whiskey after being rejected. Adults drink socially (brandy, etc.) and smoke.

Parents need to know that The Little Stranger is a gothic noir film that's set in the 1940s and based on a novel by Sarah Waters. There's a lot of blood: A little girl is mauled by a dog (the mauling happens offscreen, but she's shown with bloody wounds), characters are sliced open by broken glass, and characters die. One person is covered in burn scars, a mother slaps a young boy, and characters sometimes rage angrily, smashing glasses or gulping down whiskey. A young girl is seen drinking alcohol at a party and claims to have smoked a cigarette. There are also scenes of adults drinking socially and smoking; language is limited to single uses of "ass" and "hell." A man and a woman kiss and grope each other in a car, and there's some sex-related dialogue. The movie is well made but perhaps also a little stiff for some genre fans; still, older teens and up with sophisticated tastes may like it.

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