• Director(s)

    Johnny Allan

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Cast

    Jessica Raine, Peter Capaldi, Nikesh Patel

TV Show

The Devil's Hour

THE DEVIL'S HOUR is a British drama series; in this episode, a social worker worries about her son's behaviour.…

THE DEVIL'S HOUR is a British drama series; in this episode, a social worker worries about her son's behaviour.

  • Director(s)

    Johnny Allan

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Cast

    Jessica Raine, Peter Capaldi, Nikesh Patel

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very strong language, strong sex references, domestic abuse, suicide
Classified Date:
28/10/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
There is infrequent use of very strong language ('c**t'), as well as more frequent strong language ('f**k'), and other terms such as 'piss' and 'Jesus Christ'.
sex
There are references to 'rough' sex, pornography and BDSM.
suicide
It is implied that a woman takes her own life.
theme
Domestic abuse is a theme of the episode. A woman calls her social worker when her drunk husband, who is forbidden from contacting her under suspicion of assault, tries to gain entrance to the family home. There are verbal and undetailed references to the 'abuse' of a child.
There are moderate bloody images, and images of a child's corpse and the bloody corpse of a man with a wound to the throat. There is moderate threat. There is a fleeting reference to paedophilia. A child's mental health is a theme of the episode.
strong language, domestic abuse, violence
Classified Date:
28/10/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
Bullies make a child hit his own face until his nose bleeds. Domestic abuse is a theme of the episode: it seems as if a violent man may have harmed his family, but this turns out not to be the case.
language
There is use of strong language ('f**k'), as well as other terms such as 'bitch' and 'prick'.
There is a fleeting verbal reference to child sexual abuse images. A man's bloody corpse is found with a knife in his throat. There are moderate sex references. Threat is also moderate, including in a scene in which a mother suspects that her son has been snatched.
strong language, threat
Classified Date:
28/10/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
threat and horror
A mother, whose son is missing, traces him to a lair which is strongly suggestive of child sexual abuse. There are sequences of suspense and horror, which include jump scares.
language
There is use of strong language ('f**k'), as well as other terms such as 'shit' and 'God'.
There is a close-up image of the decaying corpse of a dog. Bloody crime scene detail is moderate. There are undetailed references to suicide.
strong language, violence, threat
Classified Date:
28/10/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
There are crunchy fight scenes with punches, kicks and headbutts and a man is stabbed in the leg with a knife. A man attacks two others with a knife, slashing at them and cutting one. A man pins a woman against a wall by the throat and drags her by the hair.
threat and horror
A teenage boy is aggressively shouted at by a criminal he is working for and is instructed to commit a serious crime. There is supernatural threat as characters appear to have ominous visions of future murders. A child intentionally burns his hand on a heater, with the implication he is being driven to do so by supernatural forces.
language
There is strong language ('f**k) throughout and use of milder terms such as 'bollocks', 'bitch', 'shit', 'prick', 'piss' and 'sod'.
There are brief verbal references to suicide and drugs. There are also brief, undetailed references to 'snuff' films and 'dogging'. It is verbally implied that a young woman may be at risk of sexual violence from criminals. We see the dead bodies of two girls, wrapped in opaque plastic aside from a pale arm that comes loose. There are upsetting scenes as adults try to help an emotionally troubled child. There is sight of blood at crime scenes and in brief visions of dead bodies.
strong threat, violence, language
Classified Date:
28/10/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A man is shot, with sight of a brief spurt of blood and blood on his clothing. A man attacks another with a metal bar in a fight scene with crunchy kicks, shoves and punches. A man's face is beaten, resulting in bloody injury detail, but we do not see these blows connect.
threat and horror
Scenes of threat include a suspenseful sequence in which a man searches a dimly lit building with sounds of screaming in the background. There is supernatural threat, with a character having ominous visions of the future.
language
There is strong language ('f**k') and milder terms like 'Jesus'.
We see, out of focus and in the background, the bodies of two people who have been stabbed to death in a police crime scene context; there is moderate sight of blood over them, their clothing and bedsheets. A father is dismissive about his young son's mental health concerns and later acts angrily towards him. There are brief verbal references to suicide and undetailed visual references to cancer.
domestic abuse, strong bloody violence, sex, suicide references
Classified Date:
31/10/2022
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Cuts:
This work had a compulsory cut made, removing a shot that constituted an indecent image of a child. Cut was made in accordance with BBFC Guidelines, policy and the Protection of Children Act, 1978.
violence
A man strikes his son across the hands with a stick and it is implied that he commits other acts of domestic abuse against the boy and his mother. Another man verbally bullies his young son and pours beer over his head. A man is stabbed repeatedly by a child with a kitchen knife; this attack happens in a darkened bedroom and we do not see any knife wounds, but there is sight of blood on the man's face and bedding. A man stabs a teenage boy repeatedly, but we see no injury detail. There is brief sight of a dead man who has been stabbed in the neck with a sharpened implement, resulting in bloody injury detail.
sex
There is a scene of sex with some brief male buttock nudity as a man thrusts into a woman.
suicide
A man kills himself and his two children by driving off a cliff. A woman takes her own life. A boy jumps from a high building, but he knows he will ultimately survive through supernatural means.
There is infrequent strong language ('f**k') and milder terms like 'whore'. There are brief, undetailed verbal references to rape and child abuse pornography. There is supernatural threat as characters have ominous visions of the future.
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  • Classified date

    28/10/2022

  • Distributor

    Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.

  • Language

    English