The Devil's Hour
Director(s)Johnny Allan
Production year2022
Genre(s)Drama
Approx. running minutes58m
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.
Classified Date:
12/12/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
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 and self-harm
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.
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'.
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'.
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'.
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'.
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 and self-harm
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.
strong bloody images, violence, suicide, very strong language
Classified Date:
04/12/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
Scenes include a shooting and heavy blows. These are accompanied by blood spurts.
language
There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t') and occasional use of strong language ('f**k'). Milder terms include 'prick', 'piss', 'bastard', 'Jesus', 'Christ', 'God' and 'hell'.
suicide and self-harm
A woman takes her own life, resulting in bloody detail. A child witnesses the aftermath of the event.
injury detail
Crime scene detail includes sight of heavily bloodstained bodies and slash wounds.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
strong language, threat, bloody images, violence, disturbing scenes
Classified Date:
06/12/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
Characters are slashed and stabbed during a darkly-lit sequence. Resulting injuries include bloody detail.
threat and horror
Scenes are occasionally unsettling and fantastical in nature. There is a bomb explosion which results in off-screen deaths.
language
Strong language ('f**k') is accompanied by milder terms, such as 'shit'.
injury detail
Scenes include a heavily bloodstained ceiling and close-up sight of a bloody organ.
disturbing images
A character feeds shards of glass to ducks; while detail is limited, we later see the bird carcasses.
strong violence, gore, suicide, very strong language, brief sexual threat
Classified Date:
19/09/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A man tries to kill a woman with a hammer, but she shoots him in self-defence. A child appears to stab someone in their sleep.
language
There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t'), use of strong language ('f**k') and milder terms including 'shit', 'piss' and 'God'.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man catches a woman on his property and frisks her, with sexual threat briefly implied.
suicide and self-harm
A woman takes her own life, resulting in brief bloody detail. It is implied a child witnesses the event.
injury detail
There are bloody images in the aftermath of deaths, and a gory image of a man's stomach wound after a fatal shooting.
strong language
Classified Date:
04/11/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
There is use of strong language ('f**k') and milder terms ('twat', 'shit', 'God').
strong violence, language
Classified Date:
07/11/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A man is repeatedly stabbed in a scene that includes bloody detail. There is also a scene in which a person is shot; however there is no strong detail.
language
The episode features strong language ('f**k') and milder terms ('God').
strong language, violence, injury detail, threat, brief suicide reference
Classified Date:
12/02/2025
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
People are shot, stabbed and slashed in scenes which include blood in the aftermath. A bottle of alcohol is forced down a man's throat. There are also verbal domestic abuse references, including to child murder.
threat and horror
People are threatened with torture, as well as with guns and knives.
language
Strong language ('f**k') occurs, as well as milder terms ('prick', 'shit', 'bullshit', 'bollocks', 'arse').
suicide and self-harm
In a scene featuring brief strong detail, a man contemplates taking his own life. However, he is prevented from doing so by the intervention of another character.
injury detail
Scenes include close-up wound detail, with blood in the aftermath. There are also images of dead children.
strong violence, language, suicide references
Classified Date:
12/02/2025
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
Strong violence includes stabbings, shootings, drownings and a strangling, accompanied by occasional bloodshed and injury detail.
language
Strong language (‘f**k’) is accompanied by milder terms such as ‘piss’, ‘bollocks’, ‘shit’, ‘God’ and ‘hell’.
suicide and self-harm
There are visual and verbal references to a person taking their own life, and to another person’s attempt to do so.
strong violence, language
Classified Date:
12/02/2025
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
Strong violence includes shootings, slashings with bladed weapons, crunchy fistfights and head butts, and strangling, with occasional shots featuring bloody injuries.
language
Strong language (‘f**k’) is accompanied by milder terms such as ‘bitch’, ‘cock’, ‘wank’, ‘arse’, ‘bollocks’ and ‘shit’.
strong language
Classified Date:
14/02/2025
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
Strong language (‘f**k’) is accompanied by milder terms such as ‘prick’ and ‘God’.
strong violence, injury detail, threat, suicide, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
14/02/2025
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
People are shot, impaled and stabbed, resulting in large blood spurts. In flashbacks, a man is seen striking his young son.
threat and horror
There are sequences of strong threat from a disturbed and sadistic killer who plans to torture his victim in a darkly lit building. People are locked up in mental institutions and have experiments conducted on them in order to rid them of their memories.
suicide and self-harm
Upsetting scenes of suicide are accompanied by bloody detail.
injury detail
A woman's leg is nearly severed in an animal trap and violence results in bloody injuries.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
Classified Date:
28/10/2022
Version:
N/A
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
Classified date28/10/2022
LanguageEnglish
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 and self-harm
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.
additional issues
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.
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 and self-harm
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.
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'.
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'.
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'.
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'.
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 and self-harm
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.
strong language, threat, bloody images, violence, disturbing scenes
Classified Date:
06/12/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
Characters are slashed and stabbed during a darkly-lit sequence. Resulting injuries include bloody detail.
threat and horror
Scenes are occasionally unsettling and fantastical in nature. There is a bomb explosion which results in off-screen deaths.
language
Strong language ('f**k') is accompanied by milder terms, such as 'shit'.
injury detail
Scenes include a heavily bloodstained ceiling and close-up sight of a bloody organ.
disturbing images
A character feeds shards of glass to ducks; while detail is limited, we later see the bird carcasses.
strong bloody images, violence, suicide, very strong language
Classified Date:
04/12/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
Scenes include a shooting and heavy blows. These are accompanied by blood spurts.
language
There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t') and occasional use of strong language ('f**k'). Milder terms include 'prick', 'piss', 'bastard', 'Jesus', 'Christ', 'God' and 'hell'.
suicide and self-harm
A woman takes her own life, resulting in bloody detail. A child witnesses the aftermath of the event.
injury detail
Crime scene detail includes sight of heavily bloodstained bodies and slash wounds.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
strong violence, language
Classified Date:
07/11/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A man is repeatedly stabbed in a scene that includes bloody detail. There is also a scene in which a person is shot; however there is no strong detail.
language
The episode features strong language ('f**k') and milder terms ('God').
strong language
Classified Date:
04/11/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
There is use of strong language ('f**k') and milder terms ('twat', 'shit', 'God').
strong violence, gore, suicide, very strong language, brief sexual threat
Classified Date:
19/09/2023
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
A man tries to kill a woman with a hammer, but she shoots him in self-defence. A child appears to stab someone in their sleep.
language
There is infrequent very strong language ('c**t'), use of strong language ('f**k') and milder terms including 'shit', 'piss' and 'God'.
sexual violence and sexual threat
A man catches a woman on his property and frisks her, with sexual threat briefly implied.
suicide and self-harm
A woman takes her own life, resulting in brief bloody detail. It is implied a child witnesses the event.
injury detail
There are bloody images in the aftermath of deaths, and a gory image of a man's stomach wound after a fatal shooting.
strong language
Classified Date:
14/02/2025
Use:
VOD/Streaming
language
Strong language (‘f**k’) is accompanied by milder terms such as ‘prick’ and ‘God’.
strong violence, injury detail, threat, suicide, domestic abuse
Classified Date:
14/02/2025
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
People are shot, impaled and stabbed, resulting in large blood spurts. In flashbacks, a man is seen striking his young son.
threat and horror
There are sequences of strong threat from a disturbed and sadistic killer who plans to torture his victim in a darkly lit building. People are locked up in mental institutions and have experiments conducted on them in order to rid them of their memories.
suicide and self-harm
Upsetting scenes of suicide are accompanied by bloody detail.
injury detail
A woman's leg is nearly severed in an animal trap and violence results in bloody injuries.
flashing/flickering lights
This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.
strong language, violence, injury detail, threat, brief suicide reference
Classified Date:
12/02/2025
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
People are shot, stabbed and slashed in scenes which include blood in the aftermath. A bottle of alcohol is forced down a man's throat. There are also verbal domestic abuse references, including to child murder.
threat and horror
People are threatened with torture, as well as with guns and knives.
language
Strong language ('f**k') occurs, as well as milder terms ('prick', 'shit', 'bullshit', 'bollocks', 'arse').
suicide and self-harm
In a scene featuring brief strong detail, a man contemplates taking his own life. However, he is prevented from doing so by the intervention of another character.
injury detail
Scenes include close-up wound detail, with blood in the aftermath. There are also images of dead children.
strong violence, language, suicide references
Classified Date:
12/02/2025
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
Strong violence includes stabbings, shootings, drownings and a strangling, accompanied by occasional bloodshed and injury detail.
language
Strong language (‘f**k’) is accompanied by milder terms such as ‘piss’, ‘bollocks’, ‘shit’, ‘God’ and ‘hell’.
suicide and self-harm
There are visual and verbal references to a person taking their own life, and to another person’s attempt to do so.
strong violence, language
Classified Date:
12/02/2025
Use:
VOD/Streaming
violence
Strong violence includes shootings, slashings with bladed weapons, crunchy fistfights and head butts, and strangling, with occasional shots featuring bloody injuries.
language
Strong language (‘f**k’) is accompanied by milder terms such as ‘bitch’, ‘cock’, ‘wank’, ‘arse’, ‘bollocks’ and ‘shit’.
Director(s)Johnny Allan
Production year2022
Genre(s)Drama
Approx. running minutes58m
Classified Date:
12/12/2024
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
Classified Date:
28/10/2022
Version:
N/A
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
Classified date28/10/2022
LanguageEnglish
