• Director(s)

    Dan Slater

  • Production Year

    2021

  • Genre(s)

    Horror, Mystery, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    104m

  • Cast

    Nigel Bennett, Benjamin Charles Watson, Jenna Warren

Film

The Family

strong threat, violence, injury detail, sexual threat

THE FAMILY is a Canadian horror drama in which a young man begins to doubt the patriarchal figure who rules the religious cult that has raised him. …

THE FAMILY is a Canadian horror drama in which a young man begins to doubt the patriarchal figure who rules the religious cult that has raised him.

violence
A woman repeatedly submerges a young woman's head in water. A woman strikes a man with an axe, causing blood to appear on her shirt.
threat and horror
There is strong threat when a young man is forced to kill a boy with an axe, though there is no strong visual detail. A man and woman control a family of young people through fear and threats of violence.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There is sexual threat when a man uses religious teachings to coerce a woman in to sex with him. In one scene he drags her, frightened, from her wedding to another man and tells her she has to bear children with him. There are also undetailed references to sexual violence.
injury detail
A man is shown with a very bloody face after being shot. After a man briefly self-flagellates, his back has bloody marks.
There is a brief suicide reference when a woman holds a blade to her own throat. There's also a scene in which a chicken is found beheaded, with sight of bloody aftermath.

  • Director(s)

    Dan Slater

  • Production Year

    2021

  • Genre(s)

    Horror, Mystery, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    104m

  • Cast

    Nigel Bennett, Benjamin Charles Watson, Jenna Warren

strong threat, violence, injury detail, sexual threat
Classified Date:
18/10/2022
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
4Digital Media Ltd
violence
A woman repeatedly submerges a young woman's head in water. A woman strikes a man with an axe, causing blood to appear on her shirt.
threat and horror
There is strong threat when a young man is forced to kill a boy with an axe, though there is no strong visual detail. A man and woman control a family of young people through fear and threats of violence.
sexual violence and sexual threat
There is sexual threat when a man uses religious teachings to coerce a woman in to sex with him. In one scene he drags her, frightened, from her wedding to another man and tells her she has to bear children with him. There are also undetailed references to sexual violence.
injury detail
A man is shown with a very bloody face after being shot. After a man briefly self-flagellates, his back has bloody marks.
There is a brief suicide reference when a woman holds a blade to her own throat. There's also a scene in which a chicken is found beheaded, with sight of bloody aftermath.

  • Classified date

    18/10/2022

  • Language

    English