What age is The Conjuring appropriate for?

Rated R in the US. 17, alone or with a parent; 14 in France. The whole movie, watched in full: what's in it, and how to talk about it with your child.

Why is The Conjuring not recommended under 17?

What's in it: the official rating, first; a possessed mother who attacks her daughters; sixteen jump scares; thirteen swear words. The detail, fact by fact, is in the zinema guide, which reads the work itself (images, sound, dialogue).

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The Conjuring: what age is it for? 17, alone or with a parent

From 17, alone or with a parent.

Movie · 2013 · 1 h 52 · horror, thriller

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not yetwith an adult, or to talk about afteralonethe sweet spot

The official US rating is R, and we never go below it. Alone from 17, and not before, even with an adult.

The sweet spot: around 17, when you like being scared and can watch a possessed mother chase her daughters without keeping it for the night. Why a sweet spot?

Official US rating: R. In France, zinema would say 14.

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What it's about

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.

Why 17

The official rating, firstRated R in the US (restricted, under 17 requires an accompanying parent); 12 ans in France. zinema never goes below the country's rating: it explains it.
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A possessed mother who attacks her daughtersThe witch takes the mother, who chases her daughters with scissors, then is tied to a chair for an exorcism where she levitates and vomits blood. The witch, who hanged herself from a tree after killing her baby (told), leaps from a wardrobe onto the mother, drags a child out of bed by the feet.
Sixteen jump scaresHands clapping in the dark, a doll that moves, doors that slam, a dog found dead: the film is built to frighten, and it does. Little blood, almost no deaths on screen.
Thirteen swear wordsA few swear words; nothing sexual.

What the movie brings

A classic horror film without gore: fear through staging, in the manner of the 1970s.
A couple of investigators who love and protect each other: the film's tender heart.
The starting point of a whole series of films and of its doll Annabelle.

Watching it together

Before

This film is made to frighten, there is nothing to warn about; a thirteen-year-old who likes that will watch it with you, alone it takes fourteen, and a light on.

After

at 17 and up

Lorraine sees what haunts houses and goes on despite the danger to her own family: how far do you help others when it costs your own?

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