A Lot or a Little?
What you will—and won't—find in this movie.
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Positive Messages
none
No positive messages.
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Positive Role Models
very little
No real positive role models.
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Violence & Scariness
a lot
Horror-movie violence and imagery. Blood and gore. Characters, living or undead, burned to death, beaten to death with a hammer, beaten with flashlights, decapitated, stabbed in the heart. While in the throes of possession in a hospital, a father vomits a torrent of blood in the face of his daughter. Ankles twisted, arms ripped out of sockets. Mouths often filled with blood oozing out of them. Snakes for tongues. Knife to hand, blood shown. Skin ripped off face. The mother of the lead character committed suicide. Satanic rituals.
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Sex, Romance & Nudity
a little
Sister, possessed by a demon, attempts to passionately kiss her brother.
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Language
some
Infrequent profanity. "F--k," "f--king," "s--t," "damn."
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Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that May the Devil Take You is a 2018 Indonesian horror movie in which a man sells his soul to the devil to become wealthy and his loved ones suffer the consequences. Expect lots of blood, gore, and demonic imagery. Blood drools, runs, and vomits out of the mouths of the characters. Characters clubbed to death with hammers, decapitated, beaten with shovels, stabbed in the heart, and burned alive. Skin ripped off of a face. Ankles and arms twisted with the help of a voodoo doll. A mother who has turned into a zombie is beaten with a flashlight. Choking. Satanic ritual shown, complete with pentagrams and goat's head. Occasional profanity, including "f--k." The mother of the lead character committed suicide. A sister, possessed by a demon, attempts to passionately kiss her brother. While not quite as gory as other horror movies of the "splatter" subgenre, nonetheless, this is definitely not for the squeamish. To stay in the loop on more movies like this, you can sign up for weekly Family Movie Night emails.
What's the Story?
In MAY THE DEVIL TAKE YOU, in order to become wealthy, Lesmana invites a demonic priestess into his rundown rural villa. In the basem*nt, she conducts a satanic ritual with the requisite pentagram and goat's head. Soon, Lesmana becomes rich and successful. But his first wife commits suicide, and ten years later, Lesmana has lost his fortune and is now dying in a hospital. Shortly after his passing, Alfie, the streetwise daughter from Lesmana's first marriage, returns to the villa of her childhood. To her dismay, she's followed shortly after by her father's greedy second wife and Alfie's stepbrother Ruben and stepsisters Maya and Nara. Alfie loathes them all, and resents her father for abandoning her in favor of the new family. Lesmana's second wife and kids want only to sell the villa to the highest bidder and take the money, but when Ruben pries open the nailed-shut basem*nt door, he unleashes demons who have come to collect on the deal his father made. As demonic possession and zombie reanimation takes over the villa, Alfie must find a way to save herself and her stepsiblings and end the curse once and for all.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about gory horror movies. How does May the Devil Take You compare to other horror movies in which there's a lot of blood and characters are killed in a variety of gruesome ways?
How does this compare to other "haunted house" movies you've seen?
How does the movie combine different types of horror stories, such as demonic possession, zombies, haunted house, etc.?
Movie Details
- On DVD or streaming: November 15, 2018
- Cast: Chelsea Islan, Pevita Pearce, Ray Sahetapy
- Director: Timo Tjahjanto
- Inclusion Information: Asian directors
- Studio: Netflix
- Genre: Horror
- Topics: Brothers and Sisters, Monsters, Ghosts, and Vampires
- Run time: 110 minutes
- MPAA rating: NR
- Last updated: February 18, 2023
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