Monsters (2010)

Monsters parents guide

Of what we could confirm, nothing runs past an R: some violence and some strong language.

Scare

Mildly scary

A few tense or eerie moments.

Jump scares

A couple

One or two sudden jolts.

Gore

Light gore

Some blood or injury, briefly.

Violence

Some violence

Some fighting or peril.

Sex and nudity

None flagged

It is rated R, so treat our zero as unconfirmed.

Language

Moderate

Some strong profanity, a few f-words.

How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.

Three questions

Is Monsters scary?

Only a little. Monsters has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.

How gory is Monsters?

Light gore and some violence.

What is Monsters rated, and is it OK for kids?

Some strong language. The R is earned, so not for kids.

What is Monsters about?

Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and half of Mexico was quarantined as an infected zone. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures," while a journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.

Cast and crew

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Monsters is on our Found footage, Sci-fi on Kanopy and Sci-fi on Hoopla lists.

More like this feeling

Prompts we typed into CouchRot, and the lists that share its tags.

• “a thriller with a twist, no spoilers”
• “scary but not gory”
• “a movie that will make me cry”

Lists with the same feel: Melancholy and Late night.