| Overall: | C+ |
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| Violence: | B- |
| Sexual Content: | B |
| Language: | C+ |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | B |
| Run Time: | 83 |
| Theater Release: | |
| Video Release: | 26 Nov 2012 |
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Why Is The Apparition Rated PG-13?
Violence: The film contains frequent “jump” scenes and moments of peril involving characters and, for the most part, unseen supernatural entities. A man wakes up to find himself pinned to a ceiling—a bloodstain later appears. A man is sucked into a closet by an unseen being. In two scenes a group of people hold a séance. The details of the violence that results is masked by obscured and shaky camera angles. A dog mysteriously dies. A woman appears to be sucked through a wall.
Sexual Content: A man offers to rub a woman’s back, but first asks if she can “lose the top” referring to her bikini top—she leaves it on. A woman is briefly seen in underwear, which she removes before entering a shower (only her head and shoulders are shown at this point). An unmarried couple lives together.
Profanities: About three uses of scatological slang, a few terms of deity and other mild profanities.
Drugs/Alcohol: Characters are seen drinking beer.
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Rod Gustafson has worked in various media industries since 1977. He founded Parent Previews in 1993, and today continues to write and broadcast the reviews in newspapers, on radio and (of course) on the Internet. He currently serves as the President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness, a provincial non-profit society. He also authors a regular column for The Parent's Television Council in Los Angeles. He and his wife Donna have four children.
