Parents Guide for
El laberinto del fauno (2006) More at IMDbPro »

There is no sex or nudity, but there is a pregnat woman and in some scenes there is a scare about her pregnancy when she is bleeding from her genital area. And some other pregnancy issues you might relate with sex. There is no nudity in the movie. A minor transformation of a Faun in a Fairy briefly indicates the breasts without nudity,

A girl lies on the ground and thick blood streams from her nose and drips from the end of her finger.

A man stabs another man in the face multiple times with a broken bottle.The man committing the act of violence shows no mercy by puncturing his eyes cheeks and breaking his nose and turning his face to a bloody pulp. All of this is done as the victim's father watches on. The face of the son is disturbing. The general then shoots the father of the son.

A man's leg is badly infected from a wound (we see it bloated and blackened) and a doctor amputates it (we see the doctor take the first cut with a saw and as it pushes into the skin the man screams).

A girl finds a humanoid creature (with very pale skin, long fingers with sharp black nails, a large blood-stained mouth and loose skin around its arms and abdomen), and we see many paintings of the creature eating people and the creature picks up two eyeballs from a plate and places them in holes in its hands to use as eyes. The humanoid creature (as described above) grabs two fairies out of the air and bites their heads off (we see bloody flesh being stretched).

A woman who is bound and prepared for torture cuts herself free, stabs a man in the back, and then in the chest (we see blood and he groans): he falls to his knees, and she pokes the knife into his mouth and leaves a large "glasgow smile" cut through the corner of his mouth and up his cheek (we see the large open wound and hear a crunch). About a minute later we see the after effects and they are VERY Bloody. Only shown for a short time but very intense.

We see a pool of blood on the floor and then watch as a man stitches up a large cut through his cheek (we see the needle poke through the flesh and hear the thread tugging against the flesh).

A car is thrown into the air by an explosion, soldiers open fire on rebels and they shoot back and forth (we see several men struck and fall to the ground dead); other wounded men are then shot repeatedly at close range until they are certainly dead (we see bloody wounds and see bodies flinch when struck).

A man is tied to a beam with his wrists are bound, and another man shows him the tools that he will use to torture him, and then strikes him in the face with a hammer. Later we see the after effects of the torture, blood is everywhere, and the man's hand is cut open, broken, and hanging on to the arm by a thread.

A woman runs from soldiers who chase her on horseback, she is surrounded, one man dismounts and approaches her, he is shot in the back, and the others are shot off their horses -- two ride away.

A man is shot through he face (we see a bloody hole), and he falls back dead. .

A doctor gives a man an injection of something (we see the needle poke through the skin) that will ultimately kill him, in order to put him out of his misery. A woman goes into labor, we hear her screaming, we see many blood-soaked sheets removed from the room, and we hear that she died. A man has blood on his head from having been struck by another man.

A man shoots a man in the back.

A man shoots a man twice in the chest.

A man with a large facial wound drinks an alcohol beverage and grimaces when it stings -- we see blood soak into the bandage that covers the wound.

A girl finds her mother hemorrhaging, with a blood-soaked nightgown.

A girl puts a anthropomorphic mandrake root in a bowl of milk; the "man-root" coos like a baby and the girl drops blood from her finger into its mouth.

A toad coughs up its entire insides, we see the deflated body on the floor

A faun talks of stabbing a girl's newborn baby brother for blood, and a knife is shown.

A woman dies in childbirth. We see bloody sheets being brought out of the room.

A young girl is shot and slowly bleeds to death. Alhough it is not particularly graphic, it can be quite traumatic to viewers of all ages.

4 F-words and its derivatives, 2 scatological terms, 1 anatomical term, 13 mild obscenities, name-calling (vermin, idiot, coward), 1 religious exclamation. (all in subtitles)

A man drinks a glass of alcohol that has been laced with a sedative, a man drinks alcohol in a few scenes, and men and women drink wine with dinner. A man smokes in several scenes. A doctor gives a man an injection of something that will ultimately kill him, in order to put him out of his misery, a woman is given sedatives during a difficult pregnancy, and a "man-root" is placed beneath the bed of a woman who is ill (as a remedy).

A man's face is graphically bashed in with the blunt end of a bottle as mentioned in the Violence & Gore section. This scene will probably be disturbing to most audiences.

There is a tense chase sequence involving a creature called the "Pale Man" which may be frightening for some.

A woman is heard screaming during childbirth.

Implied torture.

This film might be disturbing and upsetting for children.