Parents Guide for
The Phantom of the Opera (2004) More at IMDbPro »

Some statues expose breasts and abdomens. (It's art so it isn't sexual in anyway.)

A man shows his buttocks at some passing people.

Some dresses are low-cut and show cleavage. (But that was the style back in Paris, 1870.)

The songs "Music of the Night" and "Point Of No Return" are both very sensual.

There is much swooning when the Phantom is around Christine Daae.

Infrequent mild sex references

The Phantom's face is severly deformed. He is seen without his mask briefly in the middle of the movie, but it's not really shown until the very end.

Three men are seen being strangled with a rope, only two of the three die.

There is an intense swordfight and a man's arm is cut, spilling a bit of blood.

A woman slaps a man on the cheek.

A chandelier falls and the Opera house bursts into flame, some people are trampled.

The Phantom as a young boy is shown being abused and whacked on the back by a man. Young Phantom then strangles that man with a rope.

Damn said twice, Hell said a few times (once as a place, other said as in "Who the hell is he? [See song "Notes"]) "My God" said three times.

woman and man smoke a cigar for about half a second of screen time. Women drink something from bottles while they are getting ready for rehearsal.

We see a flashback to when the Phantom was a boy in a circus "freak show" where he was dubbed the "Devil's Child" and was subjected to abuse by an adult for the amusement of spectators and forced to wear a hood. We see brief views of the man flogging and otherwise striking the boy until the boy ends up strangling his abuser in private.

**It is my belief that Erik (the Phantom)/chooses/ to wear the hood as a child because he is ashamed of his disfigurement. The man who 'owns' him in fact removes the hood while he tries to keep it on in vain. Granted this doesn't change the imagery just the reception of the scene.

Some parts of the movie may be quite scary and intense for young children, but mild for teens and adults

The final scenes after the chandelier crashes can be quite intense