Parents Guide for
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) More at IMDbPro »

A teenage boy and girl share a brief kiss.

A hand erupts from murky water, grabbing the hand of a teenage boy, and zombie-like, emaciated creatures come pouring out of the water, attacking the boy and a man: the boy strikes them, kicking one, punching another, and he is pulled under water, he struggles, a fire bolt rips through the water, igniting the creatures and a ball of fire explodes over the creatures still on land.

A crunching sound is heard when a person attempts to fix the bloodied, broken nose of a teenage boy; the nose appears to be fixed, but is still bloodied, the boy holds a bloodied rag to his nose, and a teenage girl uses a rag to help clean his bloody face.

Blood is shown dripping on the ground from a blood-covered ceiling.

A teenage boy is shown with a bloodied nose.

A man cuts his hand with a knife and wipes the blood over a rock wall; we don't see the blood and the wall crumbles.

A teenage girl is shown being pulled into the air and violently tossed about by an invisible being; she opens her mouth and appears to be screaming, but no sound is heard, and her limp body is then thrown on the ground and she appears to be unconscious.

A teenage boy shouts at a man, the man knocks the boy back and he falls to the ground, the boy shouts at the man again, and the man forces the boy to the ground, knocking his wind out.

Ghost-like clouds zoom through a city street and burst through a brick building, which explodes, the ghost-clouds are then shown crashing through the windows of a shop and the storefront erupts in flames, with fire raining on the street.

A man instructs a teenage boy not to stop giving him a poison that causes extreme pain, paralysis, and even death, and the man is shown shaking violently, moaning in pain, and begging for the boy to stop feeding him the poison.

A man forces an older man out the window of a tall building, and the man is shown falling through the air with a look of panic on his face.

The lifeless body of a man is shown, his head cradled by a teenage boy, who is openly weeping and a large group of people surrounds the dead body.

A ball of fire erupts and encircles a house and a teenage boy, a teenage girl, a man and a woman are shown leaping through a small opening.

Two people tackle one another, wrestling each other off their brooms and to the ground during a sporting event.

A teenage boy purposely bumps into another teenage boy.

A man pulls a teenage boy into a crowded room, tugging at him violently.

A teenage girl and boy cast defensive spells, causing lightning to shoot about, attempting to strike a woman and a man that are lurking in the shadows.

A teenage boy chases a woman through a field, screaming and shouting.

A man is shown being dragged by a group of dogs on leashes.

A teenage boy falls to the ground and begins to have a seizure, foaming at the mouth, and then blacks out.

A woman causes a house to catch fire and laughs as the fire consumes the house.

Some "balls" and "bloody hell".

A group of people is shown toasting with presumably alcoholic beverages.

People discuss "Butter Beer", a wizard beverage containing a slight amount of alcohol.

A young man states that his father would often have a "stiff one" at the end of the day.

An older man offers two teenage boys wine and beer.

Two men are shown intoxicated and with empty bottles and glasses in front of them.

A teenage boy is tasked with killing someone.

A teenage girl is seen thrown about on the ground and lifted into the air a few feet from touching a cursed necklace, she screams silently, and she falls to the ground (we see her twitching); somewhat disturbing.

A teenage boy takes a sip of poisoned wine, he falls to the floor and we see him foaming at the mouth and convulsing, another teenage boy uses a magical ingredient to cure him, and the first teenage boy sits up (very frightening but he then makes a joke so the intensity does not linger).

A scene involving living corpses may be very frightening for younger viewers (a sequence in which one of the corpses suddenly grabs a teenage boy's arm is very startling).

A man drinks the potion while in a cave and is shown suffering intensely (he asks to be killed at one point), which may be frightening.

Intense murder scene.