Parents guide

The ground becomes entwined with red weed that looks like veins filled with blood.

Disturbing violence.

The body count in War of the Worlds, both seen and implied, is massive. In every place the relentless alien war machines attack, we're left to assume most of the human population is obliterated. We see numerous people vaporized by alien lasers, lost to explosions, presumably crushed by flying debris and drowned in a water attack.

Dead bodies float down a river and hang limply from a downed airliner.

Survivors riot over a rare working car, smashing windows and bloodying faces. Tearing at a broken windshield, a man's hands are bloodied. Guns are fired in a crowd. Shortly after this, one panicked man shoots another and takes his car.

The military engages in all-out assaults against the machines, complete with automatic weapons fire, air strikes and huge explosions.

The aliens take some humans alive, storing them in external "baskets" to be ingested by the apparently biological war machines. Gallons of orange liquid, implied to be human blood, flows freely from the machines. At one point, the air is humid with human blood, as we see a living person dropped to the ground out of view and then impaled with a giant alien needle to suck out his blood. Blood-colored vines cover the ground and structures in areas the aliens have conquered.

10 uses of "shit", 9 uses of "hell", 1 use of "Hard-ass", 1 use of "asshole", 6 uses of "goddamn", 1 use of "dick", 6 uses of "Jesus, 1 use of "For Christ's sake".

One use of dick

One use of balls.

No smoking or drugs.

Two men drink peach schnapps.

This film can be extremely scary and disturbing for some viewers

Incredibly intense and disturbing in places. For example, the main characters have a working car while most cars no longer work. Hordes of People attempt to use force to enter , and someone tries to drive away with the ten year old daughter of the main character. They are stopped and the girl is saved but they lose the car.

"War of the Worlds" is a very strong PG-13. The levels of death and terror throughout are high, with a pervasive sense of dread that is sustained for the majority of the film.

This may not be a scary movie but it's mostly the tripod horn and the blood weed and here and there content labels for this movie: Suggestive Dialogue, Moderate severe Language, Severe violence.

The scene where the aliens first attack and begin obliterating people with their weapons is very frightening.

Rachel frequently screams and cries in response to the frightening events happening around her.

Rachel sees a lot of dead bodies floating down a river. She understandably starts to panic and hyperventilate, until her father finds her and gets her out of there.

The aliens are pretty scary.

There is a frightening scene where a plane crashes into the house where the family is staying.

There are many people panicking which adds more to the already intense setting.