Parents guide

A young man and a young woman kiss.

A young man and a young woman kiss before being interrupted by another young man.

Men and women dance in a club and the women are wearing some skimpy outfits.

A young woman changes her clothes behind a screen and we can see her silhouette but no real detail.

A man is shown wearing boxer briefs and a dress shirt.

A young man is shown shirtless (we see his bare chest, abdomen and back) while hanging from clock cables.

We see a sketch of a bare-chested young man (his bare chest, shoulders and abdomen are visible).

A man is shown bare-chested in several scenes (bare chest, abdomen and shoulders are seen).

A young woman and a man look at each other across a crowded club; the man walks toward another woman and they move close to kissing but do not (please see the Violence/Gore category for more details).

A young man caresses a young woman's hair and she smiles.

A young woman finds her apartment ransacked and walks through the debris; a big dog snarls at her and as she watches it we see its head begin to spilt in two (bloody flesh and matter are revealed), and tendrils shoot out of openings on its body as it transforms into a many toothed demon and it lunges toward her; she lights a flammable liquid and it explodes blowing the creature to bits but the bits begin to reform (we see an eye open in a ball of goo) into the creature until a man stabs it through with a sword (the creature disintegrates).

An extended fight scene shows shadow hunters and vampires fighting: one person swings a glowing whip toward the vampires and dispatches several, the vampires are shown baring their pointed teeth and snarling while a young woman shoots, at close range, a vampire that lunges toward her (we see blood on the end of the gun) just before several werewolves jump through windows (shattering glass) and attack the vampires (we see one vampire being thrashed by a wolf) and before a young woman throws a dagger into one wolf and a woman uses her whip to pull down a portion of the ceiling before the shadow hunters run out.

A man walks toward a woman across a crowded club, they appear close to kissing until a snake bracelet on her arm slithers off her arm and entwines the man while two men grab and hold him and a third man slices him with a sword; we see the slain man writhing on the floor with what appear to be tentacles poking out of the cuts (blood is not evident); a young woman watching screams at the act and no one else around her seems to see what's happened.

Werewolves and demons fight and we see a demon stab a werewolf in the back (we see sharp nails protrude from the wolf's chest and he falls to the floor, presumably dead).

A young man plays a piano and a woman begins to twitch and complain; her eyes bulge and roll back in her head as she turns into a demon and grabs a young woman by the throat, and then throws the young man into a wall (he lies motionless on the floor); tentacles burst out of the demon's neck, she throws the young woman into a wall and another young man grabs the demon from behind but is then stabbed by one of the tentacles (we hear a crunch and he falls to the floor).

A man breaks a door open and a woman on the inside of the door is thrown to the floor; another man with a large dog enters the room with a weapon as the first swings a long blade toward the woman on the floor; the first man throws the woman into a bank of cabinets and she crashes to the floor, she picks up a knife and tries to stab the man, then strikes him with a skillet a couple of times and slams him in a refrigerator door repeatedly; the other man enters, she strikes him with the skillet and she hides in the bathroom.

A man and a demon fight and the demon is stabbed in the back with a boomerang blade.

A young man strikes a woman/demon in the head with a shovel and her head tips unnaturally but then rights itself; the young man then tackles the woman and they crash through the door of a house where another young man stabs the woman/demon and she disintegrates.

A demon holds a knife to a werewolf's throat and the werewolf bites the demon (we hear a crunch and the demon yells).

A demon grabs a young man's head and twists (we hear a crunch, but neither the head nor the neck break).

3 uses of "shit", 5 mild obscenities, and 2 religious exclamations (Jesus and Oh My God).

Name-calling (mundane, human, she's a witch, brat, Goth wannabe, and normal girl.)

A woman drinks an elixir from a jeweled bottle and falls unconscious.

A man puts drops of blue liquid into a young man's drink and the young man gasps and gags after drinking it.

A man injects himself with blood and we see him thrashing and writhing.

A young man tells a young woman that "they pump hallucinogenics into the air."

An early scene in the Pandemonium nightclub; a boy asks a girl if she wants a drink, she agrees.

Expect a lot of violent confrontations in the film, mostly using special blades and swords, including scenes of torture and even death.

Clary calls her mother to tell her she wants to go home but her mother says she cannot. Clary gets really worried and runs home and when she gets home she sees the house in such a mess. Later we see a dog and he turns into some kind of a monster and attacks Clary.

There are a LOT of monsters and demons in the film.