R.L. Stine's the Haunting Hour (TV Series 2010–2014) Poster

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Sex & Nudity

  • Some characters wear strapless dresses and shirts. A woman wears a dress with low cleavage, and there are points where guys go around shirtless (mostly in pool scenes). There is no onscreen nudity at any point in the series.
  • Some hugging and kissing, and a few mild innuendo jokes between adult characters that most child viewers would probably not pick up on.
  • A woman cautions her daughter about allowing boys to sleep over in her room when she's home alone. She also orders her not to go down to the local town hangout spot by the river at night called "the Nook".
  • Some comments are made throughout the series about "hot" boys and girls, and at one point a teenage girl refers to a grown man as "hottie morgue guy" and asks him for his phone number (her friend moans that she shouldn't be "flirting over a dead body").
  • "Afraid of Clowns" features multiple comments and allusions to puberty, mostly made by a boy's father around his 13th birthday. His father tells him that he will soon be noticing significant changes about his body and insists on bringing it up on multiple occasions; the boy is visibly embarrassed and asks him to stop.
  • A teenage boy jokingly asks his mother if he can get a life-sized doll made to look like actress Meghan Fox.
  • A man tells his son (about a deceased old man who used to live in their house), "that man was 114 years old, and he had a 29 year old girlfriend - you do the math!"
  • It is said that an elderly man was found dead, "completely naked, face-down in a pile of sugar".
  • A boy tells another boy in the school locker room that he "grew a pair".
  • A teenage boy gives an older woman mouth-to-mouth resuscitation when he comes across her body. Believing he was trying to make out with her, the woman shoves him away and rises to her feet.
  • A boy and girl sleep next to one another under a tree at night; the boy later tells the girl that she is "as beautiful as clever".

Violence & Gore

  • There are scenes of death and peril, most of which end by fading to black before anything too extreme can be seen onscreen. This includes an eminent apocalypse, a boy having fungal spores breathed down his face, and a girl being eaten alive by a boogeyman, among other things.
  • There are some scenes of "gross-out" type scares including a boy with an arm cast filled with live rats and mice, two girls crushing live spiders to death (out of fear, not sadism) under their feet, and a grown man dressed in child's clothing coated in moldy ice cream, among other things.
  • Some scenes of mild to moderate injury, including but not limited to an old lady passing out after having a fish tank dropped on her head, a boy breaking his arm after running into a pile of garbage cans, and a boy passing out after being injected with "love potion" (in a Cupid-themed scene).

Profanity

  • Some scatological humour, particularly in "Poof De Fromage", which features multiple "poop" and "fart" comments from the main characters (this is not a common occurrence throughout most of the series).
  • A few uses of the words "suck," "god," and "hell" respectively throughout the whole series.
  • A woman is told to bury her feces in the woods with a trowel so bears won't dig it up.
  • One use of "hellraiser" ("The Return of Lily D").
  • A girl is told that her two glamour headshot photos both look like "number 2" (a poop joke).

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Lilly and "Lilly D" have matching champagne glasses at the Really You Centre while they get their pedicures done. Lilly is underage, so presumably the drink in the glass isn't real champagne.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There is some bullying and one instance of verbal abuse from a parent in "The Hole", which may upset some viewers.
  • A boy acts as though he's on a drug high after attending a mysterious funhouse; he destroys his family home and frightens his sister. This is distressing and may upset some viewers.
  • Two children fear that their grandfather is dead after coming across his apparently lifeless body lying on a bed in the dark. They both cry and try to call emergency services.
  • Many of these episodes feature unsettling visual scenery, including vintage houses, abandoned mental hospitals, vacant lots, a retro funhouse, a basement full of doll heads, a nursery covered in stained lamb wallpaper, and foggy nighttime streets.
  • Some emotionally upsetting scenes of death and family dysfunction, most notably the death of a beloved grandparent.
  • Some episodes can be a little disturbing.
  • Most of the episodes end in something that is more "dreadful" than scary, but at the same time a bit silly. For example, the ending of an episode called "Catching Cold", a boy is obsessed with catching an ice cream truck that no one else sees. When he finally gets in it, he finds a person who has been in there for 30 years waiting for another "soul" to take over the truck. The boy screams as the truck drives away.
  • Some episodes have jump scares, with sudden scary images such as the episode "Game Over."

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • A girl is turned into a doll; immediately after being turned into a doll, the doll's pants are partway down, revealing a buttock crack briefly; the doll is flipped over by another character.

Violence & Gore

  • There is an alternate ending to "Scarecrow" where a major antagonist is seen being burned by a teenage boy. The character appears in the form of a scarecrow, so it is not particularly graphic.
  • "Scary Mary (Part 2)" features a woman whose severely burnt face is briefly seen; as she is consumed by fire, she laughs and makes comments about having no face.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • "The Mascot" features two boys eaten alive; they are seen in a monster's stomach, screaming for help. Their cell phone dies before they can call anybody. Notably the monster also tries to kill a boy with yellow chemical gas earlier on, but does not succeed. The antagonist as a whole may upset some viewers.
  • Some of the more plausible episodes feature distressing situations such as a passenger plane almost crashing (people are seen screaming and begging for help, even the flight attendant panics onscreen), a newspaper clipping featuring a car crash that killed a family, a dysfunctional family arguing in front of their children to the point where one boy physically destroys objects and runs away from home, and a mention of a girl's father being killed. This may frighten younger viewers.
  • Some seemingly friendly characters, including a teen girl pixie and a goofy TV show host named Uncle Howee, are later revealed to be quite mean-spirited and cruel; the demeanour change may frighten some viewers.
  • A mentally troubled girl is told to kidnap her own baby brother; it is implied he will be a human sacrifice (note: the girl doesn't go through with the kidnapping).
  • Some episodes actually result in kids being killed offscreen such as "The Girl in the Painting," and "Pumpkinhead."

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