Movie

Vampire Carnival

2026 • R

When a grief-stricken young woman visits a mysterious, traveling carnival in her small town, she becomes seduced into a dangerous world of pleasure and deception.

Content advisory

LGBTQ+ Characters/Relationships

Unrated

Language

heavy — The film contains strong language including the f-word, and milder terms such as 'bitch', 'shit', 'damn', 'hell', 'goddamn', and 'Jesus'. The strong language appears to be spoken and is frequent enough to be noted explicitly.

Mature Themes

heavy — The film explores mature themes including suicide and self-harm with strong visual detail. It also deals with grief as indicated by the plot summary about a grieving girl who encounters a sinister carnival. There are significant themes of trauma, despair, and moral complexity linked to the underground world’s price for escape.

Scary/Intense Content

heavy — The film contains prolonged and sustained menacing scenes with weapons, jump scares, and screams of terror. The horror includes intense sequences with threats and frightening imagery typical of the horror genre.

Sexual Content & Nudity

heavy — Sexual scenes include group sex with visible buttocks and breasts and audible sexual moaning. Sexualized nudity is emphasized, and there are scenes involving sexual activity combined with blood and violence. Occasional sex references appear throughout.

Substance Use

moderate — Powdered ecstasy is snorted in a scene, and brief shots of drug dealing are shown. These drug uses are depicted but not glorified. There is no indication that substance use is a central theme.

Violence & Gore

heavy — The film contains multiple scenes of graphic violence including stabbings, repeated blows to the head, biting, strangulation, and use of improvised weapons. A character is repeatedly stabbing themselves under supernatural compulsion. There are many blood spurts, close-up shots of wounds, cuts, bruises, burns, and a severed head shown after violent scenes.