Movie

Pinocchio: Unstrung

2026 • NR

Influenced by a sinister Cricket and created by Geppetto, Pinocchio launches a violent crusade to carve himself into a real boy like his brother James, one piece at a time.

Content advisory

LGBTQ+ Characters/Relationships

Unrated

Language

heavy — The dialogue contains frequent strong profanity including 22 uses of the word 'fuck' and 14 uses of 'fucking', alongside other strong and moderate curse words like 'shit', 'hell', 'bitch', and 'asshole'.

Mature Themes

heavy — The story includes heavy mature themes such as death of parents in a car accident, terminal cancer, bullying, child endangerment, resurrection experiments, suicide, and murder. These themes are central to the plot and presented with adult complexity.

Scary/Intense Content

heavy — The film has intense horror content with disturbing violent murders, a sentient puppet going on a killing spree, brutal bodily harm, death of children, and a burning house. This creates sustained and graphic scares likely to be frightening.

Sexual Content & Nudity

none — No information about sexual activity or nudity is reported in the available sources.

Substance Use

none — No mentions of alcohol, smoking, drugs, or related substance use are reported in the source material.

Violence & Gore

heavy — The film contains graphic and prolonged violence including disembowelment, impalement, ripping skin off, scalping, electrocution, and multiple brutal murders. Several characters are killed in explicit and gruesome ways. The wooden puppet Pinocchio is the perpetrator of a violent killing spree.