Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
NZ release: 13 July 2018
Violence and scary scenes Rated on: 13 July 2018
What’s it about?
Dracula gets dragged by his daughter and friends to a cruise to relax and spend some quality family time. However, their cruise isn’t as friendly as they thought, as the boat is owned by the famous monster hunter Van Helsing family.
The facts
- Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky (Samurai Jack, Hotel Transylvania 2)
- English language
- Runtime: 97 minutes
- Staring Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Kevin James, and Selena Gomez
Why did it get this rating?
This film was cross-rated by the Film and Video Labelling Body. You can find out more about cross-rating here.
Horror
There are different types of monsters: zombies, ghosts, skeletons, mummies, witches, and other creatures. Some have scary features such as large eyes, sharp fangs and long arms.
Violence
Characters often fight each other. We see kicking, punching, slapping, and biting. In a few scenes, characters throw or smash objects, sometimes at other characters. In one scene, a terrifying kraken fights with Dracula and his friends.
We see Dracula and another character dodge various dangerous traps. Dracula has an axe impaled into the top of his head and arrows in his back. He doesn’t appear to be hurt.
Dracula thwarts all of the Van Helsing family’s attempts to kill him, either accidentally or intentionally. This is mainly comedic.
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