The Lodge

Parents need to know that The Lodge is a horror/thriller movie about sinister things happening to two kids and their soon-to-be-stepmother while they're stuck in a remote, snowbound lodge. Violence includes guns and shooting, characters dying/dead bodies shown (including a frozen dog), blood spatters/trails, children in peril, and other unsettling, spooky imagery. A woman's bare breasts are seen after she gets out of the shower, and her naked body is somewhat visible through the shower's opaque door. Two people kiss and giggle together in bed. Language includes a few uses of "f--k" (or "f---ing"), and a character seems to depend on prescription pills. Characters drink wine in several scenes; one drinks just before dying via suicide. Another scene suggests that a character may be nursing a hangover. The movie's setup isn't very smart, but the story is well told, and the film is moody and icily paced; it should appeal to sophisticated horror hounds.