• Director(s)

    Gordon Cowie

  • Production Year

    2025

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    81m

  • Cast

    Clark Moore, Jolene Andersen, Aion Boyd

Film

Lyla

strong violence, threat, domestic abuse, bloody images, sex, suicide

A writer on a retreat with his wife and son starts to lose his grip on reality in this US psychological thriller.…

A writer on a retreat with his wife and son starts to lose his grip on reality in this US psychological thriller.

violence
A person is bludgeoned to death, and another is stabbed. A man behaves in an increasingly threatening and aggressive manner towards his wife and young son, and in one scene speaks about the boy using homophobic invective. An imaginary sequence shows the man strangling his wife, without strong visual detail.
threat and horror
A person experiences disturbing dreams and hallucinations, and acts threateningly towards his family. Unsettling scenes include two short sequences in which a pair of scissors is poised to sever a child’s tongue.
sex
A man thrusts on top of a woman in bed, without visible nudity, during a strong scene of sex.
suicide and self-harm
A person takes their own life in bloody fashion in front of a young child.
injury detail
There is brief but strong bloody detail in the context of violence.
additional issues
There is infrequent use of strong language (‘f**k’); milder terms include ‘pussy’, ‘bitch’, ‘shit’ and ‘asshole’. There is also infrequent use of discriminatory terms such as ‘fag’, although discrimination is not condoned by the film. Other issues include references to mental illness, as well as brief breast and rear nudity in a non-sexual context.

  • Director(s)

    Gordon Cowie

  • Production Year

    2025

  • Genre(s)

    Drama, Thriller

  • Approx. running minutes

    81m

  • Cast

    Clark Moore, Jolene Andersen, Aion Boyd

strong violence, threat, domestic abuse, bloody images, sex, suicide
Classified Date:
07/04/2025
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
Trinity Creative Partnership Ltd
violence
A person is bludgeoned to death, and another is stabbed. A man behaves in an increasingly threatening and aggressive manner towards his wife and young son, and in one scene speaks about the boy using homophobic invective. An imaginary sequence shows the man strangling his wife, without strong visual detail.
threat and horror
A person experiences disturbing dreams and hallucinations, and acts threateningly towards his family. Unsettling scenes include two short sequences in which a pair of scissors is poised to sever a child’s tongue.
sex
A man thrusts on top of a woman in bed, without visible nudity, during a strong scene of sex.
suicide and self-harm
A person takes their own life in bloody fashion in front of a young child.
injury detail
There is brief but strong bloody detail in the context of violence.
additional issues
There is infrequent use of strong language (‘f**k’); milder terms include ‘pussy’, ‘bitch’, ‘shit’ and ‘asshole’. There is also infrequent use of discriminatory terms such as ‘fag’, although discrimination is not condoned by the film. Other issues include references to mental illness, as well as brief breast and rear nudity in a non-sexual context.

  • Classified date

    07/04/2025

  • Language

    English