After arriving in India, Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.
This movie contains 36 potentially triggering events.
Some people have taken issue with the part where British colonial soldiers arrive to kill the Thuggee but seeing as they don't break the law it might not count by the site's defintion.
Hinduism is misrepresented as a cult worshipping an inaccurate Kali, the priest of which sacrifices people to her and uses "black magic" like a voodoo doll and the ability to rip people's hearts out without killing them. The film also implies that Hindus can only worship either Shiva (portrayed as good) or Kali (portrayed as evil), which is false.
Animal Actors based in London provided all the animals for the film. The elephants were from a nearby elephant orphanage and producers told of how the elephants don't do anything they dint want to and would go lie down if they were done for the day.
Several dead animals are shown during the dinner scene. A dead snake is placed on the dinner table. Then it's cut open and live eels come out, some of which are eaten by the guests. Later beetles are also eaten and at the end of the scene monkey heads are served and the top of the head is detached (you don't see the insides).
Other than the elephan trunk/snake moment, there's also a dead snake during the dinner scene. It's big and the camera focuses on it for a moment. After that, it remains in the background for the reminder of the scene.
Bugs (both alive and dead) are frequently shown throughout the movie. There is one dinner scene where cooked beetles are passed around on a platter and eaten. There is another graphic scene where Willie is passing through a hidden passage completely filled with bugs. A stickbug crawls on her hand, and various other bugs like beetles, cockroaches and centipedes crawl up her legs and body.
Several bad guys fall off a bridge towards the end of the movie. The main antagonist also gets a graphic scene where he hits the sides of a cliff before falling into the river.
I'm not sure if they ended up dying or not, but there is one kid who was a slave and escaped the palace. He arrives at the village breathing heavily and stumbling before collapsing into Indiana's arms and being passed to his mother.
Only one bog scare and that's the hand popping out of the hole, which can be startling. The rest are tame
Total Jump Scare Count: 4 (1 MAJOR, 3 Minor)
(Minor) (32:25) (Willie suddenly picks up a Vampire Bat, startling her)
(Minor) (54:16) (When Short breaks the door handle, the door (suddenly explodes with corpse's hanging out)
(MAJOR) (58:25) (WHEN WILLIE PUTS HER HAND THROUGH A HOLE, ANOTHER HAND SUDDENLY GRABS HER, ONLY TO BE INDIANA)
(Minor) (1:09:33) (A Guard suddenly pops up in front of Willie and Short)
timestamp 1hour 13 mins skip about 2 mins ahead! indiana is force fed the black blood and spits it onto the people holding him captive and trying to feed it to him
The whole movie depicts India and Indian culture in a variety of gross (in many ways) and racist stereotypes. The Thugees themselves didn't exist in real life and were a product of racist colonial paranoia.
The sacrifice victim was played by an Indian actor but he wore brownface anyways for some reason. Pat Roach, a white guy, plays the buff Indian man who gets crushed. He seems to be in brownface.