There is not an actual dog death shown. However, there is a dog ghost out in the graveyard with its ghost owner.
Harriet also shows a photo of her childhood dog and describes how when they were hit by a car it “popped like a balloon”. This moment is comedic versus sad.
I am very sensitive to animal deaths and had no issue :)
Not technically. There’s a cat with a collar on the front step of Ben’s (the main character’s) door which is not directly said to be abandoned but we don’t actually know who the cat belongs to.
You could certainly make the arguent that the Hatbox Ghost's abusive upbringing led him to be evil. He was punished by his father for crying at his mother's funeral.
At first, one of the characters insists that there’s no such thing as ghosts to the current residents of the haunted mansion, but he quickly realizes that the mansion is indeed haunted
Not on screen and not a belt but at 18 mins in when Ben meets the kid, he asks if he remember "action man" and how he would hold a shoe and say "say it again, boy!" And then his mum says "just like abuelita with the chancla" (a sandal/shoe that is normally used to hit children) 18:00 to 18:14
I mean, there are *ghost* animals so there's a certain amount of implication there. Also there is a description of a dog being "popped like a watermelon" when it was hit by a car.
closer to the end of the movie the little boy goes down a ladder and sees a bunch of headstones. while he’s down there he finds a hat and lifts it up. the spider appears once he lifts the hat and it is gone within a few seconds. it’s very large and if you have arachnophobia definitely don’t look.
Two women are found tied up back-to-back with mouths gagged towards the end of the film, but it is very brief and they are released.
Magical “chains” restrain a character and pull them into the earth at the very end of the movie.
No, BUT a child contemplates suicide in a way that was a bit unexpected. A ghost impersonates a boy's dead father and invites the boy to "join him." The boy basically indicates that he hates his life and considers joining his father in death.
A surprisingly frank discussion of grief takes place in this movie, with one character losing his wife via car accident (off camera) and another losing his father (also off screen).
No trans people are represented, sadly. However, a man poses as a widower's dead wife in a series of letters which he uses to manipulate him into committing s**cide. This character never presents as feminine otherwise but this could be seen as adjacent to "predatory trans" depictions.
Danny Devito is taken to the emergency room after being struck by a car in a scene played for comedy. The comedy scene continues into the emergency room wherein ghosts play tricks on a woman in the ER.
It is briefly implied that Travis is disliked or even bullied in school for making sure others follow the rules. He doesn't seem to understand that his behaviour is socially frowned upon by other children. At the start of the film, his mother tells Ben that he doesn't have friends. This could be interpreted as an autistic child being picked on and socially isolated by peers due to his autistic traits.
A boy goes into a dark space with a low ceiling under a house. Two characters contemplate going into openings in the ground (one of the openings is a grave).
We know some of the ghosts committed suicide due to manipulation but it happens offscreen and we only see a flashback where a man's body is found after he killed himself
A character is excluded because of a health condition instead of being supported in making their own decisions about whether or not a situation is safe for their health.
A character has a heart condition and mentions a future surgery, which initially causes him to be excluded and limits his ability to do what he wants at the beginning of the movie (other characters uninvite him to the haunted mansion because of concerns about his health). He is hospitalized at one point (due to an accident, not his chronic illness) and near the end of the movie he does appear to have a medical episode where he is unconscious and it’s unclear if he has possibly had a heart attack and if he will be okay (he is fine).
Danny Devito's character is either struck by a truck or almost struck by a truck. Either way, he goes to the emergency room and gets treated but it's all played for laughs and not realistic at all.
Harriet also shows a photo of her childhood dog and describes how when they were hit by a car it “popped like a balloon”. This moment is comedic versus sad.
I am very sensitive to animal deaths and had no issue :)