Does someone asphyxiate?
Browse movies, tv shows, books and more where someone asphyxiates.
This applies mostly to Space-set content where the body goes through significant harm and deadly trauma when sucked into the vacuum of space but can apply to drownings, claustrophobic environments or violence (which many are particularly sensitive to post the death of George Floyd). Not only that but these situations can be scary for children to watch, the suddenness of many situations where they occur can frighten adults and all viewers should be able to go into a movie aware of what they could see.
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Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
147
No
4
15
howdywrites
Drowning specifically
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
100
No
9
4
frootsnak
Someone is briefly strangled in a fight near the end of the film
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
95
No
11
8
LuckyFox
A character is briefly strangled by cables.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
88
No
7
8
PhoenixMesmer
No one fully suffocates, but there is a scene where characters begin to gasp for air when they find themselves leaving a planet's atmosphere.
Movie • 2018 Report
Yes
81
No
3
10
Spoilers!
Actually🤓 no, but Charlie doesn't die due to trouble breathing, she's severely allergic to nuts, accidentally eats some, goes into anaphylactic shock and then on the way to the hospital, dies in a freak accident.
Actually🤓 no, but Charlie doesn't die due to trouble breathing, she's severely allergic to nuts, accidentally eats some, goes into anaphylactic shock and then on the way to the hospital, dies in a freak accident.
Movie • 2019 Report
Yes
79
No
20
9
Siete
SPOILERS:
Three characters die of carbon monoxide poisoning at the start of the film. The deaths are not shown, but the aftermath is. There are also depictions of the one of the deceased as a jumpscare later in the film.
Three characters die of carbon monoxide poisoning at the start of the film. The deaths are not shown, but the aftermath is. There are also depictions of the one of the deceased as a jumpscare later in the film.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
77
No
9
8
dippyegg
It seems like multiple characters are about to at the beginning of their rituals.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
75
No
5
6
People faint due to lack of oxygen while swimming, but they do not die
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
74
No
7
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
71
No
3
4
cherry
asphyxiation/crushing
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
67
No
7
2
HMuller
Character chokes on an eyeball
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
66
No
0
14
ProfessorProcyon
A character struggles to breathe (with it looking as if he's choking) before dying.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
65
No
3
8
artsfartz
Someone on life support/intubated is removed from life support.
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
58
No
6
6
kawara
Bathtub suicide scene.
TV Show • 2008 Report
Yes
54
No
4
4
balls
jane's death is of asphyxiation
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
49
No
4
0
PandaCat8
Queen Ramonda dies by drowning when water bombs hit the palace and she can’t swim up in time.
Video Game • 2017 Report
Yes
47
No
0
6
idonom
In Act 3, one of Monika's random conversation topics has her reveal to the player that (SPOILERS) Sayori didn't actually snap her neck when she hanged herself, but instead suffocated to death due to hanging herself improperly. Act 2 has a random event that is theorized to represent Sayori's suicide in this way, with the audio sounding like someone struggling to breathe and the screen gradually fading out with veins on the sides.
TV Show • 2011 Report
Yes
45
No
5
1
laurenxox
S2
E2
Someone is smothered to death by a pillow.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
45
No
2
3
Anica
A man is suffocated by a pillowcase. Nothing is shown, but it is heard.
TV Show • 2005 Report
Yes
44
No
7
1
Vitya
S3
E3
Dean chokes in episode 11
Movie • 2023 Report
Yes
43
No
4
5
RamonaRamone
There is a trap that involves the victim being waterboarded, only with blood instead. There’s no towel, it just is poured from a couple yards up so it goes up the persons nose and in their mouth. The person chokes and coughs and struggles to breathe through the entire thing. He survives, but waterboarding itself involves asphyxiation.
Movie • 2016 Report
Yes
40
No
2
TV Show • 2005 Report
Yes
38
No
11
0
humanhalfofachilleus
S5
E5
Someone is kidnapped with a plastic bag over their head
TV Show • 2020 Report
Yes
36
No
3
1
JGlasser5
A character goes into anaphylactic shock after being force fed an almond joy, though they do survive
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
36
No
3
2
The grabber gets strangled
Video Game • 2009 Report
Yes
36
No
0
5
ESBirdnerd
You can suffocate in some blocks, such as sand, gravel etc.
Movie • 2022 Report
Yes
36
No
4
0
Someone is stabbed in the throat and chokes, so kindof yes?
Podcast Report
Yes
35
No
0
4
BonEpic
Yes, there is an entire episode where the characters struggle to breathe as they are trapped in a very claustrophobic environment. They audibly struggle to breathe.
Movie Report
Yes
35
No
0
2
pitifulcowboy
CPR is performed on Toni after she drinks paint
Movie • 2019 Report
Yes
35
No
4