Does the dog die?
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Ghostbusters
Movie • 1984 • Comedy
ReportAfter losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.
This movie contains 21 potentially triggering events.
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The Terror Dogs are possessor spirits. Although they can make humans shapeshift into similar forms, it is unknown if the Terror Dogs themselves were ever alive as we know it.
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Is someone stalked?
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LJConrad
Louis is chased by a demon and is shown in great distress, no one helps him and he is ultimately caught by the monster.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Venkman tricks two students during a test at the start. He lets a young woman believe she is correctly guessing cards when she is wrong, while he electrocutes a male student even when he does get the answer right.
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Two characters drink at the beginning, but neither gets drunk and no-one is an alcoholic.
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The dog-like demons are shown as charred husks at the end.
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Is there a dead animal?
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LJConrad
The charred husks of the dog-like demons are shown at the end.
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Is someone drugged?
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
Peter sedates Dana while she is possessed.
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Venkman is quite pushy towards Dana (and his lecherous behaviour towards the female student at the start) but this is played as charming and he doesn't force himself on her. Later when she is possessed, she forces herself on him and he extricates himself, showing that he would not take advantage of a woman. Later Dana and Louis kiss and presumably have sex while possessed, which is therefore without their consent.
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SiRenfield
A character almost has sex with a possessed person but they decide against it
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Is someone burned alive?
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The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is set alight before attempting to scale a tall building
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Is someone buried alive?
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LJConrad
No but there is an earthquake and the main characters all fall into a hole as the road breaks up and for a few moments the worst is assumed before they manage to climb back out.
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Is there amputation?
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LJConrad
There is a lobotomy joke at the end where Louis dazedly agrees to giving the Ghostbusters part of his brain.
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Is someone tortured?
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Venkman repeatedly gives a male student electric shocks to his increasing discomfort and fear.
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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LJConrad
Dana is grabbed and held down by demonic arms that rip through her chair and dragged screaming into the kitchen towards a demon. It is a distressing scene.
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Is someone possessed?
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Nebulacat
Both Dana and Lewis get possessed and believe they're ancient spirits. The effects are reversed.
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Are there ghosts?
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thechonkyfrog
who..said no?
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Does someone vomit?
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LJConrad
No but Slimer the gluttonous ghost gobbles food and drink that falls straight through his body on to the floor.
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Does someone spit?
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LJConrad
When the student is electrocuted at the start, he spits his gum out and then puts it back in his mouth.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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jdpamv
No copaganda but there are politics, it’s often considered the most libertarian (as in the U.S. Libertarian Party) Hollywood film. A private company are the heroes and big government, in the form of a pro-environment politician, is the villain.
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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EmmaWard55
A scientist performs an experience with two volunteered hooked up to electrodes. He lightly shocks the male participant several times for incorrect answers.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Saborlas
No needles/syringes are seen onscreen, but Venkman does tell his friends that he sedated the possessed Dana with Thorazine. He uses the wrong measurement terminology (which can be alarming if you know what that much would actually DO), but that's because he's a psychologist and not a psychiatrist.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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LJConrad
Louis is picked up by the police and delivered to the Ghostbusters in a straight jacket.
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Is autism misrepresented?
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jdpamv
Unconfirmed within the films but Dan Akroyd is autistic and based his acting in the role on himself, to an extent. Egon Spengler is also implicitly autistic/autistic-coded.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there misophonia?
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ectoplasmic
At the beginning of the film when Venkman is testing ESP one of the characters is chewing gum aggressively.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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The elevator scene may be considered claustrophobic
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Harlbior
There is a gluttonous poltergeist that eats copious amounts of food, despite not having a stomach (or a corporeal body for that matter).
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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kenny77
Multiple characters are implied to be autistic and are treated no differently
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Noxious
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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SiRenfield
Only in relation with more contemporary PG movies. “@$$” “d!ck” and “sh!t” but not much stronger than that
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Pregnancy
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Lantern
They use whatever pronoun best suits Gozer moment to moment as it is stated "It's whatever it wants to be" suggesting Gozer is gender fluid. Thus they adjust how they refer to Gozer depending on the current form
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Does the black guy die first?
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thechonkyfrog
the black guy doesn’t die at all
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Is there hate speech?
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jdpamv
Not sure if this counts more as misogyny or predatory but the testing scene at the start hasn’t aged well.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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jdpamv
There’s a genderfluid ghost but they’re implicitly a deity rather than a dead person.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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midwestrogen
early on, mentions of sch*zo and schizophrenia to dismiss people who saw a ghost
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Anonymous
a middle aged man lightly flirts with a young collage student in the first scene, she is not seen or mentioned for the rest of the movie. This is the only instance of an age gap
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Is there sexual content?
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thechonkyfrog
ray dreams abt getting head from a ghost
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Social
Is someone homeless?
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Saborlas
Not in the final film. There's a deleted scene where Aykroyd and Murray play bums in Central Park, but it was cut because the director thought it would confuse people.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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ECTO-1 IN ACTION! It's considered a saddle up moment.
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Skeltalmans
The Ghostbusters cause a giant explosion in order to kill the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
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