Does the dog die?
185 supporters
Cape Fear
Movie • 1991 • Thriller
ReportSam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
This movie contains 35 potentially triggering events.
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Cleptoria
Nothing is seen on screen. An actress emotionally describes the noises the dog made as he died from poisoning. Mute the tv as the Nick Nolte drives home after an urgent call from his wife to avoid hearing the distressing description.
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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Sid
Cady stalks the family by hanging around outside their house, breaking into it and spying on them
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geillis
The family argue constantly throughout the film, father slaps daughter.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Sid
Max Cady gaslights Danielle
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cruelintention
15 year old is groomed and molested as a major plot point
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Addiction
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cruelintention
Mention of the daughter using weed. Then she smokes weed with the perpetrator
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Anonymous
YES. A pet dog is killed by poisoning. I don't get how people have this marked as "No".
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Does a pet die?
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Sid
The dog
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Assault
Is there pedophilia?
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HeatherEhch
The girls in question are teenage rather than children, but Max's preference skews young so you could say it's at least ephebophilia
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Is someone held under water?
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Someone is handcuffed to a piece of a boat that sinks
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Is someone restrained?
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Sid
Cady restrains the family members in the climactic scene and is later handcuffed to part of the wrecked boat by his ankle, drowning him
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cruelintention
Dunno why everyone's being so vague. He's in prison for raping a 16 year old. He beats and rapes a woman (literal rape off screen), then he grooms a 15 year old girl and puts his tumb in her mouth and kisses her. Then later on he gives the mum a choice of being raped herself or raping the 15 year old. He starts to do it to the mother but is interrupted. People need to be less vague on this site.
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HeatherEhch
A bit before the 1 hour mark, when the villain goes home with a woman. It's not prolonged but it's graphic
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Bodily Harm
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Is there cannibalism?
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lsr2864
A man takes a bite out of a woman’s cheek, but immediately spits it out.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Sid
Cady is doused in lighter fluid and set alight. He survives and his skin is visibly burned for the rest of the film
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Is there body horror?
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A major character suffers burns. Wouldn't count it as body horror honestly but the prosthetics are pretty grim
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Does a head get squashed?
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Sid
There’s a failed attempt to crush Cady’s head with a rock
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Are any teeth damaged?
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HiMyNameIsAlex
Deniro is said to have paid a lot of money in real life to shave his teeth down for the role, then pay upwards of four times more money to have them fixed.
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Family
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Does someone cheat?
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Rhosauce
Before the events of the movie and, emotionally, during.
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Fear
Are there jumpscares?
28 supporters
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spit
Around the 43 minute mark there's a jumpscare. It's only auditory. A phone ringing abruptly in a quiet moment. The whole family flinches from the loud sound.
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Is there audio gore?
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HiMyNameIsAlex
Answering machine message of explicit detail of dog dying at hands of aggressor.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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The daughter is briefly locked in the hold of the houseboat.
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Does someone die by suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Noxious
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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In the last scenes Max mocks a trial and talks to the camera saying „Your Honor” a couple of times
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Pregnancy
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Are there n-words?
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Anonymous
A white man uses the word "N*gro" to describe someone.
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Relationships
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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cruelintention
Very large theme of rape and violence towards women
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Does someone drown?
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Sid
Max drowns at the very end
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