Characters are told they just imagined things when they see weird and scary stuff happening. I would say it’s unintentional gaslighting because the stuff they’re saying is pretty hard to believe.
Not on camera. A dog is "caught" by a comically large net and doesn't seem distressed at all, and it doesn't show up again. The owner then finds his bandana and is seen clearly distressed, the dog is implied dead
Not literal bugs. There's popcorn that behaves like larvae, it is briefly seen crawling around. If you find worms gross then it might be a little uncomfortable. The popcorns transform off screen into something that does not resemble bugs
Idk how notable it is but there were two puppets being played out in a scene where one kisses the other and the other puppet pushes them away and the puppet continues to try kissing the other one
not really? mooney makes a 'you into little boys?' joke to dave when he tries to defend two punks. but the "boys" in question are college age, as is dave. and mooney is supposed to come across as in the wrong for saying it
Not excessive, but there is some gore here and there. It's not very messy, barely any blood is seen squirting. Most of the violence is cartoonish or implied
The clowns were never human but they sort of look like warped humans. A dead man has a hand inserted on his back and he is played like a ventroloquist puppet. The clowns encase people inside cotton candy cocoons and clowns are later seen drinking blood out of them with straws. There is some cartoonish gore.
Not literally since the clowns aren't human, but they very much look like messed up humans and they clearly have human intelligence so I think it can still be triggering. They don't directly eat people, but they encase them in cocoons and then drink their blood (?) through a straw, it's made clear that the clowns use humans as food.
I don't think this counts since it's humorous but just in case. A cop puts cuffs on a clown and he pulls on them and the hands literally pop right off (no gore, like exact replica gloves of the clown's hand, but it really is his hands). He regrows them a minute later
We see a killer clown attempt to lure a child out of a fast food restaurant while holding a large mallet behind its back. The child is called back inside by a close adult before anything happens.
Not a death, but this scene alludes to the possibility of one.
two characters are shown to be incarcerated at the beginning without much justification, in a very brutal manner, but it's explicitly shown as a bad thing
The clowns have very clown like powers and tools, they can pretty much break the rules of physics. There's silly/wacky violence all around. That's about it though
i suppose technically the clowns are, but they're just sort of. large creatures in general. i wouldn't consider it in the same category as a fat character being portrayed by an actor in a fat suit
The clowns are destroyed as their mothership exploded and all the good guys seemingly survive. The movie ends with the good guys getting hit in the face by pies. Earlier in the movie a guy is killed via getting pelted by a lot of pies, it's not made clear whether just 1 pie is deadly or getting hit over and over by them, so the fate of the protagonists might be ambiguous. It might also hint at the clowns surviving the explosion? But no sequel was ever released so it's safe to assume they're all dead