Does the dog die?
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Cujo
Movie • 1983 • Horror
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A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
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TL;DR: The dog is shot at the end of the movie. (Fun facts about filming at the end!) In the opening scene Cujo is bit on the nose by a bat and whimpers and yelps. From this, he contracts rabies and starts behaving abnormally. He whimpers at loud noises and is seen with foam at the mouth and blood on his face. He begins to attack people and they try to fight back with fists, bricks, and baseball bats. Cujo performs several impressive stunts like ramming his head into a car and jumping through windows. At the end of the film, he is beaten with a baseball bat and seemingly stabbed with its broken handle before ultimately being shot. BUT some fun facts about filming that might make this easier to watch!! There were several dog actors on set, and they all did such a good job! Filmmakers had to take care not to get their wagging tails in the shot since they were so excited to be there! In the scene where Cujo was trying to get in the car, they put the dog’s favorite toys inside to get those shots! And the foam coming from his mouth was egg white (which is healthy for dogs to eat), and they couldn’t stop licking at it since it was so yummy! Lastly, of course, in the shots where Cujo was attacking or performing dangerous stunts (close ups and ramming his head into the car), a man in a dog suit or a mechanical dog head was used.
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A boy had to leave his sick rabid dog behind when his mother and he had to leave his abusive father.
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Joe the mechanic is abusive to his wife.
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Are there abusive parents?
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We see Brett's dad, Joe, physically grab his wife. It's suggested but not explicit they're leaving for his aunt's to get away from him.
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The main characters are stalked by a rabid dog.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Cujo gets hurt badly by the humans before dying
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Cujo is killed at the end of the film.
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Dog on human fighting, no dog on dog violence.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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This is a correction to the previous comment, they used ST BERNARDS, not rotties!
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Not harmed but very scared whilst chased by Cujo, shown at the beginning of the film.
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Does a cat die?
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It kinda feels weird that a cat doesn't die
I mean aren't cats and dogs enemies
I mean aren't cats and dogs enemies
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Yes, a character is forcibly kissed and groped by another.
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Is someone tortured?
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A mother and child are forced to remain in a hot car with no food or water by a circling rabid dog.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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The little boy has several episodes where he struggles to breathe.
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Is someone stabbed?
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Cujo is stabbed by a broken piece of a baseball bat.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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A character falls from a height and is attacked - the fall is recorded in slow-mo.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Short snippet of a gory body, no extreme gore for a horror movie.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Tad has some kind of fit where his eyes are rolled back in his head and he struggles to breathe/is unresponsive.
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Does a kid die?
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In the book, not the movie.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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The child's baseball bat is later wielded as a weapon and is broken, but otherwise no beloved or sentimental toys are broken.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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People are sort of held hostage by a dog but not kidnapped.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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We are briefly shown a creek in the beginning with a log thrown across it where the rabbit runs into it whilst Cujo is pursuing.
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There's minor jumpscares, but none too bad.
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Is there defecation?
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Cujo poops on the floor.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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A little boy pees out of a car door
And near the beginning there is a little boy peeing in the toilet but you only hear it while it shows his face through the window of the house
And near the beginning there is a little boy peeing in the toilet but you only hear it while it shows his face through the window of the house
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Does someone spit?
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Not human, but the dog has foam on it's mouth
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Does a baby cry?
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There is a LOT of a young child screaming and crying.
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This is a horror movie, so yes, there is screaming.
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Unsure why people said Yes to sexual content but jic: At one point the wife and her affair are seen sweaty with no nudity and is implied to have sex without explicitly saying so bc the wife puts back on her panties. And at a later point the same affair partner sexually assaults her in the kitchen by groping her and kissing her. Neither feel like sexual content.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Sexism
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Casually implied to the child son that his reasons for crying are silly. Definitely heavily implied to be poking at him that he Shouldn't be crying.
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Is someone terminally ill?
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Cujo has rabies.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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not as sad as the book, but still sad
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Fairly bloody dog attacks, including a dead man with an obvious throat injury. Killer dog is covered in blood for a large chunk of the movie.
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Is there gun violence?
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Dog gets shot
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