Does the dog die?
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The Witches
Movie • 1990 • Fantasy
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A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?
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I believe there's no dog.
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Are there nude scenes?
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A boy is implied to be nude in the bath but you only see his torso and knees
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A boy is emotionally neglected and shamed by his cold and demanding parents, and has apparently always been so. In the end, the parents completely reject him because he's been turned into a mouse, and he has to go live with someone else
permanently. He doesn't seem too sad about this (which is kind of weird) but that doesn't mean he wasn't mistreated. --- Apart from that, the witches obviously abuse children by being cruel to them and turning them into mice (and, in one case long before the movie's present, into a chicken). The transformations are the first step towards the witches' end goal of killing every child in the world by "squishing" them once they're small enough to be stepped on.
permanently. He doesn't seem too sad about this (which is kind of weird) but that doesn't mean he wasn't mistreated. --- Apart from that, the witches obviously abuse children by being cruel to them and turning them into mice (and, in one case long before the movie's present, into a chicken). The transformations are the first step towards the witches' end goal of killing every child in the world by "squishing" them once they're small enough to be stepped on.
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There’s a mention of the grandma giving kids ‘a spanking when they deserve it’ but it never happens
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Somewhat, I think. The hotel manager has been told that the grandmother is carrying a mouse around, and when he approaches her about it, she scolds him, saying that that's an absurd accusation, turns it around on him by blaming him for allowing the hotel to be infested with mice (which it isn't), and threatens to expose him if he doesn't do something about the infestation. He's flustered and ends up apologising. However, she doesn't do it out of malice, but to be able to continue trying to save the children who have been turned into mice and fight the witches.
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Is someone stalked?
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In a way, yes. "Grandma" mentions that once a child meets a witch, the witch never gives up.
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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I wouldn't say that the witches' desire to kill all children is anything like an addiction. As I see it, their "high" is the pleasure of triumph and of killing. Their desire is driven by evil and by the fact that they're disgusted by children because children smell exceedingly bad to them. They want to be rid of all children for good. If they were addicted, they wouldn't plan to kill every child in the world, because once they'd succeeded there would be no more "fixes" to be had.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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I don't recall any alcohol being shown or mentioned.
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There are magic potions that transform people into rats
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Are animals abused?
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Some of the witches, after being turned into rats, are hit by brooms and apparently stomped on, so this could be seen as abuse even though it's CG.
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Does a cat die?
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There's a (rather badly animated) cat; nothing bad happens to it.
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The Grand High Witch who has by this point in the film been turned into a rat was attacked by her cat whom she was mean to earlier in the film. Squeaks and meows are heard, but nothing is seen beyond the cat jumping at the rat.
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Does a horse die?
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I don't remember seeing any horse in the movie.
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Are there bugs?
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During the Witches meeting the Grand High Witch pulls a maggot or grub out of her head and eats it.
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Are there snakes?
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One witch presents a snake as a pet that is wrapped around her arm. Another witch has a magic snake dress that unfurls it tail to loosen the cloth
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Is someone burned alive?
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There’s an oil fire in the kitchen but it’s put out with a fire blanket without hurting anyone
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Is there cannibalism?
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A character is turned into a chicken, and people eat her eggs. Although this is not technically cannibalism, that and the fact that she is a human turned into chicken, a commonly eaten animal, can still invoke an emotional response.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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A witches hands get cut up by a fan
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Does someone fall to their death?
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No, but we see humans-turned-mice who come very close to falling from what to them are great heights.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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I'm not sure, but I seem to remember that whenever someone is turned into a mouse or rat, they sort of seize up and shake all over, seeming to loose muscle control for a few moments, until the transformation actually happens.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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The witches have no toes but the Grand High Witch has one middle toe that can be unsettling, so this could be triggering. There's no actual detachment of any appendages shown in the movie.
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Does someone break a bone?
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No one breaks a bone, but there are 2 scenes where the Grand High Witch extends her arms to extreme lengths; there is a sickening crunch each time a new segment of bone appears to lengthen her arms.
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Is there amputation?
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The child in the form of a mouse almost had his tail torn off.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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No, but the grand witch's teeth are pointy as if they'd been filed.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Mild and played for laughs. A rat bites a man's private parts (while he's fully dressed), but we don't see it directly, only his reaction and subsequent pain.
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Does a kid die?
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No, but kids are in great danger, since the witches want to kill them all and do succeed in turning three children into mice as a first step toward killing them by stepping on them. Also, in the very beginning of the movie, a boy is in great danger, since he's in a car accident so bad it kills both of his parents. He's saved by his seatbelt.
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Family
Does a parent die?
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The parents are killed in a car crash. They pull "Hero Boy" from the overturned car, but the parents are not seen. "Hero Boy" does grab his dad's glasses though.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Not really, but a boy is lured into a room and trapped there by witches who plan to kill him.
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Is someone possessed?
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The witches are said to be demons whose bodies are humanoid, but that's not possession.
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Is there a shower scene?
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A bathing scene of grandma washing hero’s hair
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There are 2 scenes where the Grand High Witch extends her arms to extreme lengths; there is a sickening crunch each time a new segment of bone appears to lengthen her arms.
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Does someone spit?
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The Grand Witch spits out a glass vial she has swallowed toward the end, but there is no phlegm or anything.
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Does someone vomit?
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Grandma starts coughing whenever witches are near, and it made my daughter (who is very emetophobic) nervous. But Grandma never actually vomits or even comes close - she just coughs. Also, there is a scene in the dining room when the Grand Witch leans in Grandma’s face and starts to make mouth movements like she might be sick - but instead she starts clucking like a chicken.
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Is there copaganda?
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Are needles/syringes used?
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A syringe is shown from 0:01:13-0:01:17
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Does someone have cancer?
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Not explicit, but the grandmother coughs whenever witches are near and it's implied she's ill
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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The witches hide their hands, feet, and bald heads so as to appear unremarkable. The characters turned into animals want to be turned back into humans.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Not really, but there is a running gag about a little boy who is always hungry and eating.
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Expansion on mad_melody's comment: The boy is a mouse at the time.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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A cliché histrionic, impossible-to-please chef yells "Give me a knife, so I can kill myself!" at his employees when he's displeased with them. He clearly doesn't actually mean it; it's just a melodramatic way of scolding.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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The main characters frequently hide in and crawl through small spaces, as children and as mice.
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
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I'm 99% sure that there are no babies.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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A lot of lightning during the first third of the film.
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Pregnancy
Does someone miscarry?
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There are no pregnant women, and I'm 99% sure that there are no babies.
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Is there childbirth?
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There are no pregnant women, and I'm 99% sure that there are no babies.
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Does a pregnant person die?
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There are no pregnant women (and I'm 99% sure that there are no babies).
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Are there abortions?
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There are no pregnant women, and I'm 99% sure that there are no babies.
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Is there hate speech?
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Towards each other by both sides, yes.
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Yes and no? Lots of people have accused Roald Dahl, who wrote the book behind the movie, of using the evil, inhuman and malformed witches to represent Jews. Since Roald Dahl was in fact an unapologetic and outspoken anti-semite, it's very possible that the accusation is warranted. I wouldn't have noticed anything, though; I have the information from reading trivia about the movie on IMDb after watching it. ___ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/06/roald-dahl-family-apologises-for-his-antisemitism
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Well... Hmm... A boy gets a mouse as a present and asks the giver, "What's his name?", to which the giver replies that it's a girl. (--- SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER --- Later on, it turns out that the mouse is actually a human girl who's been turned into a mouse, which means that she understood the exchange.)
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Are there fat jokes?
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In both human and mouse form, the overweight boy is consistently shown as exceedingly stupid, slow on the uptake, clumsy and completely unable to resist his constant urge to eat - all to the extent that it endangers his own life as well as the lives of others - I mean, the extent of his obsession with eating is absurd, probably the worst I've seen in a movie, which is saying a lot. ... So, there's no end to the number of scenes in which he gets stuck or almost falls down from places and needs help/rescuing, doesn't get what's glaringly obviously going on, has to be held back from running out of hiding to fetch some food he's fixated on etc. It's cliché, unfunny and frankly unacceptable. The movie business needs to move past that trope. I don't care if Roald Dahl wrote the character that way; it would've taken nothing away from the story to drop that part of the character.
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Does the black guy die first?
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Technically, two black adults (male and female) are the first ones to die. They die in a car crash in the very beginning of the movie; we see their son in the back of the crashed car, but not them. We only see them in a photo, later on in the movie.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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physical disabilities = witches in this film which has been combatted with the #notawitch movement
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Sex
Are there incestuous relationships?
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Sort of. They never get turned back into humans, Bruno doesn't go to live back with his parents (they're not really good people anyway), but they turn more evil witches into rats. Just watch a bit through the credits.
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Does a plane crash?
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No flying scenes.
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Does a car crash?
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The aftermath of a crash is shown, with an upside-down car, broken glass, flashing emergency lights, and a boy being pulled from the wreck
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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No one is in water.
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Is there blood/gore?
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We see characters whose skin appears to boil when they're turned from human to animal.
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