DETAILED SPOILER: Within the first 10-30 minutes of the movie:
- A deer-like creature called Qillin is killed after giving birth. The attack is fast but then maim character returns to the animal and be there for the final breath. On that same sequence, one of the babies is taken.
- Then that same taken baby is killed with throat cut (after the male character places it on the floor and picks it up again, it's somewhat graphic). Throughout the movie you see the corpse being revived into a zombie-like mode and near the end it dies again.
SPOILER: One of the Qillin creatures is kidnapped, killed, poorly revived into a zombie-like state, to then wither again once the revival spell wears off. This happens throughout the movie.
The branches of a flesh-eating plant(?) kind of look like snakes. When they are cut off, they can move independently, which makes them even more snake-like.
Some pretty big grubs/larvae that act like glow worms/fireflies are featured quite prominently in a couple of scenes (in the jail). There's also a bunch of lobster-like, appr. cat-sized animals that scuttle like insects (also in the jail). Maybe others.
It is not pictured, but there is a scene where people are hanging upside down from the walls of a bottomless pit. Several of these people are killed when a very large carnivorous plant/vine stabs them and flings them to the bottom of the pit, then regurgitates their gooey remains (clothes/shoes) back up to the landing.
The sound of a circa cat-sized, lobster-like creature being squashed. The sound of gooey, partially dissolved human corpses landing on a floor. Both things happen in the jail.
Not really. Aurors (SWAT/criminal investigation) are generally considered the good guys. They don't really look like police, though, and they don't play an important role in this film anyway.
There were very few scenes with flashing lights but as a person with twitches triggered by flashing lights I was very well able to watch the movie comfortably
A homosexual relationship is portrayed and this is not perceived as anything different or wrong. The sex of the characters in the relationship is not relevant to the story.
The wizard-muggle relations are an allegory for the antisemitism in the 1930s. But wizards on both sides are Jewish and they are not discriminated against in any way for being Jewish.