Does the dog die?
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Beetlejuice
Movie • 1988 • Comedy
ReportThanks to an untimely demise via drowning, a young couple end up as poltergeists in their New England farmhouse, where they fail to meet the challenge of scaring away the insufferable new owners, who want to make drastic changes. In desperation, the undead newlyweds turn to an expert frightmeister, but he's got a diabolical agenda of his own.
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ProfessorProcyon
Towards the beginning of the movie, a couple swerves to avoid a dog on the road, but end up crashing their car. The dog is unharmed.
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Pumpkin4
No, but when Lydia is writing a suicide letter (she does not commit suicide) she's refers to feeling alone
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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HarleyCAO13
Not physically, but Lydia's parents are emotionally neglectful.
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NakNakNak
No actual violence, but to scare the Deetzes one of the things Barbara tries is to make it ook like she cut off her husband's head.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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RavenLord
Sort of? A teenage girl is harrassed by a ghost and then nearly forced into a marriage with an adult male ghost (same one). There is not any abuse by the parents beyond an occasional cutting word from the stepmother.
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Addiction
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hc.clarice
A woman uses heavy sleeping pills
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Is there addiction?
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Tffr
Smoking
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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RavenLord
There is only light social drinking, no depictions of alcoholism or alcohol abuse.
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Animal
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ProfessorProcyon
A fly and cockroach are eaten.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Pumpkin4
Beetlejuice eats a fly and a cockroach
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Is an animal sad?
74 supporters
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Pumpkin4
No but Beetlejuice does lore in a fly to eat and it squeals and says "help me" once
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Are there spiders?
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ryancmill10
~2 minutes and 30 seconds in at the end of the intro credits
~14 minutes and 40 seconds in when Lydia is first introduced as the family moves in
~14 minutes and 40 seconds in when Lydia is first introduced as the family moves in
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Are there snakes?
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livebackwards
Beetlejuice turns into a giant snake monster and attacks and injures at least one person in one of the more genuinely frightening segments of the movie. (Injury is done by falling, not snakebite.) Giant, snake-like creatures called sandworms appear, and one swallows a character whole at the end. Nothing graphic or bloody.
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Are there sharks?
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Jezabat
When Adam and Barbara step into the afterlife waiting room, a guy can be seen with a shark swallowing up his right leg. He presumably died in a shark attack.
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Are there bugs?
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KennedyKelly418
Spiders in two separate parts, one at the very beginning and one at the introduction of Lydia, and a fly that meets Betelgeuse. The fly is in very close detail, so if you don’t like bugs, I would stop watching when you hear the buzzing and resume watching when you hear a man speaking (not Betelgeuse, but a man with a normal voice)
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is there pedophilia?
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Lillithbaby
a teenage girl is nearly forced into marriage with beetlejuice, who is at least 600 years old
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Is someone held under water?
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
No, but the main characters drown off-screen when their car crashes.
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vincentdorian
Beetlejuice often makes sexually charged remarks towards Barbara Maitland, even kissing her without her consent.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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NakNakNak
Three times during the wedding scene: Beetlejuice first uses his magic to put a zipper on Barbara's mouth, then a metal plate. When Lydia tries to protest her marriage to Beetlejuice, he puts a hand over her mouth and speaks in her voice.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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KennedyKelly418
Not really, but we do see a character with slit wrists.
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Is there throat mutilation?
36 supporters
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NakNakNak
Juno the social worker smokes a cigarette and exhales the smoke through a cut or hole in her throat.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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KennedyKelly418
Well, they drown. Barbra also has her mouth gated shut, but she can still breathe through her nose.
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Is there decapitation?
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NakNakNak
One of the haunting techniques the Maitlands try is making it look like Barbara decapitated Adam. Being ghosts, they are unharmed and back to normal in a scene or two.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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RavenLord
There is a very flattened ghost, and it can be assume his death was by a car or steamroller? Nothing is shown of his actual death, however. Just a very flat ghost.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Anonymous
Implied but not specifically shown. The mutilated body is shown though.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Crow75
Title character is buried in a coffin from where the protagonists has to dig him out. He is already dead technically though but still
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Is there amputation?
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RavenLord
I'm not sure this counts as amputation, but a ghost in the afterlife is divided into two parts, cut around her midsection.
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Does a head get squashed?
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KennedyKelly418
There is a shrunken head and a man who was obviously run over by a car, but neither happen on screen, we just see the aftermath. (Not bloody)
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Is there a hanging?
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emotionalcorn
When one of the ghosts is trying to scare the new owners of the house, one of the ghosts appears hanging in a closet as a jumpscare and remains onscreen for about a minute.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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One of the ghosts in the waiting room choked on a bone but we don't see the death
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Anonymous
In the afterlife office, there are various characters that are mutilated: cut in half, have a shrunken head, etc.
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Is someone tortured?
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RavenLord
Terrorized, scared, retrained. No physical torture.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Is a comedic style roll down the stairs, not violent
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Does someone fall to their death?
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livebackwards
Two characters inside a car fall off a bridge to their deaths, but it's made fairly clear that it's the drowning and not the fall that kills them. Their deaths are not seen.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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WartyGoblin
A character relocates their eyeballs, but returns them to normal.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Pants
It's cartoony, but there is a fair amount shown in parts.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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Fin
A teenager, Lydia, was going to kill herself
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Someone agrees to do something they do not want to do in order to save someone else
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Does a major character die?
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pedanther
The two central characters die early in the movie, and are ghosts for the rest of the story. Nobody else dies after that.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a family member die?
21 supporters
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Lillithbaby
presumably, but it’s not shown.
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Does a parent die?
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TheCassandraComplex
Lydia’s mom died before the events of the film. Lydia’s stepmother is fine at the end of the movie.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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KennedyKelly418
The whole point of the movie is the afterlife.
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Are there jump scares?
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KennedyKelly418
Not specifically “jump scares,” but there are a few startling parts. If you’re sensitive to jump scares, (like me,) at one point, Adam opens a window to see Jane right there, A “sculpture” crashes through a window at the end of an uncomfortably long shot of Charles at a kitchen sink, the sand worm breaking through the door, when Barbra transformed her face in the closet, when Beetlejuice says, “you wanna see something scary and turns to them and his face opens up (scare chord is used so just close your eyes) and the one that jolted me the most was at the end of the Day-O song, where bloody hands reach out if the bowls and grab their faces.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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NakNakNak
Barbara and Adam die when their car falls off a bridge into the river.
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Are there clowns?
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TheCassandraComplex
Beetlejuice himself looks a tad clownlike with the white makeup and green hair but he is not a clown.
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Is someone possessed?
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KennedyKelly418
Barbra and Adam possess everyone (but Lydia) at the Day-O dinner party.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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emetophobiclesbian
Safe!!
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Does someone spit?
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omodan
theres a scene where beetlejuice hacks up snot & spits it into his jacket
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
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Medical
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
12 supporters
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Lillithbaby
lydia is very easily read as mentally ill, although it’s not explicitly discussed
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livebackwards
In the Afterlife, Miss Argentina reveals that she killed herself by slashing her wrists. The wounds are shown but aren't bloody, and the character herself is fairly blasé about it. It's morbid humor.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Lydia isn't violent, though
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Five_Hargreeves
Lydia attempts
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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ProfessorProcyon
One of the supporting characters is suicidal and is seen writing a suicide note at one point.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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ProfessorProcyon
There's body horror, but body dysmorphia is something entirely different.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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koroneinugami
there is a scene early on where lydia's stepmother is pinned against the house by a large sculpture and there's not much room to move, but this is rather brief.
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Anonymous
There are no on-screen suicides but suicide is mentioned at times. Early in the movie there is gossip that two characters committed suicide (though they actually did not). In another scene the main character (a teenage girl) is writing a suicide note and she talks to other characters about it, but they talk her out of it.
I'm not 100% sure but I think suicide is mentioned at other points by both minor and support characters, but they aren't as plot-relevant.
I'm not 100% sure but I think suicide is mentioned at other points by both minor and support characters, but they aren't as plot-relevant.
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Noxious
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Sibelos
At one point Beetlejuice says "NICE F**KING MODEL" before honking his crotch, surprisingly the movie is only PG, while it's only said once, this film released after the PG-13 rating was made.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Mousepoop420
There is a scene where there is a pretty consistent camera flash that lasts about 30 seconds.
near the end of the movie, there is lighting that flashes quite a bit for about 5 minutes.
near the end of the movie, there is lighting that flashes quite a bit for about 5 minutes.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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NakNakNak
When the Deetzes move in, the Maitlands watch them from the attic.
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Pregnancy
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Does someone miscarry?
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hc.clarice
No miscarriages, but it is implied that a couple is having fertility issues.
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
40 supporters
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RavenLord
At the dinner party, a woman snarkily says, "Paranormal? Is that what they're calling your kind these days?" emphasizing "your kind" towards a male designer (Otho) who is portrayed as flamboyant and effiminate. I'm a bit surprised by the "no" responses to this question, LOL.
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Are there fat jokes?
52 supporters
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ProfessorProcyon
A few mild comments are made towards Otho.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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pedanther
A minor character in the waiting room sequence is depicted using derogatory stereotypes of African people.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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SPOILER
there is an attempted forced marriage with a large age gap
there is an attempted forced marriage with a large age gap
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
There is much discussion about the afterlife, but nothing within the context of religion.
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Are there demons or Hell?
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pedanther
Borderline. The staff of the afterlife are deceased humans, not demons, but some of them are very unnerving, often in a body horror way. And it's not technically Hell, but there is discussion and depiction of the fate awaiting certain classes of sinners (principally suicides).
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Sex
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Beetlejuice objectifies Barbara, making comments, kissing, touching, and looking up her dress.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
54 supporters
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Anonymous
There are no actual s*x scenes or nudity, but there are some sexual jokes. The closest to implied s*x is a scene where ghosts moan and it's mistaken by other characters as sexual.
However, the antagonist is a pervert who makes a lot of crude jokes and brief but unwanted advances. There are scenes where he grabs his junk, forcefully kisses a woman and tries to look up her skirt, and touches women slightly without consent. He also flirts with the teenage protagonist (the flirtation is not mutual). In one scene there is a strip club/brothel (unspecified which) with female s*x workers in revealing clothes used to distract the antagonist.
However, the antagonist is a pervert who makes a lot of crude jokes and brief but unwanted advances. There are scenes where he grabs his junk, forcefully kisses a woman and tries to look up her skirt, and touches women slightly without consent. He also flirts with the teenage protagonist (the flirtation is not mutual). In one scene there is a strip club/brothel (unspecified which) with female s*x workers in revealing clothes used to distract the antagonist.
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Social
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Yes
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Spoiler
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Vehicular
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0
Does a car crash?
18 supporters
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81
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0
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Anonymous
Near the beginning, two characters crash through a small tunnel and teeter over the edge of a lake. The car falls and they drown off screen. Despite this, the scene is not particularly violent - it played out more as mildly comedic - and over in less than a minute. The car is not seen again and the characters are uninjured. The crash is briefly mentioned after the fact.
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Does a plane crash?
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DoogleDog101
Implied by the football team scene
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Is someone hit by a car?
18 supporters
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WinterSummer
Not on screen but one of the ghosts was clearly run over
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Violence
Does someone drown?
16 supporters
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Anonymous
Two characters drown off screen.
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Is there blood/gore?
53 supporters
Yes
53
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0
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livebackwards
Every bit of gore / disfigurement is cartoonish and family-friendly, though very small children may be disturbed.
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