Does the dog die?
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Beetlejuice
Movie • 1988 • Comedy
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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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Does the abused become the abuser?
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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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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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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Tffr
Smoking
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hc.clarice
A woman uses heavy sleeping pills
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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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ProfessorProcyon
A fly and cockroach are eaten.
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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 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
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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 held under water?
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
No, but the main characters drown off-screen when their car crashes.
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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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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 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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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 someone burned alive?
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Anonymous
Implied but not specifically shown. The mutilated body is shown though.
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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 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 eye mutilation?
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WartyGoblin
A character relocates their eyeballs, but returns them to normal.
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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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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 someone tortured?
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RavenLord
Terrorized, scared, retrained. No physical torture.
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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 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 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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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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Death
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Family
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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Does a family member die?
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Lillithbaby
presumably, but it’s not shown.
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Fear
Are there jumpscares?
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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 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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Are there ghosts?
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KennedyKelly418
The whole point of the movie is the afterlife.
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Gross
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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Does someone vomit?
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emetophobiclesbian
Safe!!
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Mental Health
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DoogleDog101
Lydia has severe depression.
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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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Five_Hargreeves
Lydia attempts
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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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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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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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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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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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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
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
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Are there fat jokes?
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ProfessorProcyon
A few mild comments are made towards Otho.
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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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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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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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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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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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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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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Sickness
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Social
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Spoiler
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Vehicular
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?
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WinterSummer
Not on screen but one of the ghosts was clearly run over
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Does a car crash?
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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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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Anonymous
Two characters drown off screen.
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Is there blood/gore?
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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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