Does the dog die?
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Cape Fear
Movie • 1991 • Thriller
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Nothing is seen on screen. An actress emotionally describes the noises the dog made as he died from poisoning. Mute the tv as the Nick Nolte drives home after an urgent call from his wife to avoid hearing the distressing description.
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Max manipulates Danielle into kissing him and her father gets angry at her when he finds out
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Is someone stalked?
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Cady stalks the family by hanging around outside their house, breaking into it and spying on them
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The family argue constantly throughout the film, father slaps daughter.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Max Cady gaslights Danielle
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Addiction
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Mention of the daughter using weed. Then she smokes weed with the perpetrator
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Animal
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Does a cat die?
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There are no cats.
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Well, to answer the other commenter, people have marked NO, because they can read correctly, and they know this category is not meant to include dog, cat, and horse deaths.
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Does a pet die?
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A family dog, off screen.
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Does a horse die?
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There are no horses.
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Are rabbits harmed?
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There are no rabbits.
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Not at all, not the slightest hint of any, but the entire climax of the movie takes place on a river in Florida, parts of it in the dark, and several shots of the water gave me the alligator chills, if you know what I mean.
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Assault
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A bit before the 1 hour mark, when the villain goes home with a woman. It's not prolonged but it's graphic
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Dunno why everyone's being so vague. He's in prison for raping a 16 year old. He beats and rapes a woman (literal rape off screen), then he grooms a 15 year old girl and puts his tumb in her mouth and kisses her. Then later on he gives the mum a choice of being raped herself or raping the 15 year old. He starts to do it to the mother but is interrupted. People need to be less vague on this site.
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Is rape mentioned?
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The villain spent 14 years in jail for the violent rape of a 16-year-old girl, and the entire movie is about his quest for revenge on his attorney, so it's mentioned numerous times. There are also rape scenes.
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Are there jokes about sexual assault on men?
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An ex-con mentions being assaulted by a group of men more than once in prison, but it's not said jokingly or treated as comedy by the movie.
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Is someone restrained?
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Cady restrains the family members in the climactic scene and is later handcuffed to part of the wrecked boat by his ankle, drowning him
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Is someone held under water?
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Someone is handcuffed to a piece of a boat that sinks
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Three hired goons gang up on the villain, a violent and murderous rapist, and beat him bloody with metal bars and chains. We see him crumpled up on the ground, protecting his head while the hits rain down on him. The scene is like a violent bullying scene, except for the fact that the victim is very far from innocent or defenseless - he soon takes all three of them down. All four are fully grown men.
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Is there pedophilia?
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The girls in question are teenage rather than children, but Max's preference skews young so you could say it's at least ephebophilia
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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No, but an eye is swollen shut and bluish after a beating.
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Is there excessive gore?
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I wouldn't say so. The worst things shown are: a big chunk of someone's cheek bitten clear off, two dead people with garotte wounds, and a person with nasty burn blisters all over his face and neck.
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Is there body horror?
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A major character suffers burns. Wouldn't count it as body horror honestly but the prosthetics are pretty grim
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Does a head get squashed?
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There’s a failed attempt to crush Cady’s head with a rock
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Deniro is said to have paid a lot of money in real life to shave his teeth down for the role, then pay upwards of four times more money to have them fixed.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Cady is doused in lighter fluid and set alight. He survives and his skin is visibly burned for the rest of the film
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Numerous people are garrotted with piano wire
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Is there cannibalism?
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A man takes a bite out of a woman’s cheek, but immediately spits it out.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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The father is choked into unconciousness.
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Children
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Is a minor sexualized?
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15-year-old girl.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does someone die?
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Two men and a woman. Two of the deaths are murders.
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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There is an attempt of a character pleading to sacrifice themselves to save their family. It does not happen though.
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Disability
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Family
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Does someone cheat?
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Before the events of the movie and, emotionally, during.
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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Around the 43 minute mark there's a jumpscare. It's only auditory. A phone ringing abruptly in a quiet moment. The whole family flinches from the loud sound.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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A wide river in Florida. A storm arrives, the waves get crazy, and the boat that the main characters are on goes completely out control, is smashed to bits on rocks and sinks. Many of the shots make it look like the boat is on the ocean, no land showing. It all happens in the dark of night.
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Gross
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Is there audio gore?
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Answering machine message of explicit detail of dog dying at hands of aggressor.
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Is someone eaten?
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No, but a woman has a mouth-sized chunk of her cheek bitten off and spat out. Graphic wound.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Is there incarceration?
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We see a man (violent rapist) in his prison cell just before he's released, and we see him leaving the prison.
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LGBTQ+
Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
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No; there are no trans persons that we know of in the movie. The evil villain is dressed as a woman and wearing a wig at one point, but that's a disguise, and he doesn't do it for the purpose of committing sexual assault.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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We see a badly beaten, but conscious and talking woman in a hospital bed when a man visits her. Filmed in the room and outside in the busy hallway.
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Mental Health
Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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The villain - a violent rapist - clearly has something wrong with his mind, but we don't see him in a mental hospital/institution or receiving any kind of treatment, and I don't think we hear any diagnoses. The focus isn't on him being mentally ill, but on him being the evil antagonist; we only see him as a monomaniacal, murderous stalker with some degree of religious mania, not as someone who suffers. SPOILER---SPOILER---SPOILER--- The clearest sign that something is wrong with his mind is that he starts speaking in tongues when he's about to die, and that he maintains a menacing and unnatural sort of still eye contact with another character until the very moment he dies (his death approaches steadily), instead of panicking like I daresay anybody else would do out of sheer instinct.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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The daughter is briefly locked in the hold of the houseboat.
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Noxious
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Yes, including in their own home.
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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In the last scenes Max mocks a trial and talks to the camera saying „Your Honor” a couple of times
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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At one point, the evil villain is disguised as a specific woman in order to sneak up on someone. We see him from the back and don't notice that it isn't her - at least I didn't, and we're supposed to be fooled. The fact that he's disguised is used as a horror element, not as a joke.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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A white man uses the word "N*gro" to describe someone.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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A man in his late forties seduces a 15-year-old girl to the point where she lets him tongue-kiss her and doesn't protest when he puts his thumb in her mouth. She's all giggly afterwards. Later on, she realises that he's evil and dangerous, so from that point on she only wants to get as far away from him as possible. He finds her and is in a position to rape her, but something happens that stops it from happening.
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Religious
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Sex
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Very large theme of rape and violence towards women
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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No diseases at all.
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Social
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Spoiler
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Vehicular
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Does a plane crash?
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No, but a boat is smashed to smithereens.
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Violence
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Is there gun violence?
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Including fatal.
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Does someone drown?
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We see someone sinking under water (then getting back up), and we see someone disappear under the surface as river water slowly rises above his head. We also get a shot from his point of view, below the surface. So there are at least two underwater shots, and possibly more.
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