Ghostbusters

Movie • 1984 • Comedy  

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After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.
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Does the dog die?
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LJConrad
The demons are charred at the end and referred to as dogs, but they are not actually dogs and the humans they possessed are freed.
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BuzzyMcGee
Sort of? When characters are possessed it can be reminiscent of it.
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Are there bedbugs?
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Is someone choked?
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Does someone die?
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
Two of the ghostbusters discuss their thoughts on God, Jesus, and the end times while driving.
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Are there dislocations?
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Are there underwater scenes?
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone stalked?
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LJConrad
Louis is chased by a demon and is shown in great distress, no one helps him and he is ultimately caught by the monster.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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LJConrad
Venkman tricks two students during a test at the start. He lets a young woman believe she is correctly guessing cards when she is wrong, while he electrocutes a male student even when he does get the answer right.
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
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RoseannaBrigham
There is smoking, as it was more accepted in the 80s (when this film as released) but no hard core drugs.
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Is there addiction?
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Nebulacat
Two characters drink at the beginning, but neither gets drunk and no-one is an alcoholic.
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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LJConrad
The dog-like demons are shown as charred husks at the end.
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Are animals abused?
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The charred husks of the dog-like demons are shown at the end.
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
Peter sedates Dana while she is possessed.
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone restrained?
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LJConrad
Venkman is quite pushy towards Dana (and his lecherous behaviour towards the female student at the start) but this is played as charming and he doesn't force himself on her. Later when she is possessed, she forces herself on him and he extricates himself, showing that he would not take advantage of a woman. Later Dana and Louis kiss and presumably have sex while possessed, which is therefore without their consent.
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RoseannaBrigham
Before being possessed, Dana is sitting a chair from which clawed hands restrain her. One hand covers her face.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Are any hands damaged?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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BuzzyMcGee
No, but Dana's breathing while possessed is labored and fast.
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Skeltalmans
The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man is set alight before attempting to scale a tall building
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LJConrad
No but there is an earthquake and the main characters all fall into a hole as the road breaks up and for a few moments the worst is assumed before they manage to climb back out.
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Is there body horror?
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Is there amputation?
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LJConrad
There is a lobotomy joke at the end where Louis dazedly agrees to giving the Ghostbusters part of his brain.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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LJConrad
Venkman repeatedly gives a male student electric shocks to his increasing discomfort and fear.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does a major character die?
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Does a non-human character die?
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Disability
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Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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LJConrad
Dana is grabbed and held down by demonic arms that rip through her chair and dragged screaming into the kitchen towards a demon. It is a distressing scene.
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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thechonkyfrog
who..said no?
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Are there jump scares?
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Nebulacat
Both Dana and Lewis get possessed and believe they're ancient spirits. The effects are reversed.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there razors?
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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LJConrad
No but Slimer the gluttonous ghost gobbles food and drink that falls straight through his body on to the floor.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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LJConrad
When the student is electrocuted at the start, he spits his gum out and then puts it back in his mouth.
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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jdpamv
No copaganda but there are politics, it’s often considered the most libertarian (as in the U.S. Libertarian Party) Hollywood film. A private company are the heroes and big government, in the form of a pro-environment politician, is the villain.
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
The ghostbusters are arrested
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LGBTQ+
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BuzzyMcGee
Venkman accuses a government representative of having no genitals twice.
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Loss
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FleetwoodMacNCheez
A chandelier is destroyed that is supposed to be priceless
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Medical
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EmmaWard55
A scientist performs an experience with two volunteered hooked up to electrodes. He lightly shocks the male participant several times for incorrect answers.
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Saborlas
No needles/syringes are seen onscreen, but Venkman does tell his friends that he sedated the possessed Dana with Thorazine. He uses the wrong measurement terminology (which can be alarming if you know what that much would actually DO), but that's because he's a psychologist and not a psychiatrist.
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LJConrad
Louis is picked up by the police and delivered to the Ghostbusters in a straight jacket.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Is there menstruation?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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Does someone self harm?
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jdpamv
Unconfirmed within the films but Dan Akroyd is autistic and based his acting in the role on himself, to an extent. Egon Spengler is also implicitly autistic/autistic-coded.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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kenny77
Multiple characters are implied to be autistic and are treated no differently
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Is there misophonia?
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ectoplasmic
At the beginning of the film when Venkman is testing ESP one of the characters is chewing gum aggressively.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Lantern
The elevator scene may be considered claustrophobic
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Harlbior
There is a gluttonous poltergeist that eats copious amounts of food, despite not having a stomach (or a corporeal body for that matter).
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Noxious
Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there shakey cam?
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there screaming?
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SiRenfield
Only in relation with more contemporary PG movies. “@$$” “d!ck” and “sh!t” but not much stronger than that
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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midwestrogen
early on, mentions of sch*zo and schizophrenia to dismiss people who saw a ghost
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Lantern
They use whatever pronoun best suits Gozer moment to moment as it is stated "It's whatever it wants to be" suggesting Gozer is gender fluid. Thus they adjust how they refer to Gozer depending on the current form
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jdpamv
There’s a genderfluid ghost but they’re implicitly a deity rather than a dead person.
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Are there fat jokes?
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BuzzyMcGee
Directed at Slimer
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Is there aphobia?
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jdpamv
No but Winston was written with a much bigger, more sophisticated role than what’s seen in the final cut. It can be assumed that the studio demanded he be changed for racist reasons.
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thechonkyfrog
the black guy doesn’t die at all
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Is there hate speech?
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jdpamv
Not sure if this counts more as misogyny or predatory but the testing scene at the start hasn’t aged well.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
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Anonymous
a middle aged man lightly flirts with a young collage student in the first scene, she is not seen or mentioned for the rest of the movie. This is the only instance of an age gap
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Religious
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RoseannaBrigham
Sort of. The antagonists are gods/demigods meant to bring about the apocalypse. They possess two characters and have horns similar to demons.
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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Is there bestiality?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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thechonkyfrog
ray dreams abt getting head from a ghost
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Is there BDSM?
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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Saborlas
Not in the final film. There's a deleted scene where Aykroyd and Murray play bums in Central Park, but it was cut because the director thought it would confuse people.
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Is existentialism debated?
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Vehicular
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Saborlas
ECTO-1 IN ACTION! It's considered a saddle up moment.
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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Skeltalmans
The Ghostbusters cause a giant explosion in order to kill the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
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Is there gun violence?
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