a dog dies
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Jack's dog Zero is a ghost. But he starts out as a ghost and we don't ever see him harmed.
someone is sexually assaulted
Yes
animals are abused
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The Easter Bunny is kidnapped in one scene. In the "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" number, a bug is also seen being tormented (and eventually eaten off-screen), but there's nothing too far beyond this.
a cat dies
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A cat is launched from the lid of a trash can, but it survives and is seen again in later scenes.
a pet dies
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Zero, Jack's pet dog, is a ghost. However, we never see him as a non-ghost, and it's possible that he was never a living dog at all.
there's a dead animal
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There are skeletons/spirits of several different animals, as well as depictions of a dead turtle, bat, and rat. Not very graphic at all.
a horse dies
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There are no horses in this movie.
an animal is sad
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Zero the ghost dog tends to mirror Jack's emotions. There are several scenes where Jack is distraught and Zero looks sad in response. However, Zero is never sad for an extended period of time, and he has plenty of happy moments too.
rabbits are harmed
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The Easter Bunny is kidnapped and frightened, but is not injured.
there are spiders
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Spiders are among Oogie Boogie's animal familiars. Residents of Halloween Town are shown using spiders as decorative bows.
a dragon dies
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Dragons are not seen.
there are bugs
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Oogie Boogie is filled with live insects, among other creepy crawlies
there are snakes
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The villain has many small animal minions or familiars, including snakes. There is also a large boa constrictor-like snake that lives in Halloween Town and has an indiscriminate appetite.
an animal dies
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A caged cartoon insect/grasshopper is eaten by the movie's villian. A quick close up on the cage afterwards shows some green slime (presumably guts) in the cage.
someone leaves without saying goodbye
Yes
there's child abuse
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Not a child, no, but Sally's maker is abusive (not physically) and may hit close to home in this category.
there's abusive parents
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No physical abuse, but Dr. Finklestein is a very controlling parent and is sometimes verbally harsh.
someone gets gaslighted
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Dr. Finklestein is abusive towards Sally. I cannot remember if there's explicit gaslighting but I know that if parental abuse is a trigger it is best to skip those scenes.
someone is stalked
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I mean, some viewers interpret Sally's behavior toward Jack in the beginning of the movie as romantic stalking, but it's never addressed.
there's domestic violence
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Sally is held hostage by her creator.
someone uses drugs
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there is an implication that the films love interest uses some sort of drug in somebodys food
sexual assault on men is a joke
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Probably not intended this way but Oogie Boogie gets creepy around Santa in a way that’s played for comedy. At one point he recites lines from the Betty Boop short The Old Man of the Mountain. In the context of that short, these lines were used to sexually harass Betty Boop.
someone is drugged
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Sally escapes from Dr. Finkelstein (her creator) by drugging his soup to make him fall asleep.
someone is restrained
Yes
someone's mouth is covered
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Santa's mouth is covered during the scene where he has been kidnapped.
there are hangings
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In the opening scene several skeletons are seen hanging from a tree
someone struggles to breathe
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Twice. The first instance is when Sally is making soup, and wheezes after adding one of the ingredients. The second instance is played for laughs; Shock gets mad at Lock for not listening to her, and begins strangling him. He starts choking for a few seconds, and they get in a fight. Both of the instances are very brief, and have no lasting damage/are fairly easy to miss.
somebody is choked
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Shock briefly chokes Lock, but it's cartoonish and brief and part of their scuffle.
someone falls down stairs
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The Mayor does. Made worse by the fact that his voice actor died from falling in real-life.
someone falls to their death
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In this scene, we don't see the impact of Sally hitting the ground, but we do hear it. There are also a few falls from high places, such as in the scene where Jack's sleigh crashes, but there are no deaths from falling.
Someone becomes unconscious
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Dr. Finkelstein falls asleep after drinking soup that had been drugged.
there's genital trauma/mutilation
Yes
someone is buried alive
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No, but in the song “Kidnap the Santa Claus” there are mentions of burying Santa alive
there's body horror
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The residents of Halloween Town provide plenty of body horror, most of it mild and comedic. A monster clown takes off his face, revealing a black void underneath. A ragdoll stuffed with leaves can detach her limbs and sew them back on. A vampire briefly pulls his eye out of its socket. If there's one example that's actually disturbing, it's Oogie Boogie getting his burlap skin ripped off, exposing the writhing mass of bugs underneath.
someone is burned alive
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Well technically, yes but it's only in the opening musical number and he immediately puts himself out in the town square fountain.
there's cannibalism
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Not exactly. If you count the film’s main antagonist, Oogie Boogie, he is a scary bag creature filled with bugs inside him. There are scenes that feature him consuming other insects.
there's torture
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Santa Claws is tortured by Oogie Boogie in his chamber, but is later rescued by Sally.
there's amputation
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Undead characters (especially Sally) take off their limbs/body parts at times.
someone is crushed to death
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Arguably yes. The villain turns into a bug and the bug is stepped on. It's not clear if the character is actually dead or just temporarily gotten out of the way, since the Halloween characters are already dead for the most part.
someone breaks a bone
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Jack, a living skeleton, gets his jaw knocked off at one point, but easily pops it back into place. He also uses one of his own ribs to play fetch with his dog.
there's eye mutilation
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A vampire pulls out his eye before quickly putting it back in again
there's decapitation
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Jack takes his head off sometimes but it doesn't hurt him as he's a skeleton.
heads get squashed
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No, but Jack takes off his own head at one point.
there's shaving/cutting
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A teddy bear is sliced open with a scalpel
hands are damaged
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Hands come off but they aren’t damaged, sally can just sew them back on.
there's finger/toe mutilation
Yes
a kid dies
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There are several dead children, but we don't see them die, they're dead from the beginning.
a non-human character dies
Yes
someone sacrifices themselves
Yes
a major character dies
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The antagonist, Oogie Boogie is killed at the end of the film
A child's dear toy is destroyed
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Some toys are damaged, but no explicit destruction and they don't have much sentimental value as far as I know.
someone is kidnapped
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Santa gets kidnapped, but he makes it out okay
there are clowns
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One of the residents of Halloween Town is a clown who can remove his own face (his head is completely hollow underneath). He isn't malicious though.
there are shower scenes
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No showering or bath taking, but Lock, Shock, and Barrel have a walking bathtub that they often use as transportation.
there's ghosts
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It's a Halloween-themed movie, so yes, there are some ghosts. They're very cartoony (and there's even a ghost dog that's pretty cute), so they're probably not going to be that scary unless you have a severe phobia of ghosts.
someone is possessed
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There are demons and spirits seen (as well as demon-like characters), but they never possess anyone.
there are jump scares
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The scene where Jack scares Lock, Shock, and Barrel is mostly played for laughs, but it is rather sudden. I tend to be easily startled and I've always thought that part was more funny than scary, but I understand why it can be considered a jumpscare.
there's spitting
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Oogie Boogie briefly spits something out at one point, I believe.
someone vomits
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Technically - no one v*
BUT the fountain in the center or Halloween Town...kinda is? It's like a lizard creature holding its throat and has green water that flows through its mouth because it's a fountain. It has never bothered me, but I figured I'd put this up.
someone is eaten
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A character is swallowed by a (friendly) snake, but emerges unharmed off-screen. Oogie Boogie eats a frightened bug off-screen and burps out the cage it was in.
there is copaganda
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Cops appear briefly at one point (though only the bust of one answering a phone), but are antagonistic.
there's smoke or haze
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There is thick fog that causes no harm except a very brief delay to their plans.
there's a mental institution scene
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Santa briefly refers to Halloween Town as an "insane asylum", but there are no explicit visuals of any mental institutions.
electro-therapy is used
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Jack turns on an electric chair in one scene, but nobody is in it.
there's a hospital scene
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There is a laboratory, though, but it doesn't closely resemble a hospital.
needles/syringes are used
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Sewing needles, but still needles
someone dies by suicide
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Sally intentionally jumps from a high place in one scene, though she has no suicidal intentions; she is simply trying to leave a building. See "does someone fall to their death?" for more details.
reality is unstable or unhinged
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Multidimensional stuff
there's a claustrophobic scene
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There's a scene where Lock, Shock, and Barrel shove Santa down a narrow chute, which I can see being pretty intense for those who are claustrophobic. This scene is about a minute long, and we see some visuals from inside the chute as well.
there's dissociation, depersonalization, or derealization
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The main character starts to lose sense of who he is, deciding that instead of being the face of Halloween he wishes to be the face of Christmas. He changes everything in his life to be Christmas just to realize he missed his old self.
shaky cam is used
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Two blurry shots, however; one when Jack crashes into a sign and becomes slightly dazed, and another when Santa is let out of a bag. Both of these visuals only last a few seconds and are not very intense.
there's flashing lights or images
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In one sequence, Jack covers an electric chair with christmas lights and turns it on, causing many of the bulbs to burst in flashes
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
there's screaming
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“Everybody scream! Everybody SCREAM! In our town of Halloween!” This is basically Screaming People: The Movie. If screams really bother you that much I’m not sure what you should do. With that said, some instances are bigger than others. In particular, some screams during the opening musical number I just mentioned, various incidents of Santa screaming in Oogie Boogie’s lair, Jack screaming at Lock, Shock, and Barrel, Oogie Boogie screaming at Santa, and the screams of people who received scary Christmas presents.
a baby cries
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Children yes, not babies
someone is watched without knowing
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Jack Skellington is watched by Sally in the graveyard scene, however it is cartoonish and reasonable because Jack is singing. Another scene is when Jack is in the Christmas world and he goes into the children’s bedroom and watches them sleep, which can be more distressing because it’s an adult watching children sleep.
the fourth wall is broken
Yes
there is a baby or unborn child
Yes
there are homophobic slurs
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No, though there is a non-derogatory usage of the word "queer" in one of the songs.
there's fat jokes
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In the scene where Santa is being brought to Halloween Town, his captors briefly refer to him as large and heavy. There are also a few other characters who are fairly rotund in shape and their body types are used as a mild visual gag (the Mayor has a few brief instances of this), but there is nothing too bad.
someone is misgendered
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No, but Lock, Shock, and Barrel are sometimes collectively referred to as "Oogie's Boys", despite Shock being female. It is not done maliciously at all.
there's ableist language or behavior
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Barrel is sometimes made fun of for being unintelligent, but there aren't really any ableist references.
an LGBT person dies
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There are no known LGBT+ characters in the movie.
someone says the n-word
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Who said yes wtf 💀
a minority is misrepresented
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Anti-Asian caricatures with slits for eyes briefly appear. Oogie Boogie is Black-coded and is portrayed as a cruel, scary, and somewhat sexualizing villain. Finklestein is the “disabled villain” trope and the only character with a confirmed disability.
someone speaks hate speech
Yes
there's antisemitism
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Witch archetype with pointed black hats and large noses (imagery rooted in medieval antisemitism). Most people aren’t aware of the connotations but they exist.
the black guy dies first
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Most characters in this movie are monsters/creatures, so they don't really have races. The closest thing I can think of is a character with a black voice actor who is the only known death in the movie, but this was likely a coincidence.
there's a large age gap
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Between Jack and Sally,although it's only implied. Jack is implied to be as old as the concept of Halloween itself,and no one knows how old Sally is.
religion is discussed
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Christmas and Easter are present, but not in an overtly religious manner. The farthest it goes is depicting Santa Claus, who is based on Saint Nicholas.
there's demons or Hell
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Not mentioned by name but there is a devil-themed character and various undead entities.
there are incestuous relationships
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No, but Sally and Dr. Finkelstein's relationship is ambiguous; it could be either father and daughter or husband and wife. The line is blurred uncomfortably at times.
there is sexual content
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In one scene, Oogie Boogie tries to get somewhat sexual with Sally as he finds her leg sticking out, but it’s one of her removed limbs in which she used as a decoy distraction to rescue Sandy Claws. Oogie Boogie is shown to tickle her leg and make weird noises that indicate that he’s into her.
someone is sexually objectified
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Sally does this to herself to distract Oogie at a key moment.
someone has a chronic illness
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Dr Frankenstein is wheelchair bound
Santa (et al) is spoiled
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In the setting of this movie, Santa Claus and other popular elements of Christmas (e.g. flying reindeer, Santa's elves, Santa's workshop, Santa's Sleigh) are all real.
a plane crashes
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No planes, but a flying sleigh does crash
a car crashes
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A sleigh does, though
a person is hit by a car
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The Mayor is knocked over by a snowcat, but it's harmless and not at all graphic. It's extremely brief.
someone drowns
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"I'm drowning in my tears" is a lyric to one of the songs, but nobody drowns.
there's gun violence
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Unless you count cannons.
there's blood/gore
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The movie is animated rather than live action, and there is no realistic gore. A character loses some of her limbs on two occasions, but she is a Frankenstein's monster-esque/rag doll-like character, and none of this causes her any pain or distress. Her limbs are sewn back on. There is no blood because she is made of leaves.
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