a dog dies
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At 4 minutes 45 seconds Taco the dog is shown on the fan whining. For those with auditory triggers there is whimpers and whines but not from being harm or hurt. More like scared doggy noises. I have auditory triggers by dog yelps and hurt sounds and it didn't affect me at all but just wanted to mention.
someone is sexually assaulted
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A major theme of the film is Beetlejuice's (and a separate man's) intent to marry a woman against her will. Beetlejuice threatens to expose sexual photos of someone else. A person is revealed to take advantage of vulnerable women for their money.
a cat dies
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There are three dead cats in the afterlife waiting room, feasting on their dead owner. It's played for comedy.
an animal dies
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In a flashback scene, chickens have their heads bit off and it is mentioned (though not seen) that goats were sacrificed.
a pet dies
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No pets die on screen. However, one of the ghosts in the afterlife lobby is a lady covered in cats (presumably her pets) that are graphically eating her body.
there's a dead animal
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there are numerous stuffed birds.
an animal is sad
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A dog is scared but not sad
there are spiders
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Not a spider to be seen. There are a few beetles and some cobwebs, and a few very cartoony Halloween decorations with small spiders but not any real ones at all.
there are bugs
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there are two or three beetles crawling on the desk in the first main scene we see of beetlejuice - it's the scene right after lydia comes to astrid's school. you see them crawl up the desk. later on in the movie during the wedding scene you can see a few beetles crawl up beetlejuice through his clothing.
there are snakes
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Three separate scenes. One as the movie returns to the afterlife roughly 35ish min in wrapped around a person, then later in the real world live snakes are seen in an aquarium and then shortly after the live snakes are held by a main character.
there are sharks
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Claymation shark attack. Very brief.
animals are abused
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Chickens are decapitated.
a child is abandoned by a parent or guardian
Yes
someone leaves without saying goodbye
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Astrid gets on her bike and rides away after fighting with her mom.
there's child abuse
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Beetlejuice does technically throw a baby, but it's a weird baby version of himself and not actually real.
a woman is brutalized for spectacle
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Throughout the entire scene where Rory and Lydia end up in Beetlejuice's "office", Beetlejuice messes with Lydia in a way that could be considered brutalizing. He forces her mouth shut and manifests a "baby" version of himself into her stomach, which causes the latter to swell quickly until it bursts violently. Though that entire scene is played as a gag, it personally shook me up quite a bit, as Lydia is shown to be distraught by the whole ordeal.
there's domestic violence
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Beetlejuice is poisoned by his wife. Then he hits her with an axe.
Lydia uses a boxing glove to punch her fiancé in anger towards the end of the movie.
there's abusive parents
Yes
someone gets gaslighted
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Rory tries to convince Lydia that Beetlejuice isn't real and is just trauma.
someone is stalked
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Lydia is stalked by beetlejuice
there's addiction
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Lydia is referenced as having an issue with pills, but it is only shown for one scene and doesn't get touched on again.
someone uses drugs
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in the bathroom scene near the beginning of the movie (right after lydia sees beetlejuice for the first time), she throws a bottle of pills into the trashcan. Rory pulls them out and you see him slip one pill into her mouth and then one into his own. they are references later on in the movie as well during a scene in the attic.
someone is drugged
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Rory received a large syringe of truth serum in the neck
someone's mouth is covered
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Beetlejuice ties Lydia’s mouth shut
someone is held under water
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In the afterlife waiting room, someone died from a chained box full of water, supposedly a magic trick gone wrong
someone is restrained
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Delores grabs the janitor (Danny Devito) by the neck and suffocates him.
there's eye mutilation
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One of the ghosts has a handmixer in her eye socket. Not terribly detailed or close to the screen.
there's excessive gore
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(SPOILER ALERT!!!)
There is a lot of blood after Astrid’s marriage in the childbirth scene.
there's genital trauma/mutilation
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In a weird dream Lydia’s daughter, Astrid gives birth to the baby Beetlejuice, not really shown though
there's body horror
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Played for laughs, already dead persons are shriveled up and said to die for real
there's finger/toe mutilation
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One of Delores's fingers was amputated and she staples it back on.
someone is burned alive
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Someone is thrown into hell, they fall screaming into the flames but it’s more played for laughs and not graphic at all, technically the character is dead already. I hate burning scenes and it was really not that bad :)
there are hangings
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Not actually the act but it is staged when we meet Astrids character as she opens her door.
Enough to trigger a response.
Main character also chokes victims lifting them from floor.
Overall unpleasant would avoid.
someone's throat is mutilated
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The undead cop (William Defoe’s character) has an assistant with a long spear going right through her throat.
there's cannibalism
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Delores sucks the souls out of people in the afterlife
there's shaving/cutting
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(spoiler for context/placement)
When Lydia enters the house to help Astrid, a man turns around to reveal a circular saw embedded in his face (no blood, the wound is obscured by the guard)
there's amputation
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Most of Delores's limbs are shown separated from her body. She staples her legs back on.
A surfer is shown bit in half, so his legs were amputated/missing.
someone struggles to breathe
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Delores chokes people before stealing their souls.
someone asphyxiates
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The scenes of the soul sucking demon taking people's souls echo this. The scenes are all foreshadowed by her picking up her victims, so can be avoided.
somebody is choked
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Yes, Delores chokes them before draining them.
hands are damaged
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When Delores puts herself back together (with a staple gun), you see her finger inching around by itself
someone is stabbed
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Beetlejuice kills his wife with an axe.
someone dislocates something
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Delores has to relocate all her bones.
someone falls down stairs
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Jeremy references falling from a treehouse and shows a scar on his neck
someone falls to their death
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Jeremy falls to his death from a treehouse but it is not shown only talked about, Jeremy later falls into hell in the afterlife
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes
someone breaks a bone
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Delores is shown having to put her bones together and back into place. If the cracking and snapping bothers you, this will.
there's decapitation
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A dead person that was decapitated takes mug shot photos
heads get squashed
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Not squashed exactly, but shriveled up.
a minor is sexualized
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Flashbacks to the first movie and photo of the teenage Lydia on Beetlejuice's desk.
a kid dies
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Jeremy is a minor and a ghost who is described as having died. You don't know he's dead for a portion of the movie.
an infant is abducted
Yes
a non-human character dies
Yes
a major character dies
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Delila, Lydia’s dad, Astrid, Lydia’s husband/Astrids’s dad
someone dies
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Many ghosts are shown, so all their human bodies died. Delores kills several "dead" characters by sucking their souls. RIP Bob.
someone sacrifices themselves
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Astrid unknowingly offers to trade her life for Jeremy's. She does this by reciting an incantation she is told will help her enter the afterlife. She does not know she is sacrificing her life for Jeremy's
someone disabled played by able-bodied
Yes
someone overdoses
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No overdose, though pills are taken
A child's dear toy is destroyed
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A Sillisculpts doll on someone's desk gets chopped in half. It's only onscreen for about a second, and it doesn't belong to a child.
a parent dies
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The movie starts with Lydia's father's death off screen.
A side character is revealed to have murdered his parents.
Lydia's stepmother Delia dies on camera.
a family member dies
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A major theme of the movie is parental and family loss and grieving and deaths occur during the movie.
someone is kidnapped
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Astrid is taken to the spirit world under false pretenses with the intent of leaving her there.
there are jump scares
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The first jump scare happens during the janitor scene with Danny Devito when a piece of equipment sparks. Second jump scare happens in the afterlife when a character is looking through hanging clothes. There is a bit of build up to the second one.
trypophobic content is shown
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The sand moves weirdly before the sand worm appears, which triggered me
someone is possessed
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Similar to the first movie wheres there is a musical number.
there are clowns
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Trick or treater in a clown costume. Also Beetlejuice looks like a clown.
there's ghosts
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Ghosts feature HEAVILY in the movie. Sometimes they look normal but many show how they were mutilated in death.
there's natural bodies of water
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An ocean is shown with a claymation shark attack
someone vomits
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Just saw a pre screening and happy to report the movie is safe!!
There are a few sort of gagging moments but no actually v*
I saw it in theaters so I don’t know the time stamps exactly.
About 10-15ish minutes it we see a janitor, you see him grab draino off the shelf and when he turns around there is some green fluid around his mouth, and he drinks some and we see more around his mouth. No v* but might be triggering for some.
About 40ish minutes in, when Lydia and Rory (I think was the name..?) are in beetlejuice’s office, beetlejuice does a couple silly gags and “spills his guts” no v* just his literally guts, it’s cheesy looking but the sound effects are wet, shortly after Rory jumps behind the couch and sort of gags and looks like he’s going to V* but doesn’t!
Last potentially triggering event is at the very end, maybe at about an hour and 30; we see a baby beetlejuice during an montage, it then quickly cuts to beetlejuice kinda spitting up like a baby does, it’s just some white fluid dripping out of his mouth, it’s super super quick! As an emetaphobe I didn’t find it triggering but worth mentioning just incase!
There's audio gore
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Blood spurting out of Charles' body.
someone is eaten
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Charles was half eaten by a shark and baby Beetlejuice tries to eat Lydia's leg.
there's farting
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Yes, the baby beetlejuice farts
someone wets/soils themselves
Yes
someone defecates
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Kind of, when the baby beetlejuice is on screen it makes pooping noises, but it isn't shown yk
there are 9/11 depictions
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Beetlejuice caused 9/11.
there is copaganda
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Nothing major, the "police" are campy and led by an actor who was playing a cop when he died. They do break through windows to try to save the day in a SWAT style thing and there is some discussion about how important they are, but overall they are failures.
there's incarceration
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The afterlife is treated like a prison with fake officers and mugshots
there's deadnaming or birthnaming
Yes
needles/syringes are used
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During the wedding scene, Roy is injected with a truth serum
there's a hospital scene
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Near the end of the movie, a character is shown giving birth in the hospital.
there's misophonia
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There are a lot of gulping sounds that I found triggering/gross when Danny Devito was drinking some cleaning fluid or poison
a mentally ill person is violent
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The point of this question is whether someone is portrayed as mentally ill and violent. If you just assume that someone who's violent must be mentally ill, that kinda defeats the purpose.
No, no character is shown to be violent because of mental illness.
someone suffers from PTSD
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Lydia does when she sees Beetlejuice the first couple times and the flyer from the attic
reality is unstable or unhinged
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Played mostly to cartoonish, and humorous effect.
there's a claustrophobic scene
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Some close up shots, and busy crowd shots that could be triggering
there's dissociation, depersonalization, or derealization
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People talk about not believing Lydia a lot, and after a character sees beetlejuice, they say that "they just had the weirdest dream" and stuff like that
someone has an anxiety attack
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Lydia has an attack similar to ananxiety attack at the start of the movie when she sees Beetlejuice in the crowd.
someone has a mental illness
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Lydia deals with anxiety and PTSD.
someone has a meltdown
Yes
there's body dysmorphia
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I found the pregnancy and inflating body scenes EXTREMELY triggering and had to cover my eyes and ears. I could never watch this movie again.
someone dies by suicide
Yes
there's flashing lights or images
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Flashing lightning across the screen throughout the opening credits, and sporadic flashing in the first few scenes. I can't comment on the rest of the film as I decided to leave the cinema 10 minutes in to prevent myself from having a seizure.
-Definitely better to watch this at home rather than the cinema if you have photosensitive epilepsy
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
there's underwater scenes
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in water but not underwater
there is obscene language/gestures
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There is one bleeped fuck. There are also several iterations of shit including shitty, batshit, and bullshit. Pissed is used once, so is goddamn.
someone is watched without knowing
Yes
the fourth wall is broken
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Beetlejuice breaks the fourth wall during the wedding scene. It happens one more time after this as well I believe with Delia.
there is a baby or unborn child
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An unsettling baby version of Beetlejuice is shown in two scenes. Two characters are shown "delivering" the baby as well.
there's childbirth
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Grotesque, but revealed to be a dream sequence
there's ableist language or behavior
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Assuming that Lydia is just having a moment due to her trauma and downplaying what is happening to her.
an LGBT person dies
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None of the characters who die are specifically shown or implied to be LGBTQ+.
someone speaks hate speech
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A character talks to a woman in a misogynistic manner including calling her "toots." He's killed right after, though.
a minority is misrepresented
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Minorities aren't necessarily misrepresented but there's only one major non-white actor, Jenna Ortega. Director Tim Burton is racist and claims that BIPOC "don't fit his vision" so this isn't a coincidence.
there's fat jokes
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That wasn't Beetlejuice saying it. This comment is targeted at children who are getting handed healthy foods instead of candy on Halloween which is fucked up but it's also being done by a blatantly unlikable character. Someone inflates which is a fat joke.
there's a large age gap
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Lydia and Beetlejuice, which is mentioned. Jeremy and Astrid.
religion is discussed
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There is a priest who gives some vague biblical lines.
there's demons or Hell
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Obviously beetlejuice himself is a demon
there's bestiality
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It wasn't implying he had sexual feelings towards a dog, yeesh. The gag was just that the loves of his life consist of two women and some random dog, the man had a lonely life. He probably had a pet dog when he was alive, which he loved. It doesn't mean had inappropriate sexual feelings towards the dog. And the dog wasn't Taco, it was Tim Burtons dog.
there is sexual content
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Nothing is explicitly shown except for shadows
there are nude scenes
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When Monica Bellucci puts herself back together, she is wearing a dress that covers her mid body, but there's some suggestive shots of her upper thigh and what not.
someone is sexually objectified
Yes
someone loses their virginity
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No, but a character does go on her first date, and then presumably has her first kiss
there's anti-abortion themes
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there's a few childbirth simulated scenes
there's fat suits
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I don't think they used a suit for it, but there is a scene where beetlejuice is "inflated"
the ending is sad
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Not sad per se but, there's sort of a sting ending, where you think a bunch of these nice things are happening but they turn out to be fake, and beetlejuice is still around, and Lydia is still haunted by him and what not
there's end credits scenes?
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Just stay for the credits of the actors and their images. There a little funny thing about Bob.
Santa (et al) is spoiled
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There is a burnt Santa ghost, but it is easy to explain was a fake.
a car crashes
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Vague mention of the car crash of the first movie.
a person is hit by a car
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Astrid is almost hit by two vehicles while riding her bike, but both miss.
a plane crashes
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Animated, very fake looking.
a car honks or tires screech
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Astrid is riding her bike and two vehicles have to honk and swerve to avoid hitting her.
there's blood/gore
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Many ghosts in the afterlife are seen to have died in gory ways like being bitten in half, stabbed by a javelin and melted by hazardous waste. A demon pulls out his beating heart and innards. A dismembered ghost staples herself back together. Bloody detail when a demon attacks a doctor. Blood splatters on the screen when someone is attacked by a shark in an animated scene. As part of a wedding ceremony, the couple bite the heads off chickens.
someone drowns
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Mentions of drowning regarding Charles and it is believed that Astrid's father drowned.
there's gun violence
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Wolf Jackson points a gun towards the camera on multiple occasions. He never fires the gun.
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