Boo

"You don't have a ghost of a chance."

Director: Anthony C. Ferrante Year: 2005 Runtime: 94 min IMDb: ⭐ 4.7
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Synopsis

The friends Emmett, Freddy, Marie, Kevin and his reluctant girlfriend Jessie decide to spend the Halloween night in an abandoned hospital. Meanwhile, the younger Allan meets the old friend of his father Arlo Ray Baines and asks him to help to find his vanished sister Meg in the same spot. The two groups meet each other in the mental institution section on the haunted third floor.

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Content Warnings

⭐ IMDb Parents Guide 🛡️ Common Sense Media

a dog dies
spoiler You don't actually see the dog (Dutchess) die on film, but you do hear her yelp when she is being killed. Later, you see her remains left from being skinned. Then her remains move or "animate," and I'm not sure why because I closed my eyes. To be safe and avoid this whole scene, skip from 20:30 to 22:00.
there's a dead animal
Yes
there are spiders
Yes
animals are abused
Yes
there are bugs
spoiler Maggots fall from the clown costume at about 40 min. in.
a pet dies
Yes
an animal dies
Yes
there's child abuse
spoiler Child is lured into a close by an adult man, nothing else shown on screen but it is referenced he "likes to hurt kids"
someone gets gaslighted
Yes
there's addiction
Yes
alcohol abuse
Yes
someone uses drugs
spoiler There are very brief scenes involving marijuana
there's pedophilia
Yes
someone is restrained
Yes
there's excessive gore
Yes
there's shaving/cutting
Yes
there's amputation
Yes
someone struggles to breathe
Yes
someone has a seizure
Yes
there's finger/toe mutilation
Yes
someone is burned alive
Yes
teeth are damaged
spoiler A man pulls out one of his own teeth which has come loose due to a curse; his mouth bleeds
there's eye mutilation
Yes
there's torture
Yes
heads get squashed
spoiler Pipe(?) to the head, head caves in
a kid dies
spoiler young people are dying
someone cheats
Yes
A child's dear toy is destroyed
Yes
a parent dies
Yes
there are jump scares
Yes
there are clowns
spoiler brief scene in which one character dresses as a clown; another scene later on where the clown is a ghost
there's ghosts
Yes
someone is possessed
Yes
There's audio gore
Yes
there's spitting
Yes
there's a mental institution scene
spoiler In flashback scenes, the mental ward of the abandoned hospital is shown to be operational.
electro-therapy is used
spoiler Several scenes of electro-therapy, not sure why there are "nos"
there's a hospital scene
spoiler The action is set at an abandoned hospital. There is no real hospital treatment happening, but there are wheelchairs, gurneys, and similar props.
someone dies by suicide
spoiler At about 1 hr 20 min, a character slashes her wrist with a razor. She does not die and the scene is actually a vision. However, in the next 5 min. a character shoots herself and another.
someone self harms
spoiler At about 1 hr. 5 min. a character intentionally smashes his hand.
a mentally ill person is violent
Yes
someone has an anxiety attack
Yes
there's flashing lights or images
spoiler Throughout the abandoned hospital, the lights flash as the electricity is unstable.
someone miscarries
Yes
a pregnant person dies
Yes
there's ableist language or behavior
Yes
the black guy dies first
Yes
there is sexual content
Yes
a male character is ridiculed for crying
spoiler A young man is told not to be a crybaby, but he wasn't actually crying at the time.
the ending is sad
Yes
there's blood/gore
Yes
there's gun violence
Yes

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