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(1982)

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Sex & Nudity

  • A ghost lifts a woman's shirt up, exposing her white panties as she tries to pull it down.
  • Dana gets her skirt blown up by the wind, exposing her white panties.
  • Diane hangs onto a door to prevent being sucked in a closet.she is wearing a skirt and we get a big view of her poca dot panties.
  • A 16 year old girl is cat called by construction workers.

Violence & Gore

  • A tree comes to life, breaks a bedroom window and tries to drag away a small child, but he is saved in time.
  • A man is seen tearing his face apart. We see bloody chunks of flesh fall into a sink, and his completely mangled face is seen several times. A flash of light reveals that it was only a hallucination, and he is completely unharmed. This is the goriest scene in the movie.
  • A young girl is sucked screaming into a portal.
  • Several decaying corpses and skeletons are seen towards the end of the film.
  • A woman falls into a large hole filled with water were several skeletons appear. They are very grotesque looking.
  • A woman is attacked by spirits and flung around a room. She is unharmed.
  • A creepy clown doll pops out and attacks a child. It wraps its arm around his neck and strangles him, before dragging him under the bed. The child is able to get the upper hand and he escapes, tearing up the clown doll.
  • A mouth-like portal tries to suck two children into it. They scream in terror, but are unharmed.

Profanity

  • Dana flips off construction workers.
    • 7 uses of Shit

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • The parents are seen smoking marijuana. They discover it in a drawer at home, and decide to smoke it together. It is implied that it was hidden there long ago and forgotten about; a remnant of the couple's younger "hippie" days rather than something they still do.
  • Adults are seen drinking beers while watching a football game.
  • Steve can be seen in Dr. Lesh's office with a cigarette that you never actually see him smoke.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There are many prolonged sequences of strobing lights in this movie that may trigger seizures to people with photosensitive epilepsy or any other photosensitivity.
  • The fact that the reveal of the skeleton pool uses ACTUAL skeletons can uncomfort some people.
  • One scene has a tree attacking and attempting to swallow a young boy. The tree crashes through a window and actually pulls the kid outside with its branches.
  • A scene has a man hallucinating that he is pulling the skin and flesh off of his face. The bloody chunks fall into a sink.
  • One scene in a closet has a man angering a demonic spirit. The spirit's grotesque face manifests in the doorway.
  • One scene has a woman trapped in an unfinished swimming pool and discovering that it is filled with rotting skeletons.
  • Although no deaths are evident in the film, it has many scenes that place children in threatening conditions.
  • A jump scene where a woman opens a door and a deafening shriek occurs, and another where a loud thunder and an explosion of wind comes down the stairs, knocking people to the floor.

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Sex & Nudity

  • Kane attempts to telapathically rape Diane by lifting up her top and exposing her undergarments.he shakes her around the bed and we get a closeup of her panties between her legs,but she pulls it down.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Despite its supernatural theme. The film deals realistically with the distress of the parents and siblings at the disappearance of Carol Ann.

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