Does the dog die?
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Little Shop of Horrors
Movie • 1986 • Comedy
ReportSeymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day as Seymour is seeking a new mysterious plant, he finds a very mysterious unidentified plant which he calls Audrey II. The plant seems to have a craving for blood and soon begins to sing for his supper.
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Anonymous
someone sings about shooting dogs
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Unanswered Triggers
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Ray957
It’s mentioned that Seymour is an orphan— unclear why, but abandonment is one possible reason.
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Is an animal abandoned?
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khaosmontah
There is an assumedly stray dog seen in a few scenes of the movie. It seems perfectly fine though.
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Anonymous
Debatable, Seymour's father figure talks down to him and only adopts him for the money.
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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Anonymous
Not really, but Audrey talks/sings about how she deserves the abuse from Orin and she wont leave him because she wouldn't be able to find another boyfriend who would be willing to date her.
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Is someone stalked?
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greencow
Kind of. Audrey gets a phone call from Audrey II, and she sees him watching her through her window and laughing.
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Anonymous
Audrey, one of our main protagonists, is shown to be verbally and physically abused by her boyfriend. this is a big plot point, as she sings the song somewhere that's green a song about wishing she was with Seymour instead as he is good to her.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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khaosmontah
This is debatable depending on a few things. There is a silhouette of a woman being slapped, though I don't think it counts as brutilisation or a spectacle really. The same woman is eaten / almost eaten (depending on directors cut or theatrical release) by the plant, which is certainly a spectacle but very tame in terms of blood. If she *is* eaten, it is actually by her request, though the plant's initial attempt to eat her was nonconsensual.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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greencow
Not gaslighting, but Seymour is manipulated by Audrey II
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Anonymous
It's implied Mushnik has been emotionally abusive towards Seymour since he was a child.
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Addiction
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Anonymous
Orin uses laughing gas to get high.
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Is there addiction?
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skeleton_creep
Orin is addicted to Laughing Gas. It's quite a common theme with him.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Raygender
Background characters are implied to. Typical bottle in a paper bag situation
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Are animals abused?
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devon
it’s sung about in the dentist song, you never actually see it though
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Is there a dead animal?
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coolkidswithasthma
It's only mentioned in the beginning of "Dentist!"
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Are rabbits harmed?
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khaosmontah
There are no rabbits in the movie
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Does a cat die?
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Anonymous
someone sings about killing cats
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Does a pet die?
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dumbtheatrekid
mentioned a few times in the song “dentist”
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Assault
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Anonymous
The dentist slaps audrey. They have a very abusive relationship.
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Is someone drugged?
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Anonymous
Orin drugs himself for fun, but no
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Anonymous
Audrey is beaten up by her abusive boyfriend, who is established to be a sadistic bully.
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Is someone restrained?
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LJConrad
A woman is trapped by plant vines and dragged into its mouth. The same character makes references to her abusive boyfriend handcuffing her.
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Anonymous
Audrey Two tries to bite a woman's behind. It's implied Orin sexually abuses Audrey. Audrey Two lifts Audrey's dress and some of the dialogue in that scene is reminiscent of a rape scene.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Jd2221
Woman is restrained with plants vines but mouth not covered
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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kelseyj610
No shaving, no cutting shown. Seymour mentions slitting his wrists
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Anonymous
A character's mask gets stuck on his face and he suffocates.
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Is there cannibalism?
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cassandrasaurus
No but there is a plant who eats humans.
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Is someone choked?
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Not by another person
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Is someone buried alive?
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vanawesome
A character is buried when a building collapses, but is very quickly revealed to be alive and well
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Is there amputation?
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vanawesome
A body is non-graphically chopped into pieces
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Does a head get squashed?
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glitterpop95
Orin sings about how he bashed a cat’s head in.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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ognok
orin, audrey's abusive boyfriend, is a dentist who has a laughing gas mask that he cant remove and dies from it
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Anonymous
To elaborate, a man is hit with a vine in the crotch, its played for laughs and no injuries are sustained.
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Does someone break a bone?
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LJConrad
A character's arm is in a lace sling which lyrically they refer to as a cast.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Stressedtoimpress
There’s a sadistic dentist who loves to torture his patients during appointments
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Stressedtoimpress
A body is chopped up
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Is someone tortured?
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greencow
Orin is described as being a “sadist” who gets off on his patients’ pain. There are some brief scenes of his patients screaming.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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LJConrad
A dead body slides down some stairs.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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coolkidswithasthma
In a directors cut a character considers suicide by jumping from a roof, but it never happens.
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Seymour says he'll fight Audrey II to the death but he ends up being okay
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Does a major character die?
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Maaaajor character gets a yes only in the bad ending
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Does a non-human character die?
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An anthromorphic plant
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Does someone die?
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Disply
In the original ending every main character gets eaten and the plants take over the world
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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LJConrad
A character dies by asphyxiating on laughing gas that he takes recreationally.
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Family
Does a family member die?
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An adoptive father
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Does a parent die?
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Anonymous
SPOILER:
Mister Mushnik is like Seymour Krelborn's father, and he is eaten alive.
Mister Mushnik is like Seymour Krelborn's father, and he is eaten alive.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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vanawesome
A little girl waiting in the dentist's office has the head ripped off her doll during choreography
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Does someone cheat?
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cassandrasaurus
Not physically but a character who is in an abusive relationship dreams of being romantically involved with her best friend instead.
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Fear
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There's dentist tools
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Is someone eaten?
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Disply
In the original ending every main character gets eaten and the plants take over the world.
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Does someone spit?
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Anonymous
A patient spits into a sink at the end of "Dentist!"
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Is there audio gore?
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PonyboyCurtains
During ‘Dentist’ there is a lot of screaming from Orin inflicting pain. Also, in ‘Feed me’ Orin slaps Audrey, his girlfriend, and you can hear the slap
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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coolkidswithasthma
||SPOILERS|| After the first death there are cops shown talking to Audrey, but they don't really do anything.
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Loss
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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SPOILER:
It is not electro-therapy, but the "plant" dies by electricity.
It is not electro-therapy, but the "plant" dies by electricity.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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coolkidswithasthma
During the song "Dentist!" Orin is showed injecting something into a patients mouth, but only for a bit.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Anonymous
Technically it's a dentist office.
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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Anonymous
Orin is referenced to have killed small animals in his childhood, which is a well-known symptom of APD, but he's not diagnosed and its never mentioned that he's mentally ill. At the beginning of the movie a song says that Skid Row is a place where depression is "status quo," and many of the characters are deeply unhappy. Beyond that, mental health is not mentioned.
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squahs
not overly shown or touched upon but the main character nips his fingertips in order to feed the plant at its early stages
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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faeriebottled97
No mention of him being diagnosed with anything. Hes just abusive. Sociopath is a loose and bold term to use about a bad person and really paints how ableist people believe violence and uncaring = mental illness.
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amazingamphy
The main character attempts to jump off a building in the alternate "Director's Cut" ending, but this scene isn't in the movie proper.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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coolkidswithasthma
Seymour mockingly asks Audrey II if he should slit his wrists. ||SPOILERS FOR ALTERNATE ENDING|| Seymour briefly considers suicide in a directors cut.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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faeriebottled97
Body dysmorphia and societal shaming isnt the same thing
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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LJConrad
Not unless you include Seymour being briefly buried alive in a collapsing building.
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BabyPurpleBat
(MINOR Spoilers for the alternate ending)
Seymour is thinking of jumping off a building and climbs right up to the top, but he doesn't actually jump.
Seymour is thinking of jumping off a building and climbs right up to the top, but he doesn't actually jump.
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Does a baby cry?
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TodoketeKasane
No, but a child can be heard screaming during "Dentist!"
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Is there screaming?
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TiffyLee
A patient screams in the dentist's office
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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petezaparti
Most of the swearing is by Audrey II, in the last half hour
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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glitterpop95
Twoey gets electrocuted.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Anonymous
They don't know the plant is sentient at first, but it's aware and is watching everything happening around it.
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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LJConrad
Not really but there is a 'chorus' of three young women who sort of exist outside of the reality of the plot.
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dumbtheatrekid
mr mushnik has a lot of negative jewish stereotypes but there is no antisemitism in the actual film
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LuciJadischke
Bill Murrey's character is referred to as "it" in a derogatory manner
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Does the black guy die first?
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glitterpop95
No, the first victim is Caucasian.
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Race
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Sex
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Jd2221
A woman is shown to be abused by her partner, implied sexual abuse but no objectification
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
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greencow
Some kissing. Audrey describes the sexual aspects of her relationship with Orin, but it’s mainly for comedic purposes or to make you feel empathy for her.
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Is there BDSM?
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TiffyLee
Orin the dentist is described as and acts like a sadist and one of his patients is shown to be a masochist
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
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persondum
a bunch of extras are homeless but it isn’t really discussed outside of the “skid row” song
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Jarguen
In the original ending (director's cut) the bad guy wins and take over the world but in the theatrical release the bad guy loses
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
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Tr33vie
(directors cut) some cars are literally thrown into buildings and up in the air and some cars crash into eachother during the chaos
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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Stressedtoimpress
There are several murders. Seymour chops up a dead body, but we don’t see the body as he does so. We do see him feeding the body parts to the plant though
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Is there gun violence?
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greencow
Seymour threatens Orin with a gun. During “Mean Green Mother From Outer Space,” Audrey II shoots repeatedly at Seymour with a revolver, but misses.
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