Murder By Death

Movie • 1976 • Comedy  

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Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
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Does the dog die?
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MogyMogy
The only dog shown in the movie - a pet terrier named Myron - was no harmed at all. In the closing scene we can see him leaving the house with his owners, unharmed and alive. One of the protagonists talks about his past and mentiones his murdered poodle.
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Unanswered Triggers
Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is an animal sad?
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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ViktorDevonne
Someone is definitely spying on the characters through means.
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Is there domestic violence?
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ViktorDevonne
Characters are meant to believe circumstances about the house that are not true; a character repeatedly changes his story when it comes to his potential bisexuality, or homosexuality.
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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ViktorDevonne
Maggie Smith's character seems to imbibe a touch more than necessary.
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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MogyMogy
Off screen, but a snake is shot and then appears around the neck of one of the characters.
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Are animals abused?
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ZarahInkeri
Hunting trophies appear.
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Does a cat die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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MogyMogy
Spider-webs only, I don't remember any spider show on screen.
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Are there snakes?
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ViktorDevonne
A snake is heard, and later seen presumably dead while gripping a character mid-attack.
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Are there bugs?
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ZarahInkeri
A scorpion appears briefly
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Assault
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Solar
Very mildly harassed, by an elderly woman.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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ViktorDevonne
A character begins to cough when a room fills with gas.
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there amputation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there a hanging?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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MogyMogy
Except some stone gargoyles... :D :D
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Solar
This is a technicality.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Does someone cheat?
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Solar
Strongly implied.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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ViktorDevonne
A scream is triggered unexpectedly when a doorbell rings.
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Does someone spit?
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Solar
Technically, no, but a joke is made.
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone self harm?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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GrizzlyClare
It's mentioned off screen that someone killed herself in the room they're staying in
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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ViktorDevonne
Very prominently when a character appears.
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Pregnancy
Does someone miscarry?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
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ViktorDevonne
Pansy, queeries.
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KayR
Blind butler. Deaf and mute and can't read English maid/cook. Doesn't age well, imo; humor is Mel Brooks-esque.
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ViktorDevonne
No, but many Asian slurs
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theficus
A character is ridiculed for there being Polaroid pictures of him in drag.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there fat jokes?
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roundwoodsmonster
One of the film's major characters is a Chinese-American man, played by a white actor in yellowface. Just about every anti-Asian stereotype shows up in his characterization.
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ViktorDevonne
There are no black characters in this film.
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Is there hate speech?
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theficus
Many Asian slurs are used throughout. The film also has a yellowface portrayal of a Chinese man by a white actor that speaks in broken English and continually spouts fortune cookie platitudes. There is also a character who is Belgian but nevertheless is often the target of Francophobic slurs.
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Sex
Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Social
Is someone homeless?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Solar
However, one car crosses an unsafe bridge.
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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MogyMogy
Against a snake, off screen.
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