a very large 2 headed spider boss named the dukes dear freya and her human sized offspring are the most common enemies in 1 area of the game that must be completed unless a player wishes to grind 1 million souls to skip said area
A character called Vengarl is a talking head laying amongst some rubble who was separated from his body. There is also a Gorgon-like boss who holds her severed head in her hand and uses it for attacks.
One of the bosses is a prisoner chained in cuffs with a metal mask, and the boss cutscene shows a bug crawling into the eye-hole of the mask and the boss crying out in pain afterwards.
The Undead Crypt is home to several ghostly enemies, including wall ghosts, pyromancers summoned by bells, and if a condition is fulfilled, Red Phantoms.
The Lost Sinner boss constantly punishes herself and in her introduction can be seen flogging herself though it isn’t too graphic and doesn’t persist after the cutscene.
The word 'queer' is used once (Agdayne: ''How queer, you humans''), although it is meant in the old-fashioned meaning of strange/peculiar and not as a slur or reference to lgbt people