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- Sex & Nudity (4)
- Violence & Gore (1)
- Profanity (1)
- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (2)
- Frightening & Intense Scenes (5)
- Spoilers (10)
Certification
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Sex & Nudity
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- It is implied that a young woman married an older man for his fortune. She goes on to seduce other men throughout the film in a callous and opportunistic fashion.
- Two characters make love in a shower. No nudity visible.
- A woman dresses in provocative clothing at various points of the film.
- A buxom bar maiden character is sexualized , with all of the male characters in the pub staring at her in a comically obvious fashion.
Violence & Gore
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- Comically inventive murder set-pieces throughout.
Profanity
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- Mild profanity, including British slang (eg. "bloody").
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- An English pub serves as the setting for several scenes throughout the film. Characters drink and smoke.
- A ne'er do-well character is depicted as becoming excessively drunk.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- More macabre than scary, but the murders and overall concept of a corpse exacting sadistic revenge from beyond the grave may be disturbing to some viewers.
- Almost all of the characters are depicted as selfish, ignorant or outright contemptible. There are almost no sympathetic characters in the film.
- The theme of death hangs over the entire film.
- Many scenes set in a fog covered cemetery. A running joke involves the mounting number of tombstones as characters are bumped off throughout the film.
- Charles Addams-style "Grand Guignol" humor throughout.
Spoilers
Sex & Nudity
- A character's father runs off with his son's fiancé after flirting with her throughout the film.
Violence & Gore
- A character applies face cream that has been tainted with a corrosive acid. Her face burns and she screams in pain before dying.
- A man is presented with a three-piece suit that constricts when worn. He chokes as the suit painfully tightens, until his entire body explodes (discussed by other characters after the fact, and briefly depicted as cloth and gore striking a coffin).
- A man is drugged and placed in a trash compactor. His body is unknowingly crushed the next morning, with only the character's foot remaining.
- Two characters make love in a shower. The walls of the shower are rigged to close-in, crushing the lovers to death.
- A character is murdered with a shovel and buried in an open grave.
- A character is interred alive in a crypt.
- A cat and raven appear as a motif for death throughout the film. The final shot ends with the cat attacking and killing the raven behind a tombstone. Flying feathers and squawking.
- A character is decapitated by a dumbwaiter that has been converted into a guillotine. His body is discovered on the floor, with his head appearing in the dumbwaiter (no blood).
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
- A character drinks alcohol that has been drugged.
