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(1990)

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Sex & Nudity

  • While trying to get a mouse out of his pants a man and his co-workers take them off he is in his boxers and holds himself.
  • Nudity: None
  • It is strongly implied a man is having a sexual affair with one of his co-workers.
  • A woman puts perfume on her breasts through her open button up blouse. No nudity is shown.
  • A man moves a woman's hair and breathes heavily on her neck.

Violence & Gore

  • The leader of the witches declares all children should be wiped from the face of the earth.
  • A witch is disintegrated into a pile of ashes (though it is mostly obscured by a cloud of smoke and sparks).
  • A woman is turned into a mouse and then squished by a witch. Green slime squirts out; no blood.
  • A mouse is killed with a bloody meat cleaver, though it cuts away before much of anything can be seen.
  • A mouse has the tip of its tail cut off with a knife. It is later shown with a little bit of blood.
  • A woman is missing a finger, with only a stump in place. She suggested it was because of a witch.

Profanity

  • Some namecalling, english swearing (bloody), and even a use of "bitch".

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Alcohol: Social drinking
  • An elderly woman smokes stumpy cigars in some scenes.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The film constantly portrays children in danger and witches committing horrible acts to kill these kids.
  • Hopefully, you can still get away with how scary this today's standards.
  • Most of the horror is contained to the first 45 minutes. There are many disturbing suggestions and special effects with intense suspense.
  • A woman looks at a child and her eyes turn purple. The woman later abducts the child.
  • A father sees his lost daughter (the abducted child) in a painting. The child's voice is heard crying for her father. Very eerie and scary.
  • Another woman looks at a child and her eyes turn purple when she removes her sunglasses. The child yells for his grandma as she tells the child his cries for help cannot be heard. The child is shown in obvious terror.
  • A maid runs panicked and disheveled, screaming down a hallway. Later we discover she saw mice.
  • Witches are shown taking off their wigs, revealing bald scalps covered in blisters and sores. Their hands are long and clawed, and they have toeless feet with square stumps.
  • A boy is chased by witches through a hotel.
  • A boy, while running is grabbed by a clawed witch's hand.
  • A baby in a carriage is pushed down a hill and almost rolls over a seaside cliff. Parents scream and run after.
  • A woman faints.
  • Several women are shown with smoke pouring out of their mouths.
  • Several women are shown in having seizures and changing into ratlike, frothy creatures.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Sex & Nudity

  • A boy, aged 10 or about, is shown in underpants breaking out of a dollhouse as he is magically transformed. (His front is shown so this is the scene in the movie that contains nudity.)

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • This movie is about how a bunch of witches trap kids in paintings or turn them into a mouse , chicken , et.c , and then kill them
  • The grand high witch pushes a baby down a cliff , the baby fortunately gets saved by a boy ,but the witches turns him into a mouse and tries to kill him. This is one of the only kids that dont die.
  • Both of a child's parents die (offscreen) while on a date. Only a scarf is recovered.
  • A child is trapped in a painting.
  • The Grand High Witch, played by Anjelica Huston, peels off her face mask to show her true image and as a result, it reveals her extremely frightening and grotesque appearance underneath. Her eyes are a glowing light shade of purple, her head is completely bald with sores and blisters, and she has elongated claws on her hands. Her skin is brownish and is horrifically disfigured, as it looks as if it's hanging off of her bones, giving her a skeletal appearance and her nose is extremely long and pointed.
  • The Grand High Witch obliterates one of the witches after she questions the logic of her plan to wipe out all of England's children.
  • An unlikable child is shown being openly mocked by a room full of adults. He turns green, smoke pours from his body, and he grows large hideous ears. He appears to have a standing seizure as his neck extends on a thin stalk, then smoke surrounds him. When it is gone, he turns into a mouse.
  • The protagonist is turned into a mouse, and appears to be trapped this way.
  • The Grand High Witch, after inadvertently eating her own magic formula, is transformed into a hideous and deformed rat-like creature. As her face mask falls away, the creature lunges into the camera, and is often shown in extreme close-up. This scene is very startling.

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