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(1988)

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Sex & Nudity

  • A young woman gets her dress opened up, but her back is shown.
  • A shackled woman is seen being beaten, and whipped, and she is clearly aroused by it.
  • Various dialog about people "getting laid".

Violence & Gore

  • A woman is shoved towards a wall of champagne bottles, multipls bottles impale her and the corks pop sending champagne and blood everywhere.
  • An elderly man's head is ripped off by a werewolf.
  • A woman is blown away by a shotgun blast to the stomach.
  • A young man gets bitten by a werewolf in the arm. The injury is seen briefly.
  • A young woman eats what looks like chunks of human organs with blood-like sauce to go with it.
  • A man is seen laying in an operating table with half of his left leg being skinned with the bone showing. A rat is seen chewing on his leg, and a young woman throws it away. Later, a vampire man is seen touching it as he screams in pain, and the vampire tastes it.
  • A young woman stabs a vampire in the gut. Blood is shown. He takes out the knife, and stabs a man on the table. She takes the knife out of the wounded man, and defends herself with two knives as a crucifix shape. She places them on the forehead of a vampire, and his head explode. Blood is seen.
  • A young woman defends herself from three female vampires. She stabs them one by one, and pushes one of them through a champagne shelf with a bottle seen going through her.
  • A young woman is seen getting bitten by a vampire. Not shown.
  • A man uses his pen knife to cut a piece of a wax statue of a woman. He takes a piece of the skin wax, and the muscle wax as evidence. No gory detail.
  • A mummy is seen treading on a man's head, and crushes his head. The sound effects of the bone crushing is heard as blood pops out.
  • An old man stabs a mummy with a spear, but the mummy grabs him, and slowly stabs him with the same spear.
  • A young woman gets whipped. Marks are shown.
  • A young man amputates a zombie hand. It grabs hold of him, and stabs it through a metal fence. Little gore is shown due to the black-and-white filter.
  • A young man wrestles against a French soldier. through hitting each other on walls.
  • A young man asks a man to shoot him, but unfortunately misses.
  • A wax figure is stabbed by a man in a wheelchair.
  • A group of men fight against all wax figures in the last 15 minutes.
  • A man is ripped in half by a werewolf.
  • People's necks are bitten by vampires, plenty of blood can be seen spraying.
  • A man is seen shackled to a slab, alive, with all the flesh and muscle stripped from one of his legs. The bone and tendons, clearly visible.
  • Various impalings.
  • A mummy steps on a man's head and crushes it. This is quite bloody and the sound effects make it that much worse.

Profanity

  • Infrequent use of strong language such as "fuck", "shit", "damn" and "whore", "d**khead

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • An inspector is seen smoking frequently.
  • Cigarette smoking throughout.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The opening minute shows a man getting burnt, and his dead body lands in the fire in a fireplace.
  • A man turns into a werewolf. His finger nails are seen with little blood around them, and scratches the table. He transforms offscreen.
  • A werewolf squeezes a man's head, and tears it in half.
  • Because a werewolf bites a young man, he turns into a werewolf, but is killed by an old man before he fully transforms.
  • A young man approaches a young woman, and attempts to bite her, but he misses. This happens very quickly.
  • A man is seen with his leg being skinned, and his bone is shown strapped on an operating table.
  • A young woman attacks vampires.
  • A mummy comes alive, and traps two people in its coffin.
  • A young man lits his lighter which shows a wax statue of a man with sharp ears, widened eyes, and widened mouth. A sound effect of a demonic scream is included. This lasts one second.
  • A young man runs through a zombie environment in black-and-white. There are closeup shots of zombies, blood and gore, and intense score.
  • The waxwork owner makes all his work come to life.
  • The last 30 minutes become more dramatic and action-packed rather than scary.

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Violence & Gore

  • China (in wax form) gets stabbed because she is no longer human.
  • Sarah takes a midget, and feeds him to a plant offscreen.
  • Lincoln gets shot.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The entire wax museum gets burnt down.

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