The antagonistic shark in Jaws may actually make very few appearances on screen, but when it does it certainly makes its mark. He may not actually die, but the scene is shocking and horrifying nonetheless. Peeling more and more, Marty slowly rips almost his entire face off, leaving only a bloody skull behind. When Marty, a parapsychologist brought in to investigate the strange happenings in the house, attempts to wash his face in the bathroom, he peels at a small cut on his cheek. That did not make it any less disturbing to watch, especially for the younger viewers who went to watch the PG-rated horror film. To be fair, this iconic scene from Poltergeist is not an actual death of a character, but a hallucination. Owen and Beru’s actual deaths are offscreen, but the lingering shot of the charred corpses leaves little to the imagination.
When Luke returns from Old Ben’s, he finds his Aunt and Uncle’s still smoldering bodies in the remains of their home. Luke’s Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru were small parts of the movie, but they had practically been Luke’s parents for his whole life. That said, the original film A New Hope in 1977 did showcase an unusual level of cruelty in its first act. While the Star Wars franchise does feature the occasional surprise moment of violence, for the most part, the series sticks to a tamer, PG level of action that the whole family can enjoy. Star Wars: A New Hope – Uncle Owen And Aunt Beru’s Fate While Stewart’s death itself was likely peaceful during her sleep, the crew discovering her long rotted body is no less unsettling. RELATED: Every Planet Of The Apes Movies, Ranked By MetacriticĪs the astronauts wake from their long slumber, they find that one of their team, Stewart, has died due to an air leak in her pod, and is already heavily decomposed. One of the more unsettling moments of the film comes right at the beginning, when the lead astronauts awake from their hibernation. Planet of the Apes was a groundbreaking sci-fi film that is still enjoyable today, but there were several scenes that pushed the limit of its G rating, including violence, profanity, and some brief nudity. These films really test the limits of suitability for “general audiences”, even to this day. Shocking scenes getting pasted the rating board is not just a new trend, however, as several movies have managed to get away with genuinely horrifying death scenes while still earning a PG or even a G rating. The recent MCU outing Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, for example, has been surprisingly violent for what is meant to be a movie aimed at family-centered audiences. As strict as they often are, the MPAA rating board often can be surprisingly lenient on violence. Movie ratings are often a controversial thing.
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