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John Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Grant Bardsley, John Byner, Phil Fondacaro, and Susan Sheridan in The Black Cauldron (1985)

Parents guide

The Black Cauldron

Content rating

  • Motion Picture Rating (MPA)
    Rated PG for some scary images

  • Sex & Nudity:
    Mild
  • Violence & Gore:
    Moderate
  • Profanity:
    None
  • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking:
    Mild
  • Frightening & Intense Scenes:
    Moderate

Sex & Nudity

Mild
29 of 59 found this mild
A dog rips a man's pants, revealing some of his undergarments. It's merged shortly after.
A man looks towards the two people at his side, he was not looking at her chest.
Minor sensuality: A large, buxom gypsy woman is briefly seen dancing seductively on a table for the Horned King's drunken soldiers.
One of the witches tries to seduce Fflewddur by prowling on top of him. After Fflewddur is turned into a frog, there's an extended sequence where he gets stuck in the buxom witch's cleavage.
It was a quick peck on the lips nothing more.

Violence & Gore

Moderate
20 of 44 found this moderate
Men throw weapons at a boy and girl, but they don't get hit.
A pig is threatened to be killed if a character doesn't cooperate. A character holds a flaming coal towards it, then puts it on a bloodied chopping block. The pig's keeper is able to cooperate and the pig is spared right before it gets killed.
Taran has some blood running from his mouth when chasing after Hen Wen.
Taran duels using the magic sword with several soldiers, the sword obliterates their weapons into shreds of metal and wood.
The Horned King resurrects dead soldiers using the black cauldron and they massacre several living soldiers offscreen and we see Taran, Eilonwy, and Flewdder react to this.
In a deleted scene, the Cauldron Born kills one of the Horned King's soldiers and the soldier's body is dissolved by mist.
The dead soldiers start to decompose when the cauldron is corrupted.

Profanity

None
37 of 43 found this to have none

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Mild
23 of 36 found this mild
Alcohol use.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

Moderate
20 of 52 found this moderate
The appearance of The Horned King may frighten some viewers.
In a deleted storyboard, the fog from the cauldron comes into contact with a man, and the flesh dissolves off of his body. This would've given the movie a PG-13 or possibly even an R rating.
The Horned King, and his dragons appear very demonic.
The dragons chase and terrorize Hen Wen in one sequence that's rather suspenseful.
The dead soldiers appear as living skeletons and are rather ghastly.

Certifications

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  • Argentina
    • Atp
  • Australia
    • PG
    • Goriginal rating
    • PG1998, re-rating
  • Brazil
    • Livre
  • Canada
    • PGCanadian Home Video Rating
    • PGManitoba
    • GNova Scotia/Quebec
    • FOntario
  • Egypt
    • G
  • Finland
    • K-10
  • France
    • Tous publics
  • Germany
    • 6
  • Hong Kong
    • I
  • India
    • U
  • Indonesia
    • R13+
  • Ireland
    • PG
    • G2010, re-rating
  • Italy
    • T
  • Japan
    • G
  • Malaysia
    • U
  • Mexico
    • A
  • Nepal
    • U
  • Netherlands
    • AL
    • 62010, special edition DVD
  • New Zealand
    • G
  • Nigeria
    • G
  • Norway
    • 7DVD rating
    • 121985, cinema rating
  • Peru
    • Apt
  • Portugal
    • M/6
    • M/12TV rating
  • Russia
    • 12+
  • Saudi Arabia
    • G
  • Singapore
    • PG
  • South Korea
    • All
  • Sweden
    • 7
  • Taiwan
    • 0+
  • Thailand
    • G
  • United Kingdom
    • U
  • United States
    • PGcertificate #27724
  • West Germany
    • 6w

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