Parents Guide for
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) More at IMDbPro »

Indy, in order to save himself, retrieves a vial of antidote from between a woman's breasts inside her dress.

Indiana Jones talks about a tribe that almost cut off his (he looks down). He doesn't finish the sentence.

Later, Indy and that same woman engage in sexual foreplay, which is played out in dialog and some sly visual nods. It includes Indy saying he's a professor of "Nocturnal Activities" and then the woman asks him to come to her room in five minutes. Nothing explicit.

Indy moves a female statue, by pushing on the statue's breasts.

Scenes of torture and violence are prominent all throughout the film.

During a night club scene, a man is shot (with blood), and a man is stabed with a flaming shish ca bob.

The whole movie is based around an evil Thuggie Cult.

Mola Ram (the prime antagonist) has an ornate headress with a shrunken head in it.

A man hangs to death from a ceiling fan in a fight with the main character.

A man's heart is ripped out on screen, then lowered slowly into a pit of lava, where he catches on fire and dies.

A man is ran over by a mine cart (not clearly shown)

A few men are thrown into the pit of lava during a fight scene. (not shown)

Children are forced to work as slaves, where they are whipped if they do not obey.

Indy is forced to drink a brainwashing potion. The potion is stored in a cup made from a human head.

A young brainwashed boy is beaten by another boy. His face is slightly bloody.

Men fall off a broken bridge into a river below, where they are eaten by crocodiles (slightly implied).

Two people fight and one of them is dragged into a rock crusher and he is crushed and killed off screen, but you see blood on the crushing wheel afterwards.

Many people are killed in this film.

All profanity is hardly audible due to the background noise.

One mention of the word "Sh-t", used for comic effect when Indy finds himself trapped and surrounded.

When Short Round (Ke Huy Quan) is getting whipped, Indy yells "Leave him alone you bastards!"

Characters drink and smoke respectively in a nightclub at the beginning of the film.

"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" is generally a frightening and intense movie - it contains explicit scenes of terror, though it is quite tame in the way it depicts acts of violence (for instance, many things are implied instead of being shown) in a lot of places. The dark tone and scenes displaying the Thuggee cult ceremony/sacrifice are extremely frightening. Many scenes often attempt to evoke the audience to "jump" out of their seats. Visual imagery tied with death, the occult and ancient rituals is all throughout. Those who have aversion to insects may find a particular sequence very disturbing.

This is a scene with insects everywhere, crawling over the main characters. A lever needs to be pulled to deactivate a trap, which is accessed by sticking your arm through a hole smothered in millipedes, beetles and other horrid insects.

Since this was one of the films responsible for introducing the PG-13 rating, parents should probably consider some of the above content on par with the rating.