Nov 15,2002
Forced to spend his summer holidays with his muggle relations, Harry Potter gets a real shock when he gets a surprise visitor: Dobby the house-elf, who warns Harry Potter against returning to Hogwarts, for terrible things are going to happen. Harry decides to ignore Dobby's warning and continues with his pre-arranged schedule. But at Hogwarts, strange and terrible things are indeed happening: Harry is suddenly hearing mysterious voices from inside the walls, muggle-born students are being attacked, and a message scrawled on the wall in blood puts everyone on his/her guard - "The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. Enemies Of The Heir, Beware" .
nudity | Some mild flirtatious attitude towards young girls from a teacher, but nothing terrible. Said girls blush when he looks their way. Played for comedy. |
violence | A house elf repeatedly beats himself and is beaten. (Hitting himself with lamps, Banging his head into dressers, telling Harry he had to Iron his hands, and kicked by his master and goes flying) Messages are written on walls with blood. Harry faces off with a giant snake. A phoenix blinds the snake by scratching out it's eyes. We see the empty sockets spurring blood. Harry stabs the snake through the roof of it's mouth. Some blood is shown. He is also bitten by the snake and pulls a fang out of his arm. Wounds are shown, as well as dripping blood, violent threats of murder are made, we see instances of dead bodies and corpses, as well as gruesome flashbacks on a few occasions We see skeletal remains, and battles with swords occur. Young characters approach death, are possessed and manipulated, and have traumatic nightmares A character attacks another character and describes the death of his parents and the attempted murder of an infant Sticky thematics pertaining to genocide, war, murder, possession and grooming, as well as death, spirituality, and racism/elitism/discrimination Giant spiders attack people, spells are used to blast people, and characters fall from heights Surfaces and characters are seem bloodied and battered |
profanity | 3 uses of bloody hell, 3 uses of bloody. |
alcohol | None |
frightening | The scene in Knockturn Alley has a unexpected moment: it is very quiet when Harry is examining an item in the shop (the Hand of Glory) and suddenly it grabs Harry's hand with a loud sound effect. This part may make you jump. Scene in the Dark Forest is particularly frightening, especially if you hate spiders. Entire confrontation with The Basilisk (Large Snake) is quite frightening. The movie sometimes riffs on horror, with threatening sound effects and music, odd camera shots, frightening creatures and startling action, as well as dark and cold cinematography. BBFC - (PG): mild fantasy violence, scary moments. |