A man is crushed using a rock-crushing machine. Though his death is only implied, some blood is seen on the machine. Very disturbing.
In a jumpscare moment, a man's hand suddenly pops up through a hole in a wall, frightening a woman.
During a dinner scene, there are many disturbing foods, including a roasted boar, beetles, live eel-like creatures, eyeball soup, and monkeys' brains using monkey heads as bowls. Played for laughs, but is disgusting and hard to watch.
Darkest film in the franchise.
A villager tells Indy a creepy story about how the Thuggees came and kidnapped their children and their sacred stones.
Severed human fingers are shown draped around a statue of Kali (presumable a sacrifice of some kind). Blood can be seen on the statue.
There is a meal put on at a palace where disgusting dishes such as eyeball soup, snakes, insects and chilled monkey brains are served.
Indy is tortured by a voodoo doll. This is made all the more unsettling in that the act is perpetrated by a child who takes sadistic glee in causing him pain.
There is a scene with insects everywhere, crawling over the main characters.
A drugged guard suddenly jumps out at Willie and Short Round and hisses at them in a frightening voice.
A child begs for death.
A Thuggee is about to cut Short Round's throat however Indy stops him at the last second.
Mola Ram is very scary in general because he shouts frequently and has a very booming voice and a scary laugh plus a brutal look on his face.
Mola Ram (the prime antagonist) has an ornate headress with a shrunken head in it.
Some may find the scenes where Indy turns evil quite unsettling