Despite being deemed as a Family Picture, the film contains a surprising amount of violence, abuse and creepy imagery, that is bound to scare kids, and maybe even adults watching it.
- The entire scene with the man-droids. They’re basically zombie cyborgs composed of machinery and rotting organic body parts. One has to wonder how this film got away with a PG rating.
- When they capture Orin, they bicker about who gets his body parts while he's within earshot. Implying they don't bother killing their captives before dismembering them.
- The ensuing chase scene. Especially the shot of the two emerging from the fog after Orin trips.
- Their deaths. The leader gets impaled by the sword and bleeds ichor and the female gets bisected. Then the surviving man-droid (which is barely even humanoid) grabs the leader's scissor and walks to his corpse with a creepy grin.
- Those eyes!
- The intro. People, both young and old, are forced to mine crystals for their Evil Overlord Zygon. The conditions are so bad they often die. One poor chap gets crushed by a cave-in and we see his feet twitching for a few seconds before they stop moving. Later when the hilt is discovered, Elan's grandfather gets his skull burned by a lightwhip when he tries to keep the hilt a secret from Zygon's droids. He later dies from the injury.
- Zygon’s Cold-Blooded Torture on Dagg by penetrating his skull with a tiny laser ray. It's bordering lobotomy because it goes through where the lower brain is located.
- Many robots throughout the film get sucked into space! This fate is horrible enough if it happens to humans and organic beings, but there's a chance the robots could have stayed alive for a while in space until their batteries burn out or their machinery freezes.
- Zygon's death. Sure, he deserved it. But he fell into lava, on-screen and we see the lava boiling for several second afterward.
- The re-programing scene. Especially when looked at in a Fridge Horror perspective. Imagine being kidnapped against your will and having your whole personality forcefully changed. The fact that the android became Dagg's love interest as result didn't help. The further fact that Dagg shortly thereafter pawned her off to a slave auctioneer helps even less.
