a dog dies
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There are no dogs.
someone is sexually assaulted
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No, and I don’t feel a guy getting a chainsaw up his butt cheeks up to his back is a sexual assault. A brutal act, but not a sexual one at all. The lead actor who kills the guy has said his character is not interested in sex and that the line he will not cross is any sexual abuse and would in fact refuse to act in a scene like that.
an animal dies
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id walk out at about 42 minutes in for the nitrogen scene. i had my boyfriend text me when to come back in around 2 minutes later. maybe wait 3 or four to be safe. movie started at 5:20 scene started around 6:04 and he said it was over around 6:06. just make sure to leave a bit before and comeback a bit later to be extra safe. there was no sound or distress from the rats but visually graphic. not sure the time frame for the second rat scene because we decided to see a different movie cause i was uncomfortable but others say it’s around 1 hour 40 minutes in. (and of course, none were hurt in the making. you can search up how they did it to keep the rats safe if you’d like <3)
animals were harmed in the making
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From HumaneHollywood.com:
In the scene where the two actors walk into a basement and see a couple of rats on the floor, the trainer brought the rats out from their containers and placed them on their marks. The production enclosed the set with chicken wire and wooden boards to prevent the rats from escaping. On action, the rats freely roamed the enclosed set, exhibiting natural behaviors. On cut, handlers collected the rats and returned them to their containers.
In the scene where two actors are held captive, and the man places a jar on the table with a severed head with rats crawling on it, prior to filming we inspected the fake prop human head to ensure it was safe for the rats. The fake blood make-up that had been applied to the prop head was safe for the rats to come into contact with. Prior to filming, wranglers carried the rats and placed them in prop cage. They filmed them crawling on the prop head for a few mins.
In the scene where a rat is placed in a tube and crawls into a person’s mouth, this scene was achieved by using a prop dummy that was safe for the rats. Once a couple rats are placed in the tube, the killer slits the person’s throat and the rats spill out of the fake throat. Prior to filming, we checked the set over for potential hazards. We also inspected the prop dummy, plastic tube, and prop cage with the fake human head to ensure it was safe. When production was ready to film the animal action, handlers removed rats from the holding container and placed them in a small carrier. The rats’ action in the first set-up was to walk through the plastic tube toward the dummy’s mouth. On action, the handler removed a rat from the carrying container and released the animal into the opening of the plastic tube. The rat freely walked through the tube toward the dummy’s mouth. When the rat reached the end of the tube, the handler collected the rat. Production added light movement to the dummy to make it look like it was a living person. On cut, handler Steve placed the rat back in the carrying container.
there's a dead animal
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Dead rats
an animal is sad
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Not really. Rats seem extremely unfazed. The first rat is killed after being blasted with liquid nitrogen and didn’t have time to be distressed. The other rats start to eat the remains of the shattered rat, which to me doesn’t denote “distress” or being too sad about their fellow street rat buddy.
Later on, and I am trying to explain this as politely as I can, a victim has a large plastic tunnel jammed down their throat and at least two rats get dropped in. The rats do not seem sad, but you can’t see their faces. Trust me, the rats are MUCH less distressed than the victim is in the whole scenario.
rabbits are harmed
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No
animals are abused
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One rat is frozen and smashed. Others are kicked (offscreen). Several rats are also forced down a tube into a woman’s mouth/throat and encouraged via a small flame thrower. The woman’s throat is then slit and several bloody (still living) rats emerge from the wound.
there's dog fighting
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There are no dogs in this movie
a pet dies
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Rats are killed. No pets but a rat (SPOILERS) is frozen and then stepped on, dead rats are then used to torture someone.
there are spiders
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This film is spider-free. There are tons of (cob)webs in an abandoned house scene, but I made sure they weren't housing any bugs.
a child is abandoned by a parent or guardian
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Not willingly…
someone leaves without saying goodbye
Yes
there's child abuse
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Unlike the other entries in the series, there are SEVERAL children killed in this film. One child is dismembered with an axe in the cold open of the film, his dismembered body then later shown.
Several children are also killed in an explosion at a mall when one of them opens a bomb disguised as a Christmas present.
a woman is brutalized for spectacle
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Both men and women are brutalized the entire movie
there's domestic violence
Yes
the abused forgives their abuser
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that is because she is possessed! she doesn't forgive him of her own free will
someone gets gaslighted
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One thing that triggered me was the way Sienna was treated by her aunt and uncle . They judge her for being traumatized and reacting normal, and belive she is a danger to them and their child. This Also makes Sienna feel like what she experience is her being crazy. But it completely normal react to what she been through and them looking down on her hurts from someone that experience similar and been alienated by family because of aftermath and mental health struggles . Also the way she is blamed for murderes and her experience romantized.
the abused becomes the abuser
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It is clear throughout the movie that Vicki is possessed, and isn’t even alive anymore. So no, the abused does not become the abuser even though it may appear that way to someone who is not paying any attention.
someone is stalked
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kind of the plot of the whole movie 😭 not really a spoiler but yeah, Art is obviously stalking Sierra and her family
there's addiction
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Not addiction, but Sienna and Jonathan are both seen taking prescription medications, however there is no way of telling if there is any type of dependency.
alcohol abuse
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There is a scene where Art The Clown takes a shot and spits it back in someone's face but alcohol is not abused
someone uses drugs
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Prescribed medication, but yes.
someone is sexually assaulted onscreen
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The thing possessing Vicky stabs her in the vagina with a shard of glass repeatedly. I found it triggering.
sexual assault on men is a joke
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NO, it’s an assault but NOT a sexual one and it’s NOT played for laughs. No one is sexually assaulted in the movie, male or female. Just hacked up into pieces… I have been in contact with the writer/director and the actor who plays Art, and trust me, they do not find anything amusing about sexual assault for any gender.
a woman gets slapped
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SPOILERS**** the main character gets slapped repeatedly by Art the Clown while she is tied up with duct tape near the ending of the film
someone is beaten up by a bully
Yes
someone's mouth is covered
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Several characters are restrained and have their mouths covered with duct tape.
Sienna’s face is also pushed into the stomach of a disemboweled body and struggles to breathe.
someone is held under water
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~~mild spoilers, i would say yes, in a way.
near the end of the movie there are flashbacks to sienna trapped in a glass box of water like the ones magicians/escape artists use to escape from
someone is restrained
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SPOILERS**** the first time is with the Santa at the bar, after his friends are killed he is tied up and then tortured with liquid nitrogen. The second time is in the ending part of the film where characters are tied up to a chair and have duct tape on their mouths which is later removed. One character is killed whilst in these restraints and the other is released brutally by smashing the hands. Characters are also periodically physically restrained by another character, specifically near the end in the same scene listed above
rape is mentioned
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Fortunately, the killer has no interest in sexual abuse or rape. The actor who plays him has said numerous times he would never agree to film anything like that, as it’s a line he won’t cross.
there's eye mutilation
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There is a scene in the shower where Art kills two people (man and woman having sex). He uses a chainsaw to dismember, torture, and kill them. He cuts their head in half so eye mutilation does appear on screen.
there's excessive gore
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Yes, be aware this movie is only for those with a very strong stomach for gore. The movie is unrated because the writer/director refused to tone down the gore enough for an R rating.
there's torture
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Several prolonged scenes of torture throughout.
there's genital trauma/mutilation
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Art cuts a man in half with a chainsaw starting at his buttocks, eventually chainsawing through his penis and testicles.
Vicki vigorously masturbates using a shard of broken glass and piles of blood fall to the floor.
there's body horror
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All kinds! SPOILER WARNING FOR EXAMPLES
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One killer had her face eaten off but lived through it.(shown in Terrifier 2016) It was reconstructed over a year in the hospital but she still frightens small children. So she goes insane and homicidal and creeps around with no lips, teeth exposed, one eye missing, the other eye looking inhuman, and it does not look like a human face anymore.
Later the same character gets a shard of broken glass, put it under her skirt between her legs, and, uh, “touches herself” with it. We see blood pouring down the inside of her legs. We don’t see the glass actually make contact as she does it under her skirt, but ouch.
A woman has live rats forced down her throat and there’s a shot of her lower neck bulging and twisting as the rats got down that low. Her throat is cut and the bloody but live rats burst through.
Some of the worst is in a scene where a man is tied to a chair and blasted with liquid nitrogen, Art does his lower legs first, then hits them with a hammer until they shatter. At the end he blasts the guy’s face and shatters a large section of his face, very gory, his nose is gone. The final shot shows his one remaining eye darting around, meaning he was still alive and Art left him to die later. Now THAT is body horror!
there's finger/toe mutilation
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Many fingers cut, broken, and bitten off
there are hangings
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someone is choked with an intestine, which may be potentially triggering if you don’t like hanging
someone is burned alive
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No, no one is “burned alive”, SPOILER WARNING space-
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We do not see adults and children burn alive. They are all blown up by a sudden explosion and the explosion was so close to them. We see a little boy opening a gift Art left him, start to open the lid, and then they cut to a far away shot of that part of the mall exploding-the present contained a deadly bomb Art made. No one catches fire when a very large bomb explodes that close to them. The aftermath shows parts of what used to be people, but no burned bodies. The news says at least four or five people are dead (ages not given).
someone's throat is mutilated
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Lots of decapitations, slit throat.
there's cannibalism
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Art eats some fingers and other flesh
there's shaving/cutting
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Non stop graphic cutting/sawing/hacking/stabbing throughout the entire film.
someone is buried alive
Yes
someone struggles to breathe
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SPOILERS
As well as the other mentions, somebody's face is shoved into the split stomach of another person and they struggle to breathe, and the same character is then choked with an intestine and has to bite through it to breathe again.
hands are damaged
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There are HORRIBLE things done to several characters hands, to the point where if that is a trigger you may want to hold off on seeing this movie. Hands are destroyed with the exception of one character who heals.
someone dislocates something
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Plenty, most in places on someone’s body that even made me wince, and I have a strong stomach when it comes to gore.
someone falls down stairs
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Like in the trailer, art drags sienna down the stairs, but she doesn’t fall
someone falls to their death
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In the ending, someone falls down an endless pit after a long scene where they try to hold on and fail. It is unclear if they died.
Someone becomes unconscious
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During the final section Sienna is knocked out with a blow to the head and wakes up an unspecified time later (seconds in actual time) tied to a chair.
someone breaks a bone
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At one point a character tries to walk on a partially amputated leg and it breaks, this could be very triggering if you don't like bones breaking. It's during the shower scene.
there's decapitation
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Quite a few. A policeman is decapitated by a character with no head who suddenly comes alive. Then they show him riding on a bus, holding the cop’s decapitated head up where his head should be. We also see At’s decapitated head (which is explained by the mid-credits scene of the previous movie) still alive and grinning with some sort of inflating flesh tube coming out of the bottom, which looks pretty horrific. A character’s head is cut off (offscreen) and the gory severed head is used to decorate the top of a Christmas tree. There’s a head that has been partially eaten by rats shown sitting in a birdcage, very messy. And those are just off the top of my head (no pun intended).
A child is decapitated with an axe and their body is chopped up, but offscreen (though we hear the axe slamming into flesh at least six times), but the poor kid don’t have time to scream. We do see the grisly aftermath as the mother finds her son hacked to pieces. As you probably have heard, children do get killed gruesomely in this movie, though we do not see the attack, it’s still probably something you should take a pass on if you are triggered by the gruesome aftermath of a child who was killed.
heads get squashed
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Most kills involve extensive head trauma and facial disfigurement. Please do not take this caution lightly. If you are triggered by injuries to the head/face of any kind, you should avoid this film.
there's Achilles Tendon injury
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Art gets cut on the leg but it’s above the tendon, more so on the calf area
someone is crushed to death
Yes
a minor is sexualized
Yes
a kid dies
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Yes! Unlike the other films kids die in this film, the first time is offscreen and we see the aftermath however the second time is very direct and you see it happen
a non-human character dies
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Rat's are killed in several different ways and their squeaks of terror are heard
a major character dies
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It is revealed to Sienna that a badly mutilated severed head in a bird cage being eaten by rats in front of her is actually the head of her brother, Jonathan.
someone dies
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Many, many insanely graphic deaths in the film.
someone sacrifices themselves
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Sienna tells Art to “take her instead”
At one point but it doesn’t actually happen.
a parent dies
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A mother and father die. The daughter sees both of their tortured and mutilated bodies.
A child's dear toy is destroyed
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Many toys are destroyed but no significant ones. Nothing sentimental.
a family member dies
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Family members are killed in front of each other in this film, and multiple people discover the bodies of family members.
someone is kidnapped
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Nobody is kidnapped as such but someone is knocked out and wakes up restrained.
there are jump scares
Yes
there are razors
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the scene described above uses broken glass. art used very few weapons like his set from the first movie. there are no specific razors.
someone is possessed
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There is a heavy possession element to the film, particularly with Vicky’s character.
there are clowns
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The main antagonist is a clown
there are shower scenes
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The shower scene starts as a sex scene then the two characters are killed by Art.
there's ghosts
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kind of- it’s up to your interpretation as to if art is a ghost/spirit/demon etc
there are mannequins
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Very, very mild spoiler:
Art and Vicki remain in fixed positions for five years in an abandoned house. They don't move, not even to blink. When two human workers come to clean up the house they find them and one believes Art is a creepy statue/mannequin/doll. They both of course spring to life with human contact in an incredible jumpscare.
This may trigger people who fear mannequins.
trypophobic content is shown
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In the last 10-20m of the movie. A woman is in the family house kneeling on the ground and looking at injuries on her hands. During this scene, there is a big dried lotus root on the table next to her. It is almost funny to me to be disturbed by it after all the horrible things in the movie but i guess that's why it's called a phobia heh heh.
someone is eaten
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toward the beginning of the film, *SPOILERS* Vicky and Art's severed head are seen eating the heavily mutilated corpse of a psychiatric hospital nurse.
there's spitting
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A woman spits on Vicky’s face.
someone wets/soils themselves
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Art urinates on himself while he is sitting on a man’s lap who is dressed as Santa.
someone vomits
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Towards the end, when two people are tied up in a living room. A tube is shoved down one of their throats which causes them to vomit - you see it kind of “pop” into the tube and some coming out of the sides of her mouth.
It’s pretty quick, though, and there’s not much audio.
there's incarceration
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At the beginning of the movie, Victoria is in a mental institution.
there are transphobic slurs
Yes
there's bisexual cheating
Yes
an LGBT+ person is outed
Yes
there's a mental institution scene
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Victoria’s escape from the mental hospital takes place right after the opening scene
electro-therapy is used
Yes
there's a hospital scene
Yes
there's menstruation
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there is blood implied to be coming from a vagina, but it is injury blood, not period blood.
needles/syringes are used
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he injects ppl to knock them out (only once or twice)
Someone attempts suicide
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Vicki commits suicide but doesn’t die
someone self harms
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A woman seemingly attempts suicide through cutting her wrist, it is a very intense and detailed scene.
To the commenter, I don't have a time estimate but it's when she sits in a bathtub in a dilapidated house, just after you see art in a rocking chair by the window, close your eyes when she gets into the bath. The film cuts back and forth a few times but you can tell when it's over by audio cues. It is very graphic.
there's misophonia
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There is a lot of squelching noises from people being stabbed or mutilated and one scene where art eats a cookie and you can hear the sound of crunching but it is quiet and not too bad.
a mentally ill person is violent
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Sienna is ill and she fights back, but shes not the one perpetrating the violence
someone says "I'll kill myself"
Yes
someone suffers from PTSD
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A character suffering from PTSD is central to the film, and you see her hallucinate, panic and dissociate throughout the film. There is also a character who has a panic attack from PTSD.
reality is unstable or unhinged
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There are scenes where you witness hallucinations from the perspective of the person hallucinating, which blurs the line of reality.
there's a claustrophobic scene
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child in opening scene is hiding in a small drawer/cupboard in the kitchen
there's dissociation, depersonalization, or derealization
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A woman hallucinates during the film and dissociates around the time of the hallucinations.
someone has an anxiety attack
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The main character has multiple panic attacks
someone has a mental illness
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Sienna is suffering from severe PTSD throughout the entire film, including hallucinations.
someone has a meltdown
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Sienna has multiple breakdowns.
someone dies by suicide
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Technically, yes. An undead demon goes “dormant” by deeply slitting her wrists and opening her arteries up, thus “bleeding to death” in a bathtub. However, she ressurects shortly after.
there's body dysmorphia
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A character who is heavily scarred and mutilated looks into a mirror and talks about how pretty she used to be and how nobody wants her anymore, it's not exactly dysmorphia but could be upsetting.
Possible TW
The line is "you used to be so pretty, now nobody will want to f*** you" then she repeats the word pretty and smashes the mirror with her face.
there's flashing lights or images
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no strobing but christmas lights flash
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
there is obscene language/gestures
Yes
there's underwater scenes
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yes! why did people put no? there’s a flashback to 2, with sienna in the box
there's screaming
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A lot of screaming throughout the whole film.
someone is watched without knowing
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A mother accuses her husband of leaving the door unlocked without knowing that the killer is inside the house. Two college students make out while the killer watches.
the fourth wall is broken
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No, but Art seemingly looks directly at the camera multiple times.
a pregnant person dies
Yes
there is a baby or unborn child
Yes
there's childbirth
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In the Ice Nine Kills Music Video, yes. Otherwise, No.
there's ableist language or behavior
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No, but a mentally ill character is not believed when telling the truth due to her mental illness.
someone speaks hate speech
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Misogyny is referenced when a girl calls our her father (who is a comic book artist) for only using male heroes. He listens and draws a heroine for her.
the black guy dies first
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He doesn’t die first but he dies near the beginning and is one of only two Black characters.
there's aphobia
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A short comment about someone introverted/traumatized that "needs to get laid so bad", as if that's going to solve their problems.
there's a large age gap
Yes
religion is discussed
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It isnt discussed between the characters but
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Sienna's uncle is hung on the wall like jesus and Sienna herself wears a crown of thorns
there's demons or Hell
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Demons are very central to this film, and a character seemingly falls into hell.
there is sexual content
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-SPOILER-
shower scene
people have sex in a shower, art mutilates both female and male sexual organs in this scene
there are nude scenes
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Full male nudity.
someone is sexually objectified
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There is a brief sex scene that very quickly turns into an extremely gruesome double murder.
a male character is ridiculed for crying
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In general, Art mocks every victim for screaming and crying.
someone is terminally ill
Yes
someone has a chronic illness
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The main character has PTSD with hallucinations and has spent a lot of time in hospital. She also takes medication.
existentialism is debated
Yes
there's end credits scenes?
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Nope! You can leave after the credits start.
Santa (et al) is spoiled
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Well, a child finds out in a very brutal way that Santa isn’t real in the opening scene.
Art (the antagonist) dresses up like Santa for most of the movie, murdering people in horrible ways, A mall Santa is killed horribly and THOSE poor kids find out what he has in his bag is NOT presents, and they run away screaming..
So I’m pretty sure that counts as Santa being spoiled, with lots of gore accompanying it.
These moments are in the red band trailer, and the original teaser. Director Damien Leone has confirmed all of the above.
a car honks or tires screech
Yes
there's blood/gore
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YES.
It’s the reason the movie is unrated.
there's gun violence
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Two characters are shot by Art. One in the neck, another in the forehead.
there's a nuclear explosion
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no but there is an explosion :3
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