a dog dies
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The dog does not die or get hurt. He gets freaked out and runs away unharmed.
animals are abused
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I'd say in a way - chickens are kicked at, but only once, and it didn't land
there's a dead animal
Yes
there are spiders
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there are way more spiders in the sceen where the come out of the face
there are bugs
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the scarecrow scenes have a lot of hissing cockroaches (if you wanna get specific), and the whole Red Dot scene is all about spiders and body horror
an animal is sad
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a dog is mildly disturbed but it’s not too bad.
someone leaves without saying goodbye
Yes
a child is abandoned by a parent or guardian
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It is mentioned a couple times that the main character's mother abandoned her.
there's child abuse
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there is audio of it, but it is never shown.
there's domestic violence
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A major plot point of a movie is a woman who was abused in the past. A later scene depicts the protagonist experiencing said womans memories of abuse. Nothing too graphic.
there's abusive parents
Yes
someone gets gaslighted
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The girl with albinism that wrote the stories is repeatedly blamed by her family for crimes she didn't do, to where all the townsfolk believe she committed them and try to stay away from her. She's even sent to a mental institution by her family to try and convince her she did them through shock therapy and other methods.
someone is abused with a belt
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It is implied. There is a scene of an angry man holding a belt ready for use while he is trying to find the hiding child.
the abused becomes the abuser
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Main villain suffered abuse in the past. There’s an explicit line where the protagonist says she’s become the monster her abusers said she was
someone is stalked
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There is part of the film where someone is slowly being chase by a monster and its around every corner
there's addiction
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One of the characters is asked “are you drunk again?” by his mom so it’s implied he may be an alcoholic but it’s very brief, not a focus, and not mentioned again
alcohol abuse
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there is, in fact, underage drinking, but not on screen
someone is restrained
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A girl is restrained and dragged into a room where she is locked into. Could be triggering for some people who were put into seclusion but it wasn't that bad for me.
someone is beaten up by a bully
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Someone gets pushed but no one is beaten up.
someone's mouth is covered
Yes
there's eye mutilation
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An eyeball separate from a body is shown
there's excessive gore
Yes
there's torture
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Electroshock therapy is used but not shown, only heard.
there's body horror
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Quite a bit. straw grows out of a character, a girl has a bunch of spiders come out of her face.
heads get squashed
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At one point, one of the monsters shoves his own head through bars of a cell.
there's finger/toe mutilation
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A ghost is missing a toe. There are close ups of the toe and the foot.
teeth are damaged
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Their is a monster who can disassemble and reassemble as well as shove his way through small spaces and his mouth just smooshed but not damaged.
there's decapitation
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One of the monsters can detach it's limbs and it's head falls down a chimney. Not graphic at all though. A man also get's his neck snapped which could mean internal decapitation but it's brief and not very graphic
someone's throat is mutilated
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A character's neck is snapped but it's very brief
there are hangings
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repeated mention of a young woman hanging herself
there's shaving/cutting
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The protagonist has a razor blade in her drawer which could imply that she cuts herself but it’s never shown
someone is buried alive
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Not buried alive per se, but one character dies by being kind of absorbed into a monster.
there's cannibalism
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one of the monsters' powers is absorbing people through their torso/chest. it is not technically cannibalism or vore but may be triggering
there's amputation
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Not exactly amputation but there is a scene where various body parts (arms, legs, head, and torso) fall down a fireplace and reconnect forming one whole body . In another scene the monster gets hit by a car and falls apart, reconnecting again. Not technically amputation but still may be distressing If amputation bothers you
someone struggles to breathe
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During the scarecrow scene there is a character whose throat is clogged and struggles to breathe
someone is stabbed
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A guy get's stabbed with a pitchfork, but it's fairly brief and there's no blood at all.
someone falls down stairs
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Towards the beginning a character is pushed from a doorway down stairs by another character, but is caught before being injured or touching the ground
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes
someone breaks a bone
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The Jangly Man is a creature whose constantly shown breaking his bones to get around.
someone dislocates something
Yes
a kid dies
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Technically we are not 100% sure they died they just disappeared the boy under under the bed was dragged into the wall and the boy In the hospital just got absorbed into the monster. The first kid got turned into a scarecrow.
a non-human character dies
Yes
a major character dies
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2 main characters die
someone sacrifices themselves
Yes
someone disabled played by able-bodied
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The blind elderly woman Lou Lou is played by seeing actress Lorraine Toussaint.
someone is kidnapped
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Kind of? The main character is dragged to another room against her will by several people, it isn't technically kidnapping but might resemble a similar situation.
there are jump scares
Yes
trypophobic content is shown
Yes
there are razors
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There is a razor blade seen in Stella’s desk drawer.
there are clowns
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for just a few scenes one of the characters, Auggie, dresses as a Pierrot for Halloween. not quite a clown but very clown like (he doesn't have any make up, or a nose on, however)
there's ghosts
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Several, of different kinds. Some of them, who are in a past that sort of blends with the present, look and act 100% like living persons, whereas other are scary-looking (whitish and with strange eyes etc.).
someone vomits
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not quite - in one scene a boy gags as straw comes up his throat. in another a boy retches. neither vomit
There's audio gore
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You can hear a character being stabbed with a pitchfork.
someone defecates
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Not really, but you see him sitting on the toilet with only his upper body shown.
someone is eaten
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Not directly, but one of the kids gets absorbed into the monster by her holding him to her chest, so it still has potential to be triggering
there's spitting
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a character spits out food, and another pulls out things from his throat (both in tense manners)
there is copaganda
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The cop is not shown as a good person and is rude.
there's incarceration
Yes
there's smoke or haze
Yes
needles/syringes are used
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but someone pokes their finger for blood
there's a mental institution scene
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They hint the hospital is also a mental institution.
electro-therapy is used
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You don’t see, but you hear it.
there's a hospital scene
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a whole scene takes place in pennhurst, which was a real life mental facility where they abused patients (there's even audio recording of someone abusing/torturing a patient in the film)
someone dies by suicide
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There is repeated mention of a woman hanging herself but it is never shown
Someone attempts suicide
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the main ghost supposedly committed suicide, but it's never shown, only referenced several times
someone self harms
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Someone pricks their own finger, drawing blood, but that's for a "practical" reason, not out of mental/emotional suffering.
Autism specific abuse
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There is no autism specific abuse. However, one of the main plot points of the movie is a girl with albinism who's repeatedly abused by her family for the way she looks.
a mentally ill person is violent
Yes
someone suffers from PTSD
Yes
there's body dysmorphia
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BODY HORROR IS NOT BODY DYSMORPHIA PLEASE STOP
reality is unstable or unhinged
Yes
there's a claustrophobic scene
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The protagonist is locked inside a small room. She panics.
there's dissociation, depersonalization, or derealization
Yes
someone has an anxiety attack
Yes
someone has a mental illness
Yes
someone has a meltdown
Yes
there's flashing lights or images
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Theres a hospital scene where a light flickers white to red repeatedly.
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
there's screaming
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lots of screaming
there's underwater scenes
Yes
there is obscene language/gestures
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PG-13 level swearing
someone is watched without knowing
Yes
there's childbirth
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On the contrary: Someone (a teenager) is sucked into someone's belly.
there's fat jokes
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it’s not so much a joke, but they describe a monster as a fat woman.
there are homophobic slurs
Yes
there's ableist language or behavior
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the closest thing is the family abusing a girl because she was born with albinism
someone speaks hate speech
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The term wetback is spray painted on a young man's car who is Mexican
there's antisemitism
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During the opening whilst "Season of the Witch" plays, several Nixon & Agnew campaign posters are graffitied with Swastikas
there's demons or Hell
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Not demons, but there are plenty of monsters.
there are incestuous relationships
Yes
there is sexual content
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One guy says "Stop looking at my sister you perv" to his friend but that's pretty much it.
there's fat suits
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One of the monsters is fat
someone is homeless
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Ramon isn't technically 'homeless' but he is implied to be living out of his car as a migrant worker following the harvests.
the ending is sad
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It ends on a hopeful note, but the results of the horrible events have not been reversed.
a car crashes
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Two
a person is hit by a car
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A Monster
a car honks or tires screech
Yes
there's blood/gore
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Characters are stabbed but no blood is ever shown. Tiny drops appear from the book but nothing overly graphic.
there's gun violence
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a cop shoots at a monster, but it's not unprovoked or at another human
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