someone is sexually assaulted
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While no one is sexually assaulted, there is a scene where two characters are about to hook up in a car. One of them is buzzed and previously took some MDMA, and both do a bit of cocaine. No actual sex happens though. I'm just including this as the combination of drugs and sex can be triggering to some. Also, while not sexual assault, there is male genital mutilation shortly after this scene
an animal dies
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You don’t see how it dies, but there is a dead possum behind the dumpster and later it is brought into the school.
animals were harmed in the making
Yes
there's a dead animal
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The possum.
animals are abused
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There is a dead possum that is tampered with by two boys after they found it already dead. It’s technically not abuse as its already dead but its still upsetting. The dead possum is also played with by Art the Clown and the Little Pale Girl, they rip its innards out and they play with them.
there are bugs
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Many instances of worms and maggots. One account of crickets/cockroaches (I couldn’t tell, sorry)
a child is abandoned by a parent or guardian
Yes
someone leaves without saying goodbye
Yes
there's child abuse
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At one point Jonathan’s mother slaps him. Its also mentioned that before his passing, Sienna’s father was especially abusive.
a woman is brutalized for spectacle
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Yes, however I’d argue against the comment suggesting this is the point of the franchise. Women are brutalized no doubt, but Art does not solely torture/murder women.
there's domestic violence
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A mother slaps her son
there's abusive parents
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Yes, both parents of the main characters are abusive and the mother slaps the son on screen.
the abused forgives their abuser
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Jonathan and Sienna mourn their abusive mother after she is killed.
someone gets gaslighted
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Whenever Sienna and Jonathan suggest strange events were caused by Art the Clown, they are gaslit/told they are crazy or liars, either by their mother or by friends.
someone is abused with a belt
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No, but Art does have a fairly lengthy scene where he lashes two minors with metal chains (either regular chains, barbed wire, or something else similar— I didn't feel comfortable looking). People who may have triggers for belts used in punishment might react similarly to this force being used against children. (Ages 12 and I think 17/18?)
someone is stalked
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Art stalks the female lead through most of the first half of the movie.
Her little brother also sees Art pop up a few times, purposely messing with him.
The last act of the movie, Art hides from them then stalks them, which turns into out-and-out chasing, catching, and attacking.
there's addiction
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Sienna’s mom seems to drink wine a bit much. Brooke’s boyfriend also snorts coke
alcohol abuse
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Sienna’s mother drinking wine and assumed underage drinking from Sienna and Brooke (we never know their ages but I’m assuming high school/early college)
someone uses drugs
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Brooke doses the main character Sienna with molly. Brooke and her boyfriend later snort coke together.
someone is sexually assaulted onscreen
Yes
someone is drugged
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brooke puts molly in siennas drink without her knowing
someone is beaten up by a bully
Yes
someone's mouth is covered
Yes
someone is held under water
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Near the end - the main character is held by a rope in a water tank and cannot escape
someone is restrained
Yes
rape is mentioned
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Male character wears shirt that says “just the tip I promise”
there's eye mutilation
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PLENTY. This includes (but not limited to) a broken beer bottle in the eyes, a man’s dead body has his eyes pulled out, someone who comes back to life after being shot in the face is missing an eye, and he touches the socket several times, and a woman is slashed across her face and it graphically splits her open eye down the middle.
there's excessive gore
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100%. The movie is so gory and brutal that they did not even bother submitting it for an R-rating. It is unrated. If you don’t like gore, this is the absolute last movie you should see. For what it’s worth, I have a strong stomach for horror gore, but one scene is particular was so, so graphic it shocked me, which is rare.
there's torture
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I can’t even describe the torture in this movie completely because it would take so long, not to mention it is so nasty it might get taken down. Everyone who is tortured is later killed.
Instances include vinegar, then salt being poured over a women who has been sliced all over her body, someone is scalped, acid tossed in someone’s face, and a badly mutilated victim who is so brutally tortured and attacked she appears dead, but turns out not to be. The killer in this movie is a sadist
there's genital trauma/mutilation
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Severe. Art the clown stabs Brooke’s boyfriend in the penis and then pulls it off to taunt Brooke with it.
there's body horror
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It's terrifier, definitely.
there's finger/toe mutilation
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A friend Allie’s arm is split down the center, beginning between her ring and middle finger. Art also chews on Jonathan’s hand and on his Achilles’ heel.
teeth are damaged
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People’s faces get brutally mutilated, and the damage includes the victim’s teeth
someone is burned alive
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Someone has a nightmare when Art pulls out a flamethrower and sets a group of children (ages vary, think two are teens) on fire with it. Shots of bodies on fire
someone's throat is mutilated
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A child is shown eating glass in the beginning screen
there's cannibalism
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Yeah,there’s multiple scenes of cannibalism.
there's shaving/cutting
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No one is cut shaving, but different characters are badly cut by Art the Clown using various sharp objects. Very graphic and realistic-looking
someone is buried alive
Yes
there's amputation
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Yes. Many times, including a woman’s arm pulled apart and then cut off, a penis ripped off, and at least 5 decapitations (possibly more, but many heads roll)
someone struggles to breathe
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Art attempts to strangle both Sienna and Jonathan multiple times. Sienna is also drowned at some point.
someone asphyxiates
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Drowning and art chokes sienna
somebody is choked
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art the clown choke’s sienna
hands are damaged
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very graphic, (warning for description->) a characters hand is ripped in half and another character gets repeatedly stabbed by broken glass in her hand
someone is stabbed
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oh lord. oh yes.
someone dislocates something
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And a lot of audio gore to go with it
someone has a seizure
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sienna convulses near the end when shes in the water tank. it’s not sharp, tight convulsions usually associated with seizures but might still be triggering to some!
someone falls down stairs
Yes
someone falls to their death
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she doesn’t die but sienna falls relatively far through some floorboards
Someone becomes unconscious
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Sienna is knocked unconscious at least 4 times in the last 30-40 minutes (blow to head, strangled, thrown from a height, drowns).
Jonathan is drugged unconscious on screen midway though. And also knocked out (off screen) in the final fight.
someone breaks a bone
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**SPOILER** Not a major spoiler,I assume with this movie there might be more broken bones but I can’t remember. But this is one scene that really just got to me. It was the broken knee cap scene.
there's decapitation
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sienna and jonathan’s mother gets her head blown off by art the clown
heads get squashed
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Yes, besides the above the killer splits a man’s head open after the hits and rips out his brain with his bare hands.
Lots of trauma to victim’s faces and heads in this movie.
there's Achilles Tendon injury
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Art "snacks" on the area of someone's Achilles tendon
someone is crushed to death
Yes
a minor is sexualized
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Not sure how old is Sienna but she still goes to school and it's clearly sexualized several times
a kid dies
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It is mentioned that a young girl was found mutilated. This is offscreen. Also the “kids” in the dream sequence were NOT kids except for the little cereal kid and its not clear if he died or not. Most of the deaths are of minors, with the exception of a few, however all the minors are older teens.
an infant is abducted
Yes
there's bedbugs
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No bedbugs
a non-human character dies
Yes
a major character dies
Yes
someone sacrifices themselves
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Sienna used herself as a shield for Jonathan, while he’s being tortured and whipped by art the clown
someone disabled played by able-bodied
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no but there is a disfigured minor character (she's from the first movie, but appears a few times in this one too) played by someone who is not disfigured.
a parent dies
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Sienna and Jonathan’s father dies before the events of the film, their mother is a prominent death during the film, and Allie’s mother is also killed.
someone is kidnapped
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Jonathan is taken by Art, kidnapper van and all.
there are jump scares
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A few.
there are razors
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he has a whip used to hit a lot of the characters repeatedly with razors and other sharp objects attached to it
someone is possessed
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That's debatable
there are clowns
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If clowns scare you, this is probably the worst movie you could possibly see. Clowns don’t scare me, but in this movie they sure did
there are shower scenes
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A very brief shower scene with Sienna. No explicit nudity is shown, just a few shots of side boob but nothing major.
there's ghosts
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You could argue that the little girl might be a ghost
there are mannequins
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Mannequins in a Halloween store. Later you see figures in a haunted house
there's natural bodies of water
Yes
someone vomits
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At the end of the film in the mid credits scene, Victoria is vomiting into a metal toilet. You both see it and hear it.
There's audio gore
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Absolutely. It makes the gore scenes even more graphic and horrifying. Sounds of faces being mutilated, bones breaking, brains ripped out, skin sizzling with acid, ribcages pulled open, a really gross scene in the mid-credits I can’t describe, parts of bodies squished… you get the idea
there's spitting
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Many characters will gurgle/spit up blood as they die, though I’m not too sure if that counts. What definitely does count however is toward the end, Sienna spits blood into Art the clown’s face. After he tosses her down, he spits regular saliva back and onto her body.
someone wets/soils themselves
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At the beginning of the movie, The Little Pale Girl defecates all over the floor. Its rather graphic as its shown and heard. Very gross.
someone defecates
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in the opening laundromat scene only
there are 9/11 depictions
Yes
there's incarceration
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After some credits a character is seen being held in a psych ward. No jail
a priceless artifact is destroyed
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Sienna gets her costume wings burned, but it is emphasized that the sword her father gave her was not affected.
there's a mental institution scene
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Only at the very end where Victoria winds up. It’s a mid-credits scene that is most likely used to set up a sequel so it is skippable if this is too triggering.
someone has cancer
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A character’s dad had a brain tumor, but it happens before the movie and is just mentioned rather than seen
there's a hospital scene
Yes
there's menstruation
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no but in the mid credits scene there is a lot of genital-area blood which is visually similar. i think it's meant to invoke childbirth more than menstruation but might be triggering for those with issues with menstruation anyway
needles/syringes are used
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When Art first attacks Jonathan a very large needle is shown and threatened.
Someone attempts suicide
Yes
someone self harms
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The main one is when a creepy clown-girl mutilates her own face (her back is to us, but there’s audio gore) and she turns to reveal she has badly mutilated her own face (in the end result, her mutilated face lookssimilar to Victoria’s)
a mentally ill person is violent
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Art the Clown is presumably mentally ill, Victoria is severely traumatized and acts violently, and there are brief mentions of Sienna and Jonathan’s father having dealt with mental illness and abusive tendencies before passing.
someone suffers from PTSD
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The main character definitely does.
reality is unstable or unhinged
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Yes, there are several sections that are unclear if they are real or dreams to begin with and they often become extremely strange and unreal.
there's a claustrophobic scene
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A character is held in a water tank
someone has an anxiety attack
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The main character has several intense ones. It’s strongly suggested she has PTSD from a family tragedy.
someone has a mental illness
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sienna takes medication for a mental illness
someone has a meltdown
Yes
someone dies by suicide
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Someone committed suicide before the events of the movie. The event is discussed in detail but it’s not shown.
there's body dysmorphia
Yes
there's flashing lights or images
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During the club scenes towards the middle of the movie and there’s a few rooms with flashing lights in the haunted house toward the end.
there are sudden loud noises
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Yes. a lot of talking that cuts to screaming. I dont know if it counts because it is clear the man is being murdered, but it has a lot of cut scenes
a baby cries
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Puppets are shown that have a baby crying sound effect but no real baby
there is obscene language/gestures
Yes
there's underwater scenes
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Sienna is dropped into a tank of water and held under.
someone is watched without knowing
Yes
the fourth wall is broken
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During the clown cafe dream sequence near the beginning, the singer looks into the camera for a while
someone miscarries
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No, but there is a scene (after the credits) where it looks like that is what's happening
there is a baby or unborn child
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Technically no, but in the scene after the end credits, there is a very brief moment where Victoria appears to be pregnant.
there's childbirth
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SPOILERS.
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At the end of the movie Victoria gives birth to a decapitated Art the Clown head, though it can move and emote. Its a gruesome scene as she is pulling out general gore beforehand and is bleeding profusely.
there are "Man in a dress" jokes
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Art the Clown wears a frilly/feminine apron at one point and its seemingly played for laughs. Its nothing major, just semi adjacent to this category.
an LGBT person dies
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If any of the characters killed are gay, we never know. Homosexuality isn’t mentioned by anyone.
someone speaks hate speech
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A character writes some hateful and very, very bad things to call a woman (you can figure it out) on the wall in her own blood. No one says them, though
there's antisemitism
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Not directly, but at the beginning of the film Jonathan shares a gruesome fact about the Holocaust at the dinner table. The comment is meant to show that it seems he is interested in death/serial killers/the macabre to a concerning degree. Like I said, not direct antisemitism, but it definitely catches you off guard if you aren’t expecting it.
the black guy dies first
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He does second
there's a large age gap
Yes
religion is discussed
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Not directly but the movie has religious themes
there's demons or Hell
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Technically yes, Art the Clown is a demon.
there are incestuous relationships
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To clarify the scene the other comment describes as I disagree that it's incestuous, the daughter creates and wears a costume based on a character her late father made. The mother describes it as "revealing," the daughter is downhearted that this is all she has to say, then the mother softens and says her father "would love it." I didn't personally view it as "your father would want to see you in a skimpy outfit," more "your father would have loved the effort you put in."
there is sexual content
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No onscreen sex
there are nude scenes
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At the beginning of the film Art is naked in a laundromat (genitals covered). We see the side profile for a couple seconds.
someone is sexually objectified
Yes
a male character is ridiculed for crying
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Art briefly mimics a boy crying in pain in a mocking way
someone is terminally ill
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Not on screen. It is revealed a parent had a large brain tumor that caused him to "act strangely" or not like himself and eventually die by su*c*de.
existentialism is debated
Yes
someone is homeless
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In a dream sequence a Nun is asking ‘who will feed this man’ while gesturing to a homeless man.
the ending is sad
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SPOILERS. . . . While both Sienna and Jonathan survive, their parents and none of Sienna’s friends do. It is bittersweet, they have triumphed in the end and live but have lost so much.
there's end credits scenes?
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There's a disturbing end credit scene when a woman gives birth to Art's head
Santa (et al) is spoiled
Yes
a car crashes
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Not in the movie, but before the events of the film. The crash is discussed but never seen.
a car honks or tires screech
Yes
there's blood/gore
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This is one of the bloodiest, goriest movies I’ve ever seen. There is a reason it is unrated. Only see this movie if you want to see oceans of gore, it’s not recommended for any viewers who are gorehounds.
someone drowns
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SPOILERS.
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Sienna is trapped in a glass box full of water and drowns. She seems to die but is resurrected, though it is still a pretty rough drowning scene.
there's gun violence
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In a dream sequence Art the Clown guns down a crowd of people with some sort of automatic gun. He also later shoots a real person with what I assume is a sawed off shotgun— not too familiar with gun types. The same gun is also used later to shoot Art.
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