a dog dies
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No dogs appear in the movie
someone is sexually assaulted
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It's mentionned that a teenager was accused of sexual harassment and that the family paid to shut it.
animals are abused
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Santa is verbally abusive to his reindeer at times (played for laughs), but no physical abuse occurs.
a horse dies
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There are reindeer in the movie. None of them die.
someone leaves without saying goodbye
Yes
there's child abuse
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None of the family members abuse them, but the armed robbers do. One of them punches a teenager in the face, and later they threaten both the teenager and a younger (10 years old?) child with guns. Although neither of them gets shot, it's not an empty threat and the villains were more than willing to kill them.
there's domestic violence
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The entire lead family seems generally emotionally abusive to one another.
there's abusive parents
Yes
the abused forgives their abuser
Yes
someone gets gaslighted
Yes
someone is abused with a belt
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After the lights go out and the youngest son gets upset about it, the grandma joked about how she wishes the parents beat him when he was smaller.
the abused becomes the abuser
Yes
someone is stalked
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Scrooge admits to stalking the family for awhile. I believe he said in the movie months.
there's addiction
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You could argue that Santa (David Harbour) is an alcoholic
alcohol abuse
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Most of the cast can be described this way. The opening sequence shows Santa getting visuable drunk and drunk driving is alluded to. A father is shown as being pass out drunk in a following scene with the implication that its to the point of negligence. Santa continues to drink frequently throughout the first half of the film. Several other characters are seen to drink frequently and alcohol is reference many times.
a woman gets slapped
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A woman is struck in the face, one of the heist crew full on punches a woman in the face
someone is beaten up by a bully
Yes
someone's mouth is covered
Yes
someone is restrained
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A character is restrained by being wrapped up in Christmas lights.
there's eye mutilation
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A star tree topper is stabbed into someone's eye. The direct impalement is not shown but the wound with the object still in place is on screen multiple times.
there's excessive gore
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There is gore but it is more over the top "fake" and not hyper realistic - lots of blood and such but it was more playful if that makes sense. So if you can handle slasher/cheesy gore you should be ok.
there's torture
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a whole family is held hostage, and the dad/son is tortured momentarily: the put his finger in a nut cracker, and there is mention them putting his testicles in a nutcracker as well. there are many other instances of peril in this movie that could be triggering, but none that are specifically torture
there's genital trauma/mutilation
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One character is grabbed by the balls, another scene involves several references to a "nutcracker", (like a literally christmas nutcracker), which is being used as a form of torture.
there's finger/toe mutilation
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they (the bad guys) put the dad/sons finger in a nut cracker
someone is burned alive
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There is another scene where Santa is fighting a bad guy outside. The bad guy tries to hit him with a grenade,but the bad guy is laying in the snow. He manages to uncap it but Santa manages to get away in time before it goes off. It’s not gory,but you see in the back the bad guy on fire while he’s alive.
there are hangings
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there is no specific hanging, but there is several instances of people being strangled
someone's throat is mutilated
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Several bad guys are stabbed in the neck
there's shaving/cutting
Yes
there's amputation
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Santa uses an ice skate to amputate a faceless thug's arm
someone struggles to breathe
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One of the villains attempts to choke a woman to death
someone asphyxiates
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Several strangling scenes
hands are damaged
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There are several shots of both good and bad guys suffering hand trauma
someone dislocates something
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Santa brutalizes several villains which include dislocations of both arms and legs
someone falls down stairs
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it happens when two of the intruders (the blonde feminine looking one, and the tall brunette masculine looking one) are going up the attic stairs. the daughter has booby trapped the place, and the masculine presenting person has several traumatic falls down the attic steps
someone falls to their death
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A guy falls from a high level of a house onto an ice spike and dies
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes
someone is crushed to death
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Santa turns out to have favored a warhammer in a past life, an action scene around the climax involves a variety of deaths involving this method.
someone breaks a bone
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Besides the finger being crushed,I couldn’t tell much with this scene being outside and in the dark. But it looked like Santa broke a bad guy’s knee cap with a sledge hammer.
there's decapitation
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Santa decapitates one faceless thug
heads get squashed
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santa uses a sledgehammer periodically throughout the movie, and swings it at people heads
a minor is sexualized
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Not explicitly? But a young kid is told her name makes her sound like a wh*re by an older relative
a kid dies
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There were threats, but no kid dies
a major character dies
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SPOILER: main character dies briefly
someone sacrifices themselves
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Santa technically, as his actions are self sacrificing.
someone overdoses
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There is alcohol induced vomiting, but no overdose.
A child's dear toy is destroyed
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Santa's bag filled with toys gets burned, and there are a couple of scenes where the toys are used as weapons
a parent dies
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One parent dies, but he does not have a strong parental relationship to his son. The victim's son and wife do not seem to be to bothered that he died.
someone is kidnapped
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a whole family is held hostage, and near the end of the movie there is an attempt at kidnapping the mom/grandma
there are jump scares
Yes
there are razors
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In one of the booby-traps the child Trudy makes there is a mat of sharp objects like nails and at least one is a razor
there are mannequins
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Currently watching it, so far a doll is used as a weapon, I dont see any mannequins so far
someone vomits
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at the beginning of the movie santa (david harbour) is seen heavily drinking, and constantly burping (which may also be triggering to some, as it is clear he may vomit sometime soon). when he goes to the roof and climbs in his sleigh the bartender chases him up there. and while he is flying away in his sleigh from the bar, there is a moment where the camera angle switches back and forth between the sleigh, which is now airborne, and the bartender still on the roof. santa vomits over the side of the sleigh and said vomit lands right on the bartender. pretty triggering for someone with emetapobia
There's audio gore
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There is constant loud audio gore. If this is triggering I would strongly discourage you from watching this movie.
someone wets/soils themselves
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Not themselves but two separate scenes showing pee stream
someone defecates
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animal, played for laughs
there are 9/11 depictions
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Not depicted, but a verbal reference.
a priceless artifact is destroyed
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At one point Santa's magic sack is thrown into the fireplace and destroyed **SPOILER** however at the end it is learned that Santa has a backup sack
needles/syringes are used
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Someone does sew themselves up and you see it, but no injection needles
electro-therapy is used
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No electric therapy, but someone does get electrocuted.
Someone attempts suicide
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santa claus appears to be slightly suicidal, but he does not self harm in any way
there's misophonia
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Santa crunches on some cookies and sucks loudly on a candy cane.
a mentally ill person is violent
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santa is definitely mentally ill (depressive mostly) and the whole premise of the movie is about him protecting a family from intruders that intend to harm said family, therefore he is violent to the intruders
someone suffers from PTSD
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Santa has several flashbacks to a battlefield throughout the film. There is discussion of him feeling guilt over his actions during an unspecified battle but whether or not this is PTSD is hard to define.
reality is unstable or unhinged
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Santa and the magic bag are real and there is meta talk about his existence and the trope of “cool people don’t look at explosions.” Probably not too bad but thought I’d note.
there's a claustrophobic scene
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It could be considered claustrophobic when Santa pulls the bad guy through a chimney.
someone has a mental illness
Yes
someone has a meltdown
Yes
there's flashing lights or images
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some muzzle flashes from gunfire in dark rooms
shaky cam is used
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Some of the intense fighting scenes, the camera is shaking a lot, as if trying to keep up with the fighters.
there are sudden loud noises
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There are several explosions in the film along with gunfire, machinery, and yelling
there is obscene language/gestures
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Pretty much all of the characters, particularly Santa, curse a lot. Even the kid curses a few times.
someone is watched without knowing
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There are several surveillance camera shots and the boss bad guy admits that he's been watching the family for months although we as the audience do not see this
the fourth wall is broken
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Santa sets an explosion and walks away from it like a classic action scene, but then he says “I gotta watch” and turns around to see. This joke references that usually action characters do not turn around, which addresses that Santa is in an action movie. But there is no talking to the audience that I can recall
there is a baby or unborn child
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There's a baby in a craddle in one of the houses Santa visits.
there's childbirth
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No but there's a picture shown of a newborn baby and her mother
there are homophobic slurs
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“C*cksucker” is used over the phone to refer to someone who is later said to have a husband. Their gender is unconfirmed so it’s unclear if this is homophobic in intent.
there's ableist language or behavior
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“Are you deaf?”
an LGBT person dies
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One of the goons who dies later refuses to touch the dad's junk when instructed to. It's unclear if she's straight but doesn't consent, or if it's meant to imply she's a lesbian, but she presents in a somewhat queer-coded manner regardless. Another goon (who also dies) is male and willingly touches the guy instead; it's unclear if this is supposed to imply he's queer.
someone speaks hate speech
Yes
the black guy dies first
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A black man is the first person who dies, but he is a minor character and lots of white people are also killed immediately after.
there's fat jokes
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Santa makes a self-deprecating joke about being old and fat to distract one of the thugs while he improvises a weapon
there is sexual content
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I don’t believe there’s anything you see. The only thing I can remember is a comment the Grandma makes about her granddaughter’s name. She says Trudy sounds like a whore’s name. That’s an awful comment in general,but also confusing. Her granddaughter is a minor,that’s an awful thing to say about a minor. But Trudy is her nickname,her name is Gertrude which is also the grandma’s name.
a male character is ridiculed for crying
Yes
existentialism is debated
Yes
there's end credits scenes?
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I would call it more of a mid-credit scene, however, you're not missing anything important if you decide to skip this as it's a throwaway joke
Santa (et al) is spoiled
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So actually yes. In one scene a father tells his daughter that santa is not real and its played incredible literally. However this is mitigated by the fact that santa is real within the context of the film and then has an incredible meta conversation about his existence directly afterword.
a car crashes
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there is a snowmobile crash near the end of the movie. it happens when santa is riding his snow mobile STRAIGHT at mr scrooge, who is standing in front of a wooden shack. mr scrooge moves out of the way, and santa’s snow mobile crashes into a wooden stump, sending him (santa) flying
a person is hit by a car
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A man stands in front of a vehicle but steps away at the last minute
there's blood/gore
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There’s definitely a decent amount of blood/gore in this movie. They get creative at times with how Santa will kill the bad guys. I don’t suggest this if you are sensitive to blood/gore.
there's gun violence
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Lots throughout. Loud gun noises
there's a nuclear explosion
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There are a couple of explosions, but not through nuclear. One explosion is with a fire extinguisher. Another is with a small grenade stuck on someone.
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