someone is sexually assaulted
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It ends in her death and she is distressed
there's abusive parents
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No, but in Jake’s grief, he grabs his daughter by the arms and is nasty to his wife, which felt quite aggressive.
there's domestic violence
Yes
a woman is brutalized for spectacle
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Misogynistic scene invoking a naked teenager and unwanted sexual. Skip the scene with Jill in the bathroom if this upsets you.
alcohol abuse
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Light underage drinking (teen boy drinks a glass of champagne)
someone is sexually assaulted onscreen
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A female teenager is raped on-screen, but it mostly looks like naked fighting/shaking back and forth. We later find out it was rape with quippy one-liners with the use of a carrot.
there's pedophilia
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The main antagonist rapes a teenage girl
someone is restrained
Yes
someone is held under water
Yes
someone is beaten up by a bully
Yes
someone's mouth is covered
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A child’s mouth is suffocated by a giant snowy glove.
someone struggles to breathe
Yes
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes
there's genital trauma/mutilation
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Someone is raped to death with a large carrot
someone is burned alive
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Jack Frost initially burns alive via acid. Characters set a police station on fire, which has the villain inside. We don’t see him on fire, but we do see him later burning to death in his equivalent of acid.
there's cannibalism
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Small mention at the beginning of film
there's torture
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Kinda? Face into box full of christmas baubles, I mean
there's amputation
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A boy is decapitated at the 26 min. mark.
someone is crushed to death
Yes
someone's throat is mutilated
Yes
someone breaks a bone
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There is a body with an obviously broken neck. You don't see it break.
there's excessive gore
Yes
there's decapitation
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On-screen decapitation, head facing away, flying through the air.
heads get squashed
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Not squashed, but decapitated by a sled at the 26 min. mark.
a minor is sexualized
Yes
a kid dies
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Young teenager and older teenagers die on-screen. Fairly graphic both times.
a non-human character dies
Yes
someone sacrifices themselves
Yes
a major character dies
Yes
A child's dear toy is destroyed
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Children’s drawings are ripped off the wall and scrunched up.
a family member dies
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Teenage son death, teenage daughter death, father and mother death — all on-screen.
someone cheats
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Easy to miss: in the hotel, Sam passes a hotel room and a woman’s voice inside says: “It’s my husband!”
a parent dies
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Father and mother death, on-screen.
there are shower scenes
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There is a bath scene that ends with sexual assualt
someone vomits
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Man throws up snow
there is copaganda
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Toward the beginning (~12 minutes in), a sheriff is described glowingly as a hero. It feels exaggerated, like a conscious trope, but it happens.
there's incarceration
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A serial killer is handcuffed in a van, heading toward his execution, at the start of the movie.
someone suffers from PTSD
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i get the impression this is what they were going for with Sam, but it doesn’t really come across
reality is unstable or unhinged
Yes
someone has a mental illness
Yes
someone has a meltdown
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🥁🥁
shaky cam is used
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Lots of shots in the film are unsteady and wobbly. The scene with the vehicle crash at the start of the film is incredibly shaky and includes spinning visuals.
there's flashing lights or images
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At the start of the film, lights flash on and off. The rest of the film is mostly well-lit.
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
there's underwater scenes
Yes
there is obscene language/gestures
Yes
someone is watched without knowing
Yes
the fourth wall is broken
Yes
someone is misgendered
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“It/it’s” pronouns used in a dehumanizing manner. Not towards a trans character.
there's ableist language or behavior
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At the 26 min. mark, a child is clearly bullied and ridiculed by older boys.
the black guy dies first
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the only black person in the film is killed in the first few minutes
religion is discussed
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Jake, the father of Billy, mentions Christianity frequently in his scenes. We also see and have lines from a priest.
there is sexual content
Yes
there are nude scenes
Yes
someone is sexually objectified
Yes
a car honks or tires screech
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Heard, not seen. Outside police station at about 25 min. mark.
a car crashes
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A truck crashes into a chemical truck at the beginning of the film.
a person is hit by a car
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At about the 47 min. mark, a man appears to be run over with a car, but is not shown.
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