a dog dies
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No animals in the movie whatsoever!
someone is sexually assaulted
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Threatened but it doesn't happen
animals are abused
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No animals in the movie at all!
there's child abuse
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Kids are kidnapped and tied up, that's all that's shown
there's domestic violence
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Nothing graphic on screen, just a discussion between two exes about the abuse that ended their relationship.
There's also a scene showing a man murdering his wife and hiding her body; it's pretty short.
there's abusive parents
Yes
the abused becomes the abuser
Yes
someone uses drugs
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Snorting cocaine at a party
there's pedophilia
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It’s vaguely implied but never shown it directly referred to.
someone is drugged
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Implied that abducted kids are injected with sedatives.
Also, ***SPOILERS***
We later find out the main character's grandfather was drugged
someone is beaten up by a bully
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There's a scene early on at a hockey rink involving a confrontation with bullies - could be triggering
someone's mouth is covered
Yes
someone is restrained
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Hands are zip tied
there's eye mutilation
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There's a scene of a man killing a woman with a knife, and it looks like the knife might go through her hand and into her eye, but we don't actually see it or any aftermath, so I'd say no.
there's excessive gore
Yes
there's genital trauma/mutilation
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A killer takes an axe to a victim's groin (during the white Christmas "party" scene) but nothing is explicitly shown
there's finger/toe mutilation
Yes
there are hangings
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Not a hanging but someone is strangled with Christmas lights.
there's shaving/cutting
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He shaves his beard and gets a cut
someone struggles to breathe
Yes
someone dislocates something
Yes
someone has a seizure
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A seizure is mentioned at one point but nothing on screen.
someone falls down stairs
Yes
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes
heads get squashed
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At 1:14:00 there's a graphic scene of someone's head being caved in with a hammer. There's an earlier less graphic scene of a victim sitting in a chair who's been killed by an axe to the skull.
someone is crushed to death
Yes
a kid dies
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Discussed but not on screen
an infant is abducted
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No infants but several kids
a major character dies
Yes
someone sacrifices themselves
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***** MAJOR SPOILERS ******
You could argue that Charlie sacrifices himself at the end for Billy and Pam, but it's open to interpretation
A child's dear toy is destroyed
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Some Christmas trinkets, ornaments, Santa figurines etc., nothing sentimental
someone is kidnapped
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Many kids are shown to have been abducted by "The Snatcher"
there are jump scares
Yes
there are razors
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He uses a straight razor to shave his face, not exactly a razor but he also uses a box cutter several times (mostly for boxes, but for stabbing in one scene)
someone is possessed
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Sort of? A character hears the voice of a dead person and is directed by them to do things
there are mannequins
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Many dolls and lifelike Santa figures that might be triggering but no actual mannequins
there's spitting
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A lot of people spitting blood throughout
someone wets/soils themselves
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It’s not show for long but during a scene where a man is under a car it is shown that his crotch is wet
someone vomits
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Kids grandpa vomits up blood but it’s a terribly done graphic
there's incarceration
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Sort of - arrested and held in an interrogation room
there's a hospital scene
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Not a hospital but an elderly care facility
needles/syringes are used
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No injection on screen but near the end there's a scene where a desk is covered in syringes, with the implication being they've been used to sedate abducted people
a mentally ill person is violent
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Depends on the definition of mental illness - a violent character does refer to themselves as being "a little crazy"
someone suffers from PTSD
Yes
reality is unstable or unhinged
Yes
there's a claustrophobic scene
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A person is shown bound and gagged in the back of a van; later a character jumps into a dark crawlspace under a room
D.I.D. Misrepresentation
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Not exactly - a character is shown to have inherited someone else's personality and takes direction from it, so it's hard to say if this would be adjacent to a DID plot
there's dissociation, depersonalization, or derealization
Yes
someone has an anxiety attack
Yes
someone has a mental illness
Yes
someone has a meltdown
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Pam loses control after breaking an ornament
there's flashing lights or images
Yes
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
there is obscene language/gestures
Yes
someone is watched without knowing
Yes
there are homophobic slurs
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During the hockey rink scene (around 31 minutes in), a little boy is being harassed by bullies and tells his aunt they said "only f--s wear figure skates"
someone speaks hate speech
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A hate crime by a white supremacist is depicted. A child reports being called the f-slur by bullies.
there's antisemitism
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There's a lengthy scene involving Nazis!
there's a large age gap
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One scene involving a man running his hands all over a young woman while saying, "If I were 35 years younger..." But no age imbalance in actual relationships
religion is discussed
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Some discussion of pro-christianity themes during a party
there is sexual content
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A pretty tame sex scene, nothing explicit shown
someone is sexually objectified
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A young woman working at a store is manhandled and spoken to in an overtly suggestive way by a man 35+ years older than her
someone is terminally ill
Yes
Santa (et al) is spoiled
Yes
a car honks or tires screech
Yes
there's gun violence
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Main character's parent is killed by a rifle at the start of the movie in many flashbacks. Guns are used quite a lot throughout with a fair bit of gore.
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