someone is sexually assaulted
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Demon in shape of kid is shown as "pleasuring" their mother in their sleep. Underage kids also have sex while possessed (asaault, the girl is possessed and not consenting and the boy is uninformed).
animals are abused
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Off-screen but mentioned
a cat dies
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Not on screen but it is described that a kid killed their cat.
a pet dies
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Daughter describes how her brother abused and killed multiple family pets and smiled when caught killing their cat.
an animal dies
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The family of four talk about the son killing family pets. Mildly descriptive but no visuals, it happened in the past.
a child is abandoned by a parent or guardian
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Not intentionally, though, parents are tricked into leaving their child lost in the forest in exchange for a changeling.
there's child abuse
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Father with anger issues takes off belt to beat son. Belt does make contact.
there's domestic violence
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Dad abuses kid and hits wife when pushing her away (changeling storyline).
there's abusive parents
Yes
the abused becomes the abuser
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After her family is murdered, the only surviving daughter embraces turning into Krampus to murder her aunt in revenge.
someone is stalked
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The family of 4 is stalked by Krampus, and Santa is stalked by zombie elves.
someone is abused with a belt
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A child is beaten with a belt
alcohol abuse
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Radio person heavily drinks through his shift mixing eggnog and liquor.
Other person, father after belting kid starts drinking liquor tons.
someone is sexually assaulted onscreen
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Changeling in shape of child is briefly shown "pleasuring" his mother in her sleep. Two teenagers have sex while possessed (assault since the girl is possessed and cannot consent, and the boy is uninformed and manipulated).
rape is mentioned
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Not explicitly but when Molly’s possession ends, she immediately realizes that she lost her virginity and asks the boy what he did to her.
someone is restrained
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The changeling child is trapped in a bag, but no one is tied up.
there's eye mutilation
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Someone dies by having a cross shoved through their eye.
there's excessive gore
Yes
there's body horror
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Elves turn into zombies and are pretty messed up looking. I wouldn't really describe anything else as body horror
heads get squashed
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shows a close-up of a head that was presumably bludgeoned and the teen was hung up in a seemingly ritualistic killing
someone is burned alive
Yes
there are hangings
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Not shown, but the abusive father is choked and killed with a belt
someone's throat is mutilated
Yes
someone is crushed to death
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Yes, an elf zombie is crushed in the mail room.
there's amputation
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Numerous elves have limbs amputated, and the abusive father’s hand is cut off.
someone asphyxiates
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Not shown, but the abusive father is killed using a belt around his neck. His neck could have been broken (or he could have bled to death from his amputated hand), but presumably he asphyxiated.
someone struggles to breathe
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A young boy has asthma and takes his inhaler.
somebody is choked
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Not shown, but the abusive father dies from strangulation using his belt.
someone has a seizure
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It's not actually a real medical seizure, it's more like a possession, but it does present like a seizure
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes
someone falls to their death
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Dwarf is thrown out window as they are infected by a zombie virus, no visual of fall just a splat noise after the glass breaks and the person goes through the window.
there's finger/toe mutilation
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Elf hand gets with an axe, and a son stabs a father with a fork in the hand.
someone breaks a bone
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A couple of necks are broken
a minor is sexualized
Yes
a kid dies
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Several kids die in the past and present stories, but only one teenager’s death is shown in action. The young brother is dragged away and presumed dead, but his actual murder is not shown on camera. Other teenagers’ bodies or ghosts are shown.
an infant is abducted
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Not an infant, but a young boy is taken by the fae and replaced with a changeling.
someone sacrifices themselves
Yes
a non-human character dies
Yes
a major character dies
Yes
A child's dear toy is destroyed
Yes
there are jump scares
Yes
there are mannequins
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There are life size figures from a nativity scene.
there are shower scenes
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Mother showering, young child is found to be in the bathroom watching/listenning.
there is copaganda
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No, a main character is a cop but he's shown as abusive towards his son and not nice to his wife so not really a positive depiction
a priceless artifact is destroyed
Yes
there's a hospital scene
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Hospital miscarriage scene.
someone suffers from PTSD
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It’s not well-depicted at all. An officer had to go on leave after being traumatized in a crime scene he later has anger issues and beats his family.
reality is unstable or unhinged
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Spoiler…
Santa character fighting zombie elves and Krampus is actually a mall Santa having a psychotic break and murdering volunteers at a charity drive.
there's dissociation, depersonalization, or derealization
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Santa character fighting zombie elves and Krampus is actually a mall Santa having a psychotic break and murdering volunteers at a charity drive.
someone has a meltdown
Yes
a mentally ill person is violent
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Traumatized father violent towards family.
Someone having a psychotic break slaughters dozens of people.
someone has a mental illness
Yes
shaky cam is used
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Santa fight scenes use a lot of shakey cam.
there's flashing lights or images
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Some of the lighting effects may be aggravating, the closest to a strobe effect is police lights at the end of the movie.
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
there is obscene language/gestures
Yes
a baby is stillborn
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Inconsistent: maybe aborted, maybe stillborn but the image of a ghost mother holding a dead newborn is there. Seems like a Republican movie that knows nothing of non-Christians, gestation of fetuses, etc.
someone miscarries
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Dead baby is shown in ghost mothers hands fe9m the miscarriage.
a pregnant person dies
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Abortion equipment/table shown bloody with handprints.
there's childbirth
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Blood and nuns delivering teen baby is shown. It is already assumed the baby died with the mother.
someone has an abortion
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One is discussed and implied.
there is a baby or unborn child
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There is a graphic scene with a bloody unborn fetus.
there's fat jokes
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I guess it’s not a joke but the zombie elves call Santa things like “you fat bastard” and it’s either meant to be funny or just cheesy
an LGBT person dies
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No one was described as LGBT in this kovie or shown to be.
the black guy dies first
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The black child does not die (neither the genuine nor changeling version). The abusive father who dies is black, but he is not the first to die.
there's antisemitism
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In my opinion, yes. “You can’t display a nativity scene anymore. It’s the east on Christmas.” No Jewish people are even acknowledged as existing beyond this supposed infringement (ie, respect for other cultures).
someone speaks hate speech
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Credits sequence uses slurs for asian people. So, as soon credits roll turn it off to avoid.
religion is discussed
Yes
there's demons or Hell
Yes
there are incestuous relationships
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Not a full relationship, but a changeling as a son does touch their mother sexually while asleep.
there is sexual content
Yes
someone is sexually objectified
Yes
someone loses their virginity
Yes
someone has a chronic illness
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Aunt Etta says she has one of her “spells” coming and can’t entertain guests
there's anti-abortion themes
Yes
the ending is sad
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All of the endings are bad endings, the big one is a mall massacre by a mentally ill mall santa. Mall santa is then shot to death by the police.
Santa (et al) is spoiled
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Santa is not “spoiled”, but the Santa character in the North Pole is revealed to be a fake mall Santa.
a car crashes
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A car does spin out in the snow.
a car honks or tires screech
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Tires spin out in the snow.
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