Haunt

"Some monsters are real."

Director: Scott Beck Year: 2019 Runtime: 93 min IMDb: ⭐ 6.7
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Synopsis

On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an extreme haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realisation that some nightmares are real.

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Content Warnings

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a dog dies
spoiler No animals in the film
there's a dead animal
spoiler the main character has to stick her hand in a bucket of rotten animals, though most are bones and muscle and are unidentifiable
there are spiders
spoiler There is a prominent scare during one scene of the movie where spiders can be seen moving about, then poured into an enclosed space with an arachnophobic character. They are dismissed as “fake” afterwards, but they appear to be moving and real.
there are bugs
spoiler There are a lot of spiders
an animal dies
spoiler No animals die in this movie.
someone leaves without saying goodbye
Yes
there's child abuse
spoiler Child isn't abused but witnessed domestic violence occur.
a woman is brutalized for spectacle
Yes
there's domestic violence
spoiler Character has a black eye and it’s implied it’s from her boyfriend. As a DV survivor, I would say it’s a bit triggering if you are sensitive to this.
there's abusive parents
Yes
the abused forgives their abuser
spoiler not in the end, but harper does excuse her abuser's actions during the beginning
someone is stalked
spoiler The main character believes the boyfriend she has just broken-up with is following her group. Characters are followed and watched around a haunted house attraction with malicious intent.
someone gets gaslighted
spoiler after witnessing the death of another character, they are gaslighted into thinking that their friend agreed to be a part of the show and is waiting for them outside, they are gaslighted by the guy who says that he will lead them out of the haunt also
there's addiction
Yes
alcohol abuse
spoiler Characters are shown at a club and drinking alcohol, but no abusive behaviors of consumption are depicted.
someone is restrained
spoiler there are multiple scenes where characters are restrained with zipties and are unable to escape
a woman gets slapped
spoiler Punched
someone's mouth is covered
Yes
there's eye mutilation
spoiler the main character stabs a guy in the eye with a key, and she later jams her thumb into it. there are also many stabbings that come close to peoples eyes
there's excessive gore
spoiler the entire movie is gore
there's torture
spoiler this is in almost all of the movie in countless scenes, would not watch at all if this is a serious trigger
there's body horror
Yes
heads get squashed
spoiler Yes, do not watch this if this is a trigger. *SPOILERS* basically every main character either gets their head squashed or torn apart. No idea why people have voted ‘No’ for this.
there's finger/toe mutilation
spoiler A hand gets brutally stamped on and broken.
teeth are damaged
spoiler yes heavily
someone is burned alive
spoiler No one is burned alive,but you do see a burning building.
someone's throat is mutilated
Yes
there's shaving/cutting
spoiler Very triggering! SPOILER, after the girl pulls her arm out of the hole in the wall look away.
someone is crushed to death
Yes
there's amputation
spoiler Towards the end one of the killer’s arms is met with a machete.
someone struggles to breathe
spoiler There is a scene where someone is choked
there's Achilles Tendon injury
spoiler twice people step on upright nails that go through their feet and ankles but not specifically achilles tendon
someone breaks a bone
Yes
hands are damaged
spoiler multipule times throughout the fil. hands are stepped on, smashed, skin is ripped off, a woman's arm is slashed through a blind guess tube
somebody is choked
spoiler a character is choked with the intention of killing them
someone is stabbed
spoiler someone is stabbed in the eye, multiple characters are stabbed with a pitchfork, multiple characters are stabbed with nails and shown on screen
someone dislocates something
Yes
someone falls down stairs
spoiler yes, down a latter after death and through a trap door
Someone becomes unconscious
Yes
a kid dies
spoiler Characters die, but they are at least 21 and not classified as children.
a major character dies
spoiler 100% yes
someone dies
Yes
a non-human character dies
spoiler replying to the other comment- yes, they are humans. their faces are like that because they get cosmetic surgery and tattoos (it's mentioned that one of them is a tattoo artist and a character talks abt "earning their face"). it seemed to me like a cult sort of thing but that's not explicitly stated
someone sacrifices themselves
spoiler i dont remember anyone sacrificing themself on purpose, but i could just be forgetting it
a parent dies
Yes
someone is kidnapped
spoiler they agreed to go in under false pretenses and were then trapped there
trypophobic content is shown
spoiler nails are shown making holes in someones hand and foot, the scenes are brief
there are razors
spoiler a scene showing bloody razor blades that are implied to be the same ones that cut a character earlier off screen
there are clowns
spoiler the main villains of the film are tattooed like clowns
there are mannequins
spoiler They are covered with white sheets.
there are jump scares
spoiler one very prominent jumpscare near the end. beware of mothers
someone vomits
spoiler no one does, but when she puts her hand into the bucket she gags a lot
There's audio gore
Yes
there's incarceration
spoiler Not a prison/jail but the teenagers do get trapped
needles/syringes are used
spoiler (spoiler) no needles but at 1:03:23 look away because it shows her foot suck in screws and she pulls it out, was triggering for me
there's a hospital scene
spoiler the hospital scene is brief at the very end of the movie
there's menstruation
spoiler theres one scene with a blood stain on a bedspread and it is reminiscent of a period, but its a horror movie so its probably just murder blood
someone self harms
spoiler Someone cuts a girl’s forearm and while it doesn’t show the actual cutting, it was still triggering to see the cut appear and bleed.
a mentally ill person is violent
Yes
someone suffers from PTSD
spoiler main character suffers from PTSD from her father physically abusing her mother. she has frequent flashbacks to this
reality is unstable or unhinged
spoiler one dream sequence that seems like real life, not particularly unstable tho
there's a claustrophobic scene
spoiler There are several scenes in which characters are forced to stand, crawl, or slide through tight and/or enclosed spaces.
there's dissociation, depersonalization, or derealization
spoiler Kinda, harper has flashbacks. Or she just looks very distant. There were also sense that I feel like kinda just felt like things we weird and didn't seem real.
someone has an anxiety attack
spoiler general anxiety about their situation, could be percieved as anxiety attacks
someone has a mental illness
spoiler ptsd is a mental illness people
someone has a meltdown
spoiler There are a few times a character is seen hysterically crying or screaming out of fear
shaky cam is used
spoiler Yes, especially near the end
there's flashing lights or images
Yes
there's screaming
Yes
there is obscene language/gestures
Yes
there are sudden loud noises
Yes
someone is watched without knowing
Yes
the fourth wall is broken
spoiler The main clown who lets them inside looks into the camera during a scene inside, when he has their smartphones..
there's demons or Hell
spoiler a guy dressed as a demon, but just a costume.
the ending is sad
spoiler While this is a gory movie (no worries,it’s not vomit worthy in my opinion),that means some won’t survive. So the ending has a more bittersweet feeling to it? I personally love the two characters that survived and am happy with that. But I can see where others can be upset at the loss of the other characters.
Santa (et al) is spoiled
spoiler What a hilarious little nugget to ask about this movie.
a car honks or tires screech
spoiler A car alarm goes off when the window is broken.
there's blood/gore
spoiler Bursts of bloody horror violence throughout; injuries including gunshot wounds, beatings, stabbings, and degloving shown in graphic bloody detail.
there's gun violence
spoiler There is a very graphic headshot to one of the characters as well as a lot of shooting in multiple scenes

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