Pearl

Movie • 2022 • Horror  

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Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.
This movie contains 57 potentially triggering events.
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Your Triggers
Does the dog die?
209 supporters
Yes
1
No
56
0
obll129
In the first few minutes, a duck dies and they then show it being fed to an alligator on a pitchfork.
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Unanswered Triggers
Abandonment
Yes
0
No
6
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
20 supporters
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Yes
0
No
18
Is an animal abandoned?
54 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Abuse
Yes
13
No
0
0
glance
A character’s mother stops them from eating dinner as a punishment.
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Yes
4
No
6
Is someone stalked?
20 supporters
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Yes
0
No
47
4
Santz9
A character and one of their parents get into a brief physical altercation at a dinner scene that takes place during a thunderstorm. The altercation begins with threats of using a knife, one character starts yelling, the two characters slap each other while yelling, start pushing each other, and begin wrestling in the dining room.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
47 supporters
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Yes
1
No
10
2
cherreyes
There is a mutually abusive parent child relationship where one eventually overpowers the other and goes on to hurt and kill others too
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Is someone gaslighted?
28 supporters
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Yes
25
No
22
Is someone abused with a belt?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
7
Is a child abused?
71 supporters
Yes
20
No
36
4
rubyfire77
a parent is verbally abusive and controlling, and there is a physical altercation between the two, but the child is an adult
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Addiction
5
BrintyNM
Someone recreationally takes morphine meant for an ill family member.
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Is there addiction?
9 supporters
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Yes
0
No
45
Does someone abuse alcohol?
7 supporters
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Yes
0
No
45
Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
70 supporters
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Yes
1
No
12
Does a horse die?
57 supporters
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Yes
0
No
50
Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
101 supporters
Yes
91
No
0
7
Santz9
A character stabs a goose that wanders into the barn with a pitchfork. The kill itself is off-screen but the cries of the goose can be heard, and its body is later shown and fed to an alligator. This first act happens within the first five minutes of the movie. Later, this same character also squishes a fertile alligator egg after mentioning how they hate it when the farm cow, Charlie, stares at them. This act occurs shortly after they are told "Life doesn't always turn out the way you expect" by a parent of theirs.
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Are animals abused?
117 supporters
Yes
82
No
2
6
CherryColaa
Around 4:40 through 6:00 minutes.
8 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
53
Yes
73
No
3
3
Santz9
A goose is killed off-screen with a pitchfork in the opening minutes of the movie after a character feeds the other farm animals. The cries of the goose can be heard and its limp bloody body is shown, still attached to the pitchfork, before being fed to an alligator in a pond. A character also takes a fertile alligator egg from a nest and squishes it with their bare hands.
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Is an animal sad?
46 supporters
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Yes
5
No
6
Are rabbits harmed?
41 supporters
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Yes
0
No
13
Does a cat die?
103 supporters
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Yes
0
No
57
Does a pet die?
91 supporters
Yes
24
No
18
4
Ixtlacmiztli
A farm goose is killed, carried on a pitchfork, then fed tk an alligator
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Does a dragon die?
17 supporters
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Yes
1
No
54
Are there spiders?
30 supporters
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Yes
0
No
50
1
TheCassandraComplex
Yes. And the main character feeds it animals (spoilers) and later deceased people.
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Are there snakes?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
52
Are there sharks?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Are there bugs?
18 supporters
Yes
62
No
3
7
GuacaMickey
Maggots crawl over a cooked pig that was left out for multiple days. Multiple up close shots of the maggots writhing.
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Assault
0
Two women slap one another
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Is someone drugged?
17 supporters
Yes
4
No
13
0
skillwithaquill24
Pearl’s father takes morphine for his condition. Pearl doses him with it once to keep him quiet while she entertains a guest.
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Is there pedophilia?
67 supporters
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Yes
2
No
14
Is someone held under water?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
16
Is rape mentioned?
44 supporters
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Yes
0
No
15
1
TheCassandraComplex
You could say people are killed by a bully. Pearl likes to make others feel afraid and likes to inflict pain.
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Is someone restrained?
13 supporters
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Yes
2
No
36
Yes
14
No
44
12
honkycat
not exactly(?), however a man shows the main character a porn movie without her consent and stands behind her while she watches and later puts his arm around her, nothing happens but personally it made me nervous so just be aware!
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Yes
6
No
4
0
Many people wear Covid style masks throughout the movie
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
9
Bodily Harm
Yes
18
No
25
0
thebadgerbabe
A knife is pulled in one scene but it’s not actually used on anyone.
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Are any hands damaged?
11 supporters
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Yes
1
No
4
Are there dislocations?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
6
Yes
5
No
2
0
Someone is stabbed in the throat with a pitchfork.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
58
No
0
5
Santz9
A character, while in the bathtub, grabs the throat of another character with one hand. The victim, while not visibly distressed, can be heard struggling to breathe. This same character, the previous victim, is also suffocated to death with a pillowcase later—albeit off-screen—loud groans can be heard.
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Yes
10
No
1
0
Shown on screen
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Is there cannibalism?
25 supporters
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Yes
0
No
47
Is someone crushed to death?
17 supporters
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Yes
0
No
33
Is someone choked?
12 supporters
Yes
9
No
1
1
TheCassandraComplex
A paralyzed man is briefly choked.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
62
No
1
7
Santz9
A character catches fire after they come too close to a lit fireplace at a dinner scene that takes place during a thunderstorm. This character does not succumb to their burns, but there is plenty of screaming and visible burn scars that are shown after the fire is put out.
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Is someone buried alive?
15 supporters
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Yes
0
No
44
Is there body horror?
29 supporters
Yes
16
No
4
1
skillwithaquill24
Decapitation, graphic dismemberment, and stabbings. Decaying corpses are seen in visceral detail.

Pearl’s father is a quadriplegic with only minor movement in his eyes. He can’t move or speak, which leaves him vulnerable to the events of the film.
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Is there amputation?
16 supporters
Yes
58
No
1
5
Santz9
A character has their limbs and head cut off during a montage near the end of the movie. Of the many close-ups, there are ones of a severed neck and an arm that is cut in half numerous times on-screen.
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Yes
20
No
25
7
Santz9
Technically no, but a character's severed head is fed to an alligator. The alligator does begin to bite down, but the full crushing of the head is never shown on-screen.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
No
32
Is there a hanging?
26 supporters
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Yes
0
No
46
Yes
40
No
2
3
Anica
A man is suffocated by a pillowcase. Nothing is shown, but it is heard.
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Are any teeth damaged?
27 supporters
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Yes
2
No
40
0
skillwithaquill24
Pearl’s father seems to drift out of consciousness from time to time.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
1
No
41
2
thebadgerbabe
There are a few violent struggles where characters could possibly break some bones BUT we don’t see it and it’s not actually confirmed.
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Does someone have a seizure?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
42
Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
46 supporters
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Yes
0
No
48
Is there finger/toe mutilation?
32 supporters
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Yes
0
No
45
Is someone tortured?
57 supporters
Yes
41
No
16
4
Yes, but it's psychological torture. Pearl's father can't move because he is paralyzed and he is forced to watch Pearl murder people (more implicit than explicit).
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
53
No
2
2
thebadgerbabe
Someone is pushed down stairs.
3 comments | Add comment
0
skillwithaquill24
A dying character is thrown down the cellar stairs, but we later see evidence that they survived the fall.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
6
No
36
4
honkycat
not exactly eye mutilation, but a character’s corpse is shown with one of his eyes sort of bulging out that may be triggering.
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Is someone stabbed?
7 supporters
Yes
10
No
0
0
Many standings throughout
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
54
No
4
4
GuacaMickey
A couple uncensored murders throughout. The goriest is definitely a small mirrored montage at the end of the film, where there’s hyper detailed up close shots of the main character dismembering a dead woman’s body with an axe.
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
No
28
Does a kid die?
31 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
42
Is a minor sexualized?
63 supporters
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Yes
1
No
29
Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Death
2
MikeyRose
Not in a death way, but Pearl does sacrifice her own happiness and dreams, could be seen as a part of herself, in order to try and live the simple farm life with her husband that's always been expected of her. As shown in the credits, she knows she'll be miserable for the rest of her life.
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Yes
8
No
2
0
Pearl kills her mother, her father, her sister-in-law, and a film projectionist. There are few characters, so they’re all pretty much major characters
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Yes
11
No
9
3
frootsnak
I guess people are voting yes for the goose? Its not a character though, it's just an animal that wanders into her barn. Every other death is a human
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Does someone die?
11 supporters
Yes
11
No
0
0
Pearl kills her mother, her father, her sister-in-law, and a film projectionist
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
22 supporters
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Yes
0
No
47
Yes
12
No
2
Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
41
Family
Yes
2
No
36
2
One character is trapped in the basement.
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Does a parent die?
10 supporters
Yes
61
No
0
2
Santz9
Two characters that could be considered "parents" both die in this movie. One is burned alive and pushed down a flight of stairs (their official "death" is off-screen) while the other is suffocated to death with a pillowcase off-screen although their struggles can be heard.
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Does someone cheat?
13 supporters
Yes
59
No
0
4
Santz9
A character cheats on their spouse, who is overseas, by having sex with another character. The sexual act itself is implied and mentioned rather than explicitly shown.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
17 supporters
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Yes
0
No
43
Does a family member die?
14 supporters
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Yes
11
No
0
Fear
Are there jumpscares?
32 supporters
Yes
23
No
19
5
Santz9
A character wanders into a cornfield and birds (likely crows) startle them as they walk around. Another character is also startled by another when they appear behind them and tap them on the back.
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Is someone possessed?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
47
Are there ghosts?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
45
Are there clowns?
9 supporters
Yes
0
No
45
3
Santz9
Technically no, but during a dance recital, a character imagines that more dancers are following along with them onstage. These dancers are wearing military uniforms and are wearing what could be considered as clown makeup (Face painted white, painted on rosy cheeks, and black circles drawn around the eyes).
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0
Movie occurs next to a large lake.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
14 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Are there razors?
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7 supporters
Yes
1
No
14
0
skillwithaquill24
No, but a woman does hold a kitchen knife to a man’s throat and threaten to kill him.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
6
No
38
7
thebadgerbabe
There are a few scenes with the main character Pearl in a bath, but it’s very clean and tasteful.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
7
No
11
4
DeadGoldfish
Kinda, the scarecrow is a little mannequin-esc.
2 comments | Add comment
Gross
Yes
36
No
9
6
thebadgerbabe
We don’t actually see it in the movie but characters speak about how a physically disabled man often soils himself and needs to have his clothing changed and be cleaned.
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Does someone vomit?
59 supporters
Yes
0
No
49
0
spoiler! After the guy who is the movie projector takes pearl back home, they get in a fight and she stabs him making blood come out of his mouth

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Is someone eaten?
19 supporters
Yes
3
No
7
0
People are fed to an alligator. But they are already dead when this is happening.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there on-screen pooping?
22 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Does someone spit?
10 supporters
Yes
33
No
9
4
Anica
Slight dribble from Pearl's father, and spittle from pearl when speaking with a lot of emotion.
4 comments | Add comment
Is there audio gore?
30 supporters
Yes
42
No
2
2
thebadgerbabe
Audio gore frequently accompanies the killings.
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Is there farting?
6 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Large-scale Violence
Yes
0
No
31
0
Movie set in 1918, so way before 9/11.
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
16 supporters
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Yes
0
No
41
Yes
0
No
8
0
Despite what you might think, nobody actually gets arrested in this movie
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LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
25 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
10
Are there transphobic slurs?
30 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
10
Yes
1
No
10
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
15 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
10
Yes
2
No
15
2
skillwithaquill24
There is cheating, but only among a heatersexual couple (as far as we’re shown onscreen).
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
3 supporters
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Yes
0
No
7
Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
15 supporters
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Yes
0
No
43
Are needles/syringes used?
21 supporters
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Yes
0
No
41
Is there a mental institution scene?
18 supporters
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Yes
0
No
43
Is there a hospital scene?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
44
Is there menstruation?
4 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Does someone have cancer?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
41
Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
28 supporters
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Yes
0
No
42
0
It’s implied that Pearl experiences low- or no empathy
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Does someone self harm?
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43 supporters
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Yes
0
No
43
Is autism misrepresented?
22 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Yes
56
No
2
6
cherry
ambiguously but implied mentally ill character harms people and animals
4 comments | Add comment
Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
13 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
17
Yes
0
No
28
0
The main character really wants to be a film star. Some of the scenes mix real life and stage/film performance
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
7
No
2
0
Main character progressively has a meltdown throughout the movie.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there misophonia?
27 supporters
Yes
22
No
16
5
Santz9
In terms of food-related misophonia, yes. There are multiple instances of characters eating food at a dining table and slurps of soup and the chewing of corn can be seen and heard.
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Is there ABA therapy?
14 supporters
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Yes
0
No
7
Is there body dysphoria?
9 supporters
Add comment
Yes
2
No
14
Yes
1
No
43
1
redvyn
Subtextual beginnings of it. Nowhere near as intense as we know it will get in 'X'.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
41
Yes
4
No
35
2
Santz9
On the extreme spectrum no, but a character does admit to feeling nervous before a dance audition. Outside of the church, they talk about feeling "frightened," they begin to become more silent, and they ask another character to take their place in line to avoid going first.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
14 supporters
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Yes
0
No
39
Does someone have an eating disorder?
25 supporters
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Yes
0
No
42
Is there autism specific abuse?
30 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
45
Yes
0
No
43
Noxious
Are there sudden loud noises?
18 supporters
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Yes
6
No
4
Yes
0
No
8
0
Not really underwater, but there are several scenes in front of a large lake.
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Does a baby cry?
13 supporters
Yes
0
No
43
0
No babies in this movie
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
1
No
36
2
AnaCludiaTeixeira
towards the end of the movie there's a scene with hand-held camera. it's shakey, but nothing too extreme
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Is there screaming?
7 supporters
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Yes
9
No
1
1
glance
A character masturbates using a scarecrow.
2 comments | Add comment
3
Santz9
A heavy thunderstorm outside frequently flashes light into scenes from the window. There are also some outside shots where lightning strikes and light flashes momentarily.
1 comment | Add comment
Paranoia
1
raechl
we don’t see someone being watched, but the mother says to pearl that she sees the things pearl does when she thinks no one is watching
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
9
No
31
8
Santz9
Technically no, since no characters acknowledge the audience in the film, but the final scene falls into a bit of a gray area. In it, a character walks into a house and is greeted by another character with a comment and a creepy smile. The final shot of the film is that character holding a smile while staring directly into the camera for nearly the full duration of the end credits—to the point that tears well up in their eyes. Their staring could be interpreted as them looking at the audience, as the other character in the room never comments on their staring, nor does the smiling character stop staring to engage with the other character in the room.
2 comments | Add comment
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
16 supporters
Yes
1
No
40
0
Insinuated; not actually depicted
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Is there childbirth?
14 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
43
Are there abortions?
12 supporters
Yes
0
No
41
0
Not abortion, but a mother who is clearly stating that she did not want a baby (that didn’t survive). Nothing is shown on screen, just discussed
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4
redvyn
A fertilized egg is crushed, and some blood comes out. To avoid, look away when Pearl goes up to the hayloft.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
47
No
1
8
duckinalagoon
Mentioned but not shown.
3 comments | Add comment
Does a pregnant person die?
9 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
43
Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
31 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
43
Yes
0
No
44
2
MikeyRose
There are no Black people in the film, probably for the best given the setting is 1918 Texas
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Are there homophobic slurs?
31 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
46
Yes
0
No
43
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
20 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
45
Is there hate speech?
20 supporters
Yes
0
No
40
5
Santz9
No, but one character recalls how they and their family have been mistreated for being German during a dinner scene
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
8
No
13
6
Anonymous
I’d say yes. The main character is a murderer and implied to be mentally ill
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Does an LGBT person die?
25 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
46
8
Anonymous
I have no idea why people voted no. The main character repeatedly complains about, berates, and contemplates and performs violence against her disabled father. She herself seems to have some mental issues and falls into the mentally ill killer trope
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Are there n-words?
20 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
44
Is there aphobia?
12 supporters
Yes
0
No
13
0
Anonymous
I don’t remember any ace characters but there is a brief scene where a character says pornography is the future of cinema and shows it to a character who is not asexual but does not seem into it
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Race
Is there blackface?
18 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
8
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
24 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
35
Religious
Yes
7
No
0
0
Multiple scenes where people are praying
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Are there demons or Hell?
8 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
6
Sex
Yes
59
No
0
6
thebadgerbabe
There’s a scene where the main character is shown an early 1900s black and white porno film. In the film we see full female nudity — including genitalia — and butts.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
27
No
18
3
honkycat
the guy who works at the movie mentions (a few times i think) that he would like to see the main character in a porno.
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Are there nude scenes?
25 supporters
Add comment
Yes
36
No
2
Is there bestiality?
50 supporters
Yes
0
No
17
1
glance
A character kisses a cow on the lips, but there's no sexual element to it.
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Is there BDSM?
12 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
8
Does someone lose their virginity?
9 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
8
Are there incestuous relationships?
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55 supporters
Yes
1
No
47
4
georgiarose
Just to clarify, the daughter bathing in front of the father is not presented in an abusive or incestuous way at all
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Sexism
Yes
0
No
44
Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
7 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
31
3
qlinnx
Pearls father has an unspecified illness which makes him unable to walk and speak. He’s taken care of by his daughter and wife troughout the movie. If this triggers you i suggest skipping the movie because he plays a pretty major role.
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
17 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
18
Yes
12
No
0
1
glance
A character is described as "infirm" and their illness is central to the main character's mindset.
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Social
Yes
6
No
36
3
redvyn
One character lives where he works, and refers to himself as a 'bohemian', but he has no issue with it.
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Yes
0
No
9
Are there fat suits?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
No
15
Is existentialism debated?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
2 supporters
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Yes
0
No
43
Yes
1
No
8
1
glance
A scene plays in the background of the credits, but disappears a few minutes in.
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Yes
38
No
3
3
cherry
imo the smile seemed more forced/with mixed feelings than only sincere joy
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
11 supporters
Yes
27
No
18
4
redvyn
Someone is killed in a car they were trying to drive. It rolls some distance before stopping. Later, we see it being pushed into a lake.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
9 supporters
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Yes
2
No
32
Does a plane crash?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
43
Is someone hit by a car?
14 supporters
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Yes
0
No
40
Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
2 supporters
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Yes
0
No
41
Is there blood/gore?
34 supporters
Yes
54
No
0
5
thebadgerbabe
Many instances of blood and gore.
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Does someone drown?
10 supporters
Yes
0
No
42
1
cherry
no, though bodies are put in a pond
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Is there gun violence?
12 supporters
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Yes
1
No
42