Alien: Romulus
Movie • 2024 • Sci-Fi
ReportWhile scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.
This movie contains 60 potentially triggering events.
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Abandonment
Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
6 supporters
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HowdyEllie
A couple of characters try to abandon the others without telling them
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
27 supporters
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profmegasaurus
Main character is orphaned
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Is an animal abandoned?
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oatmeal
Sort of. At some point it was implied that a lab rat was left uncared for and abandoned within a space station.
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Abuse
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Is someone stalked?
27 supporters
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Smiliey
By aliens
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
69 supporters
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serpuntine
The birth scene is very brutal and graphic, I’d be remiss not to include it here
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Addiction
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Inkie
An injection to the neck is administered
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Animal
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Anonymous
rats are used in labs for experiments, you see them die and revive, and you see a dead rat floting in the air
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Are animals abused?
163 supporters
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Anonymous
rats used in labs for experiments
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Is there a dead animal?
89 supporters
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Anonymous
rats
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Is an animal sad?
63 supporters
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DoggoWoggo
Lab rats in tiny cages.
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Does a dragon die?
26 supporters
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thank god
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Are there spiders?
42 supporters
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Marcel108
The iconic face huggers could be interpreted as spiders as they are shown way more frequently than in previous installments. In several scenes they are quickly crawling across the grounds while chasing the group.
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Are there bugs?
26 supporters
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Smiliey
Alien bugs
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
15 supporters
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Is someone held under water?
18 supporters
Yes
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HowdyEllie
Kind of, a character is pulled underwater by an alien
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Is rape mentioned?
69 supporters
Yes
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RowanOakley
No, but this is Alien. The entire series is subtextually about rape and sexual assault, and many scenes that aren't literally rape are meant to be reminiscent of such. Tread carefully.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
17 supporters
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Inkie
A main character is beaten by a group of bullies near the start of the film.
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Is someone restrained?
23 supporters
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DoggoLives
Multiple characters are restrained by aliens
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jdpamv
The Xenomorph reproductive cycle is allegorical to r*pe.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
12 supporters
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HowdyEllie
Yes, when attacked by face-hugging aliens
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Yes
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HowdyEllie
No, but there's definitely sexual assault allegories at play just like the original Alien movie
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Bodily Harm
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Are any hands damaged?
15 supporters
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HowdyEllie
Acid burns someone's hands to the bone
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Yes
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
28 supporters
Yes
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Anonymous
main character before she puts on a space suit
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Yes
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Is someone crushed to death?
26 supporters
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HowdyEllie
A lab rat is shown being squashed to death
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Is someone choked?
17 supporters
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Anonymous
a lady is choked by an alien
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Is someone burned alive?
35 supporters
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LoEmCo
I only say yes because they are acid burns through the man’s arms and face, mostly his fingers.
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Is there body horror?
39 supporters
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mistersandman
[SPOILERS] Similar to the original Alien movie, there’s a scene in Romulus where a newborn Xenomorph bursts through a person’s chest. Near the end of the film, a woman gives birth to a giant egg, which hatches a giant, terrifying humanoid creature.
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Does a head get squashed?
54 supporters
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HowdyEllie
Aliens get their heads shot at but not squashed
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Is there a hanging?
34 supporters
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eboyisa
There is one scene where there is a dead body strung up. It evokes the imagery of a hanging body but not explicitly.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
21 supporters
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Bitbat
Most notably when minor characters get attacked by facehuggers. For a facehugger to put the alien inside them, they must choke the victim with the tail and tightly grip on the victim, supplementing breathing for the host while it does its thing.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
72 supporters
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Smiliey
The Alien birth scene
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Does someone become unconscious?
6 supporters
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HowdyEllie
Characters get knocked unconscious during ship impacts
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Does someone have a seizure?
8 supporters
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oatmeal
The protagonist's brother will have seizure-like attacks at times.
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Are any teeth damaged?
45 supporters
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DoggoLives
Damaged teeth are shown on a dead body
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
45 supporters
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Marcel108
Fingers of one character are first frozen off and shortly after decomposed by acid.
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Does someone fall to their death?
11 supporters
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HowdyEllie
Close calls but no actual deaths from falling
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Is there eye mutilation?
87 supporters
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mistersandman
After Tyler is lifted up into a hole by the Xenomorph, the alien’s tongue bites his face right over his eye.
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Is someone stabbed?
13 supporters
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Anonymous
Aliens stab them multiple times with their bodies(?)
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Is there excessive gore?
76 supporters
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jdpamv
Gore and excessive blood, at least
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Children
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Does a kid die?
37 supporters
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20
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Doggo3659
If you count the hybrid as a kid then yes
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
1 supporters
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Smiliey
Other bugs
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
8 supporters
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Bitbat
As it's part of the Alien franchise, several major characters do sacrifice themselves in order for the others to survive.
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Does a major character die?
19 supporters
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Bitbat
With the exception of a couple of sole survivors, most people do not make it out of movies set within the Alien franchise and they are known for having a high fatality rate/two/three/one/survivor(s) to remain.
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Does a non-human character die?
20 supporters
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37
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Smiliey
Alien and a robot human
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38
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Disability
Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
19 supporters
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serpuntine
Andy is definitely coded as being neurodivergent in some way and displays fine motor function difficulties, tics, hyperfixations, and a speech impediment. I found a lot of his storyline triggering, from the anti-autistic rhetoric used by the characters bulling him to the way he’s “fixed”.
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Drugs/Alcohol
Yes
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Family
Does a family member die?
18 supporters
Yes
23
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2
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TBN1994
All the characters are tangentially or outright related.
Raine/Andy - siblings
Raine/tyler - exes
Tyler/kay - siblings
Tyler/kay/bjorn - cousins
Bjorn/navaro - couple
Spoilers. Tyler has a big reaction when he believes Kay has died.
And Kay has a reaction when Tyler does die
Raine/Andy - siblings
Raine/tyler - exes
Tyler/kay - siblings
Tyler/kay/bjorn - cousins
Bjorn/navaro - couple
Spoilers. Tyler has a big reaction when he believes Kay has died.
And Kay has a reaction when Tyler does die
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Does a parent die?
18 supporters
Yes
28
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HowdyEllie
Pretty much every character has dead parents, and it's talked about in the first act of the movie
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25
Is someone kidnapped?
7 supporters
Yes
24
No
5
3
oatmeal
A character is taken by an alien to its lair.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
9 supporters
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No
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jdpamv
No, but a dead actor appears in the film through CGI which is a controversial practice and somewhat similar.
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Are there jump scares?
54 supporters
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oatmeal
As in other comments + big jumpscare almost by the very end (spoiler) around 10 seconds after the protagonist "evacuates" through a hole in the ship.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
0 supporters
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Anonymous
No natural bodies of water, only flooding.
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Are there clowns?
11 supporters
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No
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HowdyEllie
Mention of a clown in a joke towards the end when the main character is sitting with her android brother
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Is someone possessed?
13 supporters
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13
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oatmeal
Sort of -- an android is given a dead android's module and starts behaving differently, may be read as a possesion.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
1 supporters
Yes
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Doggo3659
The hybrid’s back kinda bothered me
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Yes
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
84 supporters
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52
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1
6
Nearly 30 mins in, Kay (girl with curly black hair) runs to the toilet and very graphically throws up, just after they land the “W” shaped thing in the hangar.
Two scenes of androids spitting up white fluid (spoilers!) - when they first revive “Rook” (acid-damaged droid on ship) and late in the film when Rain finds Andy after he is attacked by the “Offspring”.
For those averse to “mouth stuff” in general, the bits in the trailer:
When the face huggers first attack, one of them waggles its proboscis in one of the guys’ faces while he fights it off.
When they pull the face hugger off Navarro (Asian girl)’s face, there is a big close-up of its lengthy proboscis being pulled out of her throat. Yuck!
Two scenes of androids spitting up white fluid (spoilers!) - when they first revive “Rook” (acid-damaged droid on ship) and late in the film when Rain finds Andy after he is attacked by the “Offspring”.
For those averse to “mouth stuff” in general, the bits in the trailer:
When the face huggers first attack, one of them waggles its proboscis in one of the guys’ faces while he fights it off.
When they pull the face hugger off Navarro (Asian girl)’s face, there is a big close-up of its lengthy proboscis being pulled out of her throat. Yuck!
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Yes
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Yes
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Does someone spit?
9 supporters
Yes
26
No
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mistersandman
The Xenomorphs drool a lot.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
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No
0
Large-scale Violence
Yes
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No
28
Law Enforcement
Yes
0
No
24
Yes
0
No
25
LGBTQ+
Yes
0
No
29
Yes
0
No
28
Yes
0
No
24
Yes
0
No
25
Yes
0
No
27
Loss
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0
No
27
Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
18 supporters
Yes
1
No
25
0
DoggoLives
Aliens are shocked
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Are needles/syringes used?
30 supporters
Yes
30
No
0
1
HowdyEllie
Character injects herself in the neck with a substance
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
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No
27
Yes
0
No
27
Is there menstruation?
7 supporters
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0
No
27
0
no menstruation but there is a lot of blood splatter from between a character's legs during the alien egg birthing scene
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
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No
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
10 supporters
Yes
2
No
27
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serpuntine
One of the main characters is heavily coded as neurodivergent in some way. He has tics, a speech impediment, communication difficulties, hyperfixations, etc. A lot of the bullying directed at him involved anti-autism rhetoric.
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Is autism misrepresented?
28 supporters
Yes
7
No
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3
poptart
No, but as a warning, the synthetic character can easily be misinterpreted as being autistic or seem to be autistic-coded. He is not, it’s a flaw with his brain chip, but be prepared.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
30 supporters
Yes
2
No
26
1
Anonymous
Autism is not a mental illness
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Yes
3
No
18
Yes
0
No
25
Is there autism specific abuse?
36 supporters
Yes
24
No
8
6
Smiliey
A robot being bullied for being different
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
66 supporters
Add comment
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0
No
30
Yes
0
No
23
Does someone have a meltdown?
7 supporters
Yes
1
No
21
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HowdyEllie
Characters panic but it's not necessarily a meltdown
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Yes
29
No
0
Yes
0
No
22
Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
27 supporters
Add comment
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No
25
Yes
0
No
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Yes
2
No
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
16 supporters
Yes
32
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0
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oatmeal
Most claustrophobic -- somewhere around the beginning, after the characters dock the space station and an android opens the door.
2 comments | Add comment
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Does someone die by suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
74 supporters
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No
30
Yes
22
No
5
Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
6 supporters
Yes
25
No
4
3
HowdyEllie
There's camera underwater sequences when the team is first attacked by face-huggers but they're brief
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Are there sudden loud noises?
32 supporters
Yes
30
No
0
0
poptart
The entire sequence of the crew first traveling to the abandoned ship is EXTREMELY LOUD!
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Is there shakey cam?
1 supporters
Yes
29
No
1
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Bitbat
Should note that as the ship starts to lose power, there are several instances of not only shakey cam, but also flashy cam as lights start flickering.
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Does a baby cry?
17 supporters
Yes
5
No
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3
HowdyEllie
No but there is a baby gurgle/coo
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Is there screaming?
12 supporters
Yes
31
No
0
0
RowanOakley
Lots and lots.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
6 supporters
Yes
30
No
0
0
HowdyEllie
Sprinkled throughout
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Are there flashing lights or images?
42 supporters
Yes
33
No
0
2
Mugg
The majority of the movie has intense flashing lights. I personally had to cover my eyes for probably 70%-80% of the movie
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Paranoia
Yes
29
No
0
Yes
0
No
26
Pregnancy
Yes
0
No
26
Does someone miscarry?
21 supporters
Yes
7
No
19
4
HowdyEllie
This one is hard to answer because (SPOILER) the baby becomes an alien hybrid but is successfully birthed
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Are there babies or unborn children?
14 supporters
Yes
34
No
0
3
HowdyEllie
A character is pregnant and the events of the very ending involve birth and a baby
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Is there childbirth?
20 supporters
Yes
38
No
0
8
HowdyEllie
Yes, and it's incredibly violent
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Are there abortions?
12 supporters
Yes
3
No
25
3
RowanOakley
No, but the subtext is there, and I personally was definitely thinking about abortion during. At one point in the movie, a male character stick an electric rod into an egg that looks an awful lot like a vagina, with intent to kill the thing inside.
(SPOILERS) Also, a baby is literally killed at the end of the movie, though it resembles an adult at that point in time and is hostile and dangerous.
(SPOILERS) Also, a baby is literally killed at the end of the movie, though it resembles an adult at that point in time and is hostile and dangerous.
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Does a pregnant person die?
14 supporters
Yes
13
No
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Doggo3659
She is killed right after giving birth, so no.
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Prejudice
Yes
0
No
27
Is there ableist language or behavior?
35 supporters
Yes
23
No
4
7
mistersandman
The android character does not actually have autism or any other neurological disorder. However, some may find his mannerisms and behavior relatable, and he is ridiculed by others in the group for being different from them, and is said to not have feelings. This made me (an autistic person) upset.
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Yes
0
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Yes
0
No
25
Yes
0
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25
Yes
1
No
23
Yes
0
No
25
Is there aphobia?
16 supporters
Yes
4
No
17
5
jdpamv
Virgin shaming is referenced when people who haven’t been to space are called “virgins.”
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
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No
23
Does the black guy die first?
17 supporters
Yes
1
No
27
4
serpuntine
No, but a woman of color (Navarro) is the first to die
1 comment | Add comment
Is there hate speech?
22 supporters
Yes
16
No
10
8
Doggo3659
It could be considered hate speech by what some people call the robot to which he corrects them.
2 comments | Add comment
Race
Yes
0
No
25
Relationships
Yes
0
No
25
Religious
Is religion discussed?
10 supporters
Yes
9
No
15
3
HowdyEllie
One of the characters is shown praying
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Yes
0
No
23
Sex
Are there nude scenes?
35 supporters
Yes
0
No
27
1
Anonymous
No, but this is alien and there’s a lot of génital-related imagery. One scene in particular includes a very realistic looking vagina.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
27
Does someone lose their virginity?
12 supporters
Yes
2
No
25
3
Doggo3659
When the robot first opens the door to the space station someone says “Congrats, you’re not a virgin anymore”
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
22
Yes
11
No
21
5
serpuntine
The director has confirmed that Bjorn is Kay’s baby daddy
4 comments | Add comment
Is there sexual content?
49 supporters
Yes
13
No
17
5
serpuntine
As in previous movies, the reproductive process of the xenomorphs is an allegory for sexual assault, and so the movie is full of thinly veiled sexual content
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Yes
0
No
23
Sexism
Yes
0
No
25
Sickness
Yes
1
No
20
Yes
1
No
22
Does someone have a chronic illness?
10 supporters
Yes
2
No
23
1
serpuntine
One of the main characters is heavily coded as disabled and has multiple “attacks” throughout the movie that his sister has to help him through.
1 comment | Add comment
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
25 supporters
Yes
2
No
19
-1
Doggo3659
Before we know he’s a robot, a character acts in a way that could be seen as dementia
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Social
Yes
0
No
26
Is someone homeless?
5 supporters
Yes
21
No
6
2
HowdyEllie
Life on the colony is shown in the background, including homeless individuals
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
1
No
22
Are there anti-abortion themes?
31 supporters
Yes
1
No
26
7
jdpamv
The whole series is pro-choice as the main theme is that being forced to give birth is horrific, so there thankfully aren’t any anti-abortion themes.
1 comment | Add comment
Spoiler
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0
No
24
Are there end credit scenes?
1 supporters
Yes
0
No
28
4
Doggo3659
Just saw it in theaters, there is none.
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Does it have a sad ending?
46 supporters
Yes
9
No
19
7
mfor
The ending itself isn’t sad, but many characters have sad outcomes
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Vehicular
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0
No
22
Does a car crash?
18 supporters
Yes
2
No
23
4
Doggo3659
There aren’t really cars because it’s space, but ships do crash
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Does a plane crash?
10 supporters
Yes
24
No
1
7
Smiliey
A spaceship
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
25
Violence
Yes
0
No
28
Yes
32
No
1
Yes
0
No
24
Is there gun violence?
24 supporters
Yes
25
No
0
3
Doggo3659
Aliens are shot
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