Does the dog die?
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The Atticus Institute
Movie • 2015 • Horror
ReportIn the early 1970s, Dr. Henry West creates an institute to find people with supernatural abilities. When Judith Winstead comes to the facility, she exhibits amazing abilities that the military wants to turn into a weapon.
This movie contains 8 potentially triggering events.
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During a scene where a woman is being tested for clairvoyance she is being watched by soldiers with guard dogs. The test (mentioned in another content warning above) involves making a dissected frog’s heart beat. When the test goes wrong and the dead frog’s heart explodes the soldiers menace her with the dogs. One of the dogs falls on its side and the soldiers exclaim that she is doing the same thing to the dog, but there is no gore and the dog doesn’t explicitly die onscreen.
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a frog is vivisected.
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Is there a dead animal?
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There is a dissected frog that we see in relatively graphic detail.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Judith has convulsions multiple times.
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Is someone tortured?
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The premise of the movie is that a bunch of scientists are researching psychic abilities and are testing a woman’s supposed psychic powers. A lot of the things they do to her including shocking her with electricity to subdue her, keeping her in restraints, subjecting her to loud noise/music and flashing lights, and repeatedly gassing her are forms of torture, in addition to the non-consensual psychiatric experimentation.
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Does a kid die?
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A child dies semi-offscreen from sticking a metal paper clip in an electrical socket.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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While initially not kidnapping, it’s clear that Judith (the woman they are testing for psychic abilities) is not free to leave the facility and is also frequently held in restraints and not allowed to move around the facility freely.
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Is someone possessed?
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Major spoilers: The woman being tested for psychic powers is actually possessed by a demon, and the scientist leading the project is ultimately possessed by the demon as well.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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During testing Judith loses control of her bladder. It’s not seen graphically but the characters comment on it.
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Judith is frequently subjected to electric shocks.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Several times, and Judith had an IV for a lot of the testing scenes.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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While not an actual mental institution, a lot of the treatment (like being held in medical restraints and electroshock therapy) Judith experiences while being held in the facility is comparable to psychiatric abuse and potentially triggering for people with institutionalization related trauma.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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During one of the experiments Judith is subjected to a rapidly flashing strobe light similar to the kind used during an EEG.
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