The main characters father is described as “going to get a pack of cigarettes and never coming back” however this is only mentioned briefly during a flashback scene when the main character is a child
There are mentions of absentee fathers (referred to as "deadbeats" the whole time) and fathers leaving/walking out, but no onscreen abuse or abusive dynamics
ehhhhh, kinda? main characters brother used to bully him like pretty bad, and he ended up cutting communication with him. twenty something years later his brother tries to kill
him but he forgives him because it was kinda a misunderstanding?
I think that the gratuitous cheerleader scene at the end of the film falls into this category. None of the other female deaths feel this way to me, but that one feels like it makes a mockery of femininity
No one is gaslighted in this movie, as no one is manipulated by causing them to question their sense of what is real, their grasp on reality, or their sanity. People are lied to and manipulated in other ways, but there is NO GASLIGHTING. I literally don’t even know what people could possibly be mistaking for gaslighting in this movie. Spreading misinformation is dangerous.
In the original tale, the protag's son uses them, but in this movie it's never shown, only mildly implied on a dialogue, but seems more like a sarcastic joke he made to his dad.
Spoiler: When the brothers are taken out to a hibachi dinner by their babysitter, her throat is cut by accident by the chef throwing the knives around. It happens fairly early on in the movie, and you at first only see a slight cut in her throat however her head eventually falls off due to the cut
Spoiler: When the babysitters throat is cut by a chef on accident and it results in a throat slit and decapitation. We see her head fall off and onto the grill of the restaurant and start to sizzle
Spoiler: Right after the 25 years later title card, the aunt who raised the boys is cut up by some fishing lures which got stabbed in her face. She puts rubbing alcohol on the wounds and then she hears a noise coming from her oven, when she goes to investigate the rubbing alcohol on her face ignites and she is burned and killed later on by a stab to the stomach from a fence post
Spoiler: At the end of the movie one of the brothers (not the main character one) gets his head squashed by a bowling ball cannon. His bloody pulp of a head is seen afterwards however it is played off sort of comedically.
Very brief and used in a comical way. You don’t see a noose or anything but the body hangs there and is shown briefly twice. Not too graphic in my opinion
They repeat over and over in the film that it’s not a toy, but there is a sequence where a child attempts to destroy the monkey. It’s not cute and the child doesn’t like it though
Idk why half the votes are (or were)"yes", no one cheats their romantic partner on this movie. The only possible mention is the protag's aunt and uncle being swingers, but they both seem to agree with it, so is that cheating to begin with?
At the ending there’s what appears to be a man on a horse (one of the 4 horseman symbolism maybe?) and he does appear to be a ghost or apparition of sorts
There are some jumpscares but they are not severe and are lessend by the comic tone:
In one scene during a discussion in a car a woman suddenly bangs on a car window.
Also a sudden appearence of a monkey with a jumpscare sting
A woman walks on the stairs and breaks through it and pops up screaming.
And some other jumpscares with minor scare stings
A certain death where wasps fly into someone’s mouth and start coming out of their face. Idk if it was the lack of space but it triggered my trypophobia.
SAFE-ish There is a part at the end of the trailer for this movie where a man gags a bit and pulls a disembodied finger out of his mouth. No sound is done during his slight gagging!
Not therapy, but a woman jumps into a pool that has been electrified. It’s very brief but very graphic. It’s right after a broken AC unit falls off a roof.
As someone with misophonia, there are some times when characters are chewing and you can hear a lot of mouth sounds. It’s a brief scene and it happens when the character flashbacks to him in the car with his mom eating take out
Very brief scene where we see a clothed stripper for a few seconds. No nudity and no contact with others, she just bends over on stage and the scene ends.