A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see the ghosts of dead people.
This movie contains 40 potentially triggering events.
in one scene there is a ghost who is a woman with bruises on her face who yells about her husband hurting her, but she is only in the movie for a couple of minutes.
The child sees ghosts and everyone is constantly denying his experience/lived reality, either acting like he's acting out for attention and/or is delusional
There are some ghosts with graphic injuries from their deaths, e.g. Shot in the back of the head, however I wouldn't say any of it comes under the 'body horror' category
When the main kid is hiding in his red tent from a ghost, a little girl ghost who is vomiting profusely appears with no warning. It is all over her clothes as well. There are no loud wretching noises. She stays on screen for the duration of that scene but there is no vomit for the rest of the movie.
There is no mental institution, but a character is admitted to hospital due to being perceived as mentally ill, and the protagonist works with mentally ill people.
In the first ten minutes of the film, a mentally ill man breaks into someone’s home and shoots them. Also a woman with Munchausen by proxy repeatedly poisons her step daughter.
A little girl leaves her camcorder running when her mom brings her food, but it catches her mother in the act of poisoning her food, so this is actually a good thing.
Toward the end of the movie Cole and his mom are stuck in traffic due to a fatal car accident; though we do not see it happen, Cole sees the woman who died in it very briefly