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Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
This movie contains 81 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
1 supporters
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Anonymous
Dead dogs and cats are shown, though their deaths happen off-screen.
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Abandonment
0
StaceyWheeler
Once where Ruth runs away from home during the Finningley attack.
Then another where Jimmy leaves his colleague to go and look for Ruth.
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1
mxxowada
a child is shown calling for its mother after the explosion
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Is an animal abandoned?
1 supporters
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9
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
1 supporters
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5
Yes
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4
Is someone stalked?
23 supporters
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13
Is there domestic violence?
1 supporters
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15
Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
1 supporters
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5
Yes
1
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5
Is someone gaslighted?
40 supporters
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12
Is someone abused with a belt?
22 supporters
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5
Is a child abused?
102 supporters
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15
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2
2
One child is shown being grotesquely abused by another, and a teen/young adult is shown being shot
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Addiction
Yes
0
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17
Is there addiction?
20 supporters
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Yes
6
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StaceyWheeler
Mr Kemp is seen attempting to drink whisky which he traded his cigarettes to another man for. It doesn't go too well with radiation sickness.
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Animal
2
ladyhaymaker
A scene of a dying cat was portrayed by using catnip.
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
1 supporters
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31
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8
Alexandre
In addition to the other scenes mentioned here, there is a prolonged scene arond the hour and-a-half mark involving a dead sheep. It begins with a close-up of the (bloodless) corpse, but the two characters involved end up cutting open the sheep and eating it raw. This goes on for a couple minutes.

After this, near the end of the film, a close-up of a dead rabbit is shown. A girl picks up the corpse and runs around with it, as two boys try to steal it from her.
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Are animals abused?
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21
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3
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0
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16
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31
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BugsAndWombats
A kitten is shown dying from the radiation. It's gruesome and simply awful.
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Is an animal sad?
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5
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1
Are rabbits harmed?
1 supporters
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Yes
4
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1
Does a cat die?
1 supporters
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30
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18
Anonymous
A cat is shown asphyxiating during a fire storm (the cat was, in reality, dosed with catnip to get it to roll around as if it was dying.)
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Does a pet die?
1 supporters
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11
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Does a dragon die?
1 supporters
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20
Are there spiders?
1 supporters
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28
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Anonymous
The film opens with a spider spinning a web. It's presented in a peaceful manner and isn't intended to trigger/scare the viewer.
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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5
Are there snakes?
1 supporters
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18
Are there sharks?
1 supporters
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5
Are there bugs?
1 supporters
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22
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StaceyWheeler
Maggots.
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
19 supporters
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1
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3
Is someone drugged?
1 supporters
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5
Is there pedophilia?
116 supporters
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Yes
1
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7
Is someone held under water?
23 supporters
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5
Is rape mentioned?
82 supporters
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7
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Alucarda
Towards the end of the film, Ruth's daughter is raped by a boy her age.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
21 supporters
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3
Is someone restrained?
25 supporters
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4
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2
Yes
23
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weewooweewoo
A 13 year old girl is raped by another teenager.
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StaceyWheeler
If you want to count the man who has his mouth stuffed with rags while his leg is being cut off with a saw...
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7
4
Dr.Teatime
We see the events leading up to it but the camera cuts away right before the actual assault.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
1 supporters
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13
Are any hands damaged?
17 supporters
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5
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Are there dislocations?
7 supporters
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3
Is there throat mutilation?
1 supporters
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1
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2
Does someone struggle to breathe?
27 supporters
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Yes
19
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Is there decapitation?
1 supporters
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2
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2
Is there cannibalism?
1 supporters
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13
Yes
13
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Alucarda
Several corpses are shown buried underneath debris and rubble after the attack.
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Is someone choked?
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Yes
24
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Roflpuff098
There are many people seen burning. Lots of scenes of corpses on fire or smoldering as well.
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Yes
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Rspade
Somewhat, a group is caved in and unable to be dug out
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Yes
11
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Dr.Teatime
No body horror of the fantasy or sci-fi variety but a lot of gore as bodies are shown, both dead and alive, in various state of injury and decay. Often quite gruesome.
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Is there amputation?
28 supporters
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21
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MarieIsabelleAdora
a mans leg is amputated during the hospital scene
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2
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14
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StaceyWheeler
Technically one member of the council is killed when a beam hits him on the head in the council basement.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
23 supporters
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8
Is there a hanging?
1 supporters
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19
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StaceyWheeler
Technically, near the end of the film, some corpses are seen hanging in the city ruins. How they got there isn't known.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
1 supporters
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11
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
1 supporters
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11
Does someone become unconscious?
5 supporters
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9
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Does someone break a bone?
20 supporters
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15
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Does someone have a seizure?
6 supporters
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14
Are any teeth damaged?
1 supporters
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Yes
13
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
1 supporters
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17
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Is someone tortured?
83 supporters
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15
Does someone fall down stairs?
1 supporters
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7
Does someone fall to their death?
1 supporters
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15
Yes
21
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4
Wiw
When the first blast wave hits, people get glass from shattered windows in their eyes.
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Is someone stabbed?
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Yes
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3
Multiple charred corpses are shown, as well as people with severe radiation burns and profusely bleeding wounds.
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
26 supporters
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7
Does a kid die?
53 supporters
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27
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2
SorcCode
In addition to seeing that a kid has died in the initial blast (his legs are seen in rubble), one childbirth scene appears to end with a mutated and/or stillbirth. The camera never focuses on the newborn.
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Is a minor sexualized?
100 supporters
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Yes
2
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7
Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
14 supporters
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0
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4
Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
1 supporters
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Yes
1
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5
Yes
12
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2
jic97
Pretty Much everyone dies.
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Does a non-human character die?
26 supporters
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Yes
8
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0
Does someone die?
12 supporters
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Yes
7
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Disability
Yes
1
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2
Is the r-slur used?
32 supporters
Yes
1
No
9
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Roflpuff098
Only in the context of a warning that radiation can cause physical deformities and mental retardation to fetuses. Not as a slur.
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
1 supporters
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5
Family
Does a family member die?
1 supporters
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9
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Does a parent die?
25 supporters
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24
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1
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Anonymous
Several characters (who happen to be parents) die during the attack and aftermath.
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Yes
18
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4
weewooweewoo
A figure of ET is burned by a nuclear bomb.
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Is someone kidnapped?
9 supporters
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Yes
1
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10
Does someone cheat?
19 supporters
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18
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0
3
Anonymous
An engaged man is in a car with a woman he had just met in a pub. It's implied they were having sex but you don't see anything
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
8 supporters
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Yes
1
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18
Are there jump scares?
62 supporters
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14
Is there a shower scene?
7 supporters
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17
0
At the beginning, a pair of young people are parked in a car overlooking the sea.
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Are there clowns?
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18
Is someone possessed?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
24 supporters
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1
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3
Are there razors?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
15 supporters
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Yes
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StaceyWheeler
In the behind the scenes sense of things yes - the charred bodies are made by burning mannequins.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
96 supporters
Yes
27
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0
4
sarah2moms
Very very graphic, about 1 hour in. When the screen mentions the first symptoms of radiation, skip ahead until the next day.

1 hour and 4 minutes

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3
A woman is shown soiling herself in the prelude to the bomb
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Is there farting?
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5
Is someone eaten?
34 supporters
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0
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5
Yes
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2
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Anonymous
There's also a quick clip during the first bomb montage of a man on the toilet.
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Does someone spit?
9 supporters
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15
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2
Lots of spitting, either from dust/debris in the mouth or vomiting.
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Is there audio gore?
44 supporters
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Yes
11
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1
Large-scale Violence
Yes
1
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12
4
This film was made 17 years before 9/11, and no planes are shown crashing into buildings.
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
31 supporters
Yes
0
No
16
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weewooweewoo
The police are initially portrayed as useless, then progressively violent and fascistic. Lots of on screen police brutality.
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Is there incarceration?
4 supporters
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Yes
4
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0
LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Yes
0
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5
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
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8
Is there bisexual cheating?
23 supporters
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Yes
0
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8
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
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5
Loss
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StaceyWheeler
There is a scene where some paintings are being moved down to a cellar though I suspect that those eventually get destroyed in some fashion in the end.
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
22 supporters
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0
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16
Are needles/syringes used?
32 supporters
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Yes
12
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0
Is there a mental institution scene?
28 supporters
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Yes
0
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16
Yes
22
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0
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Alucarda
An overrun hospital is shown with several injured and hurt people walking through. The staff is overwhelmed from all the sick and injured people. Infections are shown, blood dripping from a rag being used on a bloody stump is shown, and although it isn't explicitly shown, a man's leg is cut off without anesthesia.
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Is there menstruation?
5 supporters
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Yes
1
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4
Yes
18
No
3
2
Wiw
Ruth eventually dies from radiation-induced leukaemia.
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
12 supporters
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Yes
1
No
3
Does someone self harm?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
1 supporters
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Yes
1
No
15
Is autism misrepresented?
31 supporters
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Yes
0
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4
Is a mentally ill person violent?
35 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
19 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Is there autism specific abuse?
44 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Yes
1
No
5
Is reality unstable or unhinged?
21 supporters
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Yes
4
No
2
Does someone have a meltdown?
8 supporters
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Yes
5
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0
Yes
7
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0
0
CipherPurinina
Protect and Survive's infamous ending jingle.

The HANDEL System, part of the Four-Minute Warning, uses repetitive noises (loud beeping) and phrases ("Attack Warning RED").

Civil defense and aircraft scramble sirens.

An unknown authority, likely the Auxillary Government or remnant RAF, has a loudspeaker repeatedly saying "Return to your homes" and "Go back".

A good portion of the movie is screaming.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
22 supporters
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Yes
14
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0
Is there ABA therapy?
19 supporters
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Yes
0
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5
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weewooweewoo
Not exactly but several character say they wish were dead due to the horrific conditions (post-nuclear war) that they are living with.
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Is there body dysphoria?
14 supporters
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0
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5
Is there body dysmorphia?
28 supporters
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Yes
0
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15
0
Alucarda
Some of the side characters are trapped in an underground bunker as the exit has been destroyed.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
38 supporters
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0
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13
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mxxowada
towards the end there are 3 hanged bodies, but only the legs are shown. no suicide is shown on screen but it is implied
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Yes
10
No
0
0
lynnredo
Ruth is in shock after the attack and barely speaks for the rest of the film.
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
9 supporters
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Yes
0
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4
Are there sudden loud noises?
35 supporters
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Yes
6
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0
Is there shakey cam?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
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13
Does a baby cry?
16 supporters
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Yes
15
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0
Is there screaming?
14 supporters
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7
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0
1
Anonymous
Tons.
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BarrydHeil
The only notable one is "they f--king would be" in response to finding a packet of cheese and onion crisps, though this isn't very audible.
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3
Lights flash breifly during a short montage of the bomb's explosion
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
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3
Is the fourth wall broken?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
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5
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
31 supporters
Yes
13
No
0
4
It's heavily implied that the baby born at the end of the film is either stillborn or malformed.
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Yes
19
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0
8
Anonymous
A character is shown delivering a baby at the end. It's unknown what exactly is wrong with it as the film ends with a close up of the new mother's silent scream.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
1 supporters
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Yes
9
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0
Is there childbirth?
24 supporters
Yes
19
No
0
1
Twice near the end
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Are there abortions?
17 supporters
Yes
0
No
15
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StaceyWheeler
Only mentions of abortion such as Michael getting told off when he asks what abortion is.
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Does a pregnant person die?
25 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Prejudice
Yes
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13
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Anonymous
No. Though, the term "fag" is British slang for cigarettes, which could be jarring for unsuspecting American viewers.

So around the 1 hr 24 min mark when a man says, "I could murder a fag right now", he is not making a homophobic remark. The context becomes clearer when he then says he always used to have a fag after a meal.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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12
Yes
0
No
12
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
36 supporters
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10
Does an LGBT person die?
35 supporters
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Yes
0
No
16
Are there fat jokes?
54 supporters
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Yes
0
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13
Is there aphobia?
21 supporters
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Yes
0
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4
Is a minority is misrepresented?
26 supporters
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Yes
0
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6
Does the black guy die first?
20 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Is there hate speech?
33 supporters
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Yes
0
No
15
Race
Is there blackface?
36 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
0 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Religious
Yes
4
No
0
1
StaceyWheeler
If we want to count the short church scene where Ruth's family were praying.
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Are there demons or Hell?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
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4
Sex
Are there nude scenes?
42 supporters
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Yes
0
No
7
Is there bestiality?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
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5
Does someone lose their virginity?
16 supporters
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Yes
4
No
1
Is someone sexually objectified?
45 supporters
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Yes
0
No
6
Are there incestuous relationships?
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86 supporters
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Yes
0
No
15
Is there sexual content?
0 supporters
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Yes
17
No
0
Is there BDSM?
24 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Sexism
Yes
0
No
6
Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
20 supporters
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Yes
5
No
0
Does someone have a stroke?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
6
3
Roflpuff098
Many people suffering the effects of radiation poisoning, cancers, etc.
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Yes
1
No
6
0
CipherPurinina
Likely pandemic levels of CTE in-universe, but not depicted in the movie.
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Social
Are there fat suits?
31 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Yes
9
No
0
2
Many of the survivors are depicted as being essentially homeless or living in squalor in the aftermath of nuclear war.
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Yes
1
No
4
0
CipherPurinina
The movie IS an existentialism.
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
33 supporters
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Yes
0
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4
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
6 supporters
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Yes
0
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12
Are there end credit scenes?
41 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Yes
36
No
1
11
Anonymous
There is no happy ending. The UK - and modern society - has been obliterated.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
1 supporters
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Yes
8
No
0
Does a car crash?
1 supporters
Yes
17
No
1
3
StaceyWheeler
During the RAF Finningley bombing a man crashes his car into a short brick wall after getting blinded by the flash.
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Does a plane crash?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
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13
Is someone hit by a car?
1 supporters
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Yes
1
No
13
Violence
Does someone drown?
23 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Yes
25
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0
5
weewooweewoo
Constant blood, gore and injury. Effects are low-budget but very realistic especially for the era.
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Yes
46
No
1
19
Wiw
Threads is a story about nuclear war.
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Yes
21
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0
4
SorcCode
An unseen man shoots at teenagers who stole bread from them, killing one.
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