American Mary

Movie • 2012 • Horror  

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A young medical student struggling to pay tuition is drawn into the shady world of underground body-modification.
This movie contains 55 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Is religion discussed?
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Are there sharks?
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Is there menstruation?
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Are there dislocations?
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone stalked?
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SquareEyes
A patient shows up outside at main character's hospital school after stalking her online.
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Luchadora
A supporting character is in an abusive relationship. It is mentioned and shown briefly in a cutaway scene.
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A woman is brutalized but it's not for spectacle
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NotAgainAllison
She tortured her rapist so technically, but since he was her rapist it’s easier to digest
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sapphicswords
The previous comment is not an instance of gaslighting. It could potentially qualify as manipulation, but gaslighting is not portrayed in this film.
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
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Cryptid_Crow
Cocaine is used.
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Is there addiction?
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Anonymous
Addiction to body modification is shown in several side characters.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Are animals abused?
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PainGretzky
completely plucked/supermarket chickens/turkeys shown. she practices suturing
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
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violetbooklover
Yes before the SA she is drugged
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone restrained?
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Cryptid_Crow
It starts at ~36:30- skip ahead to 39:40 to avoid it.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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LambMask
Mary is drugged and raped by her professor at a party.
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Bodily Harm
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Luchadora
The protagonist is a med student turned surgeon. SO much cutting.
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Are any hands damaged?
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There is a graphic slit throat. It's after Mary says she'll do anything for 5k cash and she's led into a room.
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Molln21
As above, main character is choked and audio is used to portray too. Man has plastic bag over his head in an earlier scene too.

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Is there decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Larkinik
No but a character bites a woman’s lip or face (can’t remember which) to sensationalise their uniqueness
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone choked?
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Anonymous
A side character, the one who looks like Betty Boop, is threatened with being burned close to the end of the movie.
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Is someone buried alive?
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CyanHyde404
Basically the story revolves around a woman who was SAd and goes into the body mod industry.
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Is there amputation?
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Cryptid_Crow
There are two instances of amputation- one where you just see the aftermath and one where you see the procedure. With the procedure, you don't see the actual amputation, but you do see a severed arm.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Cryptid_Crow
A man is suspended from hooks, but there is no hanging.
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Larkinik
Main character is choked
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PainGretzky
Healed shot of a smooth "barbie crotch" and a much much worse badly healing male genital modification
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Luchadora
Not on screen. A character is threatened with it.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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Cryptid_Crow
Rapists are tortured. Some folks get consensual, heavy body modification done. Very little of the actual acts are shown. You do hear things, though.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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linnnicole
At about 11 minutes in till 11:50. Also incision into upper eyelid at about 1:04:30. At 01:13:47 there’s mention of eye socket injury
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Is someone stabbed?
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Someone is stabbed and there is a lot of blood and the wound is sewn up on screen.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does a major character die?
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Does a non-human character die?
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Does someone die?
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Disability
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Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
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Molln21
Yes!!! It’s forgotten easily but if it’s a trigger then yes a grandparent dies who main character is really close to! (Like a parent! )
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Molln21
Someone who deserves it yes.
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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AleMata
I’d argue there are, but more startling than actually jump scares. First when Mary enters a site, some loud music plays suddenly; and then when she meets a male character in a warehouse, when a cop enters and attacks but you kinda see him coming. Other than that, I don’t recall
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VikaDeeptown
She is clothed though
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there razors?
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There are medical scalpels and such
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No but one of the characters gets plastic surgery to look like a doll
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Luchadora
Main character vomits in disgust in one scene.

Someone vomits inside a plastic bag that is tied around their head.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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Raeann
It wasn’t exactly eaten, but someone’s tongue gets bitten off
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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Luchadora
Lots of people get beaten up. Some of them spit a little blood.
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Is there audio gore?
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Molln21
Quite a bit!!
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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Is there incarceration?
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Molln21
Character is a med student who turns to body modification. A lot of needles/surgical equipment.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Luchadora
Main character is a med student.
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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Cryptid_Crow
People go through CONSENSUAL heavy body modification. This is not self harm.
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Anonymous
Mary, the main character, experiences a sexual trauma, resulting in her experiencing symptoms of PTSD. She is violent in the movie
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is there misophonia?
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eastcraven
chewing noises about an hour and 12 minutes in
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VikaDeeptown
A woman cries in a shower after a traumatic event, it looks like a panic attack.
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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CarlaSueThompson
That's kind of what the whole movie is about. A woman, Mary, performs unlicensed body altering operations on people whom no regular doctor would ever do.and on one unwilling one.
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Luchadora
A character is beaten while having a plastic bag tied around his head.
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justbroth
mary has trauma from a sexual assault that is shown
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Noxious
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Luchadora
handheld cam footage is shown at one point.
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there screaming?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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AleMata
Club scenes
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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PainGretzky
A german doctor brings up Joseph Mengele
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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sapphicswords
No characters in this movie are explicitly LGBT
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justbroth
the owner of the club says to mary “you aren’t fat under there?” before she takes her jacket off at her audition, nothing else though.
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Is there aphobia?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there hate speech?
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Religious
Are there demons or Hell?
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Sex
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A strip club is one of the main settings so sometimes there are naked dancers and dancers in lingerie
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Is there bestiality?
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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sapphicswords
Several instances of objectification at a strip club and by the club owner. Mary is sexually assaulted with the assault being filmed. A character gets body modifications in order to not be sexualized.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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xXg0thicXx
It's subtly implied about the twins though.
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overturezzzmedia
Sexual assault. Nudity. Oral sex briefly shown.
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Is there BDSM?
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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Anonymous
Mary struggles to make ends meet, including pay rent, her cellphone bill, and more. She does not experience homelessness though.
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Is existentialism debated?
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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SPOILER:

Mary is killed. She tried to stitch up her stab would, but ultimately died from blood loss or shock.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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Molln21
Yes, quite a bit! And if it’s not graphically shown ( which a lot is! ) the audio does a very VERY telling.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there gun violence?
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