Kinda? Ellen verbally abuses her husband, insulting his character and his "ability to perform". Right afterwards, he aggressively beings banging her. They are perfectly fine with each other after this,
If nothing else, it's so awkward.
If you think a woman being brutalized for the audience is less severe or different than her being brutalized for other characters you don't understand the spirit of this question and why it's triggering. Violence against women for the glee and enjoyment of the audience is triggering because it's so degrading and misogynistic to craft a scene where the audience is supposed to take pleasure in a woman being brutalized. Survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence often find it triggering because it's reminiscent of our abusers taking pleasure in our pain and suffering, it hurts and stirs up those feelings whether it's fictional characters enjoying that pain and suffering or something that us the audience is supposed to enjoy.
At one point a man snorts and seems to use cocaine. There is also a lot of smoking and drinking and opiates are used for medical purposes. No one is shown to be suffering from addiction.
A pigeon is lovingly stroked for several seconds before the character graphically bites its head off while the bird is alive. He then holds onto the dead bird while blood spurts out of the wound where its head was before. It is very graphic.
I would not define the pigeon as a pet. It is a captive and tortured and killed. The character’s affection towards the bird is meant to symbolize the love/lust Orlock has towards Ellen, who is just as trapped as the bird.
Ellen recalls her first encounter with the count which is alluded to as being a rape. Thomas also tries to bring up an instance where he was raped by the count, but he cannot say it.
MC is coerced into sex through threats. there are also other scenes that are not explicitly assault but like other commenters say are analogous to assault / rape and might be triggering for some
While there is no mutilation there is a very close up shot of a magnified eye and there is a scene where someone’s eyes roll back into their head for a long time.
Absolutely not! Whoever voted yes is wrong. The only moment that can be even construed as cheating is when a character appears to consent to another character's predation, but this is done for a very specific reason that's a huge spoiler.
the jump scares are, for the most part, pretty easy to tell; music swell, tense scene, etc. the one that got me was when thomas and ellen are sharing a bed in the second half, her visuals change to orlock’s for a split second to scare thomas
When Tomas is trying to escape the castle at the beginning, he falls into a rushing river (survives). There is later a sequence in a boat at sea with severe weather.
Throughout the movie there are scenes of the female MC being in control of the vampire and there are 1-2 scenes where she is depicted as being possessed in an exorcist type manner (voice changes, disturbing body movements, etc)
About halfway through, in the ship when they bring the captain to see a dead crewman. Right after they show the body, someone says "it's the plague" and immediately there is a full audio and visual V*.
There are several other possibly triggering moments where people have drool, foam, or blood coming from their mouth, but not actually V* even if it sometimes sounds like there might be.
Not used as a therapy, but a character is briefly shown tied to an electric chair for execution. In another scene he is on his side, still tied to the chair, foaming at the mouth, alluding to him being shocked but not dying. No electric shocks are shown on screen.
The scene where the professor is testing Ellen's lucidity in the bed and sticks a needle through her wrist. It's not graphic since it's shown from further away but still a little uncomfortable
None of the characters are actually mentally ill, but they are possessed and afflicted by Nosferatu's curse in a way that is interpreted by others as insanity.
It’s a horror movie, so people panic when the “horror”, Nosferatu, is attacking/stalking them. However, there is one notable scene where Thomas says he cannot breathe after a nightmare in which he remembers Nosferatu
In the context of being a horror film, there are a few jumpscares. One at the very beginning is extremely sudden, while the rest are readable before they happen.
Brief scene of lightning about an hour into the movie. Most of the strikes are faded into and slow, but one specific strike when a man is yelling "help" may be unsafe for photosensitive audiences.
Not sure why so many people have said 'no' here. It's the 19th century, most mental health issues are addressed as hysteria and madness. The main character is repeatedly mistreated and alienated because people think she's crazy, even though she's actually being haunted by a demonic entity. Her own husband tells her to repress (quote, 'you must never say these things out loud') when she expresses agitation over a strange dream she had.
Some religious imagery such as crosses. A woman insists a man pray to keep evil away. Nuns taking care of a sick/injured man. When a woman confides that she feels the presence of a greater power, another character mistakenly believes she is talking about God.
Also the story as a whole has a clear good vs evil dichotomy with Nosferatu's evil being adjacent to that of demons or the devil.
There are several scenes where the main female character is topless, or her breasts are otherwise visible through cloth, both in sexual and non-sexual scenes. Another female character (very minor, only there for 1 scene) is completely nude on a horse. A male character is seen nude, but his genitals are covered by a writing tablet, so the worst you see is his bare butt.
Specifically in the second half of the film, yes. There is two explicit sex scenes, one of which occurring while a woman is being killed.
lots of random moaning through out the entire film that sounds sexual, even when it isn't explicitly so.