The Love Witch
Movie • 2016 • Comedy
ReportElaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.
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Is someone stalked?
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No, but a character rifles through another character's things while she is not home, trying on her makeup and hair piece.
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A main plot point is a woman killing her husband but she says in a later monologue that she felt victimized and used, but there are no specifics and she says this in a moment she's trying to manipulate someone.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is someone gaslighted?
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I would say possibly. Elaine definitely creates new realities for the men she's sleeping with by telling them what they want to hear, then lying to others. I'm not sure if it would be considered gaslighting but I can see how someone might still be triggered by it.
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Addiction
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Elaine gives men hallucinogenic drugs multiple times throughout the film.
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Is there addiction?
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CoriDallasMultipass
The main character has an addiction to love, as well as smoking. Others have a drinking problem.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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One of the main character's victims develops a drinking problem.
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Does a horse die?
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There are humans who ride horses on screen. Nothing else happens to the horses.
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Is there a dead animal?
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There's a deer's head (taxidermy) mounted on a wall in one scene, but no close up on it. In the same scene there is a bloody and graphic closeup of large pieces of meat while a character is cooking.
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Does a cat die?
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Main character mentions her cat dying but the death is not shown or described.
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Are there bugs?
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Flies
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Is someone restrained?
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The main character is held down by multiple people at one point, in the "burn the witch" bar scene.
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Near the end of the film, Elaine and the cop have a conversation in the bar. Eventually, he will try to arrest her for her actions earlier in the film. When the bar patrons find out what she did, they begin to attack her and some men throw her to the ground, quickly strip her dress, and there's some shots of men unbuckling their pants. It is clear that they intend to rape her, one man makes it on top of her before he is pulled off and she is brought to safety by the cop. There is also room to discuss Elaine's sex with the men throughout the entirety of the film, seeing as they are taken by either spells or drugs to have sex with her, they technically cannot fully consent to the sex they're having.
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Bodily Harm
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A character is stabbed to death. Also a man dies from cutting his wrists. Only the aftermath is shown.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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A character is stabbed to death and struggles to breath as they are dying.
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Is someone burned alive?
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characters threaten to burn a character towards the end of the film but it doesnt happen
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Is someone tortured?
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The torture is psychological, induced by the potent hallucinogens and witch magic. No bodily mutilation torture occurs in the film.
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Does a kid die?
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Child sacrifices are mentioned and a crude illustration is shown in a book.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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It is not shown, but implied, that the protagonist was sexually abused as a child.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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A man is put under a spell that forces him to leave the city with a witch and go to his house in the woods. While it's his house, it's still kidnapping and he's later murdered.
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Does someone cheat?
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cassandrasaurusrdr
Although, he is (perhaps somewhat ambiguously) under the influence of witchcraft.
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Are there jump scares?
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The descriptive "horror" isn't particularly accurate here - it's more an homage to and satire of 60s horror camp tropes. There are a few creepy scenes but it's all very plodding and slow. There's an absurd jumpcut from a man's face to a very fake skull. There's a man in a flashback going from looking happy and smiling to looking very ill and apparently dying. There's a little bit of very stylized violence and blood. In last scene there's a ton of cutting back and forth between another scene and then shots of a man's face and chest dead and bloody.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Are there clowns?
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There is a jester
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Is someone possessed?
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Multiple characters are shown under the influence of magic spells.
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On the bathtub.
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Does someone vomit?
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Someone says he's going to be sick (he's been poisoned) but he doesn't actually vomit.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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We do see see hips and thighs hovering over a jar and urine falling into the jar and then someone pouring that jar of urine into another jar.
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During the stabbing there are quite audible sound effects for several minutes.
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Law Enforcement
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A character is a cop but they aren't idolized.
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Is there incarceration?
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Someone dies by implied suicide, although he's under the influence of witchcraft. We see the aftermath - specifically a closeup of a bloody razor and we see the dead body.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Main character is not stated to be mentally ill but someone says she seems like she has borderline personality disorder, and she is violent
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there misophonia?
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There are some background noises that are incredibly difficult to listen to if you have misophonia, specifically about an hour into the movie in a scene with the woods and continues into several scenes afterwards.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Not in the film's present but in an audio flashback.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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During a scene where Elaine is lotioning herself and hearing flashbacks of audio from her ex-husband, he criticizes her weight and it's insinuated that she may have lost weight due to an eating disorder. Nothing explicit, just heavily implied.
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cassandrasaurusrdr
A character cuts his wrists in the bathtub and dies. The act is not shown but his body is. Whether it's truly suicide is ambiguous as the man is implied to be under the influence of witchcraft.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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There's some intentionally camp effects like prism rainbows projected over a scene when a character is hallucinating.
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Not really, but the protagonist speaks and looks more often directly into the camera.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Someone calls the main character's personality "Borderline, or worse!"
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No, but it's worth mentioning that this movie has pretty blatant overtones of biological essentialism. It's assertion that 'biology is destiny' could be triggering if you're uncomfortable with misgendering.
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Are there fat jokes?
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cassandrasaurusrdr
Main character remembers being mocked for being a "fatty" in an audio flashback.
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Does the black guy die first?
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There is only two black characters, both police, and they are not harmed.
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Is there hate speech?
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cassandrasaurusrdr
Misogynistic insults are used (woman to woman) during a tense moment and "witch" is frequently used as a pejorative.
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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The protagonist was and is abused by an older man.
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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There is both ritual nudity and sexual nudity, along with artistic nudity (paintings).
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We do see two sisters dressed alike in matching bodysuits doing a dance together onstage in a burlesque club after being told that they needed to learn to dance to "harness their sexual power." There's no nudity or particularly sexual touching between them, just sultry glances and the vague implication that patrons of the club like watching their act because they are sisters.
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Is there sexual content?
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A sex scene where we see a woman strip down to a thong, then when they are in bed we see a man's naked butt thrusting. There are also flashbacks to this scene.
We see a woman in just garter belt and stockings on a bed but her body and hair are arranged so we see very little nudity - mostly just some of her butt. We also see her with her hands above her head very loosely tied with some gold string, but her breasts are covered by her hair. But there is implied light bondage.
A witchcraft scene that repeats in many flashbacks with some full frontal nudity but somewhat covered by lots of pubic hair. Implied sexual assault in same scene with someone being tied down and looking fearful as a man climbs on top of her and many (mostly naked but partially covered by capes and hair) people watch. There are other witchcraft scenes with people standing fully unclothed or only wearing capes next to other people fully dresses.
A scene of a character outdoors in just a thong but her hair mostly covers her breasts.
A burlesque performance scene but no full nudity - dance ends in pasties and a thong.
A short striptease dance where a woman strips down to underwear but her hair mostly covers her breasts.
All the sex and nudity is highly stylized and sort of intentionally campy and absurd, rather than the tone of an erotic thriller or sex comedy or something.
An outdoor scene of witchcraft with many naked people kneeling in a circle and later walking in a circle hand in hand. We get lingering shots of the back of their bodies and some full frontal (flacid) male and female nudity obscured by lots of pubic hair. And a man ritualustically kissing a woman dressed in underwear and a cape, but her hair covers her breasts.
There's also a scene where a bunch of people undress two people to their underwear and re-dress them in costumes. It's not sexual but you do see both people in their underwear.
We see a woman getting dressed in another woman's underwear and wearing just underwear and a sheer robe. Later the woman struggles over a knife with another woman and the second woman's dress rudes up to reveal undergarments.
We see a woman in just garter belt and stockings on a bed but her body and hair are arranged so we see very little nudity - mostly just some of her butt. We also see her with her hands above her head very loosely tied with some gold string, but her breasts are covered by her hair. But there is implied light bondage.
A witchcraft scene that repeats in many flashbacks with some full frontal nudity but somewhat covered by lots of pubic hair. Implied sexual assault in same scene with someone being tied down and looking fearful as a man climbs on top of her and many (mostly naked but partially covered by capes and hair) people watch. There are other witchcraft scenes with people standing fully unclothed or only wearing capes next to other people fully dresses.
A scene of a character outdoors in just a thong but her hair mostly covers her breasts.
A burlesque performance scene but no full nudity - dance ends in pasties and a thong.
A short striptease dance where a woman strips down to underwear but her hair mostly covers her breasts.
All the sex and nudity is highly stylized and sort of intentionally campy and absurd, rather than the tone of an erotic thriller or sex comedy or something.
An outdoor scene of witchcraft with many naked people kneeling in a circle and later walking in a circle hand in hand. We get lingering shots of the back of their bodies and some full frontal (flacid) male and female nudity obscured by lots of pubic hair. And a man ritualustically kissing a woman dressed in underwear and a cape, but her hair covers her breasts.
There's also a scene where a bunch of people undress two people to their underwear and re-dress them in costumes. It's not sexual but you do see both people in their underwear.
We see a woman getting dressed in another woman's underwear and wearing just underwear and a sheer robe. Later the woman struggles over a knife with another woman and the second woman's dress rudes up to reveal undergarments.
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Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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CoriDallasMultipass
The main character, in her thoughts, calls a man a pussy for crying about love. She repeatedly calls men babies for being upset.
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
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One victim dies of heart failure.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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The main character kills yet another victim and regresses into delusions, seeing images of her victims happy with her.
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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The use tampon is seen briefly and is not particularly graphic - it's just a little red, they don't close up on the blood's texture or anything.
Also a spot of blood - implied to be from menstruation - on a sheet is shown a couple times.
A man is found dead in a bathtub. We see his blood on the floor, on a razor blade, and on him. But it's very stylized, not realistic, like the whole film.
A man is stabbed onscreen - lots of blood and sound effects and then it's implied but not shown that his heart is cut out. Also repeated flashbacks to his dead face and bloody chest.
Also a spot of blood - implied to be from menstruation - on a sheet is shown a couple times.
A man is found dead in a bathtub. We see his blood on the floor, on a razor blade, and on him. But it's very stylized, not realistic, like the whole film.
A man is stabbed onscreen - lots of blood and sound effects and then it's implied but not shown that his heart is cut out. Also repeated flashbacks to his dead face and bloody chest.
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