The House That Jack Built
Movie • 2018 • Drama
ReportFailed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.
This movie contains 69 potentially triggering events.
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Harbor
The brainless mother abandons the children
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Is an animal abandoned?
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OhGoddess
SPOILER: The titular character, as a child, cuts a duck's leg off and puts it back in the water to watch it drown. PETA, however, claims that the scene meets ethical treatment for animals, and that the leg was made of silicone. Still sounds iffy to me.
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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AutisticBear
One of the girls forgives him for verbally abusing her before he kills her
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Is someone stalked?
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The main character watches the woman he is planning on making his victim, waits for her to get home, etc.
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Julia_Smith
Yes, in the ‘4th incident,’ the antagonist appears to be in a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. He bullies her (psychologically), tortures her (physically), and then murders her. You DO see him cut off one of her breasts, and it does look very detailed and realistic. At least you did in the version I saw.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Harbor
Woman's Nipples are toyed with when a man marks them and violently slices them off turning the she into a he
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Harbor
Jack is in a act in crutches but than he shows his
(SPOILERS!!!!)
true colours as a cold hearted piece of sludge and manipulates a woman into horrific no nipple night
(SPOILERS!!!!)
true colours as a cold hearted piece of sludge and manipulates a woman into horrific no nipple night
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bugbite
two young boys are shot and killed and their bodies displayed at a picnic. later, one of the corpses is frozen and has a very uncanny and frightening smile molded onto it with wire.
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Addiction
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GwendolynCox
Recreational pills mentioned but not used
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Is there addiction?
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Ficklelemon
The main character Jack has an addiction to killing and his addiction and "reasoning" behind it (the feeling of withdrawals) are described in detail.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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icallitjustice
Someone being drunk (or accused of being drunk) isn’t alcohol abuse.
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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LZboyfurn
PETA vouched for the animal safety in the film
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mydatabelongs2me
A duckling is mutilated with a pair of pliers and placed back into the water to drown. PETA has confirmed only special effects were used for the scene, and has defended the scene as an accurate depiction of the animal cruelty performed by young serial killers.
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Are animals abused?
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SubjectAOne
Time stamp for the duckling scene is roughly 45:00-45:40 (in the version on Hulu). Contextually it is during the 3rd incident, during a childhood flashback. In the flashback, watch while the men are cutting grass in the meadows, but pause when they stop to sharpen their scythes. Skip forward around 40-45 seconds until the flashback is over and you’re in the clear.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Sensitive_horror_fanatic
Several dead birds are shown as hunting trophies. You also see a few animals get shot from a hunting scene before that. There’s paintings of many dead animals but none are super graphic or realistic, definitely paintings. And then there’s the incident where the duckling is abused, it stuggles but isn’t dead.
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Is an animal sad?
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A baby duck cries
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Not harmed onscreen but dead ones are shown
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Does a pet die?
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clownish
dead animals are shown but theyre not pets of anyone
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Assault
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harmonymargraves
Almost all of the violence in the movie is against women but nothing has explicitly sexual motives, Jack is never seen being aroused by any of the violence.
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Bodily Harm
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Are there dislocations?
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one of the children in incident 3? is shot in the leg and afterwards displayed at the picnic. his leg is at a strange angle
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Ficklelemon
Incidents of strangling.
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Is there amputation?
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icallitjustice
THE CUT ABSOLUTELY IS SHOWN (of the breasts). The commenter saying the cut isn’t shown at all is INCORRECT. Not fully, but it is shown deep and graphically for a quick shot which is shown twice. You also see her in another scene boobs off.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Inuiri
A woman's corpse is dragged by a car and grated off
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Is there a hanging?
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milympee
From 1:50:50 to 1:50:53 there is an archive footage of someone putting a noose around a child's neck.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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A woman is choked and it's very graphic. Lots of choking sounds.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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icallitjustice
Not unless you’re one of those people who defines breasts as genitals
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Does someone break a bone?
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Julia_Smith
A child gets shot in the knee area - it’s very gory
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Is someone tortured?
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Woman gets her breasts cut off!
Bird gets his legs cut off
Boy gets shot in the knee
Psychologically tortures his kidnapped men in his freezer.
Bird gets his legs cut off
Boy gets shot in the knee
Psychologically tortures his kidnapped men in his freezer.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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bugbite
a character attempts to climb across a large pit and eventually loses grip and falls in. it does not show them hitting the bottom.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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catcaprisun
when jack kills one of his girlfriend's sons and rigor mortis sets in to the corpse, he fashions his face into a smile, which includes poking around the eyes and teeth, it then shows a mangled, half-toothless face
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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Ficklelemon
Two children are killed and their dead bodies are later featured in multiple scenes.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Disability
Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
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GwendolynCox
There is an in-universe instance of faking disability, and it is explained before we see it.
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Harbor
(SPOILERS!!!)
Half a family is brutally gunned done with a sniper
Half a family is brutally gunned done with a sniper
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Does a parent die?
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Sensitive_horror_fanatic
You see a family (including a mom) get shot from a hunting blind
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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irisame
The Verge character is depicted showing in pictures the main character has taken. This may be interpreted as ghostly or paranormal.
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Is someone possessed?
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BriarRosePatch
The main character is talking to a ghost or demon the entire time, but he is not being controlled by him
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clownish
no just a sharp knife
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Are there mannequins?
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clownish
you could call what jack does to his son "mannequin"
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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clownish
100% safe, the only thing somewhat seems worth mentioning is at one point he says "i dont feel so good verge" but all that happened was he just has acid reflex while the screen is black the whole conversation, until the epilogue where him saying "i dont feel so good" is shown without the black screen but again nothing happens
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Does someone spit?
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irisame
One woman drools after being strangled but I'm not sure if it can be considered spitting.
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Is there audio gore?
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Sensitive_horror_fanatic
Sounds of asphyxiation and quite a few gunshots
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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LZboyfurn
There are cops but they are definitely not positively portrayed.
Sequences with the cops might be triggering to some people as they do not help and deliver a woman back to danger
Sequences with the cops might be triggering to some people as they do not help and deliver a woman back to danger
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LGBTQ+
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Medical
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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Main character has OCD
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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ShelbyBest123
The main character has OCD and is a serial killer.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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BriarRosePatch
The main character has OCD, and has a breakdown over leaving behind a crime scene without thoroughly checking it
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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bugbite
there's a scene where two characters wade through a very tight, flooded cave. they are neck deep in water for some parts of it and the cave is VERY narrow and low.
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Does someone die by suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Noxious
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Is there shakey cam?
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Ficklelemon
The whole film is filmed from a shakey camera
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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baphometsrising
there is one brief flash depicting a very gruesome childbirth, scene lasts only a few seconds
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Is there childbirth?
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kaleidobear
graphic close up of birth around 1:51:00 in and lasts for several seconds
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Prejudice
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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garbagejuice301
Jack verbally abused a woman and calls her stupid many times. Not exclusively ableist but it could be upsetting in the same way
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bugbite
a character praises fascist figures like hitler as an "icon" while scenes of imprisoned survivors and dead bodies piled at nazi concentration camps play. nothing specifically antisemitic is stated (no slurs), but it is clear the character has an admiration for genocide, especially at the size and scale of the holocaust.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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GwendolynCox
Other warning is worth noting, but I do not believe there are any Jewish characters
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Does the black guy die first?
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icallitjustice
There’s only one black guy in this film and the killer is caught/dies before he can kill him.
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Is there hate speech?
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BriarRosePatch
There is hate speech towards women, but it comes from the antagonist.
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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GwendolynCox
Bare breasts
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Is there sexual content?
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icallitjustice
There isn’t sexual content. There is literally kissing and thats it. Unless you people are staying that women’s breasts are inherently sexual, even though nothing sexual goes on in the scene where her breasts are out. I think this is an issue with peoples perception of the female body that they’ve all classified it as ‘sexual content’ just because a woman was topless. Get a grip please.
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Sickness
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Social
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Is existentialism debated?
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GwendolynCox
Themes of good/evil, heaven/hell, life/death are explored in abstract ways.
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Spoiler
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Are there end credit scenes?
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GwendolynCox
Not on Hulu
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Does it have a sad ending?
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garbagejuice301
Definitely not a happy one though
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Vehicular
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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MLBonnie
So, idk what's with y'all just absolutely lying but theres literally multiple clips of people drowning or about to drown.
These time stamps are based off of Hulu:
1. 1:49:02-1:50:00 (multiple scenes)
2. 2:13:00-2:14:02
and then after this, they're in this cave system thats halfway underwater. Neither drowns but they do go underwater so, I'd skip past this part entirely if it's triggering to you. (It's all over at 2:15:50)
These time stamps are based off of Hulu:
1. 1:49:02-1:50:00 (multiple scenes)
2. 2:13:00-2:14:02
and then after this, they're in this cave system thats halfway underwater. Neither drowns but they do go underwater so, I'd skip past this part entirely if it's triggering to you. (It's all over at 2:15:50)
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Is there blood/gore?
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Julia_Smith
The film is very gory over all, and the gore looks very realistic.
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Is there gun violence?
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bugbite
there is a pretty drawn out sequence where the antagonist shows off hunting rifles to two young boys, explains the act of hunting, and eventually forces the children and their mother to flee while he snipes them from a hunting blind. a police officer is shot to death in another scene. in another drawn out sequence, a character taunts a group of kidnapped people about shooting them all through the head with a single bullet. this doesn't end up taking place, but he goes through a lot to setup the rifle and find the right rounds for it.
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