The Ring

Movie • 2002 • Horror  

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Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring so she can save herself and her son.
This movie contains 58 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
1 supporters
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4
No dogs die 🙂
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Abandonment
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7
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koofbark
Yes, Noah is not actively in Aiden's life, but he is still friends with the mother. Aiden spends time with Noah and they discuss his lack of parenting as a conundrum.
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Is an animal abandoned?
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9
Abuse
Yes
16
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abbilovescows
*SPOILERS* Samara’s father keeps her in a barn because he doesn’t want her, and her mother suffocates her then throws her down the well, so I’d say yes
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Is someone stalked?
21 supporters
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45
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KnightWhoSaysNi
Not exactly, but characters receive calls immediately after watching a video, and there's a theme of a supernatural force watching and following people.
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CharlieCharlie
Yes, a mom kills her child.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
79 supporters
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8
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abbilovescows
Samara was abused and then starts killing others
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Is someone gaslighted?
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3
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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10
Is a child abused?
93 supporters
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67
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hexbabey
one child is neglected and definitely needs treatment for mental health issues. another child is murdered by a parent after being neglected for a long time and sent to a mental hospital.
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Addiction
1
Doug
Weed is mentioned as having been done.
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Is there addiction?
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
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Malachor
The credits state the “ American Humane Association monitored the animal action. No animal was harmed in the making of this film. (AHA 00306)”
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Does a horse die?
1 supporters
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106
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2
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Michelc1
Horse spooks and jumps off ferryboat. Get shredded by the ferry's propellers. Don't actually see the death, but the blood comes out from under the ferry indicating what happened and it's upsetting.
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
1 supporters
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80
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10
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KatieClem
A horse throws itself off a ship.
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Are animals abused?
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8
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Yes
1
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65
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hexbabey
yes, heavy focus on dead horses and we also witness a horse dying although it is not graphically shown on screen. we only see the blood
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Is an animal sad?
76 supporters
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10
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1
Well yes it dies
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Are rabbits harmed?
63 supporters
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13
Does a cat die?
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52
Does a pet die?
142 supporters
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Doug
The horse is a young girl’s pet. She sees it go under the boat and hears its scream as its blood comes out the back. She screams in terror at the sight.
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Does a dragon die?
30 supporters
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Are there spiders?
44 supporters
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6
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hexbabey
many bugs but no spiders
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
30 supporters
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LilyAngelWinchester
She’s looking through papers and there’s a centipede. Later there is a cloud of flies
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
17 supporters
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8
Is someone drugged?
27 supporters
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9
Is there pedophilia?
107 supporters
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11
Yes
1
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8
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KnightWhoSaysNi
*Spoiler* No, but a character is thrown in a well and sees the lid of the well being closed.
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Is rape mentioned?
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10
Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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9
Yes
5
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KnightWhoSaysNi
Very briefly. Look away after Anna says "I know things will get better." It's safe to look after she says "All I ever wanted was you."
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Is someone sexually assaulted?
173 supporters
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41
Yes
2
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6
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AnonymousFriend
YES. Near the end, a child has their entire head covered by a plastic bag. She falls unconscious and is pushed into a well
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Bodily Harm
Yes
9
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30
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echoevemorrow1
Noah's hands are cut by broken glass on the floor. You don't see the cuts, only the blood left behind as he crawls
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1
In a scene where they flash disturbing images one of them is Amaras hand being pierced with a nail and it creeped me out
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Are there dislocations?
8 supporters
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7
Is there throat mutilation?
37 supporters
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7
Yes
43
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csbyron1
Samara's mother puts a bag over her head before pushing her into the well.
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Is there decapitation?
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8
Is there cannibalism?
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31
Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone choked?
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8
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1
Yes
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KnightWhoSaysNi
*Spoiler* A character electrocutes himself, flashes of fire are seen, but no electrical burns are shown.
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csbyron1
Samara dies because she survived the fall down the well and couldn't get out for seven days. Scratch marks on the walls of the well suggest she was trying to escape.
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Is there body horror?
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Is there amputation?
26 supporters
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KnightWhoSaysNi
The video tape has an image of amputated fingers moving in a box.
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Anonymous
The person above said that a horse's head gets squashed. While a horse does die (audio accomponying it) and blood is shown in the water, we don't see its head at all. Just some thrashing of its body before the blood shows up.

For humans, it doesn't have head trauma for the most part. Facial trauma is shown in "demonic" deformed faces when someone opens a closet door and turns a chair around. These are both jumpscares of dead bodies. But like I said, that's more facial trauma. The first one, the closet scene, has the body's head move forward, slumping over. It mildly triggered me.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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15
Is there a hanging?
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40
Yes
13
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1
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echoevemorrow1
A bag is held over someone's face
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
78 supporters
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24
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AnonymousFriend
Yes. Near the end, a child has their entire head covered by a plastic bag. She falls unconscious and is pushed into a well
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Does someone break a bone?
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36
Does someone have a seizure?
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39
Are any teeth damaged?
51 supporters
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38
Yes
63
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csbyron1
One shot on the tape is a finger being stabbed by a nail.
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Is someone tortured?
77 supporters
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43
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KnightWhoSaysNi
Psychological torture is a big element in the movie.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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44
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4
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Roflpuff098
Anna throws herself off a cliff and into the ocean in the video.
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4
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38
3
Not extrem mutilation, but when we see samaras body decompose her eyes do turn into something disturbing
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Is someone stabbed?
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7
Is there excessive gore?
82 supporters
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5
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17
Children
Is an infant abducted?
22 supporters
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17
Does a kid die?
46 supporters
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64
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0
13
steelygreye
Samara, the film's antagonist, was murdered as a child by her mother.
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Is a minor sexualized?
98 supporters
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14
Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
16 supporters
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7
Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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11
Yes
13
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abbilovescows
*SPOILER* noah, who helps rachel the whole movie, dies at the end
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Does a non-human character die?
22 supporters
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12
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0
Does someone die?
12 supporters
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12
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0
1
Death is a frequent occurrence in this movie
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Disability
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6
Is the r-slur used?
30 supporters
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22
Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
14 supporters
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19
Family
Does a family member die?
22 supporters
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10
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0
Does a parent die?
24 supporters
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61
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1
10
enyah44
The father of Aiden, Noah, dies after watching the tape.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
29 supporters
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31
Is someone kidnapped?
9 supporters
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36
Does someone cheat?
17 supporters
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6
No
33
5
CharlieCharlie
A bit. The two main characters are exes and make up near the end of the movie. However, even though they have made up, the man in the relationship has a girlfriend that he is still seeing.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
9 supporters
Yes
53
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0
7
hexbabey
yes, the main antagonist in the movie is the dead little girl that kills anyone who watches the tape
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Yes
61
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0
9
steelygreye
A lot of them.
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Yes
46
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4
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hexbabey
yes but nothing scary happens. it’s just the main character showering peacefully.
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KnightWhoSaysNi
Yes, and multiple characters die after falling in them.
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Are there clowns?
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47
Is someone possessed?
11 supporters
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38
No
14
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citygraveyard
Samara "speaks" to Aidan by sending him some kind of telepathic messages. It's not quite possession, but may still be unsettling to viewers who don't want to see possession.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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6
Are there razors?
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8
Are there mannequins?
5 supporters
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9
Gross
Does someone vomit?
93 supporters
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42
No
19
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egg2dotcom
Not really vomit, but a character hacks up a medical electrode, very gaggy
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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20
Is there farting?
10 supporters
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8
Is someone eaten?
31 supporters
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9
Is there on-screen pooping?
34 supporters
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7
Does someone spit?
9 supporters
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37
No
4
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Anonymous
A woman pulls a long string of hair out of her mouth.
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Is there audio gore?
41 supporters
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5
No
26
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
8 supporters
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0
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16
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
28 supporters
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0
No
23
0
AnonymousFriend
No police at all
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Is there incarceration?
1 supporters
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1
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4
LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
47 supporters
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0
No
10
Yes
0
No
6
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
34 supporters
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0
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10
Is there bisexual cheating?
21 supporters
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0
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10
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
23 supporters
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0
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6
Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
8 supporters
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0
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6
Medical
Yes
5
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33
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csbyron1
Electrocution does though
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37
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echoevemorrow1
No, but there is a photo negative of a pile of syringes around 1hr6mins
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hexbabey
multiple mental institution scenes. one character is locked in a room for days without stimulation and then is interviewed and neglected. another is in a psych ward that is much less intense but is definitely shaken up by the experience. we also see a common room of the psych ward but nothing bad happens there
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hexbabey
several mental institution scenes but no hospitals. however the psych wards have all-white tile walls and floors and seem very sterile which could be triggering
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Is there menstruation?
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5
Does someone have cancer?
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41
Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
10 supporters
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4
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3
Does someone self harm?
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69 supporters
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31
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4
There is a boy that is not said to be autistic but as an autistic person myself I could tell and I think it was rather clear and certainly intended. The woman speaks about how it is difficult to have patience and love him and how he’s “not right” which isn’t inherently wrong or ableist I suppose but felt a little upsetting to me so just a warning.
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2
Yes. It's maintained that they're not *really* mentally ill, it's ghosts, but it's clear anyway. She's shown in an old-timey psych hospital.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Yes
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citygraveyard
There is a child briefly featured in the movie who is not specifically described as autistic, but he avoids eye contact and engages in echolalia, so he may be coded as autistic. The language his mother uses to describe him is somewhat demeaning and ableist (although the word autism/autistic is never used).
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KnightWhoSaysNi
It's a major theme in the movie.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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5
Is there misophonia?
32 supporters
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8
There's a lot of loud, high pitched noises; TV static turned screechy feedback as well as people screaming. On Netflix at least, the volume is poorly regulated and goes back and forth from hard to hear to painfully loud. also plenty of wet sounds.
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hexbabey
yes, the main character has several panic attacks (quick heavy breathing, being very afraid, looking dazed)
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Is there ABA therapy?
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8
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0
Yes
0
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23
Is there body dysphoria?
13 supporters
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0
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7
Is there body dysmorphia?
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1
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35
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lindsey.watson
many scenes of a being in a well
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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41
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lindsey.watson
electrocution in a tub of water
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11
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KnightWhoSaysNi
A character is shown to be in a mental institution and to not be able to be around TVs due to an event she witnessed.
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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Yes
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0
many instances of a loud phone ringing, one scene where a man is slamming filing cabinets very loudly which got me
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PrinxeCaspian
The tape that the character’s watch has a few shakes scenes. However, the actual movie does not have shakey scenes.
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Does a baby cry?
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18
Is there screaming?
13 supporters
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7
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0
Is there obscene language/gestures?
5 supporters
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Yes
7
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steelygreye
While not necessarily strobe effects, images and film bits frequently flash across the screen. People sensitive to that kind of thing should keep that in mind.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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4
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2
Yes
9
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5
Not... Directly? The concept is "if you watch the tape you die" and they do show you the tape
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
1 supporters
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16
Yes
40
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5
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csbyron1
Mentioned in Anna Morgan's medical records that she had two miscarriages
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Are there babies or unborn children?
13 supporters
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14
Is there childbirth?
19 supporters
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0
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CharlieCharlie
This movie implies a character's many miscarriages/"terminated pregnancies".
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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0
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35
Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
40 supporters
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0
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31
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CharlieCharlie
See comment on "autistic specific abuse".

Both the "monster" of the movie and her mom are described as "going crazy" as well as other demeaning language.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
32 supporters
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0
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31
Yes
0
No
34
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
33 supporters
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0
No
22
Yes
0
No
38
1
KnightWhoSaysNi
There are no explicitly LGBT or LGBT coded characters.
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Are there fat jokes?
52 supporters
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39
Is there aphobia?
20 supporters
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Yes
0
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8
Is a minority is misrepresented?
23 supporters
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0
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9
Yes
0
No
40
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citygraveyard
There's actually one Black person in the movie, for all of like 30 seconds. But he doesn't die first (or at all).
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Is there hate speech?
1 supporters
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34
Race
Is there blackface?
32 supporters
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0
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9
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
37 supporters
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16
Religious
Is religion discussed?
11 supporters
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5
Yes
1
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5
1
Samara could be described as a demon? But no. There is no mention of either.
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Sex
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AnonymousFriend
Closest would be a peaceful scene in the shower. Only shoulders and up are shown
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Is there bestiality?
79 supporters
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11
Does someone lose their virginity?
13 supporters
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0
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10
Is someone sexually objectified?
42 supporters
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Yes
0
No
16
Are there incestuous relationships?
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80 supporters
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0
No
42
Yes
1
No
40
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KnightWhoSaysNi
There's a very brief moment where a woman has her shirt off and is wearing a bra. This is not depicted in a sexual way. Otherwise nothing that could be described as sexual.
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Is there BDSM?
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6
Sexism
Yes
0
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15
Sickness
Yes
0
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6
1
bonkersbinch
There's no medical diagnosis, but the concept of having 7 days to live could be triggering
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0
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14
0
throughourphantoms
brief mention of somebody dying from a stroke at the beginning.
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
1 supporters
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9
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
25 supporters
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7
Social
Are there fat suits?
31 supporters
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0
No
8
Is someone homeless?
6 supporters
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0
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16
Is existentialism debated?
11 supporters
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Yes
1
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5
Are there anti-abortion themes?
31 supporters
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0
No
8
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
5 supporters
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0
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41
Are there end credit scenes?
36 supporters
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0
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7
Yes
42
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4
5
Yes, but you can have a happy ending if you stop it at around 1:38, when the mom/main character says "we set her free'
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Vehicular
Yes
11
No
2
0
throughourphantoms
Near the end when Rachel is racing to Noah, its a short scene
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Does a car crash?
20 supporters
Yes
1
No
34
2
elliewhonow
No but a car crash is referenced
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Does a plane crash?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
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38
Is someone hit by a car?
21 supporters
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0
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35
Violence
Does someone drown?
18 supporters
Yes
47
No
4
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hexbabey
no footage of drowning but a character electrocuted themself, a horse jumps overboard but dies quickly from the blades on the motor of the ship, and a child is thrown down a well but was able to survive for a few days so presumably died from hunger. we do see the dead child’s body floating up from the water which could be triggering.
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Is there blood/gore?
52 supporters
Yes
47
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3
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hexbabey
several disfigured and discolored faces that are scary. someone pulls a wire or hair out of their throat through their mouth. another character crawls on broken glass and presumably cuts his hands which results in handprints of blood on the floor. another character commits suicide by electrocution. multiple dead horses and we witness one death of a horse but it isn’t shown on screen
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there gun violence?
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