Doctor Sleep

Movie • 2019 • Thriller  

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Still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance has fought to find some semblance of peace. But that peace is shattered when he encounters Abra, a courageous teenager with her own powerful extrasensory gift, known as the 'shine'. Instinctively recognising that Dan shares her power, Abra has sought him out, desperate for his help against the merciless Rose the Hat and her followers.
This movie contains 48 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
As far as I remember, there are no dogs in the movie. I believe a cat and some flies are the only animals seen in the movie.
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Unanswered Triggers
Is there throat mutilation?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Is there BDSM?
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone choked?
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xpirategirl
character is held in the air by throat, but no damage or death or gore or trouble breathing or anything otherwise associated with choking.
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
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xpirategirl
Just discussions of past abusive parent re The Shining. All parents in this movie are not like that.
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Is someone stalked?
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Nimmer1991
Husband and wife in murderous scene
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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EnhydraLutris
A generational cycle of alcoholism is depicted and discussed; the parent was violent, but as an adult the child breaks the cycle.

However (⬇️SPOILERS⬇️)

the grown child does briefly reenact some of the parent’s menacing/violent actions while possessed, aimed at an unrelated child, but is clearly not himself and injury is prevented.
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Not in the normal sense, but there's a character who supernaturally compels people to do/feel/believe what she wants them to. "You believe me" - "I believe you." Oh, and at one point a character says "No one told you that [...]", when in fact she herself told the other person exactly that, just in a different way. And the original lie had huge consequences for the person being lied to. So I guess that's gaslighting?
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Is a child abused?
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cassandrasaurus
Neglect is a form of child abuse. Being tortured by strangers and other non-parental figures is also child abuse. Child abuse is not just bio-parents hitting their kids. Despite what one of the other comments says, there is very explicit and very horrifying child abuse in this movie. Proceed with caution if this is a trigger for you.
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Addiction
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ilsafaust
Scenes with cocaine
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Is there addiction?
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crabby
alcoholism is a problem the main character struggles with, and it is assumed that a woman he is involved with at the beginning of the film is addicted to hard drugs.
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IndigoBlue14
Alcoholism is a huge theme throughout the movie. It is portrayed quite sensitively, but there are numerous scenes in Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, and a couple of moments where a character looks at a bottle of alcohol and struggles with their addiction.
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
There are no horses in the movie. I believe a cat and some flies are the only animals seen in the movie.
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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There is one scene where Billy describes hunting, injuring and killing a deer.
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Are animals abused?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No, but a man tells about having hunted and shot a deer that died from the wound (not right away, so it suffered for a while, possibly many hours). I believe a cat and some flies are the only animals seen in the movie.
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
I don't think there are any dogs in the movie. I believe a cat and some flies are the only animals seen in the movie.
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No, but someone tells about a dead (decomposing) buck he once saw a couple a days after having shot it. I believe a cat and some flies are the only animals seen in the movie.
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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WuSamClan
A pet cat lives at the nursing home and is totally fine throughout
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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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xpirategirl
There are some bugs crawling around a dug-up corpse that may be spiders, hard to tell.
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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ilsafaust
A character's name is 'Snakebite Andi'
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
None seen close up.
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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Is there pedophilia?
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xpirategirl
Absolutely no pedophilia, but the topic is raised several times. 1. Children getting kidnapped is a thing in this movie which is allegorically related. 2. Protagonist is an adult who is friends with a kid in a completely nonproblematic way but ppl's perception of that friendship references pedophilia before they realize the truth.
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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xpirategirl
It is implied that Andi was once assaulted, but never explicitly stated.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone restrained?
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AimeeAss
15 year old Andi seeks out old men that prey on children on the internet to get revenge.
It is implied that Andi was abused.
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Bodily Harm
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MorganAnderson
A character cuts a man's face with a nail clipper to make two small cuts
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SamhainStranger
There are multiple death scenes in which characters painfully wheeze/visibly struggle to breathe, particularly the deaths of anyone in the True Knot. If the auditory factor of this trigger is troubling for you, it would be wise to mute during these deaths which all have similar warning signs preluding them.
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Is there cannibalism?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Not in the usual sense. There are characters who are described as eating people, but what they really do is suck the life force from dying persons in the form of steam.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Yes. ---------- MAJOR SPOILER ---------- SPOILER ------------- SPOILER -------------- SPOILER ----------- It happens very near the end of the movie. We see the person surrounded by flames (apparently feeling no pain or discomfort), but then the camera cuts away, so we don't see them burning or hear them screaming. We only see the burning building from a distance while it happens.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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EnhydraLutris
Someone’s psychic self-image appears with smooth skin over their eye sockets; fingers of some characters appear to magically pass under and distend another’s skin during an attack.
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Is there amputation?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No, but someone is shot with a shotgun, the bullet entering below the chin and exiting through the top of their skull. It's surprisingly un-gory.
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EnhydraLutris
No Achilles injury. In a psychic dreamscape, a character is cut repeatedly in the back of the leg just above the knee: might trigger the same people.

It is not a physical attack, there is much less blood than one would expect, and she does not react strongly to it or show any reduction in mobility.
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Is there a hanging?
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LoganaSammy
A kid is raised into the air by the throat, but no hangings.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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xpirategirl
Theres a moment where someone swings an axe toward a male character's crotch but it doesn't hit his genitals.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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IndigoBlue14
A very unpleasant crush injury takes place to someone's hand which could well be broken bones.
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Not a seizure, but what may be described as seizure-like symptoms.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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ilsafaust
A character's hand is stuck in a drawer and there is blood.
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Is someone tortured?
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invadermac
A young boy (Baseball Boy) is tortured to death very graphicly
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EnhydraLutris
A character is thrown through the air above a staircase to land at the bottom, though they do not trip and fall in the conventional way.
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swchristina952012
No, but there is a huge falling scene of Rose’s essence being thrown across the universe, back into her body. Her body writhes around as if she’s falling to her death.
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atthehuskinbee
There's a dream sequence where Abra's eyes are missing, leaving bare sockets. There's no gore or anything graphic with this, but it is unsettling.
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Is someone stabbed?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
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A boy is abducted injured and then killed
You don’t see his wounds but you see him covered in blood several times
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Does a kid die?
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Dudeinthewater
Baseball boy. Dies a very horrific, realistic and slow death. Can be very traumatic for people who are sensitive to seeing a child being hurt.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
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LukesFamilyFriends
Danny does to save Abra.
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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
Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
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xpirategirl
People do drugs in the beginning of the movie and alcohol, but no overdosing.
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
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livebackwards
A parent is murdered off-screen by a member of the True Knot. We see his bloody corpse with a knife sticking out of his chest. The ghost of the main character's father is also encountered a few times near the end.
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
I don't think so. A toy rabbit belonging to a girl in her early teens is injected with drugs/poison (I know, it sounds ridiculous), but it happens according to the girl's own plan, and it doesn't make her sad.
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CatlynBrady
kidnapping is a prominent theme in this film
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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cassandrasaurusrdr
There are many ghosts throughout, including the very disturbing bathtub lady from The Shining right in the beginning of the film.
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Yes, but it's actually not that bad. I'm pretty sensitive to jump scares, and I only jumped a little, and only once.
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Solid, creepy ghost sitting in tub. The water isn't turned on. I'm not sure if there's any water in the tub; it's hard or impossible to see from the angle it's filmed from.
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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atthehuskinbee
All of the possession is just the characters shining to each other. If you're more shocked by visuals associated with possession, you may be unnerved, since many of the shining scenes include eyes rolling back, objects moving, etc. There's also a scene where Danny uses Abra to communicate to one of the antagonists.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there razors?
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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cornixregina
Multiple times.

1. Roughly 12 minutes in when Dan wakes up there's vomit shown next to woman who he was with then he runs into toilet and vomits (audio and body language only)

2. I don't know the time but you can see it coming it's when Dan and Billy go to dig up a body and Billy vomits when he sees the dead body (visual and audio) and Dan gags/coughs/covers mouth but doesn't vomit.

Also there is talk about a character using an emetic but this is not shown.
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dany
at the beggining of the movie, when Danny goes to the bathroom and gets scared by an old woman in the bathtub.
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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SiRenfield
Souls are eaten but not the people themselves
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No farts. Dunno about spitting.
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Is there audio gore?
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DaniSo
The death of a child is mostly audio over visual. We hear him screaming and the sounds of his torture.
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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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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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Yes
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Bananawesome
At one point, a member of The True Knot drugs Abra to suppress her Shining. It's a quick shot and we don't see the needle entering her skin
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CatlynBrady
No, but being institutionalized is referenced multiple times as a "bad thing"
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ilsafaust
A character works at a hospice and there are 3 scenes with patients.
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ilsafaust
It is offscreen and implied that a character's grandmother is sick.
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Someone is supernaturally compelled to shoot themselves through the head. Someone else has to hurt her hand very badly in order to free herself. There are several alcoholics who are more or less ruining or have more or less ruined their own lives by drinking. Otherwise, I don't think so. There's nothing like, say, cutting because of mental/emotional anguish, i.e. no self-harm in the clinical sense.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Is there misophonia?
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SamhainStranger
The young boy very clearly has an upsetting panic episode prior to and during his death. This is prolonged and painfully realistic, so take care while watching.
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Is there ABA therapy?
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dany
No, but a characters tells another character to kill themself and they do it.
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
A dead person is dug up, having been buried without a coffin or a shroud. Although the person is dead, seeing the face and parts of the body stick out from the ground as the diggers reach the person can trigger claustrophobia.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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MorganAnderson
It was a forced suicide like under the influence of the shining
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MabS
It’s heavily implied though not named clinically that Danny has PTSD. He does talk about locking the memories away.
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Noxious
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xpirategirl
Mostly music. Not super loud.
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Is there shakey cam?
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Does a baby cry?
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xpirategirl
Dont remember any.
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MabS
Lights flicker and you can hear the buzzing of the bulbs in some 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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basilange
I don't think so personally, but one could draw a parallel between the cult that feeds on steam from those with the shine and the antisemitic conspiracy of blood libel, though there are some notable differences.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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crabby
as far as we know, no one in the story is LGBT. we never have that confirmed for us.
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Are there fat jokes?
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Is there aphobia?
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EnhydraLutris
While the villains are of various ethnic backgrounds and no unifying identity outside their evil practices is mentioned, they are nomadic, living entirely in RVs and trailers at campgrounds; most of them have a ‘boho’ personal style; and their leader has a slight Irish accent. Given that they steal children, this might be upsetting to people with very strong reactions to anti-Traveller/anti-Romani tropes and prejudices.
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BellsOfNevermore
One of the protagonists is a biracial girl in her teens. Her father is murdered, (he's African-American), but it isn't at the very beginning.
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
"Bitch" is said more than once.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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Is there bestiality?
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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niko2002
There is a naked women but no sexual content involving her
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Sexism
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Sickness
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xpirategirl
Assisted living hospital scenes and off scene character said to be very sick. Not a major theme in this movie.
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xpirategirl
A character does mention that he thought someone was having a stroke, but they weren't
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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xpirategirl
No dementia or alzheimer symptoms with patients in the assisted living facility

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Social
Are there fat suits?
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xpirategirl
Protagonist is sleeping off side of a road and homeless for a bit.
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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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crabby
it ends on a soft note, but some people may not consider it a wholly "happy" ending.
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Vehicular
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xpirategirl
Tires screech for a minute while character loses control of vehicle for less than half a second, no crash, no danger in that scene, more humorous than anything.
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Does a car crash?
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crabby
a car is made to veer off the road, it crashes, and someone dies as a result.
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Does a plane crash?
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ilsafaust
A character not wearing a seatbelt crashes a car into a tree
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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Is there blood/gore?
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DaniSo
We see the ghosts of a baby and a woman who have started decomposing. The woman is the bathtub's skin is peeling. There is a scene involving a hand getting caught in a drawer where the skin is peeled. We see blood splatter on a child victim, although most of the damage to his body is audible and not visual. There is a scene where someone shoots themselves with a gun, though the damage is not shown in full effect.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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SamhainStranger
There is a standoff with multiple guns and multiple deaths due to them. The graphic nature of this scene varies, but the finale is particularly upsetting.
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