The Cell

Movie • 2000 • Horror  

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A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
This movie contains 68 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Simonzra
The dog fares relatively well compared to the other characters. It seems at one point that he might have been hit by a car, but it doesn't turn out to be true.
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there BDSM?
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KristenC
Not a sex act specifically but there is plenty of bondage and BDSM related imagery involved in the serial killer's dream world
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone choked?
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Are any hands damaged?
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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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
Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone stalked?
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Is there domestic violence?
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Zoexo
We do not see the brutalisation. We see her corpse lying in water.
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KamiSteele
The killer, Stargher, was himself abused as a child by his father, with several sequences dealing with that fact. The movie seems critical of the idea that abuse alone can make a person evil, as it's implied the two protagonists also have similar dark backstories.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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The killers father beats him with a belt in a dream sequence after discovering he has dolls. The father also repeatedly calls him a homophobic slur.
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Is a child abused?
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GlendaJordan
the child abuse is fairly graphic, it happens in the dreamscape and are the flashbacks of the main antagonist. His father is abusive to him and it shows at least three different scenes of abuse, including verbal and physical abuse.
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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Simonzra
Not explicitly, but there are scenes featuring domestic abuse where a character could possibly be drunk.
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Verity.williams
The main character walks into a room with lots of clocks and there is a horse in the middle of the room after a clock gets to a curtain time there are glass sheets that fall from the ceiling and slice the horse into different sections then they move apart and show you the inside of the horse ( the organs are still functioning due to the horse only just being killed) it’s more weird and disturbing than scary and grotesque. The horse make a short and quick “neigh”, the ears also twitch and there is no blood
Time stamp 43:25 -44:45
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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cassandrasaurus
Not sure why anyone said no to this. A horse (albeit an imaginary one) is cut into sections while still alive. The horse does not technically die (you can see all the organs still functioning) or even appear to notice what has happened… but it’s still very graphic and disturbing.
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Are animals abused?
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Simonzra
A horse is mutilated but remains alive, and a character describes the process of mercy killing a bird.
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Is there a dead animal?
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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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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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There is a VERY sudden brief clip of a tarantula which happens near the end of the movie. It’s in the scene where she is dressed like a nun in all white. It happens right after J-Lo says “I can’t do that” and the dream-like border fades away. It’s gone after about 10 seconds.
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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sarahcastic
Eel that look like snakes and a regular snake and an intestine being pulled out like a snake (“naughty little worm!”)
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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KristenC
1:29:00, brief
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Assault
Is someone drugged?
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Mention of a child molester
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SPOILER:

The killer almost drowned at a baptism as a child. He drowns his victims.
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone restrained?
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KamiSteele
Stargher's attacks are sexually motivated, as he masturbates over his victim's corpses while watching the footage of their drowning. We see representations of his victims within his mind, and they are presented in a sexually objectified way. There is also a scene showing Stargher's childhood, during which he appears to be forced to look at an unconscious woman's crotch by his abusive father.
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Bodily Harm
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sarahcastic
Knives pierce skin at more than one occassion
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Simonzra
No, but a character appears to feed human meat/blood to a dog.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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Is there amputation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Anonymous
Flesh hooks are used in a few scenes.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Simonzra
No, but nipples are graphically mutilated.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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GlendaJordan
there is a graphic torture scene of Vince Vaughn's character while he's restrained on a table. There is also ongoing torture of a woman in a room being slowly filled with water. There is a child abuse flashback scene where he is abused by his father that includes being burned by a clothing iron.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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sarahcastic
The bodies of female victims are put in bleach that turn their eyes white
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Is someone stabbed?
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KristenC
I'd say the worst part is at 1:17:40 - 1:19:18 when the serial killer pulls an intestine from a character. It's an important scene to the plot though so just listen to the audio if you can't watch.

Another gross part is nipples being ripped off at 1:31:20, lasts a few seconds

Otherwise it is no worse than your average R-rated horror movie
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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sarahcastic
Well, the bad guy is an adult when he dies, but in his dreamscape he is a little boy when he dies
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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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
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Simonzra
Only a few, starting with the first two dream sequences featuring the little boy.
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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cassandrasaurus
Not technically but someone loses their sense of self and becomes controlled by another person’s mind
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there razors?
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saradempsey1990
Technically no but,if they freak you out, the killer has a thing about dolls. His victims appear as dolls in his mind.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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GlendaJordan
someone does spit up blood
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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Is there audio gore?
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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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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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Are needles/syringes used?
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sarahcastic
An institution where they treat comatose patients through sci fi therapy
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Is there menstruation?
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fraisierdesbois
Mentioned only
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Mental Health
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Dizzyget
The antagonist has a made up type of schizophrenia.
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Does someone self harm?
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Anonymous
The usual mentally ill serial killer situation.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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sarahcastic
This weird made type of skizophrenia, which in the movie makes people kill and turn comatose, is often confused with autism in younger children, J-Lo explains 🙄
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Dizzyget
The movie moves in and out of reality and the minds of characters. At one point it is not clear what state they are in.
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Is there misophonia?
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Anonymous
There are several scenes that suddenly blast noise or music. If you're sensitive to sound make sure you watch this with on something with dynamic audio compression controls.
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GlendaJordan
there are several moments that various characters in the film suffer profound anxiety, including a scene with frantic breathing
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Is there ABA therapy?
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sarahcastic
But someone asks someone else to kill them as an act of mercy- very, very “better dead than mentally ill”-ableist
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Is there body dysphoria?
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sarahcastic
The bad guy might have issues with how he sees himself, as he continuously changes in his dreamscape
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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sarahcastic
A character indirectly asks to be killed
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there shakey cam?
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there screaming?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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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
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Brody
The f-slur is used in a scene
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sarahcastic
The whole plot depends on some bizarre medical concuction that mixes up autism, skizophrenia and made up stuff to explain why the bad guy is bad and eventually in a coma. So diagnoses did it, basically
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Simonzra
Not jokes, but androgyny is used as a horror element. There's one super muscular woman who attacks JLo, and there are dolls in the serial killer's house that follow a gender bending theme.
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sarahcastic
It is hinted that the bad guy who is doomed is gay or gender non conforming- in a flashback we see him getting abuse for being effeminate and playing with dolls.
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Are there fat jokes?
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Is there aphobia?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there hate speech?
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sarahcastic
A dad calls his boy faggot and beats him
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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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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Yes
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GlendaJordan
The plot revolves around a serial killer targeting women for sexual gratification
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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cassandrasaurus
Not technically but a father shows his little boy a woman’s crotch. She is not his mother but appears to be sleeping with the father. No actual incest but definitely some interfamilial sexual abuse.
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Is there sexual content?
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
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Does someone have a stroke?
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KristenC
The fictional illness described in this movie (some crazy rare version of schizophrenia) is "triggered" into a permanent state of catatonia
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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Is someone homeless?
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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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Yes
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GlendaJordan
Yes and no. A character who has been hurting others dies (and you learn complex nuances about them), but there are hopeful things at the end - including some lives that are saved/changed for the better.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
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Does a plane crash?
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Simonzra
There is a moment where it seems like a dog is hit by a car, but he isn't actually hurt.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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GlendaJordan
the drowning is a slow torture that takes place over the course of the movie. There is also a flashback where a character describes being baptised and held under water and having a seizure. The camera angle for this scene flips upside down and goes under water, which could be upsetting for people with this trigger.
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Is there blood/gore?
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there gun violence?
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