Does the dog die?
722 supporters
Alien
Movie • 1979 • Horror
ReportSynopsis
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
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Your Triggers
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There is no dog in this movie.
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Abandonment
Is an animal abandoned?
164 supporters
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There is a cat who is sometimes in danger and thought to be lost, but he makes it out safe and sound with no injuries!
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Abuse
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You can't have child abuse in a movie if there are no children in the movie.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
140 supporters
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Arguably almost the entire cast of the movie, including a woman, are brutally killed for spectacle.
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Are there abusive parents?
69 supporters
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The ship AI is referred to as Mother, but aside from that, nobody even mentions having parents.
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Is someone gaslighted?
46 supporters
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There is some deception that could be triggering, but mainly Ripley is brushed off.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone stalked?
29 supporters
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Most of the movie is spent with the characters being hunted by the titular Alien, being found and then killed, which while not quite stalking, could be potentially triggering
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
33 supporters
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No, but there is smoking
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Self-rolled smoking, presumably tobacco
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Animal
Are animals abused?
314 supporters
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Not necessarily abuse, but Jones’ cage is flung by the alien and then thrown around a bit by Ripley during her escape. Can make cat owners uncomfortable.
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There are no dogs, thus no dog fighting.
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Does a horse die?
163 supporters
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Not a single horse in this movie. I don't know what the Yes-voter is thinking.
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Is an animal sad?
153 supporters
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Various distressed "mrrrrw" noises and hisses from Jonesy the cat as he faces issues such as the alien and even worse: humans trying to get him to move!
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Are there spiders?
76 supporters
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The crew's attempts to remove an alien parasite latched onto a crew member's face involve a number of close-ups of the creature, showing it in full detail. The prop, made of various seafood bits among other things, is realistic-looking and may be unnerving for some.
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Does a dragon die?
54 supporters
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There are NO dragons or anything dragon-like in this film.
(Did someone just go down the line pressing "yes" for everything!?)
(Did someone just go down the line pressing "yes" for everything!?)
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Are there snakes?
27 supporters
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The chestburster is very snake like but still not a snake
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Does a cat die?
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In the third act of the film Ripley makes it a point to recover Jones the Cat to evacuate him with her before the ship self-destructs. There's a moment of suspense when she has to abandon him when she catches sight of the monster but ultimately she gets herself and Jones off the ship. He's sleeping peacefully in her lap in the final scene.
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Jonsey is OK.
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Are there bugs?
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The facehugger is incredibly buglike.
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Is there a dead animal?
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The facehugger (one of the alien lifestages) is shown autopsied. Very realistic special effects.
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Assault
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No human-on-human rape, but the Aliens pretty much entirely reproduce via sexual assault.
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There is no literal sexual assault, but there are enough horrific metaphorical allusions to it that a sexual assault survivor would probably have their trauma triggered. Phallic objects being forcibly shoved down throats is a recurring element.
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Is rape mentioned?
121 supporters
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Not directly, but theAlien is designed as a r!pe metaphor.
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Yes
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In the director's cut Lambert slaps Ripley.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
24 supporters
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An android is badly beaten up.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
20 supporters
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Someone’s entire face is covered by a crab-like creature.
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
145 supporters
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None that we can see.
Pun not intended.
Pun not intended.
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Is there excessive gore?
142 supporters
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There are multiple violent murders including an infamous “chestburster” scene in which an alien rips apart a character’s ribcage while leaving his body. There is a lot of blood.
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Is there body horror?
107 supporters
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Major Spoilers: an alien creature bursts out of a character’s chest in a bloody mess. Another character turns out to be an android, and their head is knocked off and fluid sprays everywhere (not blood but something else inhuman).
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
82 supporters
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They try to cut off the “face-aliens” digit, aka finger
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Does a head get squashed?
80 supporters
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An android's head is squashed and knocked off of his body. His white "blood" is very visible and gets everywhere. A pretty gross scene.
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Is someone burned alive?
70 supporters
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The android is burned and you see his flesh melting off. Pretty graphic and gross.
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Is there decapitation?
67 supporters
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Yes, an android. Then there's a scene where human characters talk to the head. (Actor with his body hidden under the table.) His face is smeared with white coolant "blood" and it's gurgling out of his mouth.
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Is there a hanging?
66 supporters
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Somebody's body discovery is indicated by hanging/swinging feet, but it is not suicide, and doesn't involve any rope or choking.
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Is there cannibalism?
57 supporters
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No creature eats another of its kind.
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Is there shaving/cutting?
56 supporters
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Alien explodes through mans chest
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Is someone buried alive?
52 supporters
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No one gets buried, alive or otherwise.
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Is there amputation?
51 supporters
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Decapitation off a cyborg crewmember
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Cain begins choking horribly when the alien larvae exits his chest.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
44 supporters
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People are choked, but do not choke do death. Therefore, no one asphyxiates.
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Does someone break a bone?
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The alien's larval form breaks out of a man's sternum.
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Is someone choked?
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A bug-like creature sticks a tentacle into a man's neck and chokes him if it is moved.
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Is someone stabbed?
28 supporters
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Yes the Alien has a stabby attack.
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Does someone have a seizure?
28 supporters
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Cain goes into spasms when the alien larva exits his body.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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The alien is shown falling out of the space shuttle to its death. More of a blown into space scene than a typical falling scene.
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Is someone tortured?
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Ripley is attacked and is pinned down by another crewmate and he tries to shove a magazine down her throat. Can be very disturbing.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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It’s implied that the alien penetrates a crewmember vaginally with its tail, but it happens off screen
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Very briefly during a fight scene the main character is knocked out, but comes to when the antagonist tries to kill her.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
111 supporters
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The alien is at most only a few days old but...
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does a non-human character die?
55 supporters
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An android/robot dies
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Yes
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Is a child's toy destroyed?
41 supporters
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There are no toys in this film.
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Does a parent die?
41 supporters
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The only confirmed parent survives the movie.
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Does someone cheat?
30 supporters
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There are no romantic relationships, adulterous or otherwise.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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The alien takes off with a crewmember, but he is presumed dead
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Fear
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Yes
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Is someone possessed?
22 supporters
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not a spiritual possession, but someone’s body is removed from their control resulting in a seizure and gore
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Are there clowns?
17 supporters
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Not a single clown appears in ALIEN.
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Is there a shower scene?
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One of the crewmembers is shown, fully clothed, under dripping water, like rain.
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Are there mannequins?
8 supporters
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Not specifically mannequins but a hyper realistic robot is “killed “
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Are there jump scares?
1 supporters
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132
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Well gee, the cover's only used as the emblem for jumpscares...
In all seriousness, the Facehugger leaps from its egg violently, and Davis is attacked by the Alien suddenly when searching the airvents.
In all seriousness, the Facehugger leaps from its egg violently, and Davis is attacked by the Alien suddenly when searching the airvents.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
171 supporters
Yes
110
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As spoiler free as possible: a character attacks Ripley. At first his sweat looks weirdly white. As he is trying to suffocate her other characters come in to stop him and hit him. He starts to spew white fluid of his mouth a little bit. Later when the crew wakes him back up the same white fluid leaks out of his mouth before he is able to talk.
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Does someone spit?
20 supporters
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Yes the android spits up liquid during its fight with Ripley.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
8 supporters
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0
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There cannot be 9/11 depictions if 9/11 hadn’t happened yet. Aka, if the movie was released before 9/11, 2001.
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
51 supporters
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No
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No cops, thus no copaganda.
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LGBTQ+
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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No
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Live Theatre
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Yes
0
No
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Loss
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No
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Medical
Does someone have cancer?
27 supporters
Yes
1
No
87
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Sci-fi equivalent, sorta... not focused on
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6
Yes
0
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Is there a mental institution scene?
1 supporters
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1
No
90
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They. Are. On. A. Space. Ship. No institutions, mental or otherwise appear in this movie.
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71
Is there a hospital scene?
1 supporters
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88
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3
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Cain is placed in Sickbay when the Facehugger attacks him. There is also an endoscopy (a camera inserted into the stomach) video shown.
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Is electro-therapy used?
1 supporters
Yes
1
No
83
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No, but they try to zap the alien
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Mental Health
Yes
11
No
60
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Assisted suicide in the 2003 edition (the director's cut), but not in the original.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
122 supporters
Add comment
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0
No
30
Yes
1
No
76
Is there autism specific abuse?
65 supporters
Yes
2
No
74
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Autism isn't even mentioned
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No
78
Yes
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No
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Is there misophonia?
47 supporters
Yes
40
No
3
4
The various fantastical sci-fi sound effects can be very jarring and grating (beeps, whirrs, alarms, etc)
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47
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
39 supporters
Yes
6
No
26
2
Nobody is shown to suffer PTSD until the end... if you see the final moments and all of Aliens, then Ripley suffers from it
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No
24
Is there body dysmorphia?
33 supporters
Yes
2
No
74
5
Body horror elements. No body dysmorphia.
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No
27
Is there a claustrophobic scene?
31 supporters
Yes
95
No
1
7
Davis searching the air vents for the alien
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No
15
Are there anxiety attacks?
29 supporters
Yes
78
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I‘d say it could be triggering that Lambert panicks all the time, especially when the Xenomorph is in front of her before she dies
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Yes
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No
27
Does someone have a mental illness?
15 supporters
Yes
1
No
20
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Ripley has PTSD
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Does someone have a meltdown?
12 supporters
Yes
7
No
14
3
Ripley breaks down crying upon discovering a bleak plot twist.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
1 supporters
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1
No
51
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When in the movie, Yes-Voter? Give us the timestamp.
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Natural Disasters
Yes
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
67 supporters
Yes
72
No
13
4
Shakey cam is used several times through out the movie. Most chase and fight scenes have a lot of shaking effects
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Are there flashing lights or images?
62 supporters
Yes
116
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2
25
There is extreme strobe effects throughout the majority of the end of the film that were uncomfortable even for someone without epilepsy
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Does a baby cry?
27 supporters
Yes
2
No
45
5
Unless you count the noise the freshly "hatched" alien.
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Yes
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No
0
Yes
0
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Yes
5
No
19
Yes
30
No
0
Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
22 supporters
Yes
33
No
3
6
Yes. How does this have more "no" than "yes". The Alien is watching the crew for the entire film, even at times when they don't know it.
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Yes
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No
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Pregnancy
Yes
0
No
33
Does someone miscarry?
43 supporters
Yes
5
No
72
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No, the alien is successfully "born."
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Does a pregnant person die?
37 supporters
Yes
7
No
62
5
Not a woman, but a man has a chest burster kill him, almost like child birth, could be triggering
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Is there childbirth?
1 supporters
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54
No
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If you count 'having an extraterrestrial larvae gnaw its way out of your chest cavity' to be 'giving birth,' then yes, there is a birthing scene.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
1 supporters
Yes
3
No
29
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An alien egg hatches.
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Are there abortions?
1 supporters
Yes
1
No
73
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No pregnancies in this movie. Thus, there can be no abortions.
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Prejudice
Yes
1
No
69
Yes
1
No
60
Yes
1
No
84
Yes
1
No
46
Yes
1
No
62
Does an LGBT person die?
43 supporters
Yes
55
No
33
32
Lambert is trans! This is not addressed in the script other than in a brief view of her personnel file.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
40 supporters
Yes
2
No
27
4
The only Black character self-sacrifices while trying to save a white. Trans woman portrayed as hysterical but not invalidated.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
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No
71
Yes
1
No
64
Yes
1
No
66
5
Judaism is not mentioned in any context, negative or otherwise.
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Does the black guy die first?
28 supporters
Yes
3
No
97
20
He's actually one of the last to die.
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Yes
0
No
23
Race
Yes
0
No
25
Relationships
Yes
0
No
32
Religious
Yes
0
No
20
Yes
0
No
21
Sex
Yes
1
No
29
Yes
1
No
86
8
NONE of the characters in this film are related. Therefore incest DOES NOT HAPPEN.
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Is there sexual content?
84 supporters
Yes
35
No
61
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People awaken from, & enter the hibernation pods in their underwear. No sexy lingerie, undershirts, boxers, Sigourney Weaver at end in basic bikini pants.
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Are there nude scenes?
69 supporters
Yes
13
No
19
9
There are pictures of nude women seen in the background of one of the fight scenes about midway through the movie
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Is someone sexually objectified?
55 supporters
Yes
9
No
23
1
Ripley changes to a thin shirt and panties at the end.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
20
Yes
0
No
25
Sexism
Yes
0
No
32
Sickness
Yes
0
No
23
Yes
0
No
25
Yes
0
No
26
Yes
0
No
24
Social
Yes
0
No
26
Yes
0
No
24
Yes
0
No
19
Yes
0
No
33
Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
90 supporters
Yes
47
No
30
16
The ending could be seen as rather bittersweet. Well, at least Jones survive...
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Yes
0
No
20
Yes
1
No
68
Vehicular
Yes
0
No
31
Yes
2
No
68
Yes
1
No
69
Does a plane crash?
1 supporters
Yes
8
No
57
10
A spaceship is shown already crashed on a planet. The main ship in this film is destroyed by the end.
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
80 supporters
Yes
103
No
1
11
The film's Signature Scene involves a parasitoidic alien larva gnawing its way out of a man's chest cavity.
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
1
No
71
Is there gun violence?
41 supporters
Yes
12
No
48
9
Flamethrower and harpoon gun violence.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
1 supporters
Yes
18
No
47
18
Not a typical "mushroom cloud" type explosion, but there is a massive (easily nuke-sized, if not bigger) explosion that occurs in space.
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