In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.
This movie contains 57 potentially triggering events.
The siblings describe being left in the attic “nursery” while the mother and father travel. Lucille mentions they only knew their mother was in the country from hearing the piano through the floors.
Off-screen, a dog had been abandoned to die, but is taken in by Edith. The dog previously belonged to one of the wives who had been murdered prior to the movie. This is the dog that is later killed.
One character details domestic violence that they grew up with, describing how their father was abusive towards his wife and children. Specific details of abuse are mentioned.
A dog is briefly described as having been abandoned with the hope that it would die. In one scene a dog is sadistically killed - unseen/out of view, but you hear it yelp and whimper. It is implied to have been strangled or had its neck broken.
A character has been in an incestuous relationship that started when he was twelve and his sister fourteen, making his consent questionable, even as an adult.
Distinct red herring with this when Mr. Cushing places his straight razor on the edge of the sink. The camera zooms in on it and you are made to think that he will be killed with it, but it is ignored and the scene progesses with no use of the straight razor in the murder. There is other slicing/cutting throughout the film, however.
When Edith is taking a bath, a ghost is shown to be missing a finger. When Edith is chased into the elevator by someone wielding knife, Edith chops her own knife onto her attacker's finger, though I didn't actually see after that whether or not the finger was gone.
Two, technically. A person's head is repeatedly bashed into a porcelain sink fairly early in the film. This is EXTREMELY graphic and the aftermath is also shown graphically several times. In addition, another character's head is partially split with a cleaver, and while the action of this is offscreen, the character's ghost with the gashed head appears a few times.
There is A LOT of stabbing in this movie.
We see early on a ghost with a large knife planted in her skull. A man is stabbed with a knife. A woman is stabbed with a fountain pen. A man is stabbed in the face with a paperknife. The final scene is a knife fight.
Someone is murdered by having their head smashed against a sink; there is a large amount of blood and you see the person's body immediately afterward as well as later, with a caved-in skull clearly visible. Multiple people are stabbed with bloody wounds shown - one person is stabbed in the cheek just below the eye and pulls the blade out themself, leading to a large amount of blood pouring down their face. One ghost has a cleaver stuck in its head and another has a graphically caved-in skull. In addition, while not explicitly gore, many of the ghosts in the movie are gaunt and entirely red in a way that is reminiscent of skinned flesh and blood-covered bodies.
Baby died soon after birth years before the events of the film, no name is given nor gender. You only see something of a ghost, not particularly disturbing.
A mother's funeral and ghost is shown, a father is graphically and violently killed on screen, there is discussion of a child having killed their mother, and the ghost of a dead mother appears multiple times.
Depending on your perspective, Thomas cheats on both Edith (wife) with his sister Lucille, and he also chests on Lucille with Edith (as he was only supports to marry and then kill her as he had the others).
I wouldn't classify the scary moments as jump scares exactly. The scary figure is slowly revealed and there is enough warning before the music ramps up or any sound effects are played. I can't handle jump scares, but I was able to watch this movie without looking away or feeling extremely anxious.
It's coughing blood, rather than vomiting, but it can be triggering. The worst is at 1:27, just after McMichael the American says he'll start walking 4 miles to the estate; there's a quick scene change and Edith is coughing a splat of blood into a sink.
Part of the explanation for the villain's villainy is implied to be mental illness (history of institutionalization). The plot works just fine without this gratuitous "explanation."
I’d say so. The protagonist goes into hysterics after seeing an apparition. Sobbing, gasping for breath, the whole nine. This only happens once in the film.
Potentially? Lucille brings up their abusive and neglectful parents a few times and is still quite affected by it. But nothing like flashbacks or episodes or anything are depicted so I'm saying No.
A ghost baby is heard but not seen in one scene. In another scene a distorted ghost of a baby is briefly seen being soothed by another ghost. References to this baby (and its death due to birth defects) are made a couple of times.
No black people die in this movie. In fact, the only black characters are two maids who briefly speak to the protagonist near the beginning of the movie.
Not explicitly, but the love interest says one of his reasons for hesitating to court the protagonist is because “she’s just a child”. No clear ages are given though and she is old enough to work.
Shown when Edith and Thomas are snowed in at the post office, the post office offers them a room below the office, they're shown to have s*x for the first time. Nothing is really shown, just Thomas's ass, him shirtless, and a close up of his face. Nothing from Edith is shown except for her legs. Later, Lucille is shown with her hand down Thomas's pants, and her nightgown off her shoulder. Thomas is shown kissing her shoulder.
Someone has been poisoned to the point of going to die and her voice recording is heard, stating that she will die and that she does not want to die so far from home.
Shown when Lucille stabs Thomas in the face, when Lucille bashes in Mr. Cushing's head in the beginning, ghost blood is shown from Mrs. Sharp's ghost and Thomas' ghost. Lucille grabs the blade of Edith's knife. Edith bashes Lucille's head in with a shovel. Lucille stabs Alan. Later we get a close up of Alan's wound when Thomas takes him to the mineshaft.