House of 1000 Corpses

Movie • 2003 • Horror  

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Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.
This movie contains 70 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Greyshadow
A police officer draws his weapon with the intent to shoot the dog, but he is stopped by his partner.
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
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SylvesterLazarus
A minor character's back story is being lit on fire by his father that left them with permanent damage.

There's a dead fetus in a display jar that is heavily implied to be one of the character's dead child.
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Is someone stalked?
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xxlivlovesmusicxx
not directly, but i would argue yes. as the ‘final girl’ escapes the underground house of horrors, a main antagonist pops up in the back of the car, having presumably been stalking her to there.
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Is there domestic violence?
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doggyhostels
While both men and women are tortured and killed, women are particularly sexualized in their torture (i.e. most of it is done while they're nude, women are raped during and after death by Otis, etc.)
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is a child abused?
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SylvesterLazarus
A minor character's back story is being lit on fire by his father that left them with permanent damage. The person was at least a teenager in the scene, but the age in unclear.

There's the corpse of a fetus in a display jar that is implied to be the dead child of one of the characters.
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
16 supporters
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ghost_mania
Come on, man does coke
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BriarRosePatch
Two of the characters buy an absurd amount of alcohol for a party.
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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ghost_mania
We don't know what happened to the dog in the fence? Most likely died, though.

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Are animals abused?
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SylvesterLazarus
No, but there's a scene where victims are dressed in full-body white rabbit costumes by abductors.
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Reehlkvkfihgvg
(SPOILERS) There’s half of a dead fish sewn onto a dead body
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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SylvesterLazarus
No, but murder victims are dressed in full-body rabbit costumes in a scene. One of them is killed on screen while wearing the costume.
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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’s a taxidermied tarantula on the wall behind the front counter of the exhibit
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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?
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
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Is there pedophilia?
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There is a brief shot implying that Otis (an adult) rapes a cheerleader (a teenager)
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SylvesterLazarus
There is a brief shot of a teenager victim getting their head pushed into a bucket of liquid.

In the official soundtrack (lyrics not in the movie itself, but it tells some of the back stories of the characters) there's a song with the line,
"(character name) likes the girls young and clean, drowning in a bucket of gasoline"
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone restrained?
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GothicVampiress
Otis Driftwood does forcibly kiss one of the main girls.
Mama Firefly kisses one of the main boys towards the end.
There is also a scene when a cheerleader from a high school is tied to a bed, and Otis is behind her laughing as she screams. I myself am unsure if he is assaulting her sexually, but it still could be triggering to some. It is however very quick and brief, and it happens when they arrive at the house and Baby says “No there’s a bunch of us around here.” Just so you can skip it really quick if you would like to.
Also, it is canon that Otis does SA the victims and their bodies, in case people want to know before watching this or the other two movies.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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SC03
Movie shows Otis SA a cheerleader for a few seconds
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Bodily Harm
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BriarRosePatch
A character is scalped onscreen.
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SylvesterLazarus
There's a scene of a character who gets their hand cut off with a hatchet.
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Are there dislocations?
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doggyhostels
A man is shot through the neck.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Anonymous
Mentions and references.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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10
Is someone choked?
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Yes
35
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BriarRosePatch
A character was burned alive in the past but survived, however they are heavily scarred.
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xxlivlovesmusicxx
the climax of the movie is basically two victims being graphically buried alive together
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Is there body horror?
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Is there amputation?
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RemusCremus
A characters hand is seen being violently cut off with an ax.
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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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No but there is mention of a hanging tree
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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boneturner
Mentioned but not shown on screen.
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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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SylvesterLazarus
There are multiple characters with visibly damaged teeth.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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JayHay
If you can't handle torture, don't watch any movie by directed by Rob Zombie
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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13
Does someone fall to their death?
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27
Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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31
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BriarRosePatch
There is a fetus in a jar.
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boneturner
Falls on the typical horror movie trope of calling the characters teenagers without ever saying how old they actually are. None of the characters are ever stated to be minors but it's worth keeping in mind.
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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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8
Does someone die?
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Disability
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doggyhostels
The original concept and design for Otis was that he was albino. You can see this by his hair and eye color. Bill Moseley is not albino. However, his albinism is retconned in the rest of the series, so you may be able to just pretend he looks like that for unrelated reasons.
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Is the r-slur used?
28 supporters
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GothicVampiress
Captain Spaulding and another character do in fact say the word, specifically these sentences.
“That (blank) that hangs out at Molly’s food stamps?”
“He’s one horny (blank).”
It is within the first few minutes after the intro of Captain Spaulding’s gas station and murder ride. Other than those 2 times, it is not said again.
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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?
22 supporters
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xxlivlovesmusicxx
quite disturbingly, a main antagonist skins a characters dad, wears his skin and torments the daughter
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Greyshadow
A woman shows a collection of dolls that she likes to chop the heads off of.
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0
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Anonymous
The plot heavily focuses on a kidnapping
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Does someone cheat?
18 supporters
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30
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justbroth
a man in a relationship leers at other women throughout the movie often in front of his girlfriend. mostly played for laughs.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Yes
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xxlivlovesmusicxx
only one or two major ones from memory, but yes
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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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Anonymous
An antagonist who appears continuously has clown face paint
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Is someone possessed?
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BriarRosePatch
A reference is made to a character having been possessed at one point.
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Anonymous
There are some shots of skulls with their eye sockets close together and it makes it look like a bunch of little holes.
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Are there razors?
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SC03
Otis c*ts Bill with a straight razor, Baby c*ts another character's scalp with one
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Anonymous
There is no v* in this movie, I just watched it. However, at 1:20:05 in, (According to Tubi) there is a scene with a red guy wearing goggles who takes off this gas mask thing off his mouth - then proceeds to spit mucus out of his mouth. Lasts until 1:20:10. It looks kinda like he spat up a raw egg in a way. Diddn't effect me but probably could to others.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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21
Is there farting?
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7
Is someone eaten?
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7
Is there on-screen pooping?
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7
Does someone spit?
10 supporters
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0
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Anonymous
Spitting up phlegm.
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Is there audio gore?
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0
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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11
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
26 supporters
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23
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RemusCremus
The films are in fact anti-police!
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Is there incarceration?
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6
LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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8
Yes
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8
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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8
Is there bisexual cheating?
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9
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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9
Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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1
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31
Yes
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3
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BriarRosePatch
Needles are seen everywhere in the scene taking place in Hell.
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effete
There is a brief mention of a doctor who used to experiment on asylum patients with flashes of a doctor hovering over a person on a hospital bed.
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No
6
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BriarRosePatch
There is an evil hospital in Hell.
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Is there menstruation?
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8
Does someone have cancer?
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35
Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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6
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1
Does someone self harm?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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8
Yes
22
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3
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Anonymous
All the main villains could be arguably mentally ill, considering they find pleasure in harming others.
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SylvesterLazarus
Not explicitly, but there are cutaway scenes of (not real!) home videos recorded by serial killers randomly inserted into the movie.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Yes
4
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bricker
someone uses the r-word as an insult in the first few minutes
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SylvesterLazarus
There are cutaway scenes of (not real!) home videos recorded by serial killers randomly inserted into the movie, somewhat similar to flashbacks or intrusive thoughts.

A major theme in the movie is an urban legend of a serial killer being at least partially real.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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3
Is there misophonia?
30 supporters
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bricker
one girl eats popcorn for a pretty long scene
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22
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doggyhostels
One of the leads has multiple breakdowns of crying, screaming and sobbing as she runs away from her assailants.
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Is there ABA therapy?
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7
Yes
0
No
21
Is there body dysphoria?
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8
Is there body dysmorphia?
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Yes
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BriarRosePatch
The surviving protagonists are sealed in a coffin and left in a cave for some time, but this does not last forever.
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SylvesterLazarus
No, but there is a scene of an abductor attempting to force feed a captive with cereals from an animal food bowl.

One scene right after, of a disabled person eating the cereal messy and with really loud slurping noises.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Noxious
Yes
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5
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doggyhostels
Two leads are lowered in a coffin into a pit of water/sludge.
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there shakey cam?
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Yes
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1
Does a baby cry?
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21
Is there screaming?
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0
Is there obscene language/gestures?
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SamhainStranger
An intro montage of footage has some images that flash by in photo negative, creating a strobe-like effect. There are frequent lightning flashes in later scenes, though these are very brief strobes.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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8
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0
Is the fourth wall broken?
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17
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
24 supporters
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No
2
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RemusCremus
Mama Firefly has a wet fetus specimen in a jar that she refers to as her son.
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10
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BriarRosePatch
There is a fetus in a jar and one character refers to it as her son, implying it was a miscarriage.
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Canislatrans
Wet specimen (in a jar) of a fetus is shown during the family dinner scene near the beginning of the movie
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
14 supporters
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3
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CarolineW
There wasn’t an abortion persay. There was just a fetus in a jar. No mention/visualization of an abortion.
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
40 supporters
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Yes
1
No
25
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marlee1164
There is multiple uses of the r slur
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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No
26
Yes
0
No
27
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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20
Does an LGBT person die?
29 supporters
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32
Are there fat jokes?
52 supporters
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0
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27
Is there aphobia?
20 supporters
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Yes
0
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9
Is a minority is misrepresented?
23 supporters
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Yes
5
No
3
Does the black guy die first?
18 supporters
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Yes
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31
Is there hate speech?
28 supporters
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Yes
33
No
0
Race
Is there blackface?
32 supporters
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Yes
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8
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
35 supporters
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10
Religious
Yes
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4
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doggyhostels
There is a lot of religious imagery (crosses, mainly) and Otis proselytizes a lot.
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SylvesterLazarus
No, but there is a ritual performed that can be interpreted as a religious act, along with religious symbols and a distorted sound recording being played in reverse that sounds quite demonic.
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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15
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0
Is there bestiality?
80 supporters
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10
Does someone lose their virginity?
12 supporters
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7
Yes
15
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0
3
RemusCremus
A character in the film is forcefully kissed by Otis Driftwood multiple times
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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81 supporters
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12
No
23
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StevenHay
Implied but not outright confirmed
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Is there sexual content?
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Yes
44
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0
Is there BDSM?
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Yes
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6
Sexism
1
doggyhostels
The main antagonists take pleasure in other peoples' misery, up to and including laughing in the faces of crying men.
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
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7
Does someone have a stroke?
9 supporters
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Yes
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11
Does someone have a chronic illness?
8 supporters
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Yes
1
No
8
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
23 supporters
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10
Social
Are there fat suits?
29 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Is someone homeless?
5 supporters
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15
Yes
2
No
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1
doggyhostels
Otis gives a speech to a group of high schoolers in this vein, but otherwise not really.
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Yes
0
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7
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Yes
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27
Are there end credit scenes?
36 supporters
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No
7
Does it have a sad ending?
54 supporters
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Yes
34
No
2
Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
13 supporters
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Yes
17
No
0
Does a car crash?
18 supporters
Yes
31
No
3
3
SamhainStranger
A car’s tire is shot out, and it subsequently crashes. No one inside is killed, and the crash itself is fairly minor.
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Does a plane crash?
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28
Yes
3
No
23
0
doggyhostels
Not hit by a moving car, but two men are thrown at a parked car.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
16 supporters
Yes
0
No
29
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Anonymous
Characters are lowered into water in a casket, but it is not submerged
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Is there blood/gore?
53 supporters
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Yes
40
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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SamhainStranger
Guns are used frequently throughout the movie.
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