House of 1000 Corpses

Movie • 2003 • Horror  

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Synopsis

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.

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Does the dog die?
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A police officer draws his weapon with the intent to shoot the dog, but he is stopped by his partner.
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Is there live gunfire?
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Are there entrances from audience?
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Is there flying onstage?
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Abandonment
Is an animal abandoned?
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Abuse
Is a child abused?
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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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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.)
doggyhostels
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Is there domestic violence?
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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.
SylvesterLazarus
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is someone stalked?
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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.
xxlivlovesmusicxx
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Addiction
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Two of the characters buy an absurd amount of alcohol for a party.
BriarRosePatch
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Is there addiction?
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Come on, man does coke
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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No, but there's a scene where victims are dressed in full-body white rabbit costumes by abductors.
SylvesterLazarus
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Does a cat die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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We don't know what happened to the dog in the fence? Most likely died, though.
ghost_mania
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Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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(SPOILERS) There’s half of a dead fish sewn onto a dead body
Reehlkvkfihgvg
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Does a horse die?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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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.
SylvesterLazarus
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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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Does a dragon die?
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Are there bugs?
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Is an animal sad?
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Assault
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Movie shows Otis SA a cheerleader for a few seconds
SC03
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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.
GothicVampiress
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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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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone drugged?
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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"
SylvesterLazarus
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Is someone restrained?
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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Is there excessive gore?
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Is someone tortured?
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If you can't handle torture, don't watch any movie by directed by Rob Zombie
JayHay
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Mentioned but not shown on screen.
boneturner
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Is there body horror?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Does a head get squashed?
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There are multiple characters with visibly damaged teeth.
SylvesterLazarus
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A character was burned alive in the past but survived, however they are heavily scarred.
BriarRosePatch
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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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Is there decapitation?
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A man is shot through the neck.
doggyhostels
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Is there cannibalism?
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Mentions and references.
Anonymous
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Is someone crushed to death?
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A character is scalped onscreen.
BriarRosePatch
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the climax of the movie is basically two victims being graphically buried alive together
xxlivlovesmusicxx
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Is there amputation?
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A characters hand is seen being violently cut off with an ax.
RemusCremus
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Does someone break a bone?
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There's a scene of a character who gets their hand cut off with a hatchet.
SylvesterLazarus
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Is someone choked?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Are there dislocations?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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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.
boneturner
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Does a kid die?
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There is a fetus in a jar.
BriarRosePatch
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Is an infant abducted?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does a major character die?
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Does someone die?
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Does a non-human character die?
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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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 h***y (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.
GothicVampiress
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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.
doggyhostels
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
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A woman shows a collection of dolls that she likes to chop the heads off of.
Greyshadow
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Does a parent die?
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quite disturbingly, a main antagonist skins a characters dad, wears his skin and torments the daughter
xxlivlovesmusicxx
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Does a family member die?
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Does someone cheat?
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a man in a relationship leers at other women throughout the movie often in front of his girlfriend. mostly played for laughs.
justbroth
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Is someone kidnapped?
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The plot heavily focuses on a kidnapping
Anonymous
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Fear
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only one or two major ones from memory, but yes
xxlivlovesmusicxx
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There are some shots of skulls with their eye sockets close together and it makes it look like a bunch of little holes.
Anonymous
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Are there razors?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
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Otis c*ts Bill with a straight razor, Baby c*ts another character's scalp with one
SC03
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Is someone possessed?
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A reference is made to a character having been possessed at one point.
BriarRosePatch
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Are there clowns?
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An antagonist who appears continuously has clown face paint
Anonymous
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there ghosts?
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Are there mannequins?
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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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.
Anonymous
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Is there audio gore?
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Is there defecation?
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Is someone eaten?
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Does someone spit?
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Spitting up phlegm.
Anonymous
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Is there farting?
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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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The films are in fact anti-police!
RemusCremus
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Is there incarceration?
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LGBTQ+
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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9
Is there bisexual cheating?
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Live Theatre
Is there smoke or haze?
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Is there audience participation?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
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Needles are seen everywhere in the scene taking place in Hell.
BriarRosePatch
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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.
effete
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Is electro-therapy used?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Are there heart attacks?
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Is there menstruation?
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Yes
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There is an evil hospital in Hell.
BriarRosePatch
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Mental Health
Does someone die by suicide?
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Does someone self harm?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
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Yes
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No
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someone uses the r-word as an insult in the first few minutes
bricker
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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.
SylvesterLazarus
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is there misophonia?
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one girl eats popcorn for a pretty long scene
bricker
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All the main villains could be arguably mentally ill, considering they find pleasure in harming others.
Anonymous
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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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.
SylvesterLazarus
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Body horror
TheDreammweaver
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The surviving protagonists are sealed in a coffin and left in a cave for some time, but this does not last forever.
BriarRosePatch
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Not explicitly, but there are cutaway scenes of (not real!) home videos recorded by serial killers randomly inserted into the movie.
SylvesterLazarus
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One of the leads has multiple breakdowns of crying, screaming and sobbing as she runs away from her assailants.
doggyhostels
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Is there ABA therapy?
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7
Is there body dysphoria?
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8
Does someone have a meltdown?
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4
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3
Does someone have a mental illness?
1 supporters
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1
Natural Disasters
Are there tsunamis?
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3
Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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1
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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.
SamhainStranger
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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9
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0
Does a baby cry?
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21
Is there screaming?
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Yes
1
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5
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Two leads are lowered in a coffin into a pit of water/sludge.
doggyhostels
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Yes
14
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0
Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Yes
8
No
0
Is the fourth wall broken?
0 supporters
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17
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
53 supporters
Yes
21
No
2
5
Mama Firefly has a wet fetus specimen in a jar that she refers to as her son.
RemusCremus
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No
10
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There is a fetus in a jar and one character refers to it as her son, implying it was a miscarriage.
BriarRosePatch
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Does a pregnant person die?
37 supporters
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0
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29
Is there childbirth?
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30
Are there abortions?
24 supporters
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4
No
31
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There wasn’t an abortion persay. There was just a fetus in a jar. No mention/visualization of an abortion.
CarolineW
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Wet specimen (in a jar) of a fetus is shown during the family dinner scene near the beginning of the movie
Canislatrans
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
64 supporters
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Yes
0
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27
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
55 supporters
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0
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20
10
There is multiple uses of the r slur
marlee1164
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Does an LGBT person die?
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32
Are there usages of the n-word?
41 supporters
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0
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26
Is there hate speech?
40 supporters
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Yes
33
No
0
Is a minority is misrepresented?
40 supporters
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Yes
5
No
3
Yes
0
No
27
Does the black guy die first?
28 supporters
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0
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31
Is there aphobia?
27 supporters
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0
No
9
Are there homophobic slurs?
1 supporters
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Yes
1
No
25
Race
Is there blackface?
46 supporters
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0
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8
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
46 supporters
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2
No
10
Religious
Yes
2
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4
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There is a lot of religious imagery (crosses, mainly) and Otis proselytizes a lot.
doggyhostels
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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.
SylvesterLazarus
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Sex
Is there bestiality?
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10
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
99 supporters
Yes
12
No
23
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Implied but not outright confirmed
StevenHay
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Is there sexual content?
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0
Are there nude scenes?
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17
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0
Yes
16
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3
A character in the film is forcefully kissed by Otis Driftwood multiple times
RemusCremus
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Is there BDSM?
38 supporters
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0
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6
Does someone lose their virginity?
22 supporters
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0
No
7
Sexism
1
The main antagonists take pleasure in other peoples' misery, up to and including laughing in the faces of crying men.
doggyhostels
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Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
42 supporters
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0
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10
Is someone terminally ill?
29 supporters
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0
No
7
Does someone have a stroke?
21 supporters
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Yes
0
No
11
Does someone have a chronic illness?
17 supporters
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Yes
1
No
8
Social
Are there anti-abortion themes?
44 supporters
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Yes
0
No
7
Are there fat suits?
36 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Yes
2
No
5
1
Otis gives a speech to a group of high schoolers in this vein, but otherwise not really.
doggyhostels
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Is someone homeless?
4 supporters
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0
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15
Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
89 supporters
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Yes
34
No
2
Are there end credit scenes?
74 supporters
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0
No
7
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
27
Vehicular
Does a car crash?
33 supporters
Yes
31
No
3
3
A car’s tire is shot out, and it subsequently crashes. No one inside is killed, and the crash itself is fairly minor.
SamhainStranger
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Yes
3
No
23
0
Not hit by a moving car, but two men are thrown at a parked car.
doggyhostels
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Does a plane crash?
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Yes
0
No
28
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Yes
18
No
0
Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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Yes
42
No
0
Does someone drown?
46 supporters
Yes
0
No
29
3
Characters are lowered into water in a casket, but it is not submerged
Anonymous
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Yes
40
No
0
4
Guns are used frequently throughout the movie.
SamhainStranger
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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