Pet Sematary

Movie • 1989 • Horror  

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Dr. Louis Creed's family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep in the woods brings the dead back to life -- with "minor" problems. At first, only the family's cat makes the return trip, but an accident forces a heartbroken father to contemplate the unthinkable.
This movie contains 62 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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angrydoberman
An australian cattle dog gets killed, buried in the pet sematary and then comes back as a zombie.
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Unanswered Triggers
Is someone's mouth covered?
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Abandonment
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TheCassandraComplex
Rachel’s parents left her alone with her dying sister, who was in mental decline from her illness, when she was just 8 years old and her sister was only a few years older.
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TheCassandraComplex
Not exactly but there are a few events that might be upsetting for those with this trigger:

- There is an “outdoor” cat.
- (minor spoilers) The cat dies —he is hit by a car— and is brought back to life. The cat is not the same when he comes back and so, some time later, he is killed again by his owner. He’s lured with meat and then euthanized with a syringe. So, more “betrayed” than abandoned but I felt like it’s similar enough to mention.
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Abuse
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TheCassandraComplex
Rachel’s parents left her alone with her dying sister, who was in mental decline from her illness, when she was just 8 years old and her sister was only a few years older.
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Is someone stalked?
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13
Is there domestic violence?
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19
Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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4
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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5
Is a child abused?
89 supporters
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16
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TheCassandraComplex
Rachel’s parents left her alone with her dying sister, who was in mental decline from her illness, when she was just 8 years old and her sister was only a few years older.
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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Quothetheraven79
After Gage dies Louis hits the bottle pretty hard
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Animal
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AuntieDepressant
Sorry, guys, unless you’re blind, or not in possession of a soul, how can you consider the cat(s) in this stupid movie as being unharmed??

The cat is grabbed violently BY THE SCRUFF AND KEPT ALOFT FOR MINUTES, TOTALLY LIMP, he’s then THROWN to the ground, head lolling, laboured breathing, pupils dilated; you’re telling me this cat wasn’t drugged, possibly even euthanised, for this awful film?? Adult animals must NEVER be held, grabbed, and certainly NOT LIFTED by their scruff! It’s extremely painful, distressing and harmful! C’mon!
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
148 supporters
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Anonymous
When the cat gets brought back to life, he drops a dead mouse in the bathroom of Louis while he is taking a bath.
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Are animals abused?
171 supporters
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6
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AuntieDepressant
I cannot believe that people are ignorant of the quite obvious abuse of the cats who portrayed Church are in this awful film!

I came here initially in order to see if I’d be triggered by cat abuse (there is little that gets to me more than seeing cats suffer), and although I was sceptical that only 6 voted yes, after seeing the film I cannot believe that 17 people claimed there is NO ABUSE??!!

Near the climax of the film, after the main character fills his syringe, a raw steak is thrown on the ground in order to trap the cat, who is obviously half-starved, as a well-fed, or even occasionally fed cat doesn’t experience this type of blood lust, and in fact will turn its nose up at raw meat. As the cat tries to desperately scramble away, he is violently grabbed BY THE SCRUFF AND HELD IN THE AIR FOR SEVERAL MINUTES! NO adult animal should EVER be held or grabbed by the scruff, and certainly NEVER suspended by it!! It is extremely painful! The cat goes totally limp, then is THROWN to the ground, still limp, but alive—barely, as it’s very clear that this cat has been DRUGGED IRL! Dilated pupils, laboured breathing, HEAD LOLLING—all in the name of getting the perfect shot for a subpar King film, which is saying a lot considering 99% of SK films are overrated garbage! This poor cat is so often thrown, tossed, traumatised & terrorised in order to get the hissing with ears flattened shot, covered in a sticky substance and crammed into a tiny carrier that’s obviously made for rodents or reptiles, it’s repulsive. If no one out there considers this “abuse”, I question how far a production has to go to elicit a reaction in this age of dysfunction, violence, gorn and dystopian landscapes!

WHY do so many continue to turn a blind eye and deaf ear to cruelty and exploitation as long as it’s “just” a cat?? They aren’t “disposable” nor are they inanimate accessories!
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AndriaFord
The family cat gets hit by a car. The death is not shown, only the corpse after. The cat dies again by injection.
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Is an animal sad?
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5
Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
146 supporters
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Quothetheraven79
Cat dies, gets resurrected, then dies again
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Does a pet die?
136 supporters
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18
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OJAndToothpaste
It's kind of the crux of the story.
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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21
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?
28 supporters
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5
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2
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audreypom
[SPOILERS]
I suppose it depends on your definition? After Gage is brought back to life, his father Louis kills him by injection, which I would consider drugging in a sense.
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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7
Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone restrained?
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4
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1
Is someone sexually assaulted?
170 supporters
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20
Yes
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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WesleyThomas
Zombie!Rachel has a splintered nail that looks extremely painful.
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Are there dislocations?
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WesleyThomas
Zombie!Gage kills Judd by biting out his throat.
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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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audreypom
Both reanimated people are seen to eat people.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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3
Is someone choked?
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Yes
24
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Quothetheraven79
Timmy Bateman kills himself, & his father in a burning house
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Is someone buried alive?
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15
Is there body horror?
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TheCassandraComplex
Particularly flashbacks to Rachel’s childhood. Rachel had a sister who died of spinal meningitis. This character is supposed to be a preteen girl but is played by a grown man in order to make her body look unnatural and grotesque.
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Is there amputation?
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18
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0
Very graphic head squash wound early in movie and reoccurs throughout. From being hit by a car.
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StrongFish91
Very graphic too.
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Is there a hanging?
33 supporters
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xxlivlovesmusicxx
the housekeeper hangs herself in a very graphic way, pretty disturbing for those who are triggered by hangings. another more major characters corpse swings down (hanging) at the movies climax- from memory, we don’t see anything but the aftermath
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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3
Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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9
Does someone become unconscious?
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2
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1
Does someone break a bone?
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16
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2
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Nikita.Rose
The wifes sister convulses in a flash back.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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16
Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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14
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1
Is someone tortured?
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15
Does someone fall down stairs?
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0
Does someone fall to their death?
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17
Yes
23
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Anonymous
Zombie Rachel's eye leaks Aqueous Humor/pus down her face.
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Is someone stabbed?
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Yes
10
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WesleyThomas
There's rather less gore than what you'd expect from a toddler being hit by a semi-truck.
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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8
Does a kid die?
41 supporters
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53
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1
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Anonymous
Gage is run over by a Mack truck. He comes back as a monster.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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8
Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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7
Does a major character die?
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Does a non-human character die?
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1
Does someone die?
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Disability
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3
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2
Is the r-slur used?
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8
Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a family member die?
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Does a parent die?
19 supporters
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36
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1
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rutgerhauerfan
Rachel is killed by Gage, comes back to life and kills Louis.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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13
Yes
0
No
17
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Anonymous
Only if grave robbing counts.
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
9 supporters
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0
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Anonymous
Victor Pascal, a college boy who was run over by a car, attempts to warn Lous to leave an ancient burial ground alone. Pascale's ghost is in the same bodily condition as he was at time of death.
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0
Pascow is scary
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7
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Quothetheraven79
No but there is a scene in a tub
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WesleyThomas
The Burial Ground borders a pond.
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Are there clowns?
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24
Is someone possessed?
14 supporters
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2
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cat_dad_queer
they talk about how the reason the undead creatures are evil is because the souls pass on but not the bodies and "a souless body is a demons playground"
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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4
Are there razors?
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LeeC
There is a medical scalpel.
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
91 supporters
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18
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johnatticus
Per se, no one v*mits in this movie, but I have a highly emetophobic sister who was triggered by several scenes nonetheless:

- when Missy Dandrige brings in the laundry basket near the beginning of the film, she retches and Louis asks if she's alright. SPOILER: Turn out she's having some sort of sickness related to her stomach

- SPOILER AGAIN: Later on, after Missy's funeral, Ellie Creed tells Jud about the symptoms she displayed before her death and mentions that she was "constantly thr*wing up"
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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12
Is there farting?
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4
Is someone eaten?
29 supporters
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7
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0
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LeeC
Kind of. The zombie baby kills someone by chewing out their throat.
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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4
Does someone spit?
10 supporters
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14
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1
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WhatDaDogDoing
Pascow spits blood on Louis in the hospital
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Is there audio gore?
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11
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1
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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8
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
27 supporters
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0
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12
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OJAndToothpaste
I don't think there are any named police characters at all, just a patrol car driving by when Louis is in the graveyard.
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Is there incarceration?
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7
LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
42 supporters
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0
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7
Yes
0
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6
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
30 supporters
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5
Is there bisexual cheating?
20 supporters
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6
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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5
Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
1 supporters
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5
Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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18
Yes
29
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2
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Anonymous
Yes, to kill the cat and Gage after they come back.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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17
Yes
21
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0
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Anonymous
Lewis is a doctor at a university.
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Is there menstruation?
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4
Yes
17
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4
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Quothetheraven79
Missy believes she has it
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Mental Health
2
LeeC
It’s heavily implied that Zelda was mentally ill as a result of the pain from her terminal illness.
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9
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13
1
helensm
A person commits suicide.
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Is autism misrepresented?
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7
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gatorgirlgab
It’s unclear if Zelda’s character is mentally ill or just physically ill, but she does have some violent moments especially when she comes back in visions
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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5
Is there autism specific abuse?
37 supporters
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15
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LeeC
A suicide is graphically shown on screen.
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TheCassandraComplex
Characters are unsure if they are hallucinating and there is one point where the inside of a house appears to be a jungle. However, reality is mostly grounded in the film, despite the supernatural elements.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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2
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2
Is there misophonia?
31 supporters
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8
Are there anxiety attacks?
24 supporters
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Yes
3
No
12
Is there ABA therapy?
15 supporters
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0
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5
Yes
0
No
9
Is there body dysphoria?
16 supporters
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1
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4
Yes
13
No
8
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TheDreammweaver
Body horror, no body dysmorphia
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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16
Does someone have an eating disorder?
36 supporters
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18
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Anonymous
The maid, Missy, hangs herself.
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9
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4
4
Cryptesthesia
Rachel has PTSD due to being in the house when her sister dies
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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3
Are there sudden loud noises?
31 supporters
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3
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1
Is there shakey cam?
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14
Does a baby cry?
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Yes
12
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1
Is there screaming?
12 supporters
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3
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0
0
PetSemataryologist
The characters use swear words
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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18
Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
13 supporters
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3
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0
Is the fourth wall broken?
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6
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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7
Does someone miscarry?
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17
Are there babies or unborn children?
14 supporters
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10
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1
Is there childbirth?
20 supporters
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0
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15
Are there abortions?
15 supporters
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Yes
0
No
14
Does a pregnant person die?
1 supporters
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0
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14
Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
39 supporters
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Yes
0
No
11
Yes
0
No
10
Are there usages of the n-word?
30 supporters
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Yes
0
No
11
Yes
0
No
11
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
33 supporters
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0
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9
Does an LGBT person die?
30 supporters
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0
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19
Are there fat jokes?
51 supporters
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0
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14
Is there aphobia?
19 supporters
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0
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5
Is a minority is misrepresented?
24 supporters
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6
Does the black guy die first?
20 supporters
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14
Is there hate speech?
28 supporters
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Yes
0
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17
Race
Is there blackface?
29 supporters
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Yes
0
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5
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
35 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Religious
Yes
4
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0
0
TheCassandraComplex
The existence of an afterlife is discussed heavily.
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Are there demons or Hell?
14 supporters
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Yes
3
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0
Sex
Are there nude scenes?
40 supporters
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0
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6
Is there bestiality?
79 supporters
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0
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5
Does someone lose their virginity?
12 supporters
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0
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4
Is someone sexually objectified?
44 supporters
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0
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8
Are there incestuous relationships?
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87 supporters
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0
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15
Yes
0
No
17
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OJAndToothpaste
Not in this film, but if you choose to read the book there is brief sexual content.
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Is there BDSM?
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4
Sexism
Yes
0
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7
Sickness
Yes
5
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0
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OJAndToothpaste
Rachel's sister Zelda is very sick. She dies before the events of the story, but you see her bedridden through flashbacks.
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Does someone have a stroke?
10 supporters
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6
2
The wife’s late sister is briefly shown as she suffers from spinal meningitis.
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
24 supporters
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5
Social
Are there fat suits?
1 supporters
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6
Is someone homeless?
5 supporters
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1
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7
Yes
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OJAndToothpaste
The central theme of the story is learning to move on from grief and accept mortality, as refusing to do so is why bad things happen.
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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17
Are there end credit scenes?
33 supporters
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4
Does it have a sad ending?
51 supporters
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Yes
26
No
1
Vehicular
Yes
10
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0
1
LokiKrueger
It's not a car but several trucks honk, and one screeches on the road
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Does a car crash?
19 supporters
Yes
25
No
0
1
xxlivlovesmusicxx
there may be other instances, i haven’t watched in a while. i very intense theme though is when a huge truck runs over a young child.
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Does a plane crash?
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20
Yes
29
No
0
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Anonymous
A college student is hit by a car offscreen.
A child is run over by a semi truck.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
18 supporters
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20
Is there blood/gore?
54 supporters
Yes
26
No
0
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AndriaFord
There is gore after an achilles tendon is sliced with a scalpel.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
7 supporters
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17
Is there gun violence?
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