The Taking of Deborah Logan

Movie • 2014 • Horror  

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What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising events begin to plague the family and crew and an unspeakable malevolence threatens to tear the very fabric of sanity from them all.
This movie contains 63 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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MeganFasnacht
Not a dog to be seen or mentioned in this film
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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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moschidae
Not particularly obvert, but Deborah is hinted at frequently to be a very judgemental parent and is embarrassed of her daughter for being a lesbian. There is blatant homophobia and also smaller micro insults, like her mom telling Sarah that she wishes she dressed like a girl.
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Is someone stalked?
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beeistyping
no, but a film crew is constantly documenting and filming deborah to show the progression of her alzheimer's. in most of these clips, she is unaware of being filmed.
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Is there domestic violence?
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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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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Seenit
A child is sent to boarding school because she is caught kissing another girl, abuse is implied
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Addiction
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They mention various prescription drugs that Deborah is on throughout, but it is obviously not recreational or harmful.
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Is there addiction?
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LZboyfurn
Sarah talks about depending on alcohol as a coping mechanism
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Anonymous
Deborah's daughter, Sarah, has a drinking problem
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Animal
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LZboyfurn
I cannot find any evidence that animals were harmed in the production of this film
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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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CoryWilcox
Dead snakes were shown
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Are animals abused?
171 supporters
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Deborah is handling a snake, it’s unharmed but it’s most likely ending up harmed in some way. There’s graphic pictures of dead snakes.
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Seenit
No dogs in the film
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Borbsphere
Dead and mutilated snakes are shown.
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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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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Seenit
No dragons
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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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beeistyping
many snakes, multiple points in the plot are based around snakes.

⚠️spoiler alert!!⚠️

deborah turns into this sort of snake-like humanoid creature. her jaw unhinges to eat, the way a real snake's jaw would.
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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Mogget
No bugs, but there are earth worms.
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
28 supporters
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LZboyfurn
In a medical capacity
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Is there pedophilia?
101 supporters
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LZboyfurn
A child killer and sex predator is discussed
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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LZboyfurn
Frequent medical restraint
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Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Smothered with a pillow briefly
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Bodily Harm
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Seenit
Deborah literally stabs herself and rips her skin off several times
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Anonymous
Deborah's flesh becomes diseased and her hands become skeletal
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Are there dislocations?
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Anonymous
Deborah tears at her own throat and later bites a security officer
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Mogget
Towards the end of the film an elderly woman asks an old friend to kill her and end her suffering. He attempts to fulfill her request by smothering her with a pillow. She struggles for a while but ultimately the man is knocked out and cannot finish the job.
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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There is mentions of cannibalism in the news reel about a local killer.

*SPOILER*

Deborah unhinges her jaw in a body horror state to try and eat a young girl like a snake towards the end.
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone choked?
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beeistyping
no, but fire is shown many times, including a flaming bag of snakes.
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Mogget
It's mentioned that someone was in the past but you do not see it in the film.
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Is there body horror?
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The old woman rips off big pieces of her skin more than once
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Is there amputation?
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beeistyping
no, but a snake-like creature (late deborah) attempts to eat the head of a live child, and puts the whole head in her mouth.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Someone is asphyxiated with a pillow over the face
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Soliel
No bone breaking, but spinal surgery/tap shown
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Deborah’s hands are bloody and messed up after pounding her hands into the dirt.
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Is someone tortured?
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beeistyping
the treatment deborah's alzheimer's can be considered very traumatic, almost torturous, and may trigger those who are triggered by torture scenes. while she was somewhat of a villain, she is experiencing trauma throughout the progression of her disease.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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moschidae
Who said no... Deborah is constantly ripping off her skin, theres blood constantly.
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Children
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Not an infant but a child.
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Does a kid die?
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They show pictures of children who got horribly murdered in the past but no kids actually die in the movie.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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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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Does someone die?
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a character dies but not a main character
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Disability
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LZboyfurn
In addition to being possessed, Deb is still legitimately disabled and played by an abled person
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Is the r-slur used?
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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?
19 supporters
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Borbsphere
The death of Sarah's father prior to the events of the film is discussed.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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A child is kidnapped from a hospital.
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Ksureme
Yes in the sense that a spirit has possessed the mother, no in the sense that we see a ghost form.
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Hooo yeah. Thankfully most of them are pretty obvious, and they are spread out.
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CoryWilcox
There is a bath scene, though
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Stonesoulthegoth
A river toward the end
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Multiple times throughout, Deborah goes into demonic fits and rages. There is also several scenes of her talking in a demonic voice/screaming unnaturally.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there razors?
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Mogget
You don't see the actual act, but the camera crew runs to a door and hears Deborah purging and walks in to see she's thrown up a large amount of dirt and earth worms.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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SPOILER WARNING

not necessarily eaten, but there is a scene near the end of the movie where the main character tries to eat someone
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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Mogget
Deborah spits in a cop's face while possessed and causes severe burning, it's not terribly graphic.
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Is there audio gore?
40 supporters
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MercurysFire
The movie doesn't get too crazy with the gore, but I definitely noticed in a few scenes some extra gore sounds to amplify what was happing since there is some body mutilation.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
27 supporters
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15
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LZboyfurn
There are cops but they’re not shown as being positive or helpful
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Is there incarceration?
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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9
Yes
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LZboyfurn
No but there is parental homophobia
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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10
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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Yes
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Seenit
Spinal tap is shown for an extended period, followed by some body horror, lots of gore
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beeistyping
not necessarily a mental institution, but medical restraints are used, similar to the kind used in mental institutions.
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Anonymous
Deborah is admitted to a hospital for her own safety
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fraisierdesbois
Mentioned
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Anonymous
The girl that Deborah abducts from the hospital, Cara, has cancer
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
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2
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CarlaT
deborah mutilates herself at different points in the film. the most graphic parts are where she deeply scratches at her throat, and pulls a large layer of skin off her arm.
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Deborah starts the movie with supposed Alzheimer’s and she gets very violent throughout the movie. Isn’t the reality but might still be triggering to some.
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JenniCats42
This movie is about Alzheimer's, and involves the main character, who has Alzheimer's, not knowing things she did, looking at photos of herself and not recognising herself, and forgetting parts of her past.
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Deborah is offhandedly misdiagnosed with "split personality" by a doctor
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Deborah asks her friends to kill her, which would be an assisted suicide
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Is there misophonia?
31 supporters
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There is a very harsh ringing noise on one of the nights.
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Seenit
Deborah has a fit that mirrors a panic attack
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Is there ABA therapy?
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No, but Deborah requests to be killed in the hospital.
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Yes
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There’s a scene toward the end where two characters have to crawl through a narrow mine cavern. The cavern is also full of snakes...yay.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Yes
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there shakey cam?
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5
It’s filmed in the style of a student documentary so the camera gets shakey whenever the scary things happen.
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Does a baby cry?
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No baby crying, but Deborah weeps and it sounds similar?
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Is there screaming?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Ksureme
**As an epileptic, whoever voted no sucks** Scenes are chronological. • There’s a transition when the team puts up cameras which is a glitch/static effect which might be disorienting to some, it’s used frequently. • There’s a scene in the attic where the mum is working her old machine at night and sparks fly unexpectedly. • After the neighbor shoots at the cars, cops are called and the flashing lights at night are pretty bad. • The fireplace explodes and causes a camera glitch. • More police lights at night when the mum escapes the hospital. • The flashlight goes in and out in the mine. • Flashy transitions when they do find the mum in the mine (holy f*ck). • Flashy effects when they burn the bag in the mines (after the second time they find her).
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Yes
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5
Kind of? The film is a found footage/documentary format. There are documentary/informational scenes where a character addresses her audience and gives details about Alzheimer’s
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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15
Does someone miscarry?
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28
Are there babies or unborn children?
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14
Is there childbirth?
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25
Are there abortions?
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26
Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
Yes
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Mogget
There aren't any homophobic slurs, but there's a scene where an older daughter of the film's titular character describes how her mother shipped her off the boarding school after her mom caught her kissing another girl when she was a child.
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Don’t know why the above comment got voted down earlier. That is a derogatory way to refer to that condition. The correct term is Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Yes
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23
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Yes
8
No
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Anonymous
Sarah, Deborah's gay daughter, lives in this movie
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Are there fat jokes?
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23
Is there aphobia?
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8
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moschidae
Voting YES because the way the woman cop talks to Sarah implies that shes also homosexual and i take no joy in seeing a lesbian cop. Feels as unnecessary and insulting.
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Does the black guy die first?
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25
Is there hate speech?
28 supporters
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6
6
Deborah is homophobic towards her queer daughter at multiple points.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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8
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
35 supporters
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Religious
Yes
6
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1
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LZboyfurn
A priest is consulted
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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1
Is there bestiality?
79 supporters
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9
Does someone lose their virginity?
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9
Is someone sexually objectified?
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14
Are there incestuous relationships?
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Yes
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Seenit
Not at all in a sexual context, but there is nudity
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Is there BDSM?
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
17 supporters
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8
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1
Does someone have a stroke?
10 supporters
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2
Main character has alzheimer’s which is chronic
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18
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0
7
A focal point of the film. Absolutely DO NOT WATCH if this is a trigger for you.
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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9
Is someone homeless?
5 supporters
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11
Is existentialism debated?
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8
Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
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Seenit
Not a children’s movie.
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Yes
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*SPOILER*

The Entity they tried to destroy the whole movie, ends up surviving.
The cycle that Deborah finally broke for herself continues in another character, so everything they did was pretty much for nothing.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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9
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1
Does a car crash?
19 supporters
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Yes
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19
Does a plane crash?
11 supporters
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19
Is someone hit by a car?
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20
Violence
Does someone drown?
18 supporters
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0
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20
Is there blood/gore?
54 supporters
Yes
27
No
1
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Mogget
While not a blood bath, there are a few gory scenes that are rather grotesque.
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24
3
BiliousBecca
Not a nuclear explosion, but there are 2 small kind of explosion when things are set on fire.
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Yes
25
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1
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Ksureme
Not a shoot out, but guns are brought in by the neighbor shooting at the empty cars, policemen, and the daughter when looking for her mum
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