Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
This movie contains 53 potentially triggering events.
The protagonist was technically abandoned by his mother when he was 11 years old. When his girlfriend's mother invites him to sit with her at night, she hypnotizes him to deliberately trap him in a flashback to the night his mother died. He admits aloud that he was left at home alone, and that he began to suspect something had happened to his mother when she didn't come home when expected. We see in the flashback him as a child sitting paralyzed with fear "for hours"
[SPOILERS] My best guess is that they’re treating a deleted scene where Rose is hypnotized as canon, but I think in the finish movie it’s more just the sad reality that racism is a taught trait even if they don’t necessarily fit the stereotype of an abusive conservative family
Not technically, but a character is strangled by someone they were at one point in a relationship with, which could be triggering to some viewers with DV triggers
Through the whole movie, there are themes of gaslighting. Not in a “controlling abusive partner way” more like “I’m gaslighting you so you don’t find out the truth” sort of way
there are scenes where characters get drunk and stuff during the party, but no where to the point of alcoholism. I suppose you could say that Rose’s brother could have been an alcoholic because he always seems to be in a drunken like state, but it’s never outwardly said.
A deer is hit by a car; you hear it bleat off-screen and its dead body is zoomed in on for a moment. You can see some blood on the deer's injury (which is not focused on and easy to miss) but it's not glorified at all. The entire scene is about 2 minutes long and is the only time an animal dies in the movie.
No, there are no animals being abused in this movie. There is a deer that gets hit by a car at the beginning of the movie, but this wasn’t on purpose. The main character, Chris, has a dog but the dog is perfectly safe throughout the movie
The only dead animal is a deer that gets hit by a red car at the beginning of the movie, the people driving it are the two main characters. The scene is short and doesn’t drag on for very long. After the crash happens, Chris, the main character goes to look at the deer and it shows the dear. It’s not gorey at all and only lasts a few seconds.
Not all-out, but a young black man is ickily felt up by an elderly white woman he's never met before in full view of other party guests. She feels/strokes his arm and chest, expressing approval of his body as if he were an object. He's obviously uncomfortable.
Not exactly jokes, just that the protagonist's best friend suspects that the antagonists might be running a sex trafficking ring and he's laughed at a few times for thinking so.
Shaving is shown in the first scene where the main character, Chris is shaving his face. Towards the end of the movie, there is a surgical scene where (SPOILERSSS!!!) the grandpa is getting his head cut open
throughout the whole movie, all of the black characters were being tortured, but not the typical torture you think of, they were being brainwashed and forced to do things against their will. Not the bloody gorey type of torture.
There is one scene where a character gets stabbed in the eye, but they don’t show it directly. There is another scene a few minutes later where one character tries to gouge out another’s eyes. Both scenes are at the end of the movie (last 20 minutes).
not necessarily a character but a deer is hit by the main characters car at the beginning of the movie. the deer is heard whining/bleating and some blood is shown. basically you can see a deer in pain and dying
Not too scary but scary nevertheless.
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1. There are 2 jump scares involving the house-maid Georgina. One when she looks out of a window, one when she is in a car.
2. There is one jump scare involving the groundskeeper Walter. He suddenly towards the camera at night.
Main character is lured into not-really-voluntary hypnosis, and floats loose from reality, re-experiences childhood pain and incapacity to act. Audience may also be unsure whether that whole scene (as well as some others) was real or imagined, based on conflicting cues.
Autism is not mentioned but it paints certain eating habits such as having milk separate from cereal as a sign of mental instability on part of the villain. Which wasn’t enough to ruin the movie for me (far from it) but some neurodivergent people may not appreciate that
same issue here as with the dysmorphia question. the ppl voting yes are wrong, dysphoria is when the appearance of ur body doesnt match the way u feel, most commonly experienced in association with gender by trans ppl. there are no trans ppl in this movie and no one in the movie experiences dysphoria... there's a scene where a character becomes paralysed which may be where ppl are getting confused but there is DEFINITELY no dysphoria in this film
No one has an eating disorder but in one scene someone bites a froot-loop in half, and as someone with an eating disorder I know that small bites can be triggering.
The protagonist 100% has PTSD. It's not explicitly stated, but it's so clearly depicted and well acted, I don't know why people are voting 'No.' The PTSD is related to his mother dying from a hit-and-run when he was a child. Just 10 minutes into the movie, he accidentally hits a deer with his car, and he's shown to be shaken up by it. When his girlfriend's mother invites him to sit with her at night, she hypnotizes him to deliberately trap him in a flashback to the night his mother died (the death itself is never shown; we just see him as a child sitting alone as he worries about her not having come home yet). The protagonist cries throughout the forced flashback, and he scratches through a chair's fabric in a subconcious attempt to ground himself. He repeats this grounding habit near the end of the movie, when hypnotized for a different reason. At the end of the movie, some people die on a road, and the protagonist starts dissociating (i.e., looking blank-faced, acting dazed, and not immediately responding to someone talking to him). Additionally, his triggered PTSD—and the accumulating stress from the movies' events—results in the protagonist having an anxiety attack onscreen (see "Are there anxiety attacks?")
A blind character is introduced just for his whole character arc to be about getting his sight back, in somewhat of an ableist trope, but nobody is explicitly ableist.
Technically the first 'death' off screen is a black person, but it isn't a full death and is only implied. The first on screen death is a white person.
a white woman objectifies a black man by asking his (white) girlfriend if it really is "better", implying that black men are better at sex and objectifying him
The protagonist (a black man) cries on-screen multiple times throughout the movie. It is always presented in a serious way, and no one makes fun of him for it
There are multiple car accidents in the film. First the characters hit a deer and it breaks their light and mirror, but are ultimately okay. Later in the film when a character is driving away they accidentally run over someone. Then there is a car crash where a passenger dies. The main character also mentions in the past his mother died in a car accident.
When Chris fights back and starts escaping, the most goriest scene is when the dad removes the old guy’s top part of his head. Then when Chris stabs him with the deer head, and he spits blood everywhere. Chris also stabs Jeremy in the leg a few minutes later. When Georgina attacks Chris in the car later and they crash into a tree and she’s covered in blood. Then later the grandpa shoots Rose in the stomach and her body has blood all over her torso. Then the guy shoots himself, there is a mere blood splatter after that, but then there is a puddle of blood towards his head on the ground. Rose is also shown with blood in her mouth a few minutes after