When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter’s family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.
This movie contains 72 potentially triggering events.
The death is not shown on screen. The camera briefly shows the aftermath (not bloody, just a small furry stillness) but if you're not paying attention you could easily miss what it's showing you.
Yes, by several people, though the signs are subtle and extremely easy to miss if you don't know they're there. Random stangers smile at the children as if they know them, very quiet footsteps are heard in the house before the family actually enters, the breath of an unknown person is visible outside the house at night, and in a brief night shot of the house towards the end, multiple people are standing outside the house.
there is a description of a mother attempting to murder her two children but it is never shown. there are also loud screaming fights shown between mother and son as well as husband and wife.
It's a major theme of the movie, to the point where one potential interpretation of the title refers to the 'hereditary' nature of dysfunctional families. The film plays heavily into the specific trigger of becoming like your abusers.
We watch a character hysterically explain what she's been through during the film, and another character ignores her emotional pleas and clearly blames her.
one child is implied to have been abused by the grandmother, and the other child is emotionally abused by the mother. there is also a description of a mother attempting to murder both of her children but it is not shown, only talked about.
The family dog is heard barking intensely offscreen, used to build tension. In another scene later the same dog is briefly shown whining and fearful. A bird flies into a window. All of these points are as side effects of supernatural horror. While there’s not much explicit sadness, no animal in this film is having a good time.
There is a shot of a child's rotting decapitated head sitting in the middle of the road, covered in swarming ants. We also see a rotting corpse hidden in an attic. One character decapitates themselves using a piano wire. A mummified severed head is used as part of a statue.
Not exactly squashed but one character's head gets severely mutilated by an accident involving a utility pole and another character smashes his head on a desk repeatedly.
Actually🤓 no, but Charlie doesn't die due to trouble breathing, she's severely allergic to nuts, accidentally eats some, goes into anaphylactic shock and then on the way to the hospital, dies in a freak accident.
A character has a seizure and injures their face on a desk - it is not a medical seizure, but is rather a coercive supernatural event. However, other characters in the scene believe it to be a seizure
there's not exactly eye mutilation but there is a scene in which a character is possesed and his eye is breifly shown very bloodshot and as if it's about ti pop out.
Not in a usual sense but writing this just incase: It is mentioned that the mom was heavily pressured by the grandmother to give away her child and let the grandmother raise it. She agreed to for her second child, and she says this with great regret.
there is a graphic depiction of a child's death as well as multiple of the dead body, including a scene of a mother finding her child's body. there is also another character who mentions her son and grandson's deaths but those arent shown.
SPOILERS: One character asks another to set fire to an artifact which they believe will save the family. The second character refuses, and the first burns the artifact, inadvertently killing the other.
There are, but surprisingly only very few. Most startling things were seeing a character getting startled by the soft clicking sound. These didn't even feel like they were meant to be junpscares but many people in the theatre startled the first couple times.
Possession is a central theme of the film as a demon attempts to find a suitable vessel. Several characters are compelled to act in bizarre ways during fits of possession before one finally becomes permanent host to the entity
A character (who dies in the beginning of the film and is only shown in photos) is diagnosed with DID and had some abusive tendencies. Given the context of the film however, it’s very likely that this character was possessed and never actually had the disorder.
The grandmother is said to have D.I.D. - though we never meet the character so it’s impossible to know if that is correct. She’s also the leader of a cult so that’s not great.
One character discusses almost committing self-immolation in their sleep, but does not go through with it. This same character later tries to burn a haunted artifact, which they believe will kill them but spare their family, but again this does not happen.
Also, it's somewhat unclear if this was the intention, but a character does at one point jump from a window to escape a monster.
While not those specific words, the mother does have a breakdown in her room while being comforted by her husband while she screams that she wants to die
A central AFAB character shares their body and spirit with a male demonic force. This character wears baggy oversized clothes in order to hide their figure is implied to have conflict over their gender and takes on a male form throughout the course of the film. Whether this is their partly own feelings or exclusively that of the male demon is left unstated.
there is a very graphic depiction of a suicide by decapitation. also someone jumps out of a window and falls to their death. there is also mention of a character's brother and father commiting suicide years before the movie takes place.
Several dreams and events occur which suggest a character has PTSD from severe trauma, but the dreams and events are usually shown as having a supernatural cause rather than mental illness. An actor later reported he had PTSD from making the film.
There are a lot of instances of characters staring at the camera, but it is because they are looking at something else implied to be where the camera is
One of the children shown has social issues. In a classroom scene, the teacher pushes her to finish her test in a way that could draw negative attention to this. Later, the mother yells at her, saying, "are you some kind of idiot," for displaying the same behavior. The same character's art is also called the r word
The whole plot revolves around a cult obsessed with Paimon, one of the "kings of Hell", and their attempts to have him possess a human form. You only see this demon possessing someone; there's no separate demonic form shown.
The first violent scene involves a character driving a car and then trying to swerve around a dead animal in the road and later stopping. I don’t quite remember if there’s specifically the sound of tires screeching, but it’s very possible.
Yes. The car itself is not damaged, but the scene is horrific and a character dies.
*EDIT* This site is for people who are upset by certain events in media. If someone has prior fear of/bad experiences with car crashes, this scene is almost sure to feed into that or upset them. THAT is the measure. THAT is why this scene falls into the category of car crash. It is car-accident-related trauma and there are not enough categories to nitpick what exactly goes in. The more informed people with specific fears can be going into a movie, the better.