Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.
This movie contains 50 potentially triggering events.
in the opening scene which is a flashback, a young girl is left to be looked after by her father while her mother uses the restroom. the father, however, is busy playing an arcade game and doesn’t notice the girl wandering off. she’s not really “abandoned” per say but she’s ignored to the point where she goes off to a dangerous place
Yes, in that all the Others were isolated, brutalized, and abused, but then they come up to the surface and violently maim and murder their counterparts. It is not a traditional narrative, but has the possibility of setting off this trigger.
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It is mentioned that The Tetherds lives off raw rabbit flesh. Lots and lots of live rabbits are shown underground, both caged and roaming free. There is a brief shot where a girl walks past an eating room. You can see people eating raw meat, you can see live rabbits hopping on the dinner tables, and you can hear screams.
No rabbit is shown being killed on screen, and no rabbit bodies are shown, but the screams, while quick, are a little disturbing.
I wouldn't say there are "lots of dead rabbits". As I recall, we see (rather briefly and not close up) some people eating what we know to be raw rabbit meat, and that's all.
Adelaide is forced to handcuff herself to the table when the doubles break into her house and later is handcuffed again at the Tyler family house. She breaks free but handcuffs remain for the rest of the movie, which restraints her hand movements
SPOILER FREE - There is a scene after a character has broken another characters leg, where the victim is almost crawling down some stairs (they are not very steep so it’s kind of not noticeable that they are stairs). The victim is repeatedly saying stop while the killer is walking after him. This might trigger some people even if he’s not “falling”
Red and Abraham (antagonists of the film) both die at the hands of the Wilsons. Josh and Kitty also die, as well as their tethered counterparts (Tex and Dahlia). All deaths (except Tex’s) are shown onscreen, although Kitty’s and Red’s deaths are particularly graphic.
No, but when the main characters' shadows are standing completely still for a long time outside their counterparts' house, the effect is reminiscent of that of the typical "ghost standing still and looking at you in a creepy, menacing way" horror scene. At least that's how it felt to me (I'm super scared of ghosts, and that scene creeped me out big time in exactly the same way).
the protagonist has ptsd and fights/attempts to kill the antagonists, but as a form of self-defence and so isn’t a negative stereotype of mental illness
two girls tell a girl that her younger brother jason is “weird”. this might be triggering as jason is pretty autism-coded but it’s not autism specific abuse i would say
No one in the film has misophonia, but there are numerous sounds that could be triggers (popping of knuckles, ragged breathing, a character with a distinctly raspy voice, repetitive clicking, etc.)
Female characters have a brief discussion of botox treatment and one of them clearly has self-image issues. Later, a tethered uses a scissors to cut herself roughly where botox would be injected after peering closely at another character's face.
A couple of scenes take place in a tiny closet where the door locks characters in. The focus is not on the claustrophobia, but it may trigger those feelings.
PTSD is sort of ridiculed in one scene. A therapist explains how what happend to Adelaide traumatized her and her dad says “She wasn’t in Vietnam, she got lost”. Adelaide has deep childhood trauma that we see her suffer from in the beginning. She explains it in the bedroom to her husband, and after that they dont really mention how it traumatized her because of all the other stuff going on.
There are no strobes but as the mother is running down a flight of stairs with the camera following close behind, she entered a room with fast flickering lights.
A child is singled by teenagers out for being "weird" in a way that could loosely imply he is not neurotypical but it's very brief and very broad to interpret.
The n-word is in the lyrics of a song that plays during the movie. The song is by N.W.A., and as such, the lyric is rapped by a black man. The n-word is otherwise not used in the film and none of the characters say it.
A black character is the first to die on-screen. However, this film has a mostly black cast; he wasn't THE black guy. Chronologically, a white character a actually dies first.
*as few spoilers as possible* one of the antagonist characters climbs on top of the protagonist family’s car and the driver has to brake and speed up pretty recklessly in order to throw her off. i don’t remember if the tires are heard screeching but i think so.