Regarding the "make out" comment. It's not 'kind of' . . . It's full on, pretty graphic, a lot of spit and tounge and hands grabbing (just kinda grabbing at the dog's back). It went on for too long and was pretty gross.
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The main character's mum likely committed suicide while her late teens daughter was still a minor, so it depends if you consider that abandonment.
/spoilers/ there is a scene where a ghostly manifestation of a character’s parent (but not the real parent) physically attacks the character. It may be triggering, especially as it depicts a teen girl struggling against her father on top of her.
//spoilers// a girl is seemingly thrown around by a demon in the form of her father- it isn’t her actual dad, but it could still potentially be triggering
Themes relating to addiction are central to the plot, as possession is presented as a high, a risk you just can’t stop taking, a thing you do at parties
Kangaroo is dying on the roadside after presumably getting hit by a car. The main character visualises the kangaroo twitching in death twice after the initial scene
No, but there are quick flashes of a young boy being tortured by adult spirits in what looks like hell. They’re all naked, and it could be triggering to some.
if you’re sensitive to this concept though, just know that when the characters get possessed, they suffocate for a few seconds while there is a gurgling water noise in the background.
another comment on here says the sleep harassment part was supposed to be comedic to the audience, and i get where theyre coming from as the scene isnt a very serious one, but i and all the people i know who saw the movie genuinely found the scene disturbing rather than funny.
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After Mia gets hit by the car, there is a “dream sequence” where she’s walking through the hospital. At one point, she looks in the mirror to see no reflection, and the camera pans down to see her hands. Her pinky finger has been clearly dislocated.
There's a blood orgy type vision in which there are some quick shots of what could be cannibalism. That's what I thought was going on, at least. It's very fast and meant to be disorienting and hard to make out but I definitely thought people were being eaten.
If you stretch the definition of “body horror” a bit, one character who is hospitalized after a possession goes horribly wrong slowly looks sicker and worse and his skin is more mottled as the movie continues. One eye is puffed shut.
But compared to classic body horror movies such as The Fly (1986), Rabid, Contracted, Spring, Cabin Fever, Videodrome, Scanners and Afflicted, this film doesn’t really fit the definition of a “body horror” sub-genre. There a several violent and gruesome moments, though, and the audience in the theater I was in yelled “HOAH!” at a few shots, but it’s more gore than traditional body horror.
A character cracks his head on a porcelain side of a tub and hard floor, then licks up his own blood from the floor while laughing. But again, that’s more violence and gore than actual body horror.
The hand which the characters use to contact the dead is rumoured to be the embalmed amputated hand of a medium or satanist, with some kind of plaster or stone covering the actual hand. We don't see this amputation take place.
Not squashed all the way, but repeatedly smashed against a table, fireplace mantle, and tiled shower wall until the face is visibly mutilated and swollen
In a very, very quick cut of the 'purgatory' scene (around the 1 hour 10 minute mark, immediately after the scene with the little girl on the hospital bed) there are people with mutilated genitals. (Exact image blinks at 1:11:58).
I happened to pause on it and was shocked, so I figured I'd mention it.
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At the end of the film, the main character looks down at her own hand and sees three fingers on her left hand bent wrongly and mangled
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Also, earlier in the film, a ghost (and then the main character) chews on the toes of another character
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A girl’s hand/fingers are broken by a character smashing his own head down on them
Wanted to add that he doesn’t successfully pop the eyeball out of the socket, but there is an attempt and his hands are pulled away shortly before he can succeed.
(SPOILERS) Two scenes in particular have excessive gore. A character repeatedly smashes his face against a table, then a mantle until his face is bloody and disfigured. Later, the same character smashes the back of his head against shower tiles until they crack and he bleeds, then begins licking the blood up.
The main character’s mother died two years prior to the film, and she has a visual flashback/nightmare regarding the event. [SPOILERS] Her father also dies at the end of the film
i don’t think so. the scene described with the SA section with the spirit sucking the foot, the guy spends the night with his girlfriend’s best friend, who is also his ex. they have some chemistry, and although nothing happens between them, the gf is still upset when she finds out they spend a night together
safe! when the characters get possessed, they gag and choke a little. and there's lots of gurgles and water sloshing sound effects/ambience that might be slightly triggering, but there's no vom scenes or visuals at all throughout.
There are scenes in the hospital and scenes where characters have to be restrained because they are attempting to hurt themselves inside and outside said hospital. However the hospital is not a mental hospital.
mia repeatedly hits herself in the head, could be triggering for some
possessed characters inflict lots of harm on themselves but it’s in a more paranormal matter than anything
The main character fully dissociates after a particularly brutal event, ignoring everyone that is freaking out and walking alone through a hallway. Sound fades out as well.
About halfway through the movie, there is a scene where it’s unclear exactly what’s happening, but a character is trapped among many others, and they’re closely packed around him. This could be triggering.
The main character’s mother kills herself with an overdose of sleeping pills. The aftermath of the father finding her body is shown in a visual flashback/nightmare scene
I think this is up for interpretation, though it's never directly mentioned. There's a traumatic moment in the past. There are definitely lingering issues. But that doesn't necessarily constitute a disorder.
1hr and 10min there is a scene where the main character is possessed in a hospital room and a bloody scene of many spirits/patients flash before her eyes. There is a flash of a femme-person and a newborn baby covered in blood in what looks like a bathtub. It's implied they both die in childbirth.
if this is the scene where she flashes to the torture of the boy, when the spirit girl “let’s her in” the woman is eating the baby, while they’re covered in blood.
1hr and 10min there is a scene where the main character is possessed in a hospital room and a bloody scene of many spirits/patients flash before her eyes. There is a flash of a femme-person and a newborn baby covered in blood in what looks like a bathtub. It's implied they both die in childbirth.
1hr and 10min there is a scene where the main character is possessed in a hospital room and a bloody scene of many spirits/patients flash before her eyes. There is a flash of a femme-person and a newborn baby covered in blood in what looks like a bathtub. It's implied they both die in childbirth.
(Spoilers) near the end of the film a character jumps in traffic and is hit by a car brutally, aftermath is shown but you’ll know when the scene is about to happen, look away when a character takes another character out of the hospital if you want to avoid this scene!
Someone doesn’t down on screen, but one of the dead that the mc contacts and sees is assumed to have drowned, based on her appearance. She looks like she drowned.
SPOILERS If you want to avoid gore, look away when Riley (14 year old younger brother) gets possessed and then any time he starts to move after that. There’s still blood/stabbing type violence in other moments (other comment is accurate with the details) but these are the most graphic