A Nightmare On Elm Street

Movie • 2010 • Horror  

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The film that brings back horror icon Freddy Krueger as a darker and more sinister character than ever before. While Freddy is on the prowl a group of teenagers being stalked soon learn they all have a common factor making them targets for this twisted killer.
This movie contains 45 potentially triggering events.
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Your Triggers
Does the dog die?
170 supporters
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63
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AdamHirsch
The dog is shown dead, but it’s a dream. It is never made clear if the dog really is dead since it wasn’t his dream.
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Unanswered Triggers
Is an animal sad?
39 supporters
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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0
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
16 supporters
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0
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0
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
13 supporters
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0
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0
Is there decapitation?
12 supporters
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0
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0
Is there BDSM?
10 supporters
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0
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0
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
10 supporters
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0
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0
Does a major character die?
10 supporters
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0
Is someone's mouth covered?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
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0
Are there demons or Hell?
8 supporters
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Abandonment
Yes
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3
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WellButtered
A dog is left outside in the yard, where it gets killed.
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
25 supporters
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3
Yes
0
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3
Is someone stalked?
12 supporters
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17
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6
3
WellButtered
The protagonists and multiple other teenagers are being hunted down by Freddy for the entire film, and while this isn’t the usual form of stalking, I believe it still counts as they’re constantly afraid of him showing up and harming them.
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Is there domestic violence?
44 supporters
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0
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20
Yes
0
No
3
Yes
16
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7
1
Mia
Multiple people are constantly told that they are being ridiculous for thinking a dream is real, that they should just relax, or that it’s all in their heads and nothing bad will happen. I do think this is an example of gaslighting, even though it wasn’t intentional and the people doing it didn’t know any better at that point in the story.

Gaslight: “manipulate (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.”
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Is a child abused?
59 supporters
Yes
34
No
0
6
HannahNeuman
The whole story is based around molestation and the kids regaining memories and finding photos of it. Like, literally the whole movie.
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Addiction
4
WellButtered
Quentin is seen using “Zoneral” which is essentially Adderall throughout the movie to stay awake. He also steals syringes of medical adrenaline and is seen using it on himself once and then once again to wake up Nancy.
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Is there addiction?
6 supporters
Yes
7
No
11
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WellButtered
While there is no real addiction, there is a scene in which Quentin has to beg the pharmacist for more adderal to stay awake because the pharmacist assumes Quentin is popping them. Quentin is seen using these pills throughout the movie to avoid sleeping.
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3
No
19
4
WellButtered
Not in this film. Nancy’s mother is an alcoholic in the original and in the first draft script for 2010, but not in the 2010 film.
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
61 supporters
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0
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6
Does a horse die?
49 supporters
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24
Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
87 supporters
Yes
33
No
8
2
Bunyip
Rufus the dog 😞
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Are animals abused?
101 supporters
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6
No
11
Yes
0
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23
Yes
26
No
1
2
zaidelles
This category is not intended to include dogs, which is a separate trigger category. There are no other dead animals.
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Are rabbits harmed?
35 supporters
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4
Does a cat die?
91 supporters
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0
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25
Does a pet die?
79 supporters
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Yes
5
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0
Does a dragon die?
16 supporters
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Yes
0
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24
Are there spiders?
26 supporters
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18
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0
Are there alligators/crocodiles??
2 supporters
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0
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3
Are there snakes?
10 supporters
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20
Are there sharks?
5 supporters
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3
Are there bugs?
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19
Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
8 supporters
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1
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2
Is someone drugged?
13 supporters
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1
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2
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WellButtered
drugs are mentioned and used by main characters to stay awake, and the main character narrowly avoids being given a sedative in the hospital
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Is there pedophilia?
57 supporters
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6
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0
2
zaidelles
Gone into in detail.
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Is someone held under water?
8 supporters
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2
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1
Is rape mentioned?
39 supporters
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6
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0
Yes
4
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1
1
Someone is restrained by an unseen force
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Yes
32
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0
7
WellButtered
There’s many mentions of sexual assault. Spoilers ahead: Freddy Krueger is established as a pedophile who sexually assaulted many (if not all) of the kids who went to Badham Preschool. There are scenes where Parents discuss what happened, and a scene where Quentin and Nancy find proof of his happening. But there is also a scene near the end of the film where Freddy has Nancy restrained and it is very heavily implied that he is about to assault her. This scene goes on for a while before Quentin saves her.
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Samanthaselina
There is mention of sexual assault of young boys and girls but no jokes
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Samanthaselina
There is moments that are very uncomfortable and the villain speaks to the victim in a way that would insinuate he would be leading to it
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Bodily Harm
Yes
28
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0
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WellButtered
Freddy has a blade-glove with which he is frequently seen cutting things and people along with scraping his blades against items.
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Are any hands damaged?
10 supporters
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2
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1
Are there dislocations?
5 supporters
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1
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2
Is there throat mutilation?
10 supporters
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3
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0
Yes
16
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0
1
Mia
I think this happens more than once throughout the film, but I only remember during a swim meet Quinton ended up almost drowning and struggled to breathe when he finally woke up
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Is there cannibalism?
21 supporters
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14
Is someone crushed to death?
12 supporters
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0
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4
Is someone choked?
11 supporters
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2
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1
Yes
31
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0
3
WellButtered
Spoilers: In Quentin’s dream-sequence Freddy is shown being trapped in a building and then burned alive by use of a molotov by the parents of the children he assaulted. It shows him on fire before rushing out of the building towards Quentin, where you can see him burning. Quentin and Nancy also attempt to burn his "dead" body at the end of the film.
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Is someone buried alive?
11 supporters
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18
Is there body horror?
25 supporters
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3
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0
Is there amputation?
11 supporters
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10
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4
3
Bunyip
Freddy's forearm is cut off in the scuffle between him & the 2 main protagonists towards the end
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Does a head get squashed?
28 supporters
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Yes
12
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2
Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
11 supporters
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0
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4
Is there a hanging?
18 supporters
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4
No
11
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Maktopus
A character is strangled.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
13 supporters
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2
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2
Are any teeth damaged?
21 supporters
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Yes
0
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19
Does someone become unconscious?
2 supporters
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3
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0
Does someone break a bone?
11 supporters
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17
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0
Yes
2
No
16
2
tylerjay
(spoiler) When Chloe dies in the beginning, her struggling in her sleep looks like a seizure
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
40 supporters
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0
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9
Is there finger/toe mutilation?
26 supporters
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Yes
13
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4
Is someone tortured?
52 supporters
Yes
24
No
1
3
WellButtered
Freddy is seen and heard torturing multiple of the teenagers before killing them. This is reoccurring.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
2 supporters
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0
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4
Does someone fall to their death?
5 supporters
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0
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17
Yes
22
No
0
5
WellButtered
At the very end of the movie Ms. Holbrook gets Freddy’s blades stabbed through the back of her head, it’s shown stabbing right through her eyes.
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Is someone stabbed?
5 supporters
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3
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0
Is there excessive gore?
44 supporters
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Yes
5
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2
Children
Is an infant abducted?
10 supporters
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0
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4
Does a kid die?
24 supporters
Yes
27
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2
3
WellButtered
All of Freddy’s victims are teenagers, most under the age of 18.
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Is a minor sexualized?
56 supporters
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Yes
5
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0
Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
7 supporters
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0
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3
Death
Does a non-human character die?
15 supporters
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Yes
1
No
2
Does someone die?
8 supporters
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Yes
3
No
0
Disability
Is the r-slur used?
19 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Yes
0
No
3
Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
7 supporters
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0
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4
Family
Is someone kidnapped?
6 supporters
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Yes
0
No
18
Does a parent die?
6 supporters
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30
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0
2
WellButtered
Spoilers: Nancy’s mother is killed by Freddy at the very end of the film.
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Does someone cheat?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
No
17
Is a child's toy destroyed?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
No
15
Does a family member die?
8 supporters
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Yes
3
No
0
Fear
Are there jumpscares?
27 supporters
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Yes
24
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0
Yes
6
No
12
0
WellButtered
While not in the usual form, Dean’s death scene could be seen as him be possessed by Freddy to kill himself.
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Are there ghosts?
5 supporters
Yes
18
No
2
2
Hooligan
While he's technically a demon, Freddy could be considered a ghost.
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Are there clowns?
8 supporters
Yes
4
No
15
6
aspirin
about an hour and 15 minutes in theres a clown mask on the wall behind one of the characters, but its only shown for a few seconds and not focused on whatsoever
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WellButtered
pools and near drownings shown
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Yes
1
No
2
Yes
22
No
0
4
WellButtered
A mirrored scene of the original Nancy bath scene. Nancy is seen getting into the bath, falling asleep in the bathtub, Freddy’s glove reaches up out of the water in-between her legs, and then she is awoken by Quentin’s phone call
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Are there mannequins?
3 supporters
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3
Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
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9
Does someone vomit?
55 supporters
Yes
13
No
6
3
WellButtered
Quentin is seen puking up mostly water after almost drowning during swim practice
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Is someone eaten?
15 supporters
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Yes
0
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3
Is there on-screen pooping?
19 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Does someone spit?
7 supporters
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Yes
1
No
16
Is there audio gore?
26 supporters
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17
No
0
1
lilstinkystink
when characters get injured you'll hear nasty noises.
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Is there farting?
5 supporters
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0
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3
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
3 supporters
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0
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4
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
11
Is there incarceration?
3 supporters
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Yes
1
No
2
LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
17 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Are there transphobic slurs?
22 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Yes
0
No
3
Is there bisexual cheating?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
2 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
No
20
Yes
24
No
0
3
lilstinkystink
2 instances of adrenaline shots later in the movie.

*spoilers* obviously
1 in the car after the hospital scene
1 at the climax near the end
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WellButtered
Other commenter is thinking of the wrong movie
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Yes
25
No
0
3
WellButtered
A long hospital scene where Quentin brings Nancy in after being attacked by Freddy. Nancy is shown being extremely distressed. Quentin is also driven off in an Ambulance at the end of the film. And while this isn’t in the original cutting, one of the alternate beginnings of the film shows Freddy in the hospital after being burnt alive.
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Does someone have cancer?
9 supporters
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Yes
0
No
20
Mental Health
Yes
6
No
1
1
zaidelles
Not explicit/namedropped.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
11 supporters
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Yes
2
No
1
Yes
32
No
1
3
HannahNeuman
The girl burns her arm with a car lighter to stay awake.
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Is autism misrepresented?
16 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Is a mentally ill person violent?
13 supporters
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Yes
1
No
8
Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
1
Samanthaselina
Someone dies where people think he has commited suicide but the audience knows it wasn’t the case.
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
8 supporters
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Yes
3
No
0
Does someone have a meltdown?
3 supporters
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Yes
2
No
1
Is there misophonia?
21 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Is there ABA therapy?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Is there body dysphoria?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Is there body dysmorphia?
14 supporters
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Yes
0
No
18
Yes
0
No
11
Are there anxiety attacks?
15 supporters
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Yes
8
No
10
Is there a claustrophobic scene?
13 supporters
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Yes
3
No
13
Yes
0
No
20
Is there autism specific abuse?
26 supporters
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Yes
0
No
16
9
Anonymous
spoiler alert technically freddy makes him do it
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Noxious
Are there sudden loud noises?
16 supporters
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Yes
3
No
0
Does a baby cry?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Is there shakey cam?
22 supporters
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Yes
1
No
11
Is there obscene language/gestures?
3 supporters
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Yes
3
No
1
Are there flashing lights or images?
20 supporters
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Yes
13
No
0
Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
0 supporters
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Yes
3
No
0
Is the fourth wall broken?
4 supporters
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Yes
0
No
6
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
6
Is there childbirth?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
No
20
Are there abortions?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
20
Are there babies or unborn children?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
6
Does someone miscarry?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
No
22
Does a pregnant person die?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
20
Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
24 supporters
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Yes
0
No
21
Yes
0
No
20
5
WellButtered
There are no people of color in this film besides an asian character who has a very very short and mostly off-screen death.
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Are there homophobic slurs?
23 supporters
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Yes
0
No
15
Yes
0
No
17
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
14 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Is there hate speech?
14 supporters
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Yes
1
No
16
Is a minority is misrepresented?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Does an LGBT person die?
19 supporters
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Yes
0
No
22
Yes
0
No
17
Are there n-words?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
No
15
Is there aphobia?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Race
Is there blackface?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Relationships
Yes
2
No
3
1
zaidelles
There is explicit pedophilia in the movie. There are no large age-gaps in any of the actual adult relationships.
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Religious
Yes
2
No
1
0
WellButtered
Quentin, one of the main characters, is religious. There is a scene in which his religion along with a cross pendant he wears is discussed.
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
29 supporters
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Yes
25
No
1
Is someone sexually objectified?
21 supporters
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Yes
5
No
1
Are there nude scenes?
17 supporters
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Yes
1
No
3
Is there bestiality?
44 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Are there incestuous relationships?
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43 supporters
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Yes
0
No
21
Sexism
Yes
0
No
5
Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
4 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Does someone have a chronic illness?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Is someone terminally ill?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Social
Is someone homeless?
3 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Are there anti-abortion themes?
19 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Are there fat suits?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Is existentialism debated?
6 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
16
Are there end credit scenes?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Yes
19
No
1
2
WellButtered
Spoilers ahead: After it’s established that Quentin and Nancy have presumably beaten Freddy once and for all, Nancy goes home with her mother. During their conversation, Freddy appears again and kills Ms. Holbrook, ending the film on a cliff-hanger
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
3 supporters
Yes
19
No
0
3
WellButtered
Quentin swerves off of the road after seeing a hallucination of Freddy appear in front of the car, causing them to crash in the ditch.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
4 supporters
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Yes
3
No
2
Does a plane crash?
4 supporters
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Yes
0
No
19
Yes
0
No
17
2
WellButtered
Freddy appears in the road as a hallucination of Quentin’s, but he swerves before hitting him.
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
2 supporters
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Yes
0
No
18
Is there blood/gore?
27 supporters
Yes
22
No
0
3
WellButtered
Lots of it!
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Does someone drown?
9 supporters
Yes
10
No
7
5
WellButtered
While technically no, there is a scene where Quentin falls asleep during a swim team practice and is shown being dragged under and flailing around in the water, after the dream sequence that follows, he is shown being resuscitated outside of the pool
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Is there gun violence?
7 supporters
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Yes
0
No
15