Await Further Instructions
Movie • 2018 • Horror
ReportA dysfunctional family awake on Christmas morning to discover they’re sealed inside their house by a mysterious black substance. On television, a single line of text reads: “Stay Indoors and Await Further Instructions.”
This movie contains 25 potentially triggering events.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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SheepShape
A character slaps their partner across the face. It's directly after another character dies, and it's in their immediate sadness/anger but it should still be noted.
A character explains how their parent beat them as a child (see: Is a child abused?)
A character explains how their parent beat them as a child (see: Is a child abused?)
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A character explains how their parent beat them as a child for wetting the bed.
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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SheepShape
No, but a character is shown taking heavy swigs of alcohol while getting an injury sutured.
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Are there snakes?
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SheepShape
No, although the antagonistic entities are snake-like cords.
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Assault
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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A character's fingers are cut off after being stuck in a slot in the wall.
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Is someone burned alive?
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FayWishes
there is a house on fire in the background, but we don't see any victims or actual damage.
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Is there amputation?
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nodeaddogs
Not of a limb, but a character's fingers are sliced off in a door opening
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Does a head get squashed?
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SheepShape
A television is slammed down on a character's head, but it's in the dark and not too horribly graphic.
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Does someone break a bone?
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A character falls down the stairs and their leg fractures quite graphically. The bone is shown, and they're shown to be in clear pain.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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IndigoBlue14
The grandfather has a seizure, vomits black stuff and dies.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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A character's fingers are cut off after being stuck in a slot in the wall.
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Is someone tortured?
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PoutineSuplex
Someone tied to a chair and beat up, threatened with blade.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Someone falls down a flight of stairs and injures themselves, which later causes them to pass while unconscious.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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No eye mutilation, but a clear threat of it during a torture scene.
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Fear
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An item drops from the fireplace with a loud, sudden noise.
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Is someone possessed?
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A dead body is reanimated after a sentient cord is passed through their body. The corpse speaks and moves.
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Is there a shower scene?
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FayWishes
old man butt, you have been warned.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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A character vomits a black substance before perishing.
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Is there audio gore?
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BundaBird
Bone cracking and blood moving is frequent
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Characters inject themselves using hypodermic needles. Shown in close-up.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Characters are trapped in a house surrounded by an unknown material. There are multiple attempts to break through without any success.
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Does someone die by suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Noxious
Does a baby cry?
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BundaBird
I think so
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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SheepShape
The television flickers rapidly from time to time.
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Pregnancy
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Does someone miscarry?
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PoutineSuplex
A birth is pushed ahead due to bodily trauma of the mother.
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Does a pregnant person die?
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But she's a genuinely horrible person so it's difficult to feel bad about it.
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Prejudice
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Does the black guy die first?
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Kitm
No, but there's lots of racism.
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Is there hate speech?
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The entire family is racist though, and it comes into play in the plot a few times.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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[MAJOR SPOILERS] All of the characters introduced, save for an infant, are dead by the end of the film. It can be implied at the the rest of the world suffered the same fates.
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Violence
Is there a nuclear explosion?
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No nuclear explosion occurs, however, there is a singular comment that mentions one.
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Is there blood/gore?
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BundaBird
A lot
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