After carefree teenager Jay sleeps with her new boyfriend, Hugh, for the first time, she learns that she is the latest recipient of a fatal curse that is passed from victim to victim via sexual intercourse. Death, Jay learns, will creep inexorably toward her as either a friend or a stranger. Jay's friends don't believe her seemingly paranoid ravings, until they too begin to see the phantom assassins and band together to help her flee or defend herself.
No one intentionally gaslights someone, but someone is not believed, because she can see things others can't. I'm not sure to what degree she doubts her own perception because of this.
Sort of. It's not a human doing the stalking, but the creature does follow the characters wherever they go. It finds them and hunts them down relentlessly, breaking into homes and following them when they go on a beach trip.
No but it’s sort of talked around. People who don’t know about the entity ask jay about “what really happened that night?” Assuming she’d been assaulted (which technically she was) and was in denial about it.
At the very start of the movie a characters body is shown dead at the beach severely brutalized and contorted, it's super brief but also really creepy. Fast forward a bit when she's talking on the phone with her dad at the beach if you wanna miss that.
I think one scene qualifies (about three minutes in to the movie, according to another commenter): We see a dead person whose extremely broken leg (so to speak) has been placed in a sickeningly unnatural angle - bent the opposite way to how a leg normally bends by the knee, toes pointing towards the person's stomach. The way the body is positioned with the bent leg looks absolutely bizarre, and we're definitely meant to be shocked, disturbed and disgusted by the sight.
This ones a bit tricky... The onus that drives the plot is passed on by sex, and one character offers to take it off another character's hands, knowing full well what would happen. Furthermore, the ending is ambiguous on what was accomplished and could very well be seen as self sacrifice for the sake of being together "at the end"
The main character's father is dead before the movie begins, his death is mentioned, and (spoilers) the creature shapeshifts into him at the end of the film.
Cops do appear and question the main character. They are not praised or talked about in any negative/positive light, but are on screen for a small amount of time.
I’m not sure why there were yes votes. There is no cheating in this movie, nobody is in any established relationship beyond jay/Hugh “dating” but that ends quickly
No, but there is a drawn out scene where characters attempt to lure the evil entity into a pool in an effort to electrocute it. Various electric appliances are plugged into outlets near a pool beforehand. They are thrown in, but no electrical violence occurs.
No, but someone decides to stop running from the killer and sits down to wait for certain death. While waiting, she calls her parents to say she loves them and that she's sorry for sometimes being a dick to them (or the like) - akin to a suicide letter.
It’s one of the last scenes of the movie. A character is reading something out loud with a mouth full of food. It’s very noisy. And there’s no background music to drown it out.
Not exactly, but there are multiple times when characters are trapped for a certain amount of time in one room, and also a near drowning at the end of the film.
Not language, but in the film the monster is portrayed often as people with "unusual" body types. A very tall man, an elderly woman, and a disheveled woman with possibly bashed in teeth. The fact that these people are supposed to be scarier because they're "abnormal" can have ableist undertones.
Hate speech, no. Dog whistles, yes. The characters have a short discussion about being told never to go south of 8 Mile. Anyone who’s lived in Southeast Michigan will know this as a racist and classist dog whistle of a statement
I kind of think that is one of the core concepts of the horror here. The use of sex as a transmitted curse. The need to be chosen and sexualized for that. The 'evil thing' therefore, becomes a predatory entity. I could be wrong though.