With his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, they're attacked by an unseen animal and barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. But as the night stretches on, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable.
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It’s implied that Blake’s dad might’ve been at least emotionally abusive. We see him yelling at the boy early on, then Blake mentions how he left home as soon as he could. Mild.
Not in a way one would think. After getting scratched he gets a little forceful with his wife . Later, as a wolf, he does attack her,or tries. Just putting this here for anyone who may be wondering.
Not literally, but an emotionally abused child says he never wants to hurt his family, then turns into a werewolf who might uncontrollably hurt his family
In the beginning is a flashback to Blake's childhood. His dad is short with him and yells and grabs him angrily at one point.
In the present, Blake has a temper that he tries to keep in check for the sake of daughter but it is reminiscent of (not as bad as) his verbally abusive dad.
There is a deer at the beginning when father and son are hunting. It gets attacked by an unknown beast. The death is off screen but you do see a brief panning shot of the carcass that's been disemboweled
There’s a spider in one scene. However, it doesn’t touch any of the people or anything like that. It’s shown because Blake’s hearing is amplified by the disease and the sound of the spider is very loud to him.
The movie opens on a close up shot of ants attacking a wasp. The sound is loud and off-putting. There's no real reason or call back to this scene later, so it's a strange choice to open the film.
As others have mentioned, fingernails are shown gruesomely falling off and someone is shown with fingers missing. One not mentioned already is that someone grabs the blade of a knife and their hand is sliced. It's done in passing and not in close-up, but still worth mentioning.
Very much yes. More so than any werewolf movie I can think of. Writer/director Leigh Whannell said he drew inspiration from The Fly (1986), and the body horror influence is very prominent.
A Wolf Man vomits up a finger. Later, another Wolf Man is seen with severed fingers, implying they were bitten off by the other and eaten. Also, not sure if this counts, but at least one of Blake’s fingernails pop off as he digs them into the floor.
Multiple scares throughout. I don’t remember them all but will add what I can. Spoilers
A couple minor scares in the opening 10 minutes in the deer blind.
After the moving truck crash, Blake tries to close the opened door and is attacked.
When Blake stands by the back door of the house sniffing for the wolf man, he is attacked through the dog door.
When Charlotte takes the family to the old truck to escape, there is a lot of tension as she tries to get it running. When she finally does, the windshield wipers wipe away the dust to reveal the wolf man standing there.
A couple of scenes take place at a hunting structure in the woods. I think there might be a lake or something in the background, but it’s far away and not the focus.
The only actual instance is towards the end after the little girl goes "what am I thinking" and the dad starts gagging. It's very clear what's about to happen
As Blake transforms, he starts to lose his ability to see people in the same way, and he can no longer understand people. The disease eats away at him. In a scene where his mind starts to go, he wets himself.
As Blake transforms, Charlotte undoes the gauze around his arm from the wolf scratch, to see that the skin is gone and bone is visible. Blake’s mind is already going, so be scratches vigorously at this open wound, then bites his arm. It might be worth noting that this isn’t really intentional self harm, but he’s more just reacting like how an animal might, since the disease is taking over.
This is hard to answer. Not in a way that can happen in real life. But the way Blake is isolated in his head and loses his human sense could potentially be triggering for some.
Sorta? Blake’s transformation is slow. There’s very much a focus on it from all main characters. But it’s not like a flaw he’s trying to hide, more like a series of medical emergencies happening. Sorry if this doesn’t fit, I’m just trying to be thorough since no one else has voted on this at the time I’m writing.
Sorta; I wouldn’t say the camera shakes in the traditional sense, but there are moments that follow a character’s movements. For example, in one scene, Blake doubles over like he’s about to be sick, and the camera turns a bit counter-clockwise to keep him in frame. The camera is steady technically, but those sudden movements might bother some. There are also some action scenes where things move quickly, which might count as a shakey camera.
I don’t think there’s any flashing lights. During the action scenes, some of the shots are very short, making it look like everything is happening quickly. Moments where a flashlight is pointed towards the camera, but not blinking or anything.
No, definitely not. But I think it’s worth mentioning that the disease slowly eats away at Blake’s mind. He loses the ability to understand others, to see recognize his family. He then loses control over bodily functions, and his mind deteriorates. For me, I recognized similarities to a real memory disorder, so I just wanted to mention it in case anyone finds it similar enough to be triggering.