The Faculty

Movie • 1998 • Horror  

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When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make a chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet!
This movie contains 45 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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Are there abusive parents?
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Does a major character die?
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Does a family member die?
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Is someone choked?
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Are there dislocations?
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Abandonment
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Cryptid_Crow
Zeke is basically abandoned by his parents.
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
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Is someone stalked?
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Cryptid_Crow
YES! There's a couple where one of them screams at and hits the other one. This is shown multiple times.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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rminto
I'd only argue that Elijah Wood's character is made to feel/look insane by The Faculty towards his parents but that's kind of a stretch
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
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VelBloo
Characters purchase drugs from Zeke. Later, Zeke's drugs are used as a weapon against aliens, as well as a test to weed out potential alien threats.
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Is there addiction?
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Cryptid_Crow
One of the teachers drinks, and is drunk, while teaching.
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
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undeadcoymolly
Yes. A rat dies and there is an audible sound when it happens.
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Are animals abused?
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Anonymous
Zeke’s rat is used as a test subject when analyzing the alien.
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Is there a dead animal?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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Cryptid_Crow
Butterflies. The parasites sort of resemble slugs, but the only actual bugs are butterflies.
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Assault
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fraisierdesbois
A teenage girl gets punched with a tentacle lol
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Is someone drugged?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Cryptid_Crow
A teacher and a student have a thing between them.
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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skillwithaquill24
Casey gets beaten up by a group of bullies.
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VelBloo
Someone is poorly tied up in a sports net. So poorly, they escape pretty easily
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Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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RussellOreo
A teacher controller by aliens hits on an 18 year old student, but its fairly PG
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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skillwithaquill24
A woman has a pencil impaled through her hand by a man. Her blood smears on things (a door, keys, a lock) as she tries to escape him.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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undeadcoymolly
I cannot remember her name right now, but the old lady wheezes when she finds the jock in the shower. She's sort of wheezing and wheezes out that she can't breathe.
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Cryptid_Crow
No! Nobody is crushed to death. One character is pinned by something as a means of restraint, but nobody gets crushed.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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Is there amputation?
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VelBloo
Removal of fingers, and later an entire head
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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awerling
It's a very brief moment in a passing background shot, but a character's groin gets repeatedly slammed against a sign pole by bullies.
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skillwithaquill24
Stokely hits her head on the ground and passes out.
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Does someone break a bone?
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skillwithaquill24
Not strictly a seizure, but a character infected with the alien parasite writhes and contorts in a very similar way while dying.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Dawniblood_666
Zeke cuts off mr furlongs fingers.
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Is someone tortured?
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VelBloo
Stokely is knocked down some bleachers
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Gab
What the other person mention, and also towards the end a character does the same thing to a monster. This happens after the bleachers close in on the monster and the character grips the pen tightly in his hand.
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Is someone stabbed?
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skillwithaquill24
Principal Drake is repeatedly stabbed (and presumably killed) with a pair of scissors. In an earlier attack, she’s stabbed through the hand with a pencil.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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Cryptid_Crow
Infested, but not killed.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does a non-human character die?
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Does someone die?
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Disability
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Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Does someone cheat?
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Are there jump scares?
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VelBloo
A character is approached in the school showers by a delirious woman whose scalp is bleeding and peeling off.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Anonymous
once someone is infected with the alien they are possessed.
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Are there razors?
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Cryptid_Crow
There are scalpels, though.
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skillwithaquill24
A CPR doll that looks very similar to a mannequin
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Safe!
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
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Is someone eaten?
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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Is there audio gore?
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Cryptid_Crow
Yes.
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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VelBloo
The cops are useless
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Is there incarceration?
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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VelBloo
No, but aliens are injected with pens that are filled with a powder drug.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Is there menstruation?
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Does someone have cancer?
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Mental Health
Does someone self harm?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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MykkaAyumi
Loud swallowing.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Is there body dysphoria?
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Is there shakey cam?
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there screaming?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Does a pregnant person die?
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Prejudice
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Dawniblood_666
Stokely repeatedly has homophobic slurs hurled at them. Lesbian specific.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Cryptid_Crow
That beings said, teenage boys are repeatedly referred to as "pussy-pukes."
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Are there fat jokes?
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Is there aphobia?
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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Does the black guy die first?
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Is there hate speech?
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VelBloo
Delilah makes some pretty homophobic remarks and treats Stokely very poorly.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
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Cryptid_Crow
The age gap isn't big, but it would be statutory r*pe.
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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Is there bestiality?
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Does someone lose their virginity?
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skillwithaquill24
A character meant to be a high school girl walks around nude. She’s in shadows but they don’t cover much on modern screens.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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VelBloo
A woman is offered condoms (this makes her uncomfortable). Later, an adult alien attempts to seduce a student, and near the end, an alien walks around in a nude human form.
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Is there BDSM?
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Sexism
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awerling
No, but there is excessive bullying of a male character, who is belittled (by both boys and girls), mocked by the coach, and physically abused. I'd love to see bullying as a category here, as I find it to be very upsetting.
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Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
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Does someone have a stroke?
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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Is someone homeless?
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Is existentialism debated?
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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skillwithaquill24
Everyone (presumably except Principal Drake, who isn’t seen in the epilogue or the post-credits scenes) survives the alien attack, even the teachers and students who were infected and gravely injured.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
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Dawniblood_666
When Zeke and Ms Burke are in his car he intentionally crashes it into a school bus. She goes through the windscreen.
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Does a plane crash?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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undeadcoymolly
No, but Stokely gets pulled into the water after being knocked unconscious briefly. She gets out no problem thanks to Casey.
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Is there blood/gore?
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VelBloo
There are stabbings, slicings, shootings, and some people literally dissolve and stuff. Not over the top violent (imo) but there's definitely plenty.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Gab
A woman is shot in the forehead
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