Does the dog die?
87 supporters
The Fly
Movie • 1986 • Horror
ReportWhen Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
This movie contains 42 potentially triggering events.
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Your Triggers
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huviks
No dogs die. Baboons die, and a cat (in some versions), and a Brundlefly do.
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Unanswered Triggers
Were animals harmed in the making?
25 supporters
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ErinHollow
I watched the behind the scenes documentary and it looked like the monkey was treated very well
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Is an animal sad?
14 supporters
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ErinHollow
Seth tells the second baboon that he's sorry he killed its brother. Baboon doesn't seem to care
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Yes
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Abandonment
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
13 supporters
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UnagioLucio
Parent-child relationships are not shown in this movie.
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Is someone stalked?
8 supporters
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Ryukocha
A woman is followed by her ex-boyfriend in a car. He also shows up at her apartment unannounced.
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Yes
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GentlyUsedLamp
Not in a direct physical context, but brundlfly's relationship with Veronica takes on an abusive tone towards the end (kidnaps her and tries to force her to "meld" with him) which could definitely be triggering
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Yes
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Yes
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Addiction
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huviks
No, although Brundle's initial stages of becoming Brundlefly are coded as drug use/abuse
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Is there addiction?
3 supporters
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huviks
No, although Brundle's initial stages of becoming Brundlefly are coded as drug use/abuse
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
3 supporters
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JellicleBat
Brundle gets frustration-tipsy alone after his love interest leaves. Minor for alcohol abuse, but it does contribute to him doing a Very Big Mistake.
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Animal
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Yes
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cswick2010
A monkey dies when it gets teleported and turns inside out. Ive only seen the 1 monkey die. And a deleted scene a cat and a monkey gets emerged together and is deformed. And then gets killed.
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Are animals abused?
60 supporters
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toastily
a baboon is used in a science experiment, brutally dies because of it
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Yes
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Does a cat die?
47 supporters
Yes
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Quiet_Wyatt
In a deleted / bonus scene depending on your DVD, a cat and a monkey come to a mutual miserable end.
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Does a pet die?
40 supporters
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UnagioLucio
If you consider the baboon used in experiments to be a pet, then yes. The first baboon to be teleported gets turned inside out and dies shortly thereafter. The second baboon survives in the theatrical cut. However, there's a deleted scene where the baboon is fused with a cat, and the resulting monstrosity is beaten to death with a pipe.
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Are there spiders?
14 supporters
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huviks
None in this version
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Yes
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Are there bugs?
8 supporters
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huviks
Well, what do YOU think?
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Assault
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Bodily Harm
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
7 supporters
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JellicleBat
Kinda, but they're struggling to, like, live at that point, so it's more like a general struggle
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Is there cannibalism?
12 supporters
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UnagioLucio
The Brundlefly melts off a man's hand and foot by regurgitating digestive enzymes, but he does not attempt to consume what's left.
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Yes
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Is someone burned alive?
10 supporters
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bricker
melted by acid
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Is there body horror?
12 supporters
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UnagioLucio
Body horror is central to the film's premise of undergoing a slow, irreversible, uncontrollable transformation. Plenty of gruesome details, such as body parts mutating or falling off, are clearly shown.
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Is there amputation?
4 supporters
Yes
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ErinHollow
Brundlefly melts off someone's hand and foot
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Does a head get squashed?
16 supporters
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More like it explodes...
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
7 supporters
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QuietWyatt
But something absolutely horrible happens to the front of a character's ankle in the finale.
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Are any teeth damaged?
12 supporters
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Simonzra
Teeth fall out
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Does someone break a bone?
8 supporters
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Ensigera
Arm wrestling. I am in the veterinary profession and I still can't watch this scene: compound fracture of the ulna graphically and very well done.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
18 supporters
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ErinHollow
Implied but not shown on-screen
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
11 supporters
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notgoingtoaddcomments
Including fingernails falling off.
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Is someone tortured?
30 supporters
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soladios
Brundle's downfall could be considered psychological torture
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Is there eye mutilation?
27 supporters
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UnagioLucio
During the climax, the Brundlefly's outer face gruesomely falls off, including its eyeballs, to reveal the monster underneath.
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Is there excessive gore?
26 supporters
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Pretty infrequent, not necessarily "excessive", but the gore shown is pretty gnarly; particularly a broken bone during an arm wrestling scene a little after midway-through
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Children
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Does a kid die?
13 supporters
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UnagioLucio
Kids do not appear in the movie.
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Is a minor sexualized?
28 supporters
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UnagioLucio
There are no children in the movie.
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Death
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Does a non-human character die?
7 supporters
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UnagioLucio
The Brundlefly dies at the end of the movie.
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Does a major character die?
5 supporters
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UnagioLucio
The main character, Seth Brundle, dies at the very end. After being accidentally fused with a broken telepod, his body is mangled beyond repair, and he begs for death by holding the barrel of a shotgun to his head. His lover reluctantly obliges his last request.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Does someone cheat?
7 supporters
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ErinHollow
Seth hooks up with Tawny. It's a little unclear if that's cheating or if his "plasma pool" speech was him intending to break up with Veronica and then moving on to Tawny, but from the way he reacts when Veronica catches him, I think he was cheating on her
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Fear
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Are there jumpscares?
16 supporters
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ErinHollow
Three. One after the first baboon teleportation, one in the abortion clinic, and one when Stathis is in the lab.
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Yes
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Yes
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hermitcrab
An electric razor
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Is there a shower scene?
0 supporters
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toastily
a side character is seen in a shower momentarily, though nothing below his shoulders is seen
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Gross
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Does someone vomit?
31 supporters
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bricker
Brundlefly vomits white goo several times. Looks pretty gross.
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Does someone spit?
5 supporters
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3
Vomits goop ONSCREEN when he tries to eat a donut. (Very brief) it’s on his hand afterward.
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Yes
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Yes
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Medical
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Does someone have cancer?
1 supporters
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Quiet_Wyatt
Not cancer, but a graphically degenerative disease.
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Yes
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Mental Health
Is there body dysphoria?
6 supporters
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1
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ErinHollow
He goes back and forth between embracing it and panicking at his reflection in the mirror, even becoming enraged at his own body
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Is there body dysmorphia?
10 supporters
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bricker
There is a lot of body horror in the latter half, but no body dysmorphia (=distorted perceptions of one's regular human body)
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OJAndToothpaste
In one final act of humanity, Seth points Veronica's gun at his head, urging her to finish him off and put him out of his misery.
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Yes
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Yes
2
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
11 supporters
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ErinHollow
No, but there are some food issues. Seth's eating habits change drastically until he can't eat normally
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
6 supporters
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soladios
a creature asks non verbally to be killed
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Ryukocha
Not directly, but a character asks for another character to kill him by pointing the end of a gun to his head.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
6 supporters
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UnagioLucio
There is a scene where a character is locked in a telepod against her will.
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Noxious
Is there obscene language/gestures?
3 supporters
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ErinHollow
It's an r rated movie. There's cussing
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No
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Yes
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Yes
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Paranoia
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Is someone watched without knowing?
6 supporters
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ErinHollow
Brundlefly watches from the roof as Stathis and Veronica talk
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Pregnancy
Are there babies or unborn children?
1 supporters
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Not shown but very major plot point around an unborn child
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Are there abortions?
7 supporters
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bricker
[SPOILERS] There is a scene that shows the actual procedure of an abortion right up to the removal of the fetus, but this ends up being a dream. The woman tries to go through with it again in real life, and is in the operating room when they are interrupted.
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Is a baby stillborn?
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ErinHollow
No but if you're sensitive to that, proceed with caution
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Is there childbirth?
1 supporters
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Specifically childbirth of an insect/human hybrid, very likely to be traumatic
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Prejudice
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Yes
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Yes
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
13 supporters
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7
No
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SLIGHT LAST ACT SPOILERS:
They claim a baby being deformed as reason for abortion (though this isn't the truth)
They claim a baby being deformed as reason for abortion (though this isn't the truth)
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
15 supporters
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ErinHollow
No, but there's a student/teacher relationship mentioned
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Sex
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Yes
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NearEastMugwump
No one in this movie (aside from Seth and Veronica's unborn child) is related, so by default there can be no incestuous relationships.
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Is there bestiality?
25 supporters
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ErinHollow
No, but Brundlefly describes his condition as being "mated" with a fly, and after he's part fly he sleeps with two women.
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Is there sexual content?
16 supporters
Yes
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0
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soladios
characters are seen during and after intercourse, nothing too explicit and no genitalia is shown
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Yes
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0
Does someone lose their virginity?
4 supporters
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1
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ErinHollow
According to the director, Seth loses his virginity the first time he sleeps with Veronica, but in the film it's not brought up that it's his first time
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Sexism
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Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
9 supporters
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QuietWyatt
The character's gradual loss of mind & humanity is as horrifying as his physical decay.
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Yes
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2
Yes
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Social
Are there anti-abortion themes?
10 supporters
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OJAndToothpaste
Veronica wants to get an abortion and Seth objects, not because of any anti abortion bias but because he views the baby as the only remnant of his humanity.
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Yes
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
10 supporters
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OJAndToothpaste
I would say so. And to think it all went downhill because of a tiny little bug that went undetected.
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Vehicular
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Yes
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Violence
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25
Yes
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Is there blood/gore?
15 supporters
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33
No
0
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bricker
There is extreme body horror and no shortage of viscera.
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Is there gun violence?
4 supporters
Yes
29
No
0
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toastily
a character is shot near the end of the movie
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