The Fly
Movie • 1986 • Horror
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Your Triggers
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Abandonment
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Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
10 supporters
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It's more of an angry storming out at several points
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Abuse
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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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Are there abusive parents?
69 supporters
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Parent-child relationships are not shown in this movie.
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
53 supporters
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Stathis is shown to be a mysogynistic (though not explicitly abusive) ex of Veronica's, with an inherent power imbalance in their relationship as he is also her boss. Throughout the film she is shown to be offput by his repeated attempts to win her back. In the end, he helps save Veronica and she becomes closer to him again through her need for comfort through the trauma.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone stalked?
30 supporters
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A woman is followed by her ex-boyfriend in a car. He also shows up at her apartment unannounced.
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
24 supporters
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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 Death
Does a cat die?
285 supporters
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In a deleted / bonus scene depending on your DVD, a cat and a monkey come to a mutual miserable end.
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A monkey dies when it gets teleported and turns inside out. Ive only seen the 1 monkey die.
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Does a pet die?
272 supporters
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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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Is there a dead animal?
196 supporters
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A baboon is turned inside-out in a failed teleportation experiment, and the grisly aftermath is shown.
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Animal Distress
Are animals abused?
322 supporters
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a baboon is used in a science experiment, brutally dies because of it
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Were animals harmed in the making?
235 supporters
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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?
157 supporters
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Seth tells the second baboon that he's sorry he killed its brother. Baboon doesn't seem to care
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Animal Phobia
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Are there bugs?
52 supporters
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see title for more details
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Appendages
Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
119 supporters
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Implied but not shown on-screen
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
83 supporters
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Including fingernails falling off.
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Is there amputation?
54 supporters
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Brundlefly melts off someone's hand and foot
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
44 supporters
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But something absolutely horrible happens to the front of a character's ankle in the finale.
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Does someone break a bone?
41 supporters
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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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Are any hands damaged?
32 supporters
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Fingernails fall off and the hand deforms
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Assault
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Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Children
Does a kid die?
111 supporters
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Kids do not appear in the movie.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does a non-human character die?
60 supporters
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The Brundlefly dies at the end of the movie.
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Does a major character die?
40 supporters
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The main character, Seth Brundle, dies at the very end. After mutating into a half-fly, half-man and being accidentally fused with a broken telepod, his body is mangled beyond repair. 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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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
18 supporters
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-Spoiler-
Brundlefly (Seth) begs for death at the end. While he doesn't pull the trigger, he puts the gun to his head and his death does put an end to the ongoing tragedy.
Brundlefly (Seth) begs for death at the end. While he doesn't pull the trigger, he puts the gun to his head and his death does put an end to the ongoing tragedy.
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Disability
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Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
35 supporters
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Seth used crutches at one point and some people interpret the movie as being about disability.
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
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Does someone cheat?
28 supporters
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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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Is someone kidnapped?
18 supporters
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As Seth Brundle mutates into a human-fly hybrid and loses his sanity, he kidnaps Veronica/Ronnie with the goal of fusing their bodies.
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
98 supporters
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Three. One after the first baboon teleportation, one in the abortion clinic, and one when Stathis is in the lab.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
42 supporters
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seth's later forms could be potentially trypophobia triggering- though not exactly hole-filled, they have a similar look
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
32 supporters
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There is a scene where a character is locked in a telepod against her will.
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An electric razor
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Is someone possessed?
21 supporters
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No one is possessed by ghosts, but Seth Brundle's sanity and morality erode as his mind is merged with that of a housefly.
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Is there a shower scene?
13 supporters
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a side character is seen in a shower momentarily, though nothing below his shoulders is seen
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Yes
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Are there natural bodies of water?
4 supporters
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The movie takes place almost entirely indoors.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
181 supporters
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Brundlefly vomits white goo several times. Looks pretty gross.
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Is someone eaten?
51 supporters
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A man gets his hand and foot melted off with digestive enzymes, but no part of him is actually consumed.
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Does someone spit?
17 supporters
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Vomits goop ONSCREEN when he tries to eat a donut. (Very brief) it’s on his hand afterward.
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Head
Is there eye mutilation?
151 supporters
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During the climax, the Brundlefly's outer face gruesomely falls off, including its eyeballs, to reveal the monster underneath.
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Are any teeth damaged?
80 supporters
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Teeth fall out
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Does a head get squashed?
80 supporters
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More like it explodes...
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Is there decapitation?
64 supporters
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Not decapitation per se, but a head explodes after being shot.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
5 supporters
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Not unless you consider the telepods to be priceless artifacts.
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Medical
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Does someone have cancer?
26 supporters
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Not cancer, but a graphically degenerative disease.
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Is there a hospital scene?
22 supporters
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nightmare where character gives birth assumedly in a hospital, later goes to an abortion clinic
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Mental Health
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Is autism misrepresented?
52 supporters
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Eh... Seth isn't textually autistic but he's a socially awkward genius type. If he is intended to be autistic I think they represented it pretty well
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
50 supporters
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No, but there are some food issues. Seth's eating habits change drastically until he can't eat normally
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Is there misophonia?
49 supporters
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There's definitely a lot of expected gross noises accompanying Seth's transformation, mainly squishy wet sounds. I personally found it hard to listen to at times so it might be a trigger for someone else as well.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
44 supporters
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Seth Brundle loses his sanity and becomes violent, but this is because his body and mind have been merged with a housefly.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
34 supporters
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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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seth, as he transforms, does mention not recognizing himself in the mirror as a result of his changes
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Is there body dysphoria?
21 supporters
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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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Does someone have a mental illness?
14 supporters
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Not a real-world mental illness per se, but Seth Brundle clearly loses his sanity as his mind merges with the mind of the fly. He's fully aware that this is happening, but there's nothing he can do to stop his mental deterioration.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
12 supporters
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Seth has multiple moments of exaggerated emotion and intense ramblings due to his mental deterioration.
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Natural Disasters
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Neck
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
46 supporters
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Kinda, but they're struggling to, like, live at that point, so it's more like a general struggle
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Yes
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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
62 supporters
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0
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the telepod emits flashing
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Yes
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
13 supporters
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It's an r rated movie. There's cussing
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
22 supporters
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Brundlefly watches from the roof as Stathis and Veronica talk
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
49 supporters
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No
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No but if you're sensitive to that, proceed with caution
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Is there childbirth?
37 supporters
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Specifically childbirth of an insect/human hybrid, very likely to be traumatic
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Are there abortions?
26 supporters
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[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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Are there babies or unborn children?
22 supporters
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Not shown but very major plot point around an unborn child
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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?
53 supporters
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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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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
46 supporters
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No
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No, but there's a student/teacher relationship mentioned
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Religious
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Yes
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Self Harm
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No
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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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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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Not in the cutting sense. However - and this doubles as a warning for hand/finger gore - in a scene that takes place in his bathroom, Seth discovers something wrong with his fingers that leads to him removing his own fingernails.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
40 supporters
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a creature asks non verbally to be killed
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Sex
Is a minor sexualized?
140 supporters
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No
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There are no children or teenagers in the movie.
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Is there bestiality?
121 supporters
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No
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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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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 sexual content?
80 supporters
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characters are seen during and after intercourse, nothing too explicit and no genitalia is shown
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Yes
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Yes
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Does someone lose their virginity?
21 supporters
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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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Sexual Assault
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13
Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
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Yes
0
No
9
Yes
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No
10
Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
42 supporters
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3
No
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The character's gradual loss of mind & humanity is as horrifying as his physical decay.
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Is someone terminally ill?
31 supporters
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Seth's tragic transformation can be easily interpreted as a metaphor for terminal disease.
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Yes
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Social
Are there anti-abortion themes?
42 supporters
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No
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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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Is existentialism debated?
19 supporters
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Seth is chasing a legacy and an almost "immortality" that is undeniably existential. As he slowly becomes less human, this calls into question what "makes" a human, and at what point he is considered no longer human. Seth is obsessed with maintaining and perpetuating part of himself either genetically or his scientific legacy and he debates these philosophical and existential concepts as he continues to deteriorate.
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
86 supporters
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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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Yes
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Yes
2
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
85 supporters
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41
No
0
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There is extreme body horror and no shortage of viscera.
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Is there gun violence?
39 supporters
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36
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0
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a character is shot near the end of the movie
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Whole Body
Is there excessive gore?
143 supporters
Yes
19
No
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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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Is someone tortured?
129 supporters
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No
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Brundle's downfall could be considered psychological torture
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Is there body horror?
111 supporters
Yes
31
No
0
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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 someone burned alive?
71 supporters
Yes
4
No
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melted by acid
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No
1
Is there cannibalism?
57 supporters
Yes
1
No
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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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