Ma

Movie • 2019 • Horror  

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Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.
This movie contains 46 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
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BeeW
There are many dogs in this movie, and one is briefly shown with a bleeding paw, but none are killed or severely harmed.
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
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AforSam
Ma tells her daughter she is sick and needs a wheelchair even though it is not true. Ma keeps her locked upstairs
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Is someone stalked?
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BeeW
An adult watched teens secretly and follows them around town.
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Is there domestic violence?
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BeeW
In a flashback, a teen girl is the butt of a prank of a sexual nature, and everyone laughs at her. Though she's not brutalized, the similarities may be enough to trigger someone.
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AforSam
Ma tells her daughter she is sick and needs a wheelchair even though it is not true. Ma also tells others the things she has done were because of them when they clearly were not
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is a child abused?
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BeeW
A teenager is locked in the upstairs portion of a house, is heavily medicated and told she's sick (she isn't), and is verbally abused, all at the hands of her mother.
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Addiction
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AforSam
Movie is full of teenagers drinking alcohol and smoking pot or vaping. Ma misuses drugs from the vet clinic to control others
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Is there addiction?
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
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Does a horse die?
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AforSam
No horses in movie
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Are animals abused?
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A dog is heard whimpering and barking and briefly shown with an injured, bleeding paw. It is implied that a woman drew blood from the dog, hence the bleeding.
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AforSam
The first time the teens go into Ma's basement a taxidermy deer is shown
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Is an animal sad?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
A dog who's been physically hurt by someone lies limp and spiritless on the floor, even though it apparently hasn't been badly injured.
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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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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No, but someone hurts someone's dog.
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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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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
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BeeW
Multiple people given drugs via needles and (it's implied) through spiked drinks.
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Is there pedophilia?
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BeeW
Sexualization of teens by an adult. Kissing, hugging, flirting.
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
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AforSam
Not raped but it is implied that Ma was tricked into giving oral sex to someone (she thought it was someone else) when she was a teen.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
With dog collars and ropes.
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succtosucceed
to follow up the previous comments with a timestamp if you wish to skip:

1st scene is at 1:08:50-1:09:00
2nd scene is at 1:13:09-1:15:00

happy watching!
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BeeW
No, but a characters mouth is stitched shut.
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Not exactly, but a woman points a gun at a teen boy and forces him to strip naked, then suddenly laughs it off as a prank, and everyone around them laughs along with her - including the boy himself.
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AnyaHarjung
Someone is held at gunpoint and forced to strip
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Bodily Harm
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BeeW
A man is cut on the wrist/forearm by another character and bleeds heavily.
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Are any hands damaged?
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Are there dislocations?
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BeeW
A couple characters wearing spiked collars have briefly visible irriation on their throats, and another character is threatened with having their throat slit, but it doesn't happen.
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BeeW
A character is briefly hanged but is freedom and survives.
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone choked?
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BeeW
People wearing dog collars are shown struggling against them
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Thetheninjagummybear
It isn't shown onscreen, but ma dies in a house fire at the end.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
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AforSam
Shows an arm/wrist being cut and a girl getting her lips sewn shut
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Is there amputation?
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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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A teenager is briefly hung from the rafters and is shown struggling, but she is soon freed and she survives.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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BeeW
A character holds a knife to and threatens to cut off another character's penis, but it doesn't actually happen.
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AforSam
Multiple people (teens and adults) are drugged into unconsciousness
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Does someone break a bone?
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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BeeW
Several teenagers are held captive, burned, stabbed, hanged, etc.
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BeeW
A character hits another in the head with a frying pan and she falls down the stairs.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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AforSam
2 characters are stabbed in the abdomen by a knife. 2 other characters are shown being stabbed in the neck with a syringe
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BeeW
Depends on how you define excessive but there's enough gore that if you're not a fan of it I would advise you to skip this film. Examples of some of the disturbing gore below (spoilers):

Multiple characters are stabbed/cut and there's a lot of blood. A character presses a hot clothing iron against the abdomen of another character and we see the bleeding burn. A character stitches another character's mouth shut (while she's unconscious) and there's quite a bit of blood. A character is run over by a car and we see her bleeding body.
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No, but it comes close (teens).
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BeeW
An adult character flirts with a teen, other teens make jokes referencing the teen and the adult having sex, and the adult later hugs/slow dances with the (drugged) teen and kisses him extensively.
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does a major character die?
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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
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
The mother of a teen girl is implied to be about to die when the movie ends. The girl knows, since she was part of the events that will lead to the mother's death - in fact she's nearby while the mother is in the ultimate fatal situation. --- The father of a teen boy is fatally wounded on screen and later seen lying dead. The movie ends without the boy having learned of his father's death. A third adult is driven over on screen, but I never became clear on whether or not she was a mother.
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Does a parent die?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
The mother of a teen girl is implied to be about to die when the movie ends. The girl knows, since she was part of the events that will lead to the mother's death - in fact she's nearby while the mother is in the ultimate fatal situation. --- The father of a teen boy is fatally wounded on screen and later seen lying dead. The movie ends without the boy having learned of his father's death. A third adult is driven over on screen, but I never became clear on whether or not she was a mother.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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AforSam
Multiple teenagers are held captive in Ma's basement
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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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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Someone turns on the shower after waking up in the morning, but I'm 99% sure that she's interrupted before getting in the shower.
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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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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Are there razors?
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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aphroditeve
mentions of characters feeling unwell but nothing happens
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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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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Not a live person, and not in the course of the movie's events - perhaps not at all. However, it MAY be implied that someone will be eaten by dogs - at least I had the thought when a dead body is placed in a cage at the vet's, and the dogs in the surrounding cages are clearly aware of it, seeming somewhat agitated. I could see no other reason why the killer would put the body there.
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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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Large-scale Violence
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
There are no skycrapers in the movie.
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
A dead body is placed in a cage at the vet's, next to cages with dogs in them; that's all.
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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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Yes
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BeeW
A character administers medications via IV and syringes multiple times, often as a means of/precursor to assault.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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BeeW
A few scenes in a vet clinic but no hospitals.
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No, but a pool of blood in a bed (from a murder).
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BeeW
Someone says they do, but they don't.
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Mental Health
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Not diagnosed, but the way the person acts, it would be hard to argue that there isn't something severely wrong with their psyche.
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Does someone self harm?
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Is autism misrepresented?
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AforSam
Ma is in a very fragile state of mind and commits multiple violent acts against teens and adults
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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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Is there misophonia?
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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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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Arguably. Two people spend some time in a janitor's closet, but since it's dark in there, we don't really get to see how small the closet is. The door is shut, but not locked, and they're in there voluntarily, free to leave at any time. --- A group of people are locked in a basement, but it's a large and pleasant room that might as well be a living room.
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BeeW
You could argue Ma has PTSD from the bullying she experienced as a teen, but there are no stereotypical depictions of PTSD in this film.
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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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AforSam
Teen flipps off her mom behind mom's back, swearing throughout movie
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Paranoia
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AforSam
Teens and adults are watched and followed by Ma
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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7
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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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
There's no pregnancy in the movie. The only thing that has to do with the having of children is when a bitter woman - who's a single mother - says to a teen girl, "Be careful. Men are dogs. They only want one thing, and you don't want to be stuck with a baby" (or something like it).
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Prejudice
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Lark
No slurs, but some homophobic jokes are made near the beginning
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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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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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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
A woman speaks hatefully about men, saying that they're all dogs.
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Race
Is there blackface?
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AforSam
The opposite happens - Ma says there is only room for one (implying black friend) and paints a black teen's face white
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Relationships
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BeeW
A adult sexualizes, flirts with, and kisses teens.
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Religious
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
A woman tells a group of teens that they're not allowed to take the lord's name in vain in her house, and when a boy says "what the hell" moments later, he catches himself and says "heck" instead, because he doesn't want to offend the seemingly religious woman. I'm almost completely sure that that little scene is the only reference to religion in the movie.
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Sex
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BeeW
A brief shot of a naked butt, and a shot of character nude from the front with his hands covering his genitals. Later, a man's penis is briefly visible.
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Is there bestiality?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No first intercourse, but a teen girl has her first sexual interaction when she gives a blowjob to a boy in a janitor's closet. A group of her peers mock her for it immediately after it's done, laughing in her face, causing her deep humiliation. The "joke" they played on her is that the recipient wasn't the boy she thought it was. In other words, they tricked her into losing one kind of virginity on false pretenses, solely in order to make fun of her. It's awful.
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Yes
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
Teen boys, by an adult woman.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Is there BDSM?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No, but we see a group of teen boys and girls in dog collars which are attached to various immovable objects with black rope. The woman who put them there against their will (while they were unconscious) behaves in a menacing sexually toned manner while they're restrained.
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Sexism
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Sickness
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BeeW
A character lies and says she has pancreatic cancer, but she doesn't.
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Does someone have a stroke?
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6
Does someone have a chronic illness?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No neurodegenerative diseases.
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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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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
The opposite, if anything. A bitter woman - who's a single mother - says to a teen girl, "Be careful. Men are dogs. They only want one thing, and you don't want to be stuck with a baby" (or something like it). I know it's not actually pro-abortion, but it IS a person saying that having a baby alone as a teen is a burden to be avoided.
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Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Yes
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
On a basic level, it ends the way you'd hope, but it's not happy. We're left with the image of deeply shaken, crying and traumatised youths standing outside a place where the mother of one of the girls is dying partially because of something the daughter did, so... Relieving, but not at all happy.
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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Does a car crash?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No, but a car drives over someone (done on purpose).
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Does a plane crash?
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
No planes or flying.
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BeeW
A woman intentionally runs over another woman with her truck. We see the impact, the truck going over the woman, and the woman's body after.
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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6
Is there blood/gore?
59 supporters
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MajaLouiseVesterdorfLange
The worst thing to me was when a mouth is sewn shut on screen, although it doesn't bleed.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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BeeW
A woman shoots a man in the abdomen twice.
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