As soon as the opening credits begin, stand up and leave the theatre. Come back in 2 minutes later. Then you’ll miss some of the worst sounds I’ve heard in a long time. I wish I could erase it from my memory. You hear, and briefly see twice, two dogs tearing each other apart as they also are morphing/fusing together and having intercourse. It’s awful.
Hard to describe without spoilers: There's backstory about a character whose mother sort of vanished from his life for awhile in childhood (after the death of the other parent). None of this happens in the present.
No one is gaslighted in this movie, as no one is manipulated by causing them to question their sense of what is real, their grasp on reality, or their sanity. People are lied to and characters are at times not on the same page, but there is NO GASLIGHTING. Spreading misinformation is dangerous.
One spouse slaps the other, though not as an intentional act of violence (it's an attempt to wake a person who seems to be sleepwalking and behaving in a disturbing way)
There is clear addiction throughout the movie with one of the main characters. We see him with alcohol, and even when he is given out to for drinking it, he continues to. There is also an implied addiction with smoking, and with drugs (which comes in later on in the film to be kind of a big scene)
at the very end, when tim and millie are fusing together, you can see tim’s hands/arms under millie’s skin and you can very clearly see/hear certain bones (specifically her shoulder blades) dislocating and being moved around
*spoilers* In order to "escape" a fusion, Tim (Dave Franco) uses a knife stuck to said fusion's neck and slices the tips of the fingers off of the fusion
You don’t actually see the injured genitals, but you see a shot of a man’s p***s being painfully stretched and blood dripping down a woman’s leg. You also see the people in pain for an extended sequence while this is happening
there’s a few good jumps in this movie!! here’s what i remember:
SPOILERS ofc
after the party in the opening of the film, tim and millie are talking in bed and “millie” starts saying hurtful things to tim. she then says “can you ask them to leave” and “i can’t sleep with them watching us”. tim looks over to see the bodies of his dead parents (although their identities are not revealed yet) in another bed opposite theirs, slowly moving closer. when tim lifts up his blanket to try and hide, the face of his dead mother is under it.
when tim is fixing a light in the new house, a bunch of fused rats drop from the ceiling
in the first scene in the cave, tim goes into a trance and suddenly looks over to see millie breathing rapidly and staring at him. then there’s a loud noise and he wakes up
tim and millie are in bed together and millie keeps saying that tim is “laying on her hair”. she turns around to see that he has a bunch of her hair in his mouth and it’s accompanied by a loud flash of light and a sting.
when millie is at jamie’s house the first time she looks out the window and sees tim watching her
when tim is in the cave again, he suddenly sees faces in the walls, and a deformed creature that appears to be a fusion goes wrong jumps out at him. there is another minor scare when he shines his flashlight on the creature.
when millie is at jamie’s house the second time watching the wedding tape, jamie is in the corner of the room and appears suddenly
there are probably more but i watched through my fingers a lot so i definitely missed some! these are the major ones i can remember though
after the massage scene, millie says she’s going into town and makes tim stay at home. he takes a shower and goes into a trance, repeatedly falling into walls/bashing his head into them
I’m only popping this info on as I’m the kind of emet that hates any mouth stuff. Stuff going in, out, anything and I found this scene horrendous so if you’re sensitive like me, this is for you. Take it or leave it :)
It is the scene where Tim is choaking on Millie’s hair.
So, Millie wakes up in the night and it’s super dark. She can hear a kind of scratching noise, almost like it could be a mouse in the room or something, she’s looking in the corner of room and stuff but turns back to go to sleep then says to Tim something like “you’re on my hair” and then she turns to look at him and it’s super dark but you can kinda see his face and his mouth is wide open as is his eyes, she turns the light on and her hair is full on, going down his throat. She tries to pull it out of him and he is choking etc. The sounds are gross and I had to close my eyes and cover my ears. It’s goes on for a bit but you can tell when it’s over as it goes quiet and they’re both looking at a clump of hair on the bed.
POTENTIAL SPOILER There is implied self harm for ritualistic effects where the wound is shown near the end, and a similar wound inflicted on a character by another character. Both are deep cuts on the firearms.
Minor flashing, nothing apparent until 1:18 when Tim pulls out a flashlight and the beams of light briefly flash across the screen. Some shakey flashes when Tim is on the ground and shining the torch in the face of his assailant around 1:24.
From 1:20 scene with VHS footage, when it switches to nightvision there’s fuzzy distortion until the tape turns off.
The characters of the film find a subterranean cave that has pews and strange religious imagery on the walls. It’s revealed that there used to be a chapel where the cave is, but that the chapel collapsed into the cave. The chapel was run by some sort of “new age” religion. One character says it seemed very “cult-y.” There is a video that plays towards the end of the film that depicts a wedding ceremony in the chapel, and the wedding turns into a disturbing religious ceremony.
i don't know what the other comment is talking about honestly. (SPOILERS) the merging moreso has to do with codependency and being unable to be without the other so you just become one. there's nothing sexual about how they explain it or describe it and nobody is objectified in this way. it's moreso seen as "romantic" by who it happens to, not sexual.