American Mary
Movie • 2012 • Horror
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A young medical student struggling to pay tuition is drawn into the shady world of underground body-modification.
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Are there heart attacks?
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Not technically, but a heart attack is mentioned around 26:00. We do not see it happen and the character it happens to is never onscreen
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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A woman is brutalized but it's not for spectacle
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A supporting character is in an abusive relationship. It is mentioned and shown briefly in a cutaway scene.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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The previous comment is not an instance of gaslighting. It could potentially qualify as manipulation, but gaslighting is not portrayed in this film.
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She tortured her rapist so technically, but since he was her rapist it’s easier to digest
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Is someone stalked?
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A patient shows up outside at main character's hospital school after stalking her online.
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Addiction
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Cocaine is used.
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Is there addiction?
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Addiction to body modification is shown in several side characters.
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Is there a dead animal?
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completely plucked/supermarket chickens/turkeys shown. she practices suturing
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Assault
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Mary is drugged and raped by her professor at a party.
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It starts at ~36:30- skip ahead to 39:40 to avoid it.
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Is someone drugged?
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Yes before the SA she is drugged
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At about the 1:09:20 minute mark
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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At about 11 minutes in till 11:50. Also incision into upper eyelid at about 1:04:30. At 01:13:47 there’s mention of eye socket injury
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Is there body horror?
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Basically the story revolves around a woman who was SAd and goes into the body mod industry.
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Is there a hanging?
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A man is suspended from hooks, but there is no hanging.
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Is there cannibalism?
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No but a character bites a woman’s lip or face (can’t remember which) to sensationalise their uniqueness
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Is there amputation?
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There are two instances of amputation- one where you just see the aftermath and one where you see the procedure. With the procedure, you don't see the actual amputation, but you do see a severed arm.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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As above, main character is choked and audio is used to portray too. Man has plastic bag over his head in an earlier scene too.
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Does someone break a bone?
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Technically I’d say yes because of the amount of body modification/amputation
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Is someone stabbed?
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Someone is stabbed and there is a lot of blood and the wound is sewn up on screen.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Healed shot of a smooth "barbie crotch" and a much much worse badly healing male genital modification
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Main character is choked
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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The protagonist is a med student turned surgeon. SO much cutting.
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Not on screen. A character is threatened with it.
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Is someone burned alive?
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A side character, the one who looks like Betty Boop, is threatened with being burned close to the end of the movie.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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There is a graphic slit throat. It's after Mary says she'll do anything for 5k cash and she's led into a room.
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Is someone tortured?
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Rapists are tortured. Some folks get consensual, heavy body modification done. Very little of the actual acts are shown. You do hear things, though.
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Yes!!! It’s forgotten easily but if it’s a trigger then yes a grandparent dies who main character is really close to! (Like a parent! )
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Someone who deserves it yes.
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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I’d argue there are, but more startling than actually jump scares. First when Mary enters a site, some loud music plays suddenly; and then when she meets a male character in a warehouse, when a cop enters and attacks but you kinda see him coming. Other than that, I don’t recall
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Are there clowns?
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No, but some characters’ features are exaggerated with makeup. And brace yourselves for body modifications
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Is there a shower scene?
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She is clothed though
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Are there mannequins?
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No but one of the characters gets plastic surgery to look like a doll
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There are medical scalpels and such
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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Main character vomits in disgust in one scene.
Someone vomits inside a plastic bag that is tied around their head.
Someone vomits inside a plastic bag that is tied around their head.
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Is someone eaten?
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It wasn’t exactly eaten, but someone’s tongue gets bitten off
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Does someone spit?
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Lots of people get beaten up. Some of them spit a little blood.
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Is there audio gore?
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Quite a bit!!
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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Loss
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
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Character is a med student who turns to body modification. A lot of needles/surgical equipment.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Main character is a med student.
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Mental Health
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People go through CONSENSUAL heavy body modification. This is not self harm.
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Is there misophonia?
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chewing noises about an hour and 12 minutes in
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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mary has trauma from a sexual assault that is shown
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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That's kind of what the whole movie is about. A woman, Mary, performs unlicensed body altering operations on people whom no regular doctor would ever do.and on one unwilling one.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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A character is beaten while having a plastic bag tied around his head.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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A woman cries in a shower after a traumatic event, it looks like a panic attack.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Mary, the main character, experiences a sexual trauma, resulting in her experiencing symptoms of PTSD. She is violent in the movie
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Does someone die by suicide?
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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handheld cam footage is shown at one point.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Club scenes
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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the owner of the club says to mary “you aren’t fat under there?” before she takes her jacket off at her audition, nothing else though.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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No characters in this movie are explicitly LGBT
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A german doctor brings up Joseph Mengele
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
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Are there demons or Hell?
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No, but some side characters who are receiving body modifications request demon horns in their forehead.
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Sex
Are there nude scenes?
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A strip club is one of the main settings so sometimes there are naked dancers and dancers in lingerie
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Several instances of objectification at a strip club and by the club owner. Mary is sexually assaulted with the assault being filmed. A character gets body modifications in order to not be sexualized.
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It's subtly implied about the twins though.
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Is there sexual content?
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Sexual assault. Nudity. Oral sex briefly shown.
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Is someone homeless?
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Mary struggles to make ends meet, including pay rent, her cellphone bill, and more. She does not experience homelessness though.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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SPOILER:
Mary is killed. She tried to stitch up her stab would, but ultimately died from blood loss or shock.
Mary is killed. She tried to stitch up her stab would, but ultimately died from blood loss or shock.
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Violence
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Yes, quite a bit! And if it’s not graphically shown ( which a lot is! ) the audio does a very VERY telling.
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