Gerald's Game

Movie • 2017 • Drama  

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This movie contains 38 potentially triggering events.
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Anonymous
The dog attacks the woman several times during the movie and she kicks and hits it to make it go away. It is not harmed other than this.
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Does an animal die?
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Anonymous
The body of an opossum (?) is shown in the road as a dog attempts to eat it. Near the beginning of the movie.
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The dog attacks the woman and she kicks and hits it to make it go away

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A dead possum (roadkill) is being eaten by a dog near the beginning.
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Not sure why this is voted yes. There aren't any spiders
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Anonymous
Flies are shown buzzing around a decaying corpse.
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Anonymous
The main character is gaslighted throughout almost the entire movie by her father & husband. Much of the gaslighting is related to sex & sexual abuse
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Anonymous
The main protagonist is shown in a flashback to have been sexually assaulted by her father as a child during an eclipse. The father masturbates with her on his lap. He is later shown manipulating her into not telling anyone what happened to her. It is implied that he may have assaulted her again.
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MissiKat
Gerald doesn't take an overdose of the medication. He takes the normal dosage but later has a heart attack.
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GwendolynCox
Alcoholism is briefly mentioned but never shown.
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The main character, a woman, is stuck handcuffed to her bed after her partner dies during a bondage sex game.
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Plumberton
The couple plays a BDSM game where Jessie is handcuffed to a bed and Gerald sexually dominates her. She expresses discomfort a few moments in, but Gerald ignores her and continues. After further protest, Gerald stops, but verbally belittles her. In a flashback scene later in the film, 12-year old Jessie sits on her fathers lap while he masturbates (not assault strictly speaking, but certainly sexual abuse).
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Jessie rightfully points out that Gerald has a rape fetish
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IoriSylvor
Protagonist's father is shown sexually assaulting his daughter in a dream/memory sequence.
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towards the end of the movie she cuts herself on her wrist and palm to get herself out of the handcuff
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sarahcastic
Only mentioned.
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thomasfernandomusic
Wrist mutilation. Shown in graphic detail.
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There is a guy who kills people and eats their flesh. Not actually shown him eating, but you can see the mutilation of the corpse.
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PigeonQueen
A corpse is briefly shown with its eye sockets empty from having its eyeballs eaten.
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aiwxo
Not shown, but discussed. Gerald choked Jess during sex and describes it as "the best sex he has had in ages"
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GreyCaprice
Mentioned, and some teeth shown in a box.
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IoriSylvor
Protagonist's father is shown sexually assaulting her (as a child) during a dream/memory sequence.
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Does a kid die?
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IoriSylvor
In the beginning of the movie, the protagonist's husband dies of a heart attack on top of her during sexual activities.
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PigeonQueen
A character speculates about their partner's possible cheating but it is never confirmed.
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vlixxord
The Moonlight Man appears a couple times unexpectedly but it is never accompanied by a loud sound.
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Are there razors?
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PigeonQueen
There are hallucinations of dead people but no ghosts.
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aiwxo
Dog eats a dead man's arm.
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Anonymous
A man is shown in handcuffs in a courtroom being sentenced for murder.
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Anonymous
A name from a character's traumatic childhood is repeated back to them multiple times. It's used in the same antagonizing way as a deadname can be.
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Larkinik
Jessie is briefly shown in hospital at the end.
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GreyCaprice
SPOILER Near the end of the film the "moonlight man" is revealed to be a mentally ill disabled man whose criminal graverobbing escalates to assault and murder.
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Anonymous
To an extreme degree.
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Anonymous
Do not watch if you have sensory issues regarding loud chewing or licking. The dog eats raw meat very loudly the entire runtime.
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sarahcastic
No, but the slashing of a wrist is pretty triggering
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Anonymous
She is bound to the bed almost the entire movie
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Soph
The main character does harm themselves, although they do so to escape and not for suicidal reasons.
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Does a baby cry?
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GwendolynCox
Some derogatory language and jokes against women
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SalyxWoodbine
At first I while I was watching this I thought the other commenter was blowing things out of proportion, but no. Suddenly the scary lurking monster is a real person with a real disability (the actor has Acromegaly). There’s no reason for this. He could have been a real person without a disability and when she confronted him in the court room the fact that he wasn’t as scary as she’d thought would have worked well with the parallels the movie was getting at. Instead we get yet another disabled person demonized in a horror movie.
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Vanna36933
I guess this is open to interpretation. The husband looks a lot older than the wife (protagonist).
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GwendolynCox
The couple builds up to having sex but does not follow through. Discussions of sex. Middle of the movie as well, see "sexual assault" answer. (rephrasing because other comment had spoilers)
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Ksg1059
Theres a scene where Jesse has a flashback to when she was sitting on her fathers lap while he masturbated. He later manipulates her into not telling anyone.
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Is there BDSM?
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Main male character is assumed to have a stroke/heart attack as he's an older man and took Viagra
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vaguetype
Dog almost gets hit
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vaguetype
And at the beginning, there's honking.
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Anonymous
Toward the end of the film, the main protagonist escapes and drives away in her car. She has trouble staying conscious during the drive and veers off the side of the road but is able to continue driving. Eventually she crashes the car and is visibly injured by the impact (blood comes from her mouth and nose). The sound of the crash alerts people living nearby who come and help her.
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Anonymous
One of the protagonists in the film dies suddenly, and his body is eaten by a dog throughout the film. You can see the dog walking away with bits of flesh in his mouth. Blood pools on the floor from the death and is spread in footprints by the dog and another character.

Toward the end of the film, shown in a flashback, the protagonist anxiously squeezes a glass and causes it to shatter in her hand. It bleeds and she is bandaged.

The most graphic scene is where the protagonist again shatters a glass to cut her own hand and wrist but this time purposely. She uses a shard of the glass to slit her wrist in order to slick her hand with blood so that she may slip out of the handcuffs. She is shown doing this action a few times. As she pulls her hand out of the handcuffs, her hand partially degloves and the skin separates from it showing the tissue underneath. It is shown briefly but graphically, and again in glimpses until she eventually uses pads to bandage her hand. She falls unconscious and wakes up with the pads soaked with blood.

The partially eaten and decomposed body of another character is shown briefly.

The protagonist crashes a car and is shown with blood coming from her nose and mouth.


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