Does the dog die?
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Movie • 2017 • Drama
ReportDr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.
This movie contains 50 potentially triggering events.
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jfklown
Surprising given the rest of the film. Suspect filmmakers thought it clever not to kill the dog.
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Abuse
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Is someone stalked?
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Sid
Martin stalks the main character
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8BitMonkey
[SPOILERS][SPOILERS][SPOILERS] a father tries forcing his paralyzed son to walk. he picks him up, stands him on his legs, and drops him multiple times. later, a mother slaps her daughter after telling her to be quiet.
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LZboyfurn
Cycles of violence are certainly a theme in this movie
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Is someone gaslighted?
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8BitMonkey
when one character suggests that their situation may involve something non-medical, another character adamantly insists that it's crazy to propose anything like that.
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RoboPigeon
Physical, verbal, and medical abuse.
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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RoboPigeon
Nicotine addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Mambutt
Alcohol abuse is discussed but not shown
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Animal
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RoboPigeon
A dead fish is shown with its head being removed.
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Is there a dead animal?
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gilmoregirls
There's a dead fish that someone is going to cook
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone drugged?
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LZboyfurn
Main character mentions giving the boy they’re holding captive sedatives
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Is there pedophilia?
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Amy17
Not really but children in sexual situations yes, could be uncomfortable.
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Is rape mentioned?
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OliviaM
a man is yelling at someone’s front door that he’ll “fuck x and x” in a threatening tone
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RoboPigeon
Someone describes a sexual assault to a child at about the hour mark but it does not occur on screen.
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cherry
consensual nonconsent kink scene on screen
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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8BitMonkey
a character uses scissors to cut their own hair.
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Is there cannibalism?
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garbagejuice301
A character bites a chunk of skin from his arm and spits it out though
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Is there body horror?
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A boy is crying blood out of his eyes
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Are any teeth damaged?
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NickyWoods
From 1:27 - 1:30 there is a torture scene in which facial trauma results in the loss of a character's tooth. It is heavily obscured, yet it is incredibly obvious what has happened.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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cherry
characters pass out
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Is someone tortured?
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8BitMonkey
a character is tied up and punched/smacked multiple times.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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RoboPigeon
Eyes bleed but remain intact.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Kbbm
Film opens with a heart surgery. But not excessively bloody. One character's eyes bleed.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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gilmoregirls
Yes but you don't see the face when it happens (if it can help)
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Kbbm
14 year old girl undresses onscreen and lays provocatively on a bed to a 16 year old. A man describes an incestuous incident from his childhood with his father.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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cherry
someone offers to, but the person doesn’t end up going through with it
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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8BitMonkey
the kidnapping itself is offscreen, but someone is stolen from their home and tied up in someone else's basement.
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Does a parent die?
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jfklown
Parent of lead kid dies off screen.
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Does someone cheat?
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gilmoregirls
a character tries to seduce a married man but he rejects her. Then a married woman masturbates one man but not because she wants to (and it's not shown explicity btw), she has to because she wants to save her kids.
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Fear
Are there jumpscares?
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Buttonsy
There are a handful of intense moments that use dramatic music to add a slightly more tense effect, but they aren't the traditional jumpscares. If this still sounds upsetting, you can get timestamps for these moments on the Where's The Jump page for this movie.
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Is there a shower scene?
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RoboPigeon
At about 01:07 the main character showers.
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Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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8BitMonkey
a character is hospitalized and bedridden. no fluids or stains are shown, but it's mentioned that he wet himself sometime recently.
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Does someone vomit?
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Picklechips
I was waiting for the vomit the entire movie...never saw anything happen. The closest thing is the daughter is in the hospital and her dad feeds her fruit and she gags and spits it out. So perhaps that’s what it is but it was brief and not traumatizing if you’re emetophobic.
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Does someone spit?
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RoboPigeon
A character spits out food that another character attempted to force feed them. Another spits out blood while tied up.
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Is there audio gore?
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Maktopus
No, but loud sounds of someone cutting open a dead fish.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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8BitMonkey
calling the police is mentioned as a solution at one point, but another character says that calling them wouldn't make a difference in their situation.
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Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
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GalaxyFurb
Nobody is openly trans in the film
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Loss
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Anonymous
A spinal tap is done!
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Mambutt
Much of the movie takes place in a hospital
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Mental Health
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Maktopus
Someone graphically bites themself.
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Is autism misrepresented?
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GalaxyFurb
the antagonist is autistic-coded imho and has very few redeeming qualities
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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8BitMonkey
a character, who's very heavily implied to have some sort of mental illness, spends the majority of the movie being obsessive, cryptic, and threatening. only at one point does he ever actually do anything violent, and its when he chomps into another man's arm, and then chomps into his own and rips off his own flesh.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Is there misophonia?
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Annemiedw
Around 1.15 Martin eats spaghetti it’s in close up
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Kbbm
Character offers to be killed as a sacrifice, but doesn't try to harm themselves
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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notgoingtoaddcomments
MRI scan
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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RoboPigeon
Characters refuse all food to the point of spitting it out due to medical problems.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Kbbm
Main antagonist is autistic-coded (imo), he is tortured, but it is not directly related to this.
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Does someone die by suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Noxious
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Does a baby cry?
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cherry
i don’t think babies are shown, but a rather young child is in distress for a lot of the film.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Kbbm
Man gets an HJ in a car
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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cherry
maybe? a lot of people believe the antagonist is meant to be seen as neurodivergent in some way
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Kbbm
I would consider this film ableist and believe it vilified neurodivergent behavior.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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cherry
someone talks about a strange, iirc one-sided on his part, sexual incident with his father + brief inappropriate comment from an adult towards a grown man
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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8BitMonkey
the main character is a surgeon, and, early in the film, his wife roleplays being under general anesthesia for his sexual pleasure. from a distance, we see him remove her panties, but sex is not shown and the scene cuts to the next day. later, a widowed woman seductively sucks on his thumb without his consent, knowing that he's married, and he responds by quickly leaving her house. a teenage girl removes her clothes, leaving only her bra and underwear, and robotically lays on her bed, hoping to seduce a teenage boy. he says he has to leave and gets annoyed when she tries asking him to stay. the main character tells his son a detailed story about how, when he was going through puberty and having trouble masturbating, he snuck into his dad's bedroom while he was asleep and jacked him off. later, in what i consider the most explicit scene, a married woman gives a handjob to another married man in a car in exchange for information. all you can really see is her upper body and her arm moving up and down, but his moans can be heard and the scene goes on for an uncomfortable amount of time until he finishes. finally, the main character's wife tries to seduce him by getting completely nude and doing her "general anesthesia" pose again (at an extremely inappropriate time). he doesn't react, and instead just turns the lamp off and tries to go to sleep. she responds by cuddling with him. worth noting that every sexual scene is very awkward and passionless, as all the characters are shown to be cold and strange.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Kbbm
Wife is naked, minor girl undresses for a boy
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Are there nude scenes?
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Kbbm
Woman has her underwear removed onscreen, another scene she is naked
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Is there BDSM?
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Amy17
cnc scene
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RoboPigeon
There is a reference to incest at about the hour mark but it does not occur on screen.
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Spoiler
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Vehicular
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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8BitMonkey
the very first shot of the movie is a long, highly detailed close-up shot of an actual beating heart during an open-heart surgery. other than that, most of the other violence happens later on. a character is tied up and beaten, with a visibly injured face, at one point he spits out blood and a tooth. he also bites *into* a man's arm as well as taking a bite *out of* his own. later, a character's eyes are shown bleeding profusely.
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Is there gun violence?
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Sid
At the very end
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