Does the dog die?
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Movie • 2017 • Drama
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Dr. 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.
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Surprising given the rest of the film. Suspect filmmakers thought it clever not to kill the dog.
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Are there heart attacks?
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There is graphic footage of real heart surgery in the opening shot. There are multiple discussions of heart conditions and heart failure.
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Abandonment
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
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Not literally, but Anna changing Martin’s wound dressing and kissing his feet as well as Kim pleading her case to Steven to kill her do feel like them siding with Martin.
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Cycles of violence are certainly a theme in this movie
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Physical, verbal, and medical abuse.
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Is someone stalked?
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Martin stalks the main character
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Is someone gaslighted?
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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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[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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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Nicotine addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Alcohol abuse is discussed but not shown
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a character smokes cigarettes out a window, but no hard drug use
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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A dead fish is prepared to eat
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Is there a dead animal?
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There's a dead fish that someone is going to cook
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A dead fish is shown with its head being removed.
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Assault
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consensual nonconsent kink scene on screen
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Someone describes a sexual assault to a child at about the hour mark but it does not occur on screen.
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Is rape mentioned?
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a man is yelling at someone’s front door that he’ll f**k x and x” in a threatening tone
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Is someone restrained?
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Martin is tied up and tortured
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Mother slaps her daughter after asking her to be quiet. Man slaps a woman around the head and arms in reaction to a decision she’s made.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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2 children and a woman’s mouth are covered with silver duct tape and pillow cases are put over their heads
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Is there pedophilia?
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Not really but children in sexual situations yes, could be uncomfortable.
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Is someone drugged?
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Main character mentions giving the boy they’re holding captive sedatives
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Bodily Harm
Is there excessive gore?
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Film opens with a heart surgery. But not excessively bloody. One character's eyes bleed.
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Is someone tortured?
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a character is tied up and punched/smacked multiple times.
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Is there cannibalism?
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A character bites a chunk of skin from his arm and spits it out though
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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a character uses scissors to cut their own hair.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Someone collapses at the end of as escalator from sudden loss of use of their legs
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Does someone become unconscious?
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characters pass out
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Are any teeth damaged?
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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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Is there body horror?
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A boy is crying blood out of his eyes
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Eyes bleed but remain intact.
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Children
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Is a minor sexualized?
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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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Does a kid die?
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Yes but you don't see the face when it happens (if it can help)
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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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
Does a parent die?
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Parent of lead kid dies off screen.
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Does someone cheat?
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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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Is someone kidnapped?
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the kidnapping itself is offscreen, but someone is stolen from their home and tied up in someone else's basement.
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
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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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At about 01:07 the main character showers.
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Gross
Is there audio gore?
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No, but loud sounds of someone cutting open a dead fish.
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Is someone eaten?
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Characters are bitten, but not eaten.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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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 spit?
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A character spits out food that another character attempted to force feed them. Another spits out blood while tied up.
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Does someone vomit?
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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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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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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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LGBTQ+
Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
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Nobody is openly trans in the film
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Loss
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
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A spinal tap is done!
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Much of the movie takes place in a hospital
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Is there menstruation?
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there is mention of menstruation but no on-screen depictions
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Mental Health
Does someone die by suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Someone graphically bites themself.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Main antagonist is autistic-coded (imo), he is tortured, but it is not directly related to this.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Characters refuse all food to the point of spitting it out due to medical problems.
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Is autism misrepresented?
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the antagonist is autistic-coded imho and has very few redeeming qualities
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Is there misophonia?
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Around 1.15 Martin eats spaghetti it’s in close up
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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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 say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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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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MRI scan
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Natural Disasters
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Noxious
Are there sudden loud noises?
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Gunshots toward the end
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Does a baby cry?
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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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Man gets an HJ in a car
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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A couple of scenes depict stalking
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Pregnancy
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Prejudice
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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I would consider this film ableist and believe it vilified neurodivergent behavior.
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
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maybe? a lot of people believe the antagonist is meant to be seen as neurodivergent in some way
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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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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Religious
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Sex
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There is a reference to incest at about the hour mark but it does not occur on screen.
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Is there sexual content?
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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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Are there nude scenes?
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Woman has her underwear removed onscreen, another scene she is naked
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Wife is naked, minor girl undresses for a boy
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Is there BDSM?
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cnc scene
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Does someone have a stroke?
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There is mention of someone having a stroke during surgery. Nothing on screen
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Social
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Spoiler
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Vehicular
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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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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At the very end
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