i don’t know why this is yes - it’s not gaslighting in the traditional sense. the vampires try to act like they’re still human to sneak their way in but not gaslighting
Offscreen, the backstory of the main characters is that they suffered violent abuse as children, to the point that in self defense, they killed their abuser. This event leads them to believe they are now inherently bad (aka sinners).
None in a romantic relationship sense. But from abusive parent to child, there is a description of beating a child to unconsciousness and then retaliation from another child to the parent.
Other people mentioned for them it was around the 15 minute mark, for me it was 11 minutes in when they kill the snake. I skipped ahead about a minute and a half from the moment I first saw the snake and didn’t see it bleed out like other commenters warned about.
Yes - during discussion of a lynching one character mentions their friend being falsely accused of stealing from & raping a white man's wife. Strangulation sounds play faintly in the background
All of the on screen sex acts seem consensual. There is a scene where we see a pair of people who were having sex moments before physically struggling as the person on top is attacking and biting the person underneath them. Viewers do not see the moment the attack begins. The pair are shown having sex before the camera cuts away. When the camera cuts back to them, they are struggling. This may be disturbing to some viewers, I think.
A character is attempting to say something that the group disagrees with, so she is physically restrained by several people and one covers her mouth. She eventually breaks free by biting the hand covering her mouth and they let her go.
I do feel like a vampire having sex with someone without telling them, and then biting them while they are having sex could be considered sexual assault
when trying to hold her back, a woman bites a hand hard enough to let her go but not any significant damage hands are shown later with elongated fingers and pointed nails in a devilish way
*SPOILER* a character is bashed in the head with an object, which becomes stuck in their skull with part of their mandible showing. I can’t remember if the blow produced a crunch sound or not unfortunately. I personally wouldn’t count this as a bone break per se, but someone sensitive to bone injuries might. Aside from that, I don’t remember any bone breaking shown or heard!
Before the film, the twins as children had to kill their abusive father to escape him. As adults, Smoke's infant daughter died for unspecified reasons.
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During the film, Smoke watches his twin brother die and then revive as an evil vampire; the pain he goes through during this is focused on. Sammie, their cousin, blames himself; he eventually leaves before Smoke also dies. We find out later that Stack is alive and he sadly references the incident as the last time he saw his brother.
Two of the women in the film are referenced as married (with their husbands never appearing onscreen). It's implied but not outright stated that their marriages are unhappy, and we see both of them flirting with and escalating to sleeping with other men during the film's events.
In the opening scene of the film: Sammie walks into a church. After the choir stops singing, there is shortly, an abrupt cut (with a loud sound effect) to the events of the previous day just as Sammie's father Jedidiah starts talking to him. There are other abrupt cuts (with sound effects) during Jedidiah's speech. The first loud sound effect can be heard at 1:26 of the score track, "Filídh, Fire Keepers and Griots".
About 10-15 min into the film, the twins and Sammie are driving a truck and park it in a forest. As they prepare to head back to the truck, one of them removes some grass, and a snake is seen, accompanied by a scare chord. This scene can be seen at 0:58 in the second trailer, without the scare chord.
Minor one: 30-40 min in, the three of them drive by a group of people, and after one of them communicates with them, the group is shortly, shot at with a gun.
40-45 min in, Joan and Bert allow Remmick into their house. After some people looking for Remmick visit their house, there is a long period of silence as Joan looks for Bert. Be prepared as Joan opens the door of a room, as shortly afterwards, another scare chord is heard after she calls for Bert again, and we cut to Remmick.
About 70min in, Mary visits Remmick, Bert and Joan, and as she heads back into the juke joint, Remmick suddenly flies towards her. No sound effect is heard during this scene, and we cut to Pearline singing "Pale, Pale Moon".
80-90 min in: Cornbread returns to the juke joint and asks for money from Smoke. There is a period of silence and as he is ready to pass Cornbread the money, Cornbread suddenly takes Smoke's hand with the money and attempts to bite him, accompanied with a sound effect. See 2:22 of the clip, "Let Me In".
80-90 min in, shortly after the Cornbread scene listed above: There are two jump scares within this scene. Stack is asking to be let back into the juke joint. As Sammie moves his face near the door, it it suddenly pierced at with a knife, forming a hole. This is accompanied by a loud sound effect. After Stack and the group talk, Sammie moves his face near the door again and looks into the hole. We see a black screen with the shape of the hole, and we suddenly cut to Stack breaking down the door. (accompanied with loud sounds)
As people are turned into vampires their consciousnesses meld together and they all share memories, so they act very differently than when they were alive.
The ancestors are never depicted as ghosts in this movie. They’re shown as fully actualized humans in very impactful, spiritual moments within the film. It’s beautiful.
Not vomit, but there are a few scenes that may be triggering: 1) excessive drool/spitting into another person's mouth (gross); 2) blood gushing from mouths; 3) a character gags after eating garlic and appears as if they may vomit (but do not).
Stack tells Sammie that his guitar used to belong to Charley Patton; Sammie has to destroy it by hitting a vampire over the head with it. Still holding the neck, he sadly references this, to which Smoke tells him that Stack was lying and the guitar was their abusive father's.
Idk why people are saying no? There’s a scene where someone’s music “pierces the veil” to past and future and multiple eras of people dance together. The audio distorts as a voiceover explains this. A few other instances of audio/visual distortion when magic happens. There is also a scene of the afterlife.
swearing. n word both amongst black characters and by white characters (crudely). a character says something to the extent of “but then you stuck your tongue in me and fucked me” and it’s abrupt and crass. she says later about robbing banks and stealing her pussy a character says in a foreign language ( translation on screen) about how a woman likes to be licked.
No, but the aspect ratio of the film changes a few times throughout the film and it's very subtle. This may be a bit disarming to those with this particular trigger.
A dead baby is discussed throughout the film. At the end of the movie, we see the baby in the afterlife. She's onscreen but doesn't face the camera iirc.
We’re never told if the baby is stillborn or dies after birth, but two of the main characters have lost their baby at some point. The baby is referenced while getting to know the characters and *SPOILER* is shown happy and at peace in ancestral form at the end of the film.
The characters live in an era and location surrounded by racism, which is reflected accordingly and part of all their backstories. Specifically, there's Klu Klux Klan members who attempt to harm the black characters (and speak about their intentions), there's discussions of lynching, and one character has to hide her Black heritage in order to pass in white society.
There is a inaccurate comment in this section. There was no scene in which an older woman had sexual relations with anyone who she raised at any point in the movie. There’s a romantic relationship where the female character could be perceived as older because she’s married and he’s referred to as the kid of the group and is more sheltered. But neither’s age is ever disclosed and context clues suggest they’re not that far apart in age.
sammie is often called preacher boy and talks about the devil. some spirituality, passively they also indicate the vampire afterlife is a new life in fellowship, etc that could be religion adjacent
There are no demons in this movie. The film challenges religious indoctrination within marginalized communities. Demons/the devil is used as a metaphor for many different experiences. There are vampires in this film but they are described as souls stuck in their human bodies.
despite having three sex scenes, no nudity! a male character is shirtless for a moment, stripped of bloody clothes, and at the end a woman breastfeeds a baby but her nipples are obscured
the only thing i could stretch out is that mary describes her mom as almost being a mother (figure) to the twins; the two are sexually involved but never regarded as siblings or the likes
not sure why this is a yes - i don’t think it was explicitly stated if it was or not. sammie is often called boy, son, little, etc in endearing ways but hes a young adult. his religious upbringing may play a role but i don’t think it’s ever said it was his first
There are three sex scenes with additional references to sex. None of the scenes are super explicit, but I would def be embarrassed to watch this movie with my parents or children lol
Not loud and in-your-face debates with bullet points HOWEVER the entire film explores this theme alongside religious indoctrination and cultural influences. There is no favor given to any argument, but it is a theme.
There is a substantial mid credits scene that follows a large time jump, to see where the surviving characters ended up.
There's is brief end credits scene of a character playing music.
vampire movie. the bites are not puncture wounds, they’re big, fleshy bites with lots of blood. people wear bloody clothes. gunshot wounds. imo the blood was just thick enough, just too red to know it’s fake.
*SPOILER* There is a fight/baptism scene at the end where a character is continuously dunked under the water. The character is distressed and struggling to breathe but does not die.