The Bay

Movie • 2012 • Horror  

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Synopsis

Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been told—until now. The authorities believed they had buried the truth about the tragedy that claimed over 700 human lives. Now, three years later, a reporter has emerged with footage revealing the cover-up and an unimaginable killer: a mysterious parasitic outbreak. Told from the perspective of those who were there and saw what happened, The Bay unfolds over 24 hours through people's iPhones, Androids, 911 calls, webcams, and whatever else could be used to document the nightmare in Claridge. What follows is a nerve-shredding tale of a small town plunged into absolute terror.
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Does the dog die?
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MerryMermaid
Nothing at all happens to the dog, though he is shown with only one eye.
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Are there heart attacks?
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Are there tsunamis?
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Is there smoke or haze?
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Is there audience participation?
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Abandonment
Is an animal abandoned?
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GentlyUsedLamp
A teen says her parents left the house suddenly without explanation, they are not reunited
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GentlyUsedLamp
Many people are separated in the chaos, but in particular teen says her parents left the house suddenly without explanation

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Abuse
Is a child abused?
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Kingfisher
Not typical abuse, but a child is abandoned by her parents who flee as soon as the outbreak happens.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Kingfisher
No, but it is discussed near the beginning.
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Are there abusive parents?
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Stonesoulthegoth
Event is covered up by government who lie about the cause.
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is someone stalked?
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Anonymous
Numerous fish are shown dead throughout the film.
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Does a pet die?
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Anonymous
Lots of real dead/dying fish.
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ca33
Footage of dead fish and birds are shown.
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Does a horse die?
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Are there spiders?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there bugs?
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RoboPigeon
There are isopods which are technically crustaceans but they look like bugs.
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Anonymous
No, but it's speculated that sharks caused injuries/death before they find out what actually caused it.
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Does a cat die?
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Assault
Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone drugged?
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Is someone restrained?
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Technically pulled under
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Bodily Harm
Is there excessive gore?
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ca33
There is a scene where one of the isopods hits a woman’s scuba glasses, puncturing her eye.
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Is someone tortured?
109 supporters
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RoboPigeon
There are no scenes of intentional torture by humans but the characters who die, die torturous deaths.
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Stonesoulthegoth
No but doctor discusses likelyhood of malady spread up legs to gonad area
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Is there body horror?
84 supporters
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Graphic "blisters" and "rashes"
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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ca33
The isopod eat through the skull and mouth area.
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RoboPigeon
No heads get squashed but several get destroyed by hungry isopods.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there a hanging?
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Is there cannibalism?
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is there amputation?
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Kingfisher
There is discussions of amputation and one brief surgery scene.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Does someone break a bone?
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Lots42
Yes. The phenomenon causes all sorts of damaged hands.
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Is someone choked?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Lots42
Technically. We see surgery being done in an attempt to save lives. It is quite graphic.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Are there dislocations?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Some of the parasites enter or exit through the neck
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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Anonymous
By another minor.
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Does a kid die?
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Yes, but not the infant, and not directly on screen.
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Is an infant abducted?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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GentlyUsedLamp
There are not bedbugs, but people and animals are infected with large amounts of isopods and some scenes of fish with large amounts of mancae (isopod larvae) in/on them

The whole premise is tiny bugs eating their way under your skin and through your body, before emerging as big bugs
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Death
Does a non-human character die?
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Almost all of the people shown in the movie are dead by the end
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Does someone die?
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Kind of? A doctor who’s told by the CDC to abandon his patients instead stays and continually films himself and how the parasite is affecting him. This is after pretty much all the patients have died, though. It’s more of a “captain going down with the ship” kind of vibe
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
Is a child's toy destroyed?
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Does a parent die?
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Kingfisher
One plot line follows a new family visiting their parents/in-laws. The parents/in-laws die off screen, with the mother leaving a goodbye message. The father of the new family dies on screen quite graphically.
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Does someone cheat?
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Does a family member die?
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Fear
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IsntItSad
Towards the end of the movie, when a woman and her baby get in a police car, there is a jump scare involving a dying person lunging out from the back seat.
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Lots of skin boils/sores
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Are there razors?
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Is someone possessed?
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Are there clowns?
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Lots42
No actual clowns but if facepaint is a problem, there are examples of this. There is a facepaint booth at the fair.
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Is there a shower scene?
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Are there ghosts?
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HellqueenRoz
There are no ghosts or supernatural elements in this movie.
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Are there mannequins?
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Natural bodies of water is kind of the plot point.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
139 supporters
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EvoLove023
Yes, Alot. Like half of the movie. All emetophobes, avoid this movie at all cost. I made the mistake of watching it and I was anxious and paranoid and couldn't sleep the whole night. The ending had the worst audio you could imagine. I managed to watch the whole thing but covered my eyes and ears for half of it. I would've gave it 4 stars out of 5 if it didn't have all that unnecessary phobia inducing scenes
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Is there audio gore?
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ca33
It is very graphic and is throughout the entire film.
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Is someone eaten?
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Lots42
Many people are chomped on.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Does someone spit?
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Is there farting?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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CyanHyde404
Basically the cops involved purposefully try to keep the fact there's a contagious parasite in the waters a secret.
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Is there incarceration?
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LGBTQ+
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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chernobyl_dog_safety
The protagonist has major egg syndrome, but this is never alluded to or addressed directly
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is electro-therapy used?
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14
Does someone have cancer?
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Kingfisher
A large portion of the movie is set within a hospital.
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chernobyl_dog_safety
Presumably yes, as hundreds of adult women are displayed on screen and, law of large numbers, some percentage of them were probably menstruating during the events of the film. However, it is never shown on film nor mentioned.
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dippity_doo
Very graphic and blunt scene involving shooting one’s head
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fish_fish
There are people who beg to be shot and a character who shoots himself on screen

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Stonesoulthegoth
guy shoots himself in the head
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
51 supporters
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13
Is autism misrepresented?
50 supporters
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5
Is there misophonia?
41 supporters
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debora
many uncomfortable noises such as people throwing up
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Anonymous
No, but there are two characters that talk about not wanting to live or asking others to kill them. They do end up harming themselves.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Yes
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ca33
The reporter freaks out, the cop freaks out, everyone is under very high stress throughout the entire film.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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Some people infected with the parasite seem to have some kind of episode where they don’t know who they are or what’s going on and behave erratically
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Is there ABA therapy?
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Is there body dysphoria?
18 supporters
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4
Does someone have a meltdown?
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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5
Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
57 supporters
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RoboPigeon
It is a found footage style film with a lot of shaky cam throughout.
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Yes, quite a lot
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Are there sudden loud noises?
46 supporters
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Does a baby cry?
30 supporters
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chernobyl_dog_safety
a baby is endangered over the course of a multi-scene sequence and it is left ambiguous if it also dies off-screen
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Is there screaming?
19 supporters
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0
Throughout
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Several
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Some swearing
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
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debora
i mean you could say yes because it’s a found footage made to look real
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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7
Does someone miscarry?
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13
Is there childbirth?
36 supporters
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13
Does a pregnant person die?
34 supporters
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15
Are there abortions?
27 supporters
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15
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Stonesoulthegoth
Baby is shown a fair bit but doesn't come to harm.
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
62 supporters
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Are there homophobic slurs?
61 supporters
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15
Yes
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14
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
50 supporters
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8
Does an LGBT person die?
43 supporters
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14
Is there hate speech?
42 supporters
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14
Are there usages of the n-word?
42 supporters
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14
Is a minority is misrepresented?
37 supporters
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6
Yes
0
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14
Does the black guy die first?
27 supporters
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17
Is there aphobia?
26 supporters
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5
Race
Is there blackface?
45 supporters
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6
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
46 supporters
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Religious
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This is very minimal, but a caller to a radio show speculates that Al Qaeda is poisoning the town’s water
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chernobyl_dog_safety
This is a complex religious question that is difficult to answer definitively one way or another. However in the movie there are not no
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Sex
Is there bestiality?
106 supporters
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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103 supporters
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No
16
Is there sexual content?
76 supporters
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Are there nude scenes?
60 supporters
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Two teens are on a pier and the guy urges the girl to take her shirt off for him.
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Is there BDSM?
38 supporters
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4
Does someone lose their virginity?
24 supporters
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6
Sexism
Yes
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No
7
Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
35 supporters
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6
Does someone have a chronic illness?
18 supporters
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No
5
Does someone have a stroke?
16 supporters
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6
Yes
6
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Anonymous
There is at least one major character who is aware he's going to die from the same illness that is killing the townspeople. People know they're dying before they die.
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Social
Are there anti-abortion themes?
40 supporters
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5
Are there fat suits?
34 supporters
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5
Is existentialism debated?
17 supporters
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0
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4
Is someone homeless?
6 supporters
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
75 supporters
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Yes
22
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0
Yes
5
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0
It’s not really plot relevant or a spoiler. It’s just b-roll of people swimming, riding boats, etc
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
8 supporters
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14
Vehicular
Does a car crash?
31 supporters
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Yes
19
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0
Yes
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2
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Ryanale
Someone dies in a car accident
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Does a plane crash?
20 supporters
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16
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debora
right before a car crash scene, they honk and the tires screech
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
68 supporters
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22
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0
Yes
18
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fish_fish
There are a few scenes with characters shooting each other and sometimes themselves
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Does someone drown?
35 supporters
Yes
12
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2
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They don’t drown, but do die in the water thrashing around
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0
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13
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chernobyl_dog_safety
No but there is a mention of nuclear leaks
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