Monster: The Ed Gein Story

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The shocking true-life tale of Ed Gein, the infamous murderer and grave robber who inspired many of Hollywood's most iconic on-screen killers.
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You do not see a dog die onscreen; however, the implication is that the man intended to kill the dog before the scene changes.
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Does a non-human character die?
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Abandonment
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Geins dad leaves after his mum kicks him out
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Abuse
Is a child abused?
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First episode. Scene in the holocaust where an officer forces a woman to strip and chases her through the house during a party for entertainment, heavily implied being whipped by a riding crop, while SS officers laugh
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Geins dad hits his mum in the face
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Ed's mother is very much so abusive
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Gein seems to forgive / love his mother after she has abused him
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Ed is verbally and emotionally abused by his mother which affects his relationships with others causing him to be quite hostile
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Is someone stalked?
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
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Geins dad is an alcoholic
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Geins dad is an alcoholic
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Are animals abused?
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About 30 minutes into the first episode a man is threatening to drown his wife/fiance/girlfriends puppy. The dog is heard yelping as the man carries it to a tub of water. Ultimately the dog survives. The people are distracted and the dog does not die. At least not on screen. That doesn’t make the sounds less upsetting so be warned.
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Does a cat die?
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Does an animal die?
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16:28 - 16:41 shows his mother gutting a dead pig hanging up. Pretty gory and visual
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Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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There is a dead pig being cut open at about 16:30. Ed says he walked in on someone gutting a pig just before you see it so you have a bit of warning to fast forward through it. It’s a very short period of time, 10 seconds at most
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Does a horse die?
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Is an animal sad?
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A dog is whimpering and scared when a man tries to harm them. The dog is not harmed on screen.
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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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There are a lot of Moths
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Assault
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The beginning of this episode it goes to Ted Bundy kidnapping two women, and killing them and then going back to perform sexual acts on them after they were dead it pans away and ends the scene as he's taking off his pants doesn't show anything but it might be triggering. This happens at it right about 4 minutes at the very beginning of the episode
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is rape mentioned?
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Is someone restrained?
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First episode child gets slapped for not allowing her sister a turn on the donkey ride
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Episode two the girlfriend freaks out and Grin puts his hand over her mouth briefly
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
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I mean, the crime as extremely gorey. It did not feel to me like the film was excessive relative to the crimes, if that makes sense. Still, it sometimes cuts to severed body parts unexpectedly
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When Hitchcock takes the actor that plays Ed Gein in the movie psycho to the set, he shows him a fridge full of preserved vulva and you see them.
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Is there body horror?
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Across multiple episodes you see skulls and furniture made out of body parts (skull head, skin lampshade, skin chair)
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Does a head get squashed?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is there cannibalism?
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It's implied there could have been. And meat is seen being cooked.
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Episode 1 - He doesn’t actually asphyxiate and it isn’t shown, but it is discussed during the autopsy scene as cause of death
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Does someone break a bone?
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Is someone choked?
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Graphic in a sexual nature at the very start of the episode (3 mins in) until after 5 mins in.
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Is someone stabbed?
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Episode 2 around min 50 depicts a murder by stabbing that inspired the shower scene in the movie Psycho.
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happens in episode 7, 20 minutes in when ed is freaking out on the couch
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Are there dislocations?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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Is there a hanging?
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Door scene -
Stop watching at 3:52. Happens at 3:56 you see slippers. Ends at 5:16.

Soda shop scene -
Stop watching at 11:42. Happens at 12:29. Ends at 12:54.
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You don't see the act, but Ed has a bowl made out of someone's skull
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Is someone tortured?
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
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Main character sneaks into a house were young girls are in a bed room trying on bras. Main character peeps through the door and watches them without them knowing
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Does a kid die?
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Is an infant abducted?
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone die?
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Multiple people
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Disability
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Family
Does a parent die?
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Ed's brother and mother
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Kind of,Ed babysits two kids and decides to take them to his house at night without the parents permission and shows off his skin mask and severed head. He returns them and the parents go off at him / nearly called the police. Also the babysitter who takes his job is kidnapped and held in Eds shed
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Fear
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Small ones here and there, nothing too bad
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Are there clowns?
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Is someone possessed?
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Yes, scene where Eds 'girlfriend' is in the shower and it cuts to the shower stabbing scene in psycho
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Are there ghosts?
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Throughout the series Gein is imaging his dead mother
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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elliemore
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- 42:30-43:40 on the movie set Hitchcock says “you’re like him” then the actor runs out and v* (visual and audio)
- 44:30-45:00 the actor is in therapy and he says after intercourse “I become ill, every time” and he v* (audio and you see him by the toilet)
- 54:00-54:20 when people are walking out of the theater, a man says “My wife is going into labor!” and a moment later another man v* in a bin. Hitchcock hands him a tissue and says “here. You keep it.” and the man v* again. (audio but you don’t see his face/mouth)

EP 7:
- When Ed talks about a lady skinning a pig and how the sight bl00d upsets him, he says “I v*ed right then and there” but there is no visual nor audio

All other episodes are SAFE!
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Is there audio gore?
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Is someone eaten?
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Is there farting?
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Does someone spit?
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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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Is there incarceration?
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Tricky. Ed crossdresses and kills. There are some suggestions that he might be trans but it’s not made clear
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Live Theatre
Is there smoke or haze?
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Is there audience participation?
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
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Ep 2 around min marker 45-46
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Are there heart attacks?
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Eds mother has a stroke and we see her being treated in the hospital
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Mental Health
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Ilse Koch hangs herself in her cell.
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Does someone self harm?
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Episode 1 he hits himself in the head repeatedly at the end of the barn scene with the brother
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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We often see Ed splitting from reality and seeing scenes that aren't really happening which influences alot of his actions
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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Natural Disasters
Are there tsunamis?
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Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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Does a baby cry?
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Is there screaming?
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Are there underwater scenes?
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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Episode 1 first scenes ed sneaks into someone's house and watches young girls through a hole in the door as they try on bras
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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Does someone miscarry?
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Prejudice
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I didn't see any slurs, but there is a scene where Alfred Hitchcock is talking to the actor that will play Ed,saying he was chosen because he has a 'sickness', similar to what Ed had. The actor is gay. There is also a therapist scene with the actor talking about how to stop him from being gay using language like 'get better' and it cuts to him receiving electric shock therapy.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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Is there hate speech?
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Are there usages of the n-word?
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jdpamv
Presents baseless theories that Gein (who murdered women and girls) was a transgender woman. Way too much pacing is detected to panties, which Gein didn’t care about.
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Over a few episode a lot of mention of the holocaust with some graphic imagery shown, Nazis and admiration for the abuse / cruelty.
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Does the black guy die first?
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Race
Is there blackface?
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Religious
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The mother is a devout Christian and often gave Ed lectures using the bible
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Sex
Is there bestiality?
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There's a scene where a woman explains in detail how a man sexually assaults a female pig.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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Are there nude scenes?
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Is there BDSM?
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Autoerotic. At the beginning, Ed hanging by his belt and matrubating while wearing his mother's bra, garter, stocking, etc.
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The mother makes him stand naked in the kitchen and verbally abuses him as punishment for masterbating with women's underwear on
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Sickness
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Does someone have a physical sick and nauseous moment
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Social
Are there fat suits?
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Not sure if 'fat suit' but a character clearly has prosthetics on their face to make them appear heavier
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Is existentialism debated?
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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Vehicular
Does a plane crash?
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Violence
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Yes, Ed has a rifle that he uses on a woman
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Is there blood/gore?
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