After being mysteriously kidnapped by a Doctor and his violent henchman, a young man is held captive in the converted cellar of an old mansion. For reasons unknown, he's forced to endure heinous physical and psychological torture, but slowly realizes the worst is yet to come when the Doctor's brutal plan for him is finally revealed….
Genitals are surgically removed from the main character, it's not particularly graphic (some blood, but the camera angle and hands hide most of it). It seems transphobic and poorly researched/thought out.
It isn't played as a joke but the "man in a dress" concept comes up when the main character is handed a dress and their own clothes are taken away, the main character argues back that he doesn't want to be a man in a dress.
Not really but they break down from torture so they appear to forget who they are and they conform to what is expected of them. It could be similarly triggering to some so I thought I'd mention it.
There are eating scenes, I didn't think it was loud but you may need to judge for yourself, you'll have time to react because you see people at a table or see a tray of food being handed over before actual eating happens. There were no high-pitched scraping sounds.
Someone intentionally burns someone else's fingers near the start (they'll start talking about fingerprints). The bandages are later removed which causes pain and you can see the injuries.
As part of the torture. It jump cuts back and forth with it sometime after the main character tries to escape. I'd recommend having someone you trust help by skimming through the film to find any of your triggers because the film does a lot of cutting back and forth (or watch something better) which can make it tricky to avoid triggers.
Mr George (the big bald guy) gets stabbed in the neck with a sharpened bit of bone (he doesn't die). There are medical procedures involving scalpels but there are no stabbing motions, and Mr George gets his throat slit (also not a stabbing motion but thought I'd mention it just in case).
Marking yes just in case. It's not really discussed, but the main character probably experiences it since they are transitioned against their will. At one point after the first operation they're lying on the floor with a fever and it looks like they may be experiencing this. They're told that they're someone else for much of this time, and appear to believe it due to a breakdown. This stuff is handled so poorly in the film though that it's not really easy to give a simple answer.
The main character is abducted to be tortured etc You see it happen at the beginning of the film after he leaves the bar. They hit him on the head to knock him out and he wakes up in a cell.
SA scenes near the end of the film are drawn out and decidedly played for shock value, especially with the way the scenes are set up, and the erratic editing.
Blood/gore is mild and not particularly realistic. There is bursting blood (like from a blood pack) when Mr George (bald man) is stabbed in the neck with a sharpened bone, the detective is shot and there another burst of blood, you see blood on the main guy's fingers when he removes bandages (fingertips were burnt earlier), there's some blood during the scene where the main character's genitals are removed (you don't actually see much else because it's covered by a hand or a camera angle), you do see blood on the bandages and they develop a fever (which passes). We later see breast implant surgery (the character gets a fever again following this), and then there's some blood at the end when Mr George (throat slit) , and the doctor (shot) are killed.
Minimal gore is present, not excessive gore compared to many films. Things happen for "shock value" however, you don't see as much gore as you might expect. Nonetheless here are some things that do happen so people can try to judge for themself: There aren't really bruises left from the beatings the main character receives. There is bursting blood (like from a blood pack) when Mr George (bald man) is stabbed in the neck with a sharpened bone, the detective is shot and there another burst of blood, you see blood on the main guy's fingers when he removes bandages (fingertips were burnt earlier), there's some blood during the scene where the main character's genitals are removed (you don't actually see much else because it's covered by a hand or a camera angle), you do see blood on the bandages and they develop a fever (which passes). We later see breast implant surgery (the character gets a fever again following this), and then there's some blood at the end when Mr George (throat slit) , and the doctor (shot) are killed.
Fingertips burnt on the bottom of a hot pan near the beginning of the film in an attempt to remove fingerprints. We later see the character remove some of the bandages (if I recall there are cuts back to the finger burning scene), removing the bandages is painful and their fingertips are visible injured. The injuries are also visible later when nail polish is applied.
They kill someone while they remember who they are (between believing they're the person they kill). It is played as if this is out of "sympathy" based on what is said.
However, I would note that they were already violent before they were abducted.
Marking yes due to inappropriate interactions mentioned in diary entries. Better safe than sorry. Mr George stares at Rachel as a child, her father says it's because he likes looking at beautiful things. The father also gives her a red dress and says her mother used to "wear it for him". It all sounds inappropriate, but we don't know everything that happened. The implication is there but nothing is seen or stated explicitly.
It is implied in the girl's diary (uncle stares, dad gifts her a red dress her mother used to "wear for him"). There are no minors actually seen in the movie, but the diary entries are read out in a little girl's voice.
The way Rachel as a child wrote in her diary that her father responded to her uncle staring at her, and that he gave her a red dress that her mum used to "wear for him" seem at least very inappropriate, and suggest more could've been going on. Other things are said during the film to imply he may have acted inappropriately towards her and his actions near the end reinforce this.
There are 4 deaths in this film. (spoiler: the detective when she visits wearing a dress, Mr George during the SA scene, the doctor right after that scene, Rachel right after that pretty much at the end)
Doctor tells bed-bound Rachel that she really should've come down for dinner when she's unable to do so due to her PTSD. Chastising her like this seemed ableist especially given the context, but I'm not sure that everyone would agree because it's less explicit.
A bed-bound person who can't fight back is killed by the person who caused them to be in that state. The things the killer says before this imply that they are doing this out of "sympathy" (or they want her to believe they are) which could be considered ableist as it could tie into an ableist trope.
In general this movie does a poor job handling most of its subject-matter so that may be worth keeping in mind.
It isn't seen but there are several things in the little girl's diary that imply that Mr George was a pedophile (like mentioning him staring at her), and the way the father responded to this in the diary entry may imply he was also a creep. He also gave her a dress that her mother used to "wear for him".
There's a drawn out SA scene near the end, they eat a meal at a large table then the main character is led to another room and it happens. It then appears to stop when the doctor enters the room, but the main character is led to the room the doctor was just in and shown the footage we just watched with extra details (confirming who is in the video etc). There are a lot of jump cuts between the doctor watching, and two SAs, one is footage of what happened to Rachel and the other is of the main character.
Not a "relationship" the dad and uncle were both seemingly inappropriate towards Rachel (implied to be from a young age), we don't know exactly what happen it's just vaguely implied. Towards the end of the film the doctor is seen to be shaking and making faces which imply he's masturbating to what he's seeing (involving Rachel), but we only actually see his head and shoulders during this. Uncle George's actions during this scene also reinforce what was implied in the diary. No incest is directly shown however.
At the end you see Rachel and the state she is in (bed-bound from the ptsd of being raped, looks unwell) which is sad.
(spoiler: the main character then kills her, steals her hair accessory while thinking lines from her diary, packs a backpack which is probably Rachel's childhood one, and walks off down the road)