The Lighthouse

Movie • 2019 • Drama  

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The Lighthouse is an animated micro-short that combines a number of unique styles and ideas from up-and-coming animation artists. The micro-short is only a few seconds long, but it is the result of months of work from animators across the UK, each of whom are developing their own craft through learning, freelancing or working in a studio.
This movie contains 48 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
162 supporters
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KatieF13
There are no dogs in the film
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Unanswered Triggers
Is someone's mouth covered?
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Abandonment
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milchmann
Not onscreen
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Is someone stalked?
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No but there are a few short scenes of the characters peeping on each other through the broken roof/ through the grate on the lighthouse. Super brief and I don't think intentional.
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MichaelProch
The two main characters do start to seem like a married couple, where some interactions and conversations could certainly be triggering to someone who has survived an abusive relationship


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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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in a way, yes. robert pattinson's character gets verbally abused, and in one scene slapped pretty early on, but towards the end of the movie he is the main abuser, going as far as killing the other. although the abuse is mutual throughout most of the movie, robert pattinson's character was the initial abused.
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MichaelProch
Majorly
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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4
Is a child abused?
56 supporters
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malovela
No, but it's mentioned that one of the characters abandoned his children long ago.
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Addiction
17
MichaelProch
There is excessive drinking of alcohol in this film, and the characters eventually resort to drinking lamp oil.
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Is there addiction?
7 supporters
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89
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MichaelProch
Alcohol dependence which later turns to lantern fuel dependence
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TFMD
Both main characters drink excessively, almost constantly through the second half of the film. In earlier scenes, there are also some scenes of one character pressuring the other to drink, which could be triggering.
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
54 supporters
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9
Does a horse die?
46 supporters
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1
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90
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KatieF13
There are no horses in the film
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
84 supporters
Yes
144
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TaliMeirav
A seagull dies a horrible death by the hands of the mIn character
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Are animals abused?
97 supporters
Yes
138
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Jacc
Is no one going to mention a seagull being grabbed by the neck/head and swung/slammed into the rocks?
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KatieF13
There are no dogs in the film
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KatieF13
Yes, some dead seagulls and fishing
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Is an animal sad?
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7
Are rabbits harmed?
33 supporters
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9
Does a cat die?
88 supporters
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KatieF13
There are no cats in the film
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Does a pet die?
74 supporters
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Does a dragon die?
11 supporters
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1
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KatieF13
There are no dragons in the film :(
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Are there spiders?
26 supporters
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KatieF13
There are no spiders in the film
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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8
Are there snakes?
10 supporters
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86
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KatieF13
There are no snakes in the film
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Are there sharks?
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9
Are there bugs?
16 supporters
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5
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80
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Plumberton
No insects but several crustaceans.
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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7
Is someone drugged?
11 supporters
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9
Is there pedophilia?
54 supporters
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9
Is someone held under water?
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7
Is rape mentioned?
37 supporters
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6
Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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7
Is someone restrained?
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9
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Yes
52
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21
Xenoromantic
One character openly gropes himself while berating another. And at one point a character gropes what he believes to be an unconscious or dead woman.
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1
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6
Bodily Harm
Yes
2
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70
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KatieF13
It's not seen in the film
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2
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2
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frythvv
A character cuts his hand when he punches through the glass of a clock.
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Are there dislocations?
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6
Is there throat mutilation?
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6
7
jmaa
Attempted strangulation occur several times.
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7
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shroomoss
No decapitation on screen, but there is a severed head as mentioned above for eye mutilation.
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Is there cannibalism?
21 supporters
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44
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KatieF13
There is no cannibalism in the film
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Is someone crushed to death?
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14
Is someone choked?
10 supporters
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7
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1
1
shroomoss
There is a scene where the two men choke each other desperately
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4
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63
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KatieF13
They don't die from it, but there is heavy heavy implication of a character burning themselves and being incredibly injured from it
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0
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TFMD
[SPOILERS] This scene is very graphic - we see dirt falling onto the victim's chest and face as he struggles to keep speaking and eventually suffocates. Near the end of the film, you'll see one main character leading the other on a leash like a dog; the live burial happens right after that.
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Is there body horror?
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14
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1
Is there amputation?
10 supporters
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42
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pauloween
No, but one character is missing a leg & the way he lost it is discussed several times. We never see the leg.
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Yes
70
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5
15
izkm
the head is not shown on screen
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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13
Is there a hanging?
18 supporters
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2
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64
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jmaa
No hanging, but a character wears a noose around their neck.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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9
Yes
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67
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ReiAlexandra
There is a story about people losing their teeth from scurvy though nothing is shown.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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11
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Yes
15
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46
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ka.jones1113
One of the characters falls down stairs and while no specific bone breaks are shown, it’s certainly an implied consequence
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Does someone have a seizure?
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1
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62
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SydneyMain2468
Someone was kicked in the nuts
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
25 supporters
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1
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61
Is someone tortured?
51 supporters
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21
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ragaellis
Well, the final scene can be interpreted as torture.
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18
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dannyvalentine
At the end, a main character falls backwarda down the spiral stairs of the lighthouse.
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58
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16
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MichaelProch
The same character falls from a great height twice in the film. First non-fatally, and secondly from the top of the lighthouse and down the stairs.
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57
No
18
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ragaellis
There is a scene where there's a dead body without an eyeball, it's short but can be triggering.
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Is someone stabbed?
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5
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17
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0
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8BitMonkey
[MAJOR SPOILERS!!!] only in the very last shot of the entire movie. there's plenty of blood throughout, but the goriest part is the final shot, where a character is shown twitching and barely breathing with a damaged eye, while seagulls pluck at his exposed intestines.
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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12
Does a kid die?
25 supporters
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Yes
0
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68
Is a minor sexualized?
52 supporters
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0
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11
Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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0
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6
Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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11
Does a major character die?
10 supporters
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7
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0
Yes
2
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5
2
a seagull gets killed, but im not sure if that counts as a character or not?
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Does someone die?
10 supporters
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Yes
6
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0
Disability
Is the r-slur used?
20 supporters
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0
No
18
Yes
2
No
5
Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
9 supporters
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Yes
1
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13
Family
Is someone kidnapped?
7 supporters
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0
No
64
Does a parent die?
8 supporters
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5
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63
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malovela
An ageing character who at one point referred to his "young'uns" dies toward the end. We only get that one mention of his children; we know nothing about them except that he abandoned them long ago. We see no pictures of them or anything. They likely won't even know about his death.
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Does someone cheat?
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1
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64
Is a child's toy destroyed?
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33
Does a family member die?
10 supporters
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0
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6
Fear
Are there jumpscares?
27 supporters
Yes
19
No
52
6
CLPPRBRD
There are a few instances that can be jumpy, but it’s all very minor.
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Yes
4
No
54
4
Plumberton
Arguably; characters are infatuated by a mystical “MacGuffin” as a significant plot device, and this influences their behavior in some significant ways, but it’s more obsession than possession. No possession by spirits, demons, etc.
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Are there ghosts?
6 supporters
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4
No
57
5
malovela
Perhaps. I read that the film was conceived as a ghost story, and to be honest, what with all the hallucinations and general confusing weirdness, I can't say for sure that one of the characters wasn't a ghost from some point onward. My co-watcher said he suspected along the way that the character had actually died. As for me, I found it all a bewildering blur.
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Are there clowns?
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73
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frythvv
The film takes place in and around a lighthouse that is further out to sea, surrounded by the ocean on all sides.
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4
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shroomoss
A quick scene near the very end there are barnacles (clustered shells with holes) on a characters skin, but it's not the center focus.
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Are there razors?
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13
Is there a shower scene?
4 supporters
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Yes
1
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64
Are there mannequins?
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Yes
1
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12
Gross
Yes
29
No
4
8
1Valentine1
at one point, robbert pattersons character attempts to throw out the contents of a chamber pot (both feces and urine). Unfortunately, he does this into the wind, and it all flies back and splatters all over him
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Does someone vomit?
52 supporters
Yes
107
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1
22
KenzieRose
After a night of drinking, Robert Pattinson's character throws up from his hangover. Directly prior, they wake up to a flooded house and Robert Pattinson is trying to pee into a floating chamber pot
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Is someone eaten?
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0
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6
Is there on-screen pooping?
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1
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4
Does someone spit?
6 supporters
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109
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0
14
someoldguy
The lighthouse keeper, played by Willem Dafoe, farts a few times in the movie. The first time is even before you first see him. How is that for an entrance?
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Is there audio gore?
27 supporters
Yes
43
No
1
5
TiredDaddi
You can definitely hear the gore when someone is hit with an ax
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Is there farting?
6 supporters
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Yes
9
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0
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
3 supporters
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Yes
0
No
14
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
6 supporters
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Yes
0
No
25
Is there incarceration?
4 supporters
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Yes
0
No
6
LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
16 supporters
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Yes
1
No
5
Are there transphobic slurs?
20 supporters
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Yes
0
No
6
Yes
0
No
5
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Is there bisexual cheating?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
3 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
14 supporters
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Yes
0
No
69
Are needles/syringes used?
19 supporters
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Yes
0
No
71
Is there a mental institution scene?
17 supporters
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Yes
0
No
67
Is there a hospital scene?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
64
Is there menstruation?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Does someone have cancer?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
67
Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
25 supporters
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Yes
1
No
12
Does someone have a mental illness?
12 supporters
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Yes
5
No
1
Does someone self harm?
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35 supporters
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Yes
1
No
62
Is autism misrepresented?
15 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Yes
26
No
1
10
malovela
Both characters become psychotic, and they get very violent, especially the younger one. However, neither of them has been diagnosed with anything; it's a case of "descending into madness" due to circumstances (cabin fever, you might call it). Whether one or both of them had some mental illness from the start, it's hard to say.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
7 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Yes
0
No
14
0
frythvv
One of the central themes of the movie is that reality remains unstable all throughout.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
4 supporters
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Yes
4
No
1
Is there misophonia?
22 supporters
Yes
27
No
4
3
bellafurre
definitely, lots of grubby eating and uncomfortable noises throughout the film. I think this eating noises are supposed to add to how uncomfortable the film, it is triggering but bearable
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Is there ABA therapy?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Is there body dysphoria?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
7
Yes
0
No
56
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pauloween
While there is no body dysmorphia, there is body horror in the form of weird mutations, and blending of human & animal flesh.
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0
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21
Yes
73
No
2
1
8BitMonkey
debatably, the entire second half could be considered one big anxiety attack. both characters are frantically fluctuating between emotions, constantly overwhelming each other, shouting at each other, and panicking.
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Yes
58
No
15
10
Quiet_Wyatt
The movie is filled with claustrophobic scenes -- a feeling enhanced by the limited, almost square, aspect ratio.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
22 supporters
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Yes
0
No
60
Is there autism specific abuse?
25 supporters
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Yes
0
No
46
Yes
1
No
66
Noxious
Are there sudden loud noises?
16 supporters
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Yes
6
No
0
Are there underwater scenes?
6 supporters
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Yes
5
No
1
Does a baby cry?
13 supporters
Yes
0
No
25
1
malovela
There are no children in the movie.
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Is there shakey cam?
20 supporters
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Yes
3
No
58
Is there screaming?
7 supporters
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Yes
4
No
0
0
fallqueee
there's cursing and sex shown on screen
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6
There is a lighthouse (lol duh) so there is often a rotating light, but I wouldn't say quite flashing.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
11 supporters
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Yes
5
No
0
Yes
4
No
12
2
In one of the first scenes the main characters seem to be looking directly into the camera for a bunch of seconds
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
14
Is there childbirth?
12 supporters
Yes
0
No
63
0
malovela
No pregnancies or babies.
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Are there abortions?
13 supporters
Yes
0
No
71
0
malovela
No pregnancies or babies.
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Are there babies or unborn children?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
13
Yes
1
No
65
0
malovela
No pregnancies or babies.
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Yes
0
No
65
1
malovela
No pregnancies or babies.
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
24 supporters
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Yes
1
No
70
Yes
1
No
73
5
there is no black guy
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Are there homophobic slurs?
25 supporters
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Yes
4
No
37
Yes
0
No
51
Yes
2
No
22
0
Disco
Robert Pattinson is called a pretty boy a few times
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Is there hate speech?
14 supporters
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Yes
0
No
59
0
Disco
Canadians
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Yes
48
No
25
23
DKRap
While neither of the characters are canonically gay, there's definitely some subtext that's been confirmed by one of the main actors.
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6
notgoingtoaddcomments
One character accuses another of being "slow" and a "dullard", in a manner referring to intellectual disability.
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Are there n-words?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
No
39
Is there aphobia?
9 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Race
Is there blackface?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Relationships
Yes
9
No
5
2
milchmann
It's ambiguous whether or not anything sexual is happening between the characters, but there is definitely a gap in age/power between them.
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
0 supporters
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Yes
2
No
3
Are there demons or Hell?
7 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Sex
Yes
90
No
0
15
halupadude
masturbation, sexual imagery
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Is someone sexually objectified?
19 supporters
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Yes
5
No
8
Are there nude scenes?
15 supporters
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Yes
16
No
0
Is there bestiality?
41 supporters
Yes
2
No
5
1
Disco
Mermaids?
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Is there BDSM?
8 supporters
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Yes
1
No
4
Does someone lose their virginity?
6 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Are there incestuous relationships?
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42 supporters
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Yes
0
No
69
Sexism
3
robert pattinson's character cries at one point and gets mildly ridiculed and laughed at for it
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Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Does someone have a chronic illness?
0 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
16 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
10
Is someone terminally ill?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
6
Social
Yes
1
No
13
0
Disco
Main character doesn’t have a home but has a sort of run down horrible house if you count it
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
16 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Are there fat suits?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Is existentialism debated?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Spoiler
Yes
0
No
60
4
malovela
You might argue that mermaids are spoiled, in that the mermaid that appears is malevolent and highly sexualized (genitalia, intercourse), but you shouldn't let children watch the movie anyway! The movie is as far from being a children's movie as a movie can get.
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Are there end credit scenes?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Yes
84
No
4
16
Plumberton
Sad isn’t quite the word for it, but it sure ain’t happy.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
5 supporters
Yes
0
No
61
0
Plumberton
There are no cars.
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0
There are no cars in the movie.
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Does a plane crash?
4 supporters
Yes
0
No
61
0
Plumberton
There are no planes.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
64
1
Plumberton
There are no cars.
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Violence
Yes
0
No
61
0
malovela
No explosions.
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Is there blood/gore?
25 supporters
Yes
80
No
0
2
denialol
Blood splatters on a man when he kills another with an axe, and then you can see the axe in the man's head afterwards. A man is shown being graphically pecked by birds. A man kills a bird by smashing it, resulting in blood splatter. All in black and white.
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Does someone drown?
10 supporters
Yes
21
No
35
16
Anonaccount
No one dies by drowning, but a character has visions involving images of drowning.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
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There are no guns used in the movie.
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