The Turning
Movie • 2020 • Horror
ReportA young woman quits her teaching job to be a private tutor (governess) for a wealthy young heiress who witnessed her parent's tragic death. Shortly after arriving, the girl's degenerate brother is sent home from his boarding school. The tutor has some strange, unexplainable experiences in the house and begins to suspect there is more to their story.
This movie contains 34 potentially triggering events.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is an animal sad?
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AJMiller
An fish is in distress after being attacked by another animal.
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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AJMiller
I would argue some of the brutality is unnecessary to show, but it's not a plot point that it's done for spectacle.
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Abuse
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malovela
Yes, including rape and murder. Live-in employee toward live-in employee; not a couple.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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malovela
I'm not quite sure, since the ending left me super confused as to what was real and what wasn't. However, we see a desperate person doubting her own sanity and sense of reality due to what happens around her, including what people say and how they behave. Someone does call her crazy when she behaves in ways that are completely natural if what she's experiencing is real, but the thing is that they may in fact be right (if not using an appropriate word for it).
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strawberrysodas
Nothing is said or outright shown but with how Miles acts makes me believe he was by Quint
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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strawberrysodas
Alcohol it mentioned several times and it's mentioned an adult took a minor to a bar
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Animal
Does a horse die?
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Misanthrope
A horse is whipped excessively.
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Accalya
Miles stomps on the fish to end its misery
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Are animals abused?
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skylern
aside from the whipping mike stomps on a dying fish
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Is there a dead animal?
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A fish is shown getting its guts eaten by a crow. Then a boy stomps the fish to death which is also shown but less graphic (more noises though)
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Does a pet die?
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A fish from the pond is injured and subsequently killed by the boy. The little girl said it was her favorite fish.
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Are there spiders?
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frankencanon
I'm not sure about the timestamps, but there are two scenes where it happens: First, when Kate enters the room where Miles is playing a guitar; He picks up a spider and handles it for a while before feeding it to a tarantula in a glass cage. Second, when Kate goes to sleep with the lamp on and Miles wakes her up; He has a spider in his hand that he claims he found crawling on her.
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Are there bugs?
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Bunyip
Depends if you class spiders as bugs (spiders are arachnids not insects & have a category all to themselves, though in colloquial terminology many would class spiders as 'bugs'). Aside from the spiders I don't recall there being any other bugs.
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strawberrysodas
It's first heavily implied and then shown that the nanny before Kate was assaulted by Quint, and the way Miles acts when Quint is talked about makes me think he was too
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There is a scene showing a young woman lying on her back on a bed crying while it is shaking. You can't see it exactly but I can see how it would be very triggering for someone who wpuld be affected by that.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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malovela
Fear, being pulled underwater, strangulation.
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Is there amputation?
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malovela
No, but there's a moving, seemingly sentient disembodied ghost hand. Plus various doll parts painted to look bloody.
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Does a head get squashed?
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AJMiller
Miles stomps a fish's head in. There is also a dream sequence where he slams the nanny's head into the wall. Multiple dolls' heads are broken.
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Does someone break a bone?
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malovela
Someone falls to their death from a stair landing, so there's most likely a broken bone or more. We don't see the impact, nor do we see the body but I'm not sure we don't hear the sound of a bone/bones breaking on impact.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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RuhRo
The MC picks at her fingers a lot and they wind up bleeding because of that.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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malovela
Yes, pushed from a stair landing. We see the person going over the railing and falling, but something blocks our view of the last part of the fall and the impact. We hear the person cry out, and we hear the impact. We don't see the body.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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malovela
No, but as part of a rhyme, a child gives us a simple mental image of something extremely unpleasant that could happen to an eye. It's just four words, spoken for fun.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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AJMiller
One of few adaptations of The Turn of the Screw where this doesn't happen.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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An underage boy sexualizes an older woman (watching her bathe, etc)
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Disability
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Family
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Does a parent die?
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strawberrysodas
Miles and Flora's parents are dead and it's talked about
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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malovela
Throughout the movie, we see lots of dolls (Barbies and more classic dolls alike) lying around in pieces and painted to look bloody. We're told that the doll mutilation was done by the child who owns them. In one of the very last scenes, a girl's porcelain doll falls to the floor, its face breaking into a few pieces. The girl shrieks and cries.
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Fear
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AJMiller
So many it becomes almost meaningless.
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Is someone possessed?
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malovela
It certainly seems like it, but as I understood the movie as a whole, I'm not sure it's actually the case. In any case, it's not quite your typical demonic possession (no crawling on ceilings, growling, speaking ancient languages etc.).
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Is there a shower scene?
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strawberrysodas
Bath scene
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Is there audio gore?
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Bunyip
Minor - no sounds are lingered on or anything though
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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AJMiller
Not sure who selected 'yes' because there isn't a single cop in the whole movie nor are any mentioned.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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skylern
there’s a nursing home scene
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Mental Health
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The MC picks at her fingers a lot until they bleed
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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strawberrysodas
Kate (and Miles) are sometimes shown to be extremely anxious/scared but no full on anxiety attacks happen
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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malovela
All doors of a smallish room slamming shut all around a person inside it, keeping her from escaping.
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AJMiller
Perhaps the only adaptation of The Turn of the Screw where this is not part of the backstory for the house.
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Noxious
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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frankencanon
There's a scene where someone is walking around in the dark with a flashlight; their hold on the flashlight is unsteady and it flashes on the screen a lot.
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Paranoia
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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AJMiller
There are no pregnancies and no infants.
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Is there childbirth?
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malovela
There are no pregnancies and no infants.
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Are there abortions?
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malovela
There are no pregnancies and no infants.
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Does someone miscarry?
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malovela
There are no pregnancies and no infants.
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Does a pregnant person die?
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malovela
There are no pregnancies and no infants.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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pinegrove
Characters with mental health issues are treated and spoken about poorly. The main character's mother is in a care facility and the housekeeper intercepts mail from her. The housekeeper then says that she hopes the mother's condition is not genetic and that you can't escape the inevitable (implying that the main character is mentally ill, which is implied multiple times by different characters). The children call the main character crazy and the whole movie seems to be saying that her experiences are not real and that they are caused by a mental illness.
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
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malovela
There's rape.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Sexism
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Social
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Spoiler
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Does it have a sad ending?
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strawberrysodas
It's left ambiguous, depending on what you believe happened they're safe, or they're not
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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strawberrysodas
It's talked about but never shown
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Does a plane crash?
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malovela
No flying scenes.
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
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skylern
there’s a girl crying blood and a dead fish being picked apart
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Does someone drown?
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skylern
i’m pretty sure no one actually drowns but they find a dead body in a lake and there is a prank which makes it appear someone drown
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