Does the dog die?
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Movie • 1981 • Horror
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A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
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Yes. The corpse of a dog is shown floating in a river toward the end of the movie. There is also dialog halfway through the movie discussing a dead dog, but this is separate from the dead dog shown toward the end. There are two cuts of the movie, and the dog corpse is in the uncut version for sure.
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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The parents disappear for long periods and leave their young son alone, who is shown eating jam from a jar because he's hungry and alone.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone stalked?
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(SPOILER?) The husband desperately wants to know where the wife's "lover" lives, so he gets a private detective on the case. The detective then follows and stalks the wife.
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The main couple of Mark and Anna are extremely hostile and violent towards one another.
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The son is neglected (left alone for long periods of time, always an afterthought, not provided enough food) and witnesses domestic violence.
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At the beginning of the movie Mark seems to have been using drugs, and Heinrich has a bag of a white powder, presumably cocaine.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Mark goes on an alcohol-fueled bender after Anna says she wants a divorce.
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Lots of blurred lines in this movie. There are moments of struggle against kissing/touching, and it's also very clear that the character is unable to consent because of her frame of mind (insanity/supernatural forces).
There is a scene depicting sex with a supernatural being. I'm not sure if it's consensual. It is disturbing, though.
There is a scene depicting sex with a supernatural being. I'm not sure if it's consensual. It is disturbing, though.
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Is someone held under water?
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mans head is submerged after death to look like he drowned
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There is a scene not too far along in the film where Mark and Anna have an argument. This escalates until Mark repeatedly slaps her.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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One character drowns in a toilet.
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Are there dislocations?
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I won't tell you which one but one character gets messed up really bad on a motorcycle and their limbs are stiff and in odd directions.
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Is someone stabbed?
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Anna stabs a man with a broken glass bottle.
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Does someone break a bone?
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A character is shown wearing a cast on her leg but that’s all
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Is there shaving/cutting?
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A woman cuts her neck with an electric knife and then her husband cuts into his arm. The woman stabs a man with a broken glass bottle.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Anna cuts her own neck with an electric knife. The wound is not deep and she survives. She is shown with a bandaged neck for several scenes following this.
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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No falling down the steps themselves, but a character throws themself off the side of a very tall spiral staircase and dies.
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Does a head get squashed?
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Mark hits Heinrich over the head with a heavy porcelain toilet tank lid.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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There are scenes that look like people having a seizure, even if they're not.
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Does a kid die?
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It is left unclear - whether the child dies is up to you.
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Death
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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a woman overdoses on pills
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Does someone cheat?
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This is a consistent point throughout the movie.
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Fear
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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Towards the end of the film, there is a brief shot of Mark watching a dead dog float down a river.
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Is there a shower scene?
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Lots of bathing scenes, though
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Is someone possessed?
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Not really, despite the title
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Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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(Spoiler)
When Anna miscarries in the train station, there's liquids like blood and green goo coming out all over the place.
When Anna miscarries in the train station, there's liquids like blood and green goo coming out all over the place.
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Does someone spit?
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woman spits out blood
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Does someone vomit?
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1:18:00 to 1:18:31 - at the end of the subway scene, after she rolls around in the milk, it cuts to her kneeling with white liquid coming out of her mouth. As well as blood and green liquid coming out of her other orifices. No projectile.
1:33:25 to 1:33:43 - after Heinrich says “if you’ve only seen what I saw,” he runs to the sink. no direct visual, only see him hunched over the sink.
1:34:30 to 1:34:53 - after Mark lifts the toilet lid off, he sticks a feather down his throat and gags. no direct visual only see him stick his head in the bowl.
1:33:25 to 1:33:43 - after Heinrich says “if you’ve only seen what I saw,” he runs to the sink. no direct visual, only see him hunched over the sink.
1:34:30 to 1:34:53 - after Mark lifts the toilet lid off, he sticks a feather down his throat and gags. no direct visual only see him stick his head in the bowl.
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The main female character briefly mentions cancer in one sentence as a concept. No character has cancer.
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Heinrich's mother takes a lethal dose of pills after figuring out he is dead. Mark is grievously wounded and drags himself off a stairwell falling several stories to his death in one of the final scenes of the movie.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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A woman slashes herself on the neck and man cuts himself on the wrists, both with an electric meat knife.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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There is an intense; drawn out scene of a woman having an extreme mental breakdown that leads to her miscarrying her child, with bloody results.
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The whole movie is arguably full of this.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Anna has several meltdowns throughout the movie
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there screaming?
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There is so much screaming. A good majority of the film involves Mark and Anna yelling at each other, and Anna's infamous "subway scene" features her screaming almost the entire way through.
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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Mark is watching old tapes of Anna and she keeps looking at the camera in the tapes.
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Pregnancy
Does someone miscarry?
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during the subway scene 1 hour and 16 minutes in
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Is there childbirth?
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during the subway scene 1 hour and 16 minutes in
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Prejudice
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Does an LGBT person die?
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After a minor character dies, we find out he was gay
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Relationships
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Sex
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Are there nude scenes?
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Women are for brief moments seen topless in sexual and non-sexual situations.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there bestiality?
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woman has sex with octopus like creature
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Does someone have a stroke?
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No one explicitly has a stroke, but a few moments in the film are stroke-adjacent. I would advise caution.
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Is existentialism debated?
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characters debate the existence and the meaning of god.
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Vehicular
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Violence
Does someone drown?
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The drowning is implicit
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
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Heavily implied that nuclear bombs are being dropped on Berlin in the final scene.
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