Encounters
Movie • 2015
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On November 18th 2011 a small Danish film crew disappeared in the woods of northern Sweden without a trace. One year later, their footage was leaked by a hacker group now known as Pandoras. This is the crew's unsettling and disturbing footage.
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19:16 to 20:02
One of the men in the group secretly films the woman cleaning up. She isn't nude but she isn't wearing much and he makes some uncomfortable commentary. Nothing explicit but it's gross and done without her knowledge or consent. It isn't revisited after the scene.
One of the men in the group secretly films the woman cleaning up. She isn't nude but she isn't wearing much and he makes some uncomfortable commentary. Nothing explicit but it's gross and done without her knowledge or consent. It isn't revisited after the scene.
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Lots of vomiting in this movie, most of which occur during seizures. 36:03 to 36:13 (she coughs and spits a bit after that, and at 36:28 she coughs and wipes her mouth. After that, she stops throwing up and coughing.) More from 34:35-35:24, mentioned at 37:11, 47:36-48:00, 1:15:30-1:15:53. You can see vomit/foam coming out of the unconscious man's mouth in most scenes he's in. There's also gagging, like when someone eats bad food at 54:24-54:42 and spits it out + gags. He also drinks vodka, spits out out, and coughs/gags again from 54:44 to 55:00.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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(spoilers!) A clone of the female main character's boyfriend attempts to strangle her but does not succeed. He isn't technically her boyfriend, he's an alien/clone of him, but... important to mention regardless. (spoilers!)
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Are there jump scares?
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A generous handful throughout, mostly sudden sounds after periods of silence but sometimes visuals, too.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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It's certainly not a happy one.
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Is there sexual content?
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From around 7:00 to 7:30, the camera man shows his friend a video that two of their other friends had left on the camera, which is them having sex. They do not show it in the movie but you can hear a woman moaning. There are sexual jokes and references throughout the movie, a few of which about "fornicating with aliens." At one point they find porn magazines and tapes in a cabin. They only show the covers of the porn magazines briefly, but they show a few seconds of the porn tape(from 55:10 to 55:17), which features a male-presenting person wearing a mask doing an odd "sexual" dance in various stages of undress (no nudity). It's weird, but not graphic. There is also a moment in which a man watches a woman clean herself, which I described in the "sexual assault" question here.
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Are there fat jokes?
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It's really hard to say if it was intended as a fat joke or not, but to err on the side of caution— At one point, everyone's breathing hard and sitting down after exerting themselves. Fjord, a large man, says that he's wore out, and someone else goes "Yeah, of course you are, Fjord." It's hard to tell if that was a comment about his weight or about him as a person. There's nothing else in the movie that indicates either way.
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Are there nude scenes?
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Multiple characters are shown nude throughout the movie. Multiple times with men, in which their lower part is blurred (other than one scene in which a drunk man falls and his entire butt is out), and one time with a woman, whose chest is not censored. None of those scenes are sexual or sexualized. 19:16 to 20:02 One of the men in the group secretly films the woman cleaning up. She isn't nude but she isn't wearing much and he makes some uncomfortable commentary. Nothing explicit but it's gross and done without her knowledge or consent. It isn't revisited after the scene.
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Technically, yes. Not in any huge way but there is a moment where the camera person walks up behind his two (presumably cis) male friends and says "What's up, girls?" They don't take any offense to it and it isn't lingered on. It doesn't happen again.
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Is there shakey cam?
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It's a found footage film— the camera is unsteady constantly, and it's at its worst when they're running or in danger.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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At several points during the film, glitch effects occur on the screen, usually very minor and brief but they do flicker a bit. Sometimes the glitch effect is stronger, especially when meeting interference. The shaky cam makes a lot of lights flicker, as well.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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No one has an eating disorder. However, I'll use this as a place to note that this movie does feature bad/rotting food. The food in their cooler rots overnight and they show it on camera, and they find old/bad food later that someone puts in their mouth and spits out. They also eat mushrooms that make them sick.
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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They refer to a scary man as "a bit vacant" and a "psychopath"— they don't say it to his face. The behavior they comment on is the man standing in the middle of the road + staring at them as they pass, and then later (spoilers) burying a body and sprinting at a camera in a tape the group found. (end spoilers). Another instance is someone calling their friend a "psycho" because he did something dangerous.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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19:16 to 20:02 One of the men in the group secretly films the woman cleaning up. She isn't nude but she isn't wearing much and he makes some uncomfortable commentary. Nothing explicit but it's gross and done without her knowledge or consent. It isn't revisited after the scene.
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Does a non-human character die?
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(spoilers) Kind of?? It's hard to say. The clones die and come back and die and come back... (spoilers)
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Are needles/syringes used?
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An unconscious man is dehydrated so they decide to try and inject saline into his arm with a syringe. They first mention wanting to do this at 46:10, show the needle and his arm at 47:25, and do the injection at 47:33. It lasts for a few seconds before he starts convulsing/vomiting, which ends at 48:00.
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Is there misophonia?
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From to 4:20 to 6:44, there is a scene where the group is eating together, and they chew audibly + make mouth noises + talk while chewing. Someone also talks/breathes very close to the mic during that section. 17:50 to 18:20 has some loud chewing as well (loud enough that another character pointed it out.) From 39:51 to 40:00, the person behind the camera chugs water audibly into the mic.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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There are multiple instances of people downplaying each others' experiences and claiming that they're probably imagining things or taking a creepy moment too seriously but it's not done to make one another feel crazy or gain power or anything.
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Is there gun violence?
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Someone shoots a gun into the woods at 55:20 and 55:29, but he's not shooting at anything.
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Is someone restrained?
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One of the characters, who is unconscious for the majority of the film, has several seizures, and is sometimes restrained by his friends while it's happening. He is also sort of restrained when they put him on a makeshift stretcher, but he's not conscious for it.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Someone seizes/convulses several times during the movie, usually vomiting during those moments which would make it hard to breathe. One character comments during one of these moments that "He's going to choke."
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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It's a different reality than the one we live in. They question their perception of time briefly, but time didn't warp, they just weren't "present" for a while so they didn't know time was passing.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone hit by a car?
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Someone stands in the road but they are not hit nor is it implied that they will be.
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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Most characters are in some state of an anxiety attack for the latter half of the movie. Lots of panic, heavy breathing, worrying, being afraid.
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Several toilet jokes, someone (audibly) urinates in the woods from 9:23 to 9:30.
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Is someone choked?
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Yes. Someone says that a character is "going to choke" while he vomits and later in the film a character attempts to strangle the female main character. It isn't shown on screen but she talks about it while crying. No injuries are shown on her neck or heard in her voice.
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Is someone stalked?
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Not by people. (spoilers) They are being followed and watched by aliens, even from inside their own group. (spoilers)
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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From 45:12 to 45:33, two of the men argue and one of them shouts at the other to smile at the camera because he was frustrated by him trying to film everything. He slaps him a few times. I don't know if that counts as bullying but I thought it was worth mentioning.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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They spend a lot of time in a bunker type place for the latter half of film. It has narrow corridors that they have to run and hide in. One of the areas has rocky walls, like a cave, and is also quite narrow.
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Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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No, but there is a brief moment where one of the men pokes fun at another one for wanting to call/text his mother.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Yes, several times. From 34:45 to 35:24, briefly shown but continuously mentioned at 37:11, from 47:36-48:00, and from 1:15:30 to 1:15:53.
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Is someone possessed?
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(spoilers) They act possessed, but there isn't any actual possession happening, just cloning. (spoilers)
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Does someone spit?
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Someone vomits and spits from 36:03 to 36:13. She spits again from 36:19-36:20. Someone tries to eat old Spam and spits it out (54:24-54:42). From 54:44 to 55:00, someone drinks vodka and spits it out + coughs & gags. There is also frequent vomiting/foaming at the mouth/"spitting up" throughout the film.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Taken away by the "antagonist" (not a human) of the film and dropped somewhere else.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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No honking or screeching of tires but there is a sudden startle from someone in the car while they're driving around the 11:25 mark. Nothing happens and everyone is safe, but it's startling.
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If you count cigarettes, then yes, multiple times throughout the first 1/4-1/2 of the movie.
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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It's a found footage film where people speak to viewers through the camera.
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
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A lot of obscene language and sexual references.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Someone is unconscious for the majority of the film.
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Is someone homeless?
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Kind of? There is an individual who is out in the woods with them and whether or not he has a home is not stated. They refer to him as "a hermit who lives in the woods and eats his own feces," though.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Someone asks to have some, is told that he shouldn't have it because they're lost and it wouldn't be helpful, the guy asks again and isn't given any, so he drops it. Someone tries to drink vodka later and spits it out.
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Does someone have cancer?
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Someone suggests the idea that the man having seizures has a brain tumor, but that's the only mention.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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There is a lake and a waterfall. One of the characters almost fills his bottle up in the lake but notices something gross in it and decides not to.
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