Maléfique
Movie • 2003 • Fantasy
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In a penitentiary, four prisoners occupy a cell: Carrère, who used his company to commit a fraud and was betrayed by his wife; the drag Marcus and his protégée, the retarded Paquerette, who ate his six month old sister; and the intellectual, Lassalle who killed his wife. One night, Carrère finds an ancient journal hidden in a hole in the wall of the cell. They realize that the book was written by Danvers in the beginning of the last century and is about black magic. They decide to read and use its content to escape from the prison, when they find the truth about Danvers' fate.
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No animals in the film
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One of the prisoners sexually assaults another.
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One of the prisoners is assaulted by another.
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No, but a man killing children is a main theme.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Not bloody, and would be a big spoiler. Sort of yes?
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I wouldn't say excessive, but there is some gore.
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A character is tortured by the magical book.
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Though it is weird and complicated.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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I thought a character was stabbed in the groin. Another site says he is stabbed in the abdomen.
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No, but one man asks another if he could kill the woman who betrayed him.
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A man allows part of his finger to be cut off so that he can take a "vacation" to the infirmary.
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Does a kid die?
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Only conversations about kids being killed by a murderer.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is a trans person depicted predatorily?
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One of the prisoners seems to be a trans woman, and dominates the cell with a mix of coercion and violence, including sexual violence. Despite this, the character (Marcus) is also the more interesting and sympathetic character, IMO.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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It's complicated!
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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The tip of a man's finger is cut off by his cellmate.
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The film is in French. I didn't see any transphobic slurs in the subtitles in the version I watched.
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Are there jokes about sexual assault on men?
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Not jokes, but a man is sexually assaulted in the film.
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This is somewhat ambiguous in the film. A character seems to be transgender, but isn't frequently gendered by the other characters.
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Is there cannibalism?
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In conversation about a past event only.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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A character compulsively eats anything he can get his hands on.
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Is someone eaten?
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In a sequence, a character's hands are "eaten" by the wall.
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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A character appears to be a transwoman, but is always called by a male name. The character never talks about wanting to be called a different name.
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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A child's father has to leave him because he is going to jail.
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Only in discussions about a killer who killed pregnant women. Not shown and not discussed in graphic detail.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Are there abortions?
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There is discussion of a killer who killed pregnant women to access their fetuses. None of this is actually shown.
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In a brief sequence, a character de-ages into a baby, then a fetus.
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Are there demons or Hell?
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Not explicitly. But there's a lot of occult symbolism and the book is clearly evil.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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A character seems to be a transwoman, but honestly it never felt like a joke or like the film was mocking them.
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Is the r-slur used?
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Many derisive terms are used to describe a character who is developmentally delayed.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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Depends on your metrics, but characters are trapped in a space between two walls. Maybe like 10 feet wide?
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