Renfield
Movie • 2023 • Comedy
ReportHaving grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula's lackey, Renfield finds a new lease on life — and maybe even redemption — when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quincy.
This movie contains 69 potentially triggering events.
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Abandonment
Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
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Anonymous
A characters dad was murdered, another character abandoned their family- both happen offscreen
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
35 supporters
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howdywrites
Spoiler: Renfield explains he abandoned his wife and child before he met Dracula
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
56 supporters
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Anonymous
Renfield abandons his family but that’s offscreen and not really mentioned- it’s not stated how they ended up
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wellyfish
While Renfield and Dracula are not in a traditional relationship, their relationship is modeled after the dynamic of a DV relationship, including lovebombing, gaslighting, threats, coercion, manipulation, and emotional and physical abuse. The film also involved scenes in a support group where abusive relationship dynamics are described.
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AlleHufflepuff
This film is about taking power back from your abuser, not holding power over someone else.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Rory_John14
Dracula gaslights Renfield throughout, particularly during the scene in Renfield's apartment. Near the start of the film Dracula manipulates Renfield into helping him escape from a protection circle by telling him that he's the only one who cares about him and can help him, and Renfield narrates "I really, really thought he meant it this time". Dracula also tells multiple other characters he wants to work with them, when he really just wants to use them. Teddy attempts to convince Rebecca that her father was a coward. Renfield attends a support group in which codependent people discuss their experiences with abusive narcissists. So yeah, this film has a LOT of gaslighting, and even more general manipulation.
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Addiction
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Rory_John14
There is a very brief moment early on in the film in which Teddy appears to snort a line of cocaine off his hand, in the car just after Apache Joe's head comes off. Someone throws a brick of cocaine into a police officer's face, so he may have ended up involuntarily inhaling some.
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Is there addiction?
22 supporters
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Anonymous
Very arguably Teddy Lobo and cocaine
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Animal
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Rory_John14
Renfield eats insects throughout the film
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Is there a dead animal?
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pookiefly
bugs get eaten and a taxidermy wolf is displayed in the lobo compound, only in the background and outtakes
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Does a pet die?
0 supporters
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Rory_John14
Renfield grabs a child's ant farm from him and eats some of the ants.
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Are there spiders?
53 supporters
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maryg00
there are a few split-second shots of small-ish cgi spiders when renfield takes them out of a little box to eat them (eating flies and spiders is this character's whole thing) but they're really not played for arachnophobia and didn't trigger me at all (ymmv obv)
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Are there sharks?
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abbymortimer
a prop shark in the background comes up during a fight scene - doesn’t fill whole screen at any point but is in background a few times
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Are there bugs?
39 supporters
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howdywrites
Bugs are a big part of this movie, so if this is an issue I don't suggest watching it
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Assault
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Anonymous
Probably at some point, but definitely not because she’s a woman (there’s a lot of fight scenes)
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Is someone drugged?
33 supporters
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Pyreiella
Yes. Renfield uses Chloroform to knock people out.
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Is someone restrained?
30 supporters
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Pyreiella
Some characters are drugged and restrained, taken to Dracula to eat. Renfield gets arrested. Dracula is technically restrained via a protection circle a few times.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
14 supporters
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Anonymous
Not to silence or stop breathing, but Renfield goes to cover draculas mouth to stop him from biting someone (and Draculas fangs go through his hands)
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
33 supporters
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howdywrites
Knives are used
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Are any hands damaged?
19 supporters
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IndigoBlue14
A guys hands are fully cut off.
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Are there dislocations?
11 supporters
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Anonymous
Probably, a guy gets impaled on another guys arm
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Is there throat mutilation?
40 supporters
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Pantalones
Dracula bites and claws several victims throats.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
29 supporters
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howdywrites
Someone chokes on their blood
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Is there decapitation?
41 supporters
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oliviaam
One of the first fight scenes includes Renfield punching someone’s head straight off.
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Is there cannibalism?
37 supporters
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howdywrites
Does a humanoid vampire eating people count?
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Is someone choked?
18 supporters
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Anonymous
If I recall correctly at some point Dracula is holding someone by their neck
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Is someone burned alive?
1 supporters
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Near the very beginning, Dracula gets exposed to light and starts burning. He then jumps on a church guy in the scene and lights that guy on fire, too.
Dracula is shown as a blackened and burned husk afterwards, but is alive.
Dracula is shown as a blackened and burned husk afterwards, but is alive.
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Is there body horror?
65 supporters
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howdywrites
Highly don't recommend watching if this is an issue
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Is there amputation?
28 supporters
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RaidenNotRayden
YES YES YES. Arms are brutally chopped off at the elbow, ripped off at the shoulder and used as weapons, many instances of this.
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Does a head get squashed?
58 supporters
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Dr.Teatime
At least one occasion of someone getting their head squashed into gory bits by being stomped on.
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
25 supporters
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drslugabed
Not specifically the achilles tendon.
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Is there a hanging?
32 supporters
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jg57
At end of movie during credits, one of the posters shows a noose.
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Does someone break a bone?
22 supporters
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howdywrites
So many broken bones.... So so many
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Are any teeth damaged?
55 supporters
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playfulnoise
Renfield rips Dracula’s teeth out.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
58 supporters
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Pyreiella
A finger is bitten off at the beginning of the movie is at least one of many.
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Is someone tortured?
93 supporters
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Dracula's eye pops as he being punched in the face at the end of the movie, in the Lobo's torture basement
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Does someone fall to their death?
11 supporters
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Anonymous
Probably- but if they do it’s not like its own dramatic thing it’s just another body lost in the mix of a fight scene
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Is there eye mutilation?
102 supporters
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howdywrites
Several eyeball moments
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Is someone stabbed?
1 supporters
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oliviaam
Quite a few times.
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Is there excessive gore?
104 supporters
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Pantalones
There is so much over-the-top violence and gore it almost becomes funny. Gallons of blood shoot out of people, arms are ripped off and used as bludgeons, and people are torn apart by Dracula.
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Children
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
19 supporters
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IndigoBlue14
Loads of bugs of various types, don't think any bed bugs.
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
11 supporters
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drslugabed
It is discussed, but not followed through.
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Does a major character die?
24 supporters
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Anonymous
The villain
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Does a non-human character die?
0 supporters
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howdywrites
Spoiler: dracula does
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Does someone die?
13 supporters
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frankencanon
Many, many people. Mostly minor characters.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a family member die?
1 supporters
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AutumnLane
Temporarily.
Also there are mentions of already dead family members
Also there are mentions of already dead family members
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Does a parent die?
23 supporters
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alextf
Mentions of a parent dying previously in the story, but not in the time span of the film
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
31 supporters
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howdywrites
Not a toy necessarily, but a child's loved ant farm is broken and destroyed
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Fear
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Are there jump scares?
68 supporters
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howdywrites
A few, but the movie is mostly splatter/gore
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Are there natural bodies of water?
2 supporters
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Anonymous
There’s a brief scene on a ferry with an establishing shot showing water (nothing happens to the boat, the scene is pretty much just dialogue)
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Is someone possessed?
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Pyreiella
Not necessarily possessed, just not fully in control of themselves. Renfield, for example, being the first servant of Dracula we see. Dracula is able to speak to him telepathically to a point it hurts.
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
112 supporters
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Toward the end of the movie a character kicks another in the stomach, causing blood to shoot out of their mouth and butt. Technically could be classified as v* but as someone who’s sensitive to this it was fine, it was ~2 seconds and looked very fake.
Look away when Renfield kicks a guy and it zooms in with a Mortal Kombat-esque X-ray
Look away when Renfield kicks a guy and it zooms in with a Mortal Kombat-esque X-ray
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
25 supporters
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AlleHufflepuff
Yes, soiling, it’s quick and it’s for comedy, but damn it’s gross. If you want to avoid it, close your eyes for a few seconds when there is a smash cut to an x-ray of a skeleton.
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Is there on-screen pooping?
46 supporters
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Maktopus
In an absurdist way. There's a graphic scene toward the end in which a character is crushed and he defecates and vomits blood.
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Does someone spit?
11 supporters
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zoeqoq
people spit out blood
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
1 supporters
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AlleHufflepuff
Very much “ACAB except for this one, this one is special”
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Is there incarceration?
4 supporters
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AutumnLane
Not on-screen but it's definitely a repeating motif.
Early on a character is threatened with it.
A couple characters throughout the movie are arrested but are released or escape. In the penultimate scene, a woman is arrested and heavily implied to be sent to prison .
Early on a character is threatened with it.
A couple characters throughout the movie are arrested but are released or escape. In the penultimate scene, a woman is arrested and heavily implied to be sent to prison .
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LGBTQ+
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Is there bisexual cheating?
24 supporters
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AutumnLane
Not explicitly, but definitely implied. Twice. Once with an abusive queer-coded villain and then later on that same villain with a more sympathetic character.
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
7 supporters
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lolgal555
Not as a specific plot point, but a fight takes place in an expensive mansion with lots of glass / gold decorations.
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Medical
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Is there a mental institution scene?
29 supporters
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AutumnLane
Technically yes but it's barely a second long and only recognizable as such if you are very familiar with the 1931 Dracula movie
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Is there a hospital scene?
13 supporters
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howdywrites
Dracula lives in a defunct hospital but it's not operating and looks dilapidated
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Mental Health
Does someone have a mental illness?
10 supporters
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7
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Anonymous
I like to think all of them <3
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Yes
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playfulnoise
Dracula slits his wrists in order to give people his blood.
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Yes
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Does someone attempt suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Does someone have a meltdown?
8 supporters
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Anonymous
Not like a mental meltdown but some characters definitely (figuratively) lose their heads at some point
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Is there misophonia?
31 supporters
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When Rebecca and Refield are plotting to kill Dracula, Renfield eats a bunch of bugs and makes a bunch of mouth sounds.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
42 supporters
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AutumnLane
Not unless you count vampirism/vampirism-adjacent conditions
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jg57
At end of movie during credits, one of the posters shows a noose.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
32 supporters
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AlleHufflepuff
Renfield is in an abusive relationship, he reacts like an abuse victim when he is confronted by Dracula.
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Noxious
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Are there sudden loud noises?
43 supporters
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Anonymous
Nothing out of nowhere, and the audio is pretty balanced
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Is there shakey cam?
48 supporters
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howdywrites
During some of the fight scenes, yes
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Is there screaming?
16 supporters
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Anonymous
Lots of characters scream at each other or in exclamation
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
8 supporters
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Rory_John14
There's loads of swearing throughout. According to IMDb: "57 uses of fuck, 22 uses of shit, 6 uses of ass"
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Are there flashing lights or images?
48 supporters
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24
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Pyreiella
As an epileptic myself, I’d suggest turning away when they wind-up downstairs of the Lobos’ mansion and the lights go out. It’s right near the end of the movie. It starts to flash a bit and I had to cover my eyes for a short bit.
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Paranoia
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Is the fourth wall broken?
10 supporters
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Cassiman
Renfield talks to the audience
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Pregnancy
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Yes
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Prejudice
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
41 supporters
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14
No
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4
The support group refers to abusers as narcisists and equates narcisism with abuse
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Does an LGBT person die?
1 supporters
Yes
15
No
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AlleHufflepuff
Technically yes. One of the people in the support group is queer. SPOILERS: she dies but is then resurrected.
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Yes
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Yes
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Is there hate speech?
31 supporters
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AutumnLane
A hitman is criticized for having a racist name: "Apache Joe" but since he's a hitman no one is willing to complain about this to his face. He is killed by one of his intended victims within seconds of the criticism being issued.
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Race
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
1 supporters
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4
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Rory_John14
Technically you could argue this, I guess. Renfield is over a hundred years old, and is interpreted by some as being romantically attracted to Rebecca. However they don't end up together within the film. Unless age gaps are extremely triggering to you, you should be fine.
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
1 supporters
Yes
8
No
1
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Anonymous
“Wiccan tumblr” and a fight scene of Dracula vs someone of religious authority in the Catholic Church (he wears a big cross hat, idk specifically the title)
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Are there demons or Hell?
13 supporters
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6
No
3
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Anonymous
There’s vampires and holy water/the church burns em, eh you decide
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Sex
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25
Yes
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Yes
0
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13
Is someone sexually objectified?
47 supporters
Yes
0
No
27
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Rory_John14
No, but at one point Dracula asks for a busload of cheerleaders to eat and then defensively says "it's not a sexual thing"
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
93 supporters
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26
Yes
0
No
28
Yes
0
No
9
Sexism
Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
20 supporters
Yes
0
No
24
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drslugabed
Not specifically for crying, but ridiculed for trying to stand up for himself.
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Sickness
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0
No
14
Yes
0
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23
Does someone have a chronic illness?
1 supporters
Yes
2
No
20
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Pyreiella
I’d say the biggest theme was struggling with toxic relationships and clearly Renfield’s mental health is in a chronic state after serving Dracula for so long. But other than that, no.
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Social
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25
Is someone homeless?
5 supporters
Yes
8
No
14
4
howdywrites
Technically Renfield and Dracula are
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6
Yes
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Spoiler
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Yes
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Vehicular
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Yes
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No
0
Yes
0
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Is someone hit by a car?
1 supporters
Yes
0
No
21
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howdywrites
Someone's head hits a car but that's about it
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Violence
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0
No
27
Is there blood/gore?
57 supporters
Yes
46
No
0
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Pyreiella
LOTS AND LOTS. If this is a trigger, DO NOT go see the movie. They did go a bit over the top with the amount of blood for comedic purposes, blood is consumed, Dracula slits his wrist and blood is shown dripping from it, in some parts Dracula is missing most his skin, etc.
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