After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister's disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality.
It is implied that the protagonists sister may have been kidnapped or killed, and there is footage of one child dismembering another. It is also implied that the protagonists parents blamed her for her sisters disappearance and disregarded her trauma from that event
No physical abuse but Enid’s parents say some things (including in flashbacks) that could be very triggering for anyone who grew up with emotional abuse
The main character reviews a film with a rape scene, you see the beginning of the assault then the camera soon cuts to just the main character's reaction and you only hear the scene's audio.
At the beginning of the movie, you hear audio from interviews about horror movies and see snippets of footage. "The rape scene from I Spit On Your Grave" is mentioned
Later a character says she's not interested in "being raped and cut into pieces on camera"
The very beginning includes many cuts back to back that include stabbings, there is violence with an axe during the viewing of "Don't Go in the Church" and again during the filming of the sequel, and the producer fall backwards and is impaled in an award when he attempts to assault the protagonist
The film is about a group of government censors who review lurid films depicting over the top violence and torture. There are several brief clips from these films shown as the team reviews them
We don’t see it, but it is implied that a woman’s sister died as a child, and there is a death certificate even though she was never found. There is a fantasy scene where one of the young girls attacks another with an axe.
A woman worries that her sister, who disappeared as a child, had been kidnapped. Toward the end of the film, a woman is taken in a car against her will.
SPOILERS! about 10 minutes away from the end, where enid is in the shed and is killing the beast man, a producer walks in and vomits. it set me off quite badly so thought i’d put it in here too :)
A character definitely undergoes some form of psychosis, in a very violent/harmful way, but it is shown in a very subtle/symbolistic and it's shown very slowly
The main character compulsively digs and picks at her cuticles when she’s nervous. We see this getting worse as the film goes on, but it’s mostly shown as reddened skin
A character in the film that the main character is watching on her TV stares out, but she is staring at the main character rather than the viewer of the film itself. This may still be triggering for some people.
There is an in-world film that depicts the start of a rape scene. The camera quickly cuts away from the scene and we see the censors’ faces and hear audio from the scene
Characters lose their sense of reality. The end of the film shows a character’s imagined happy ending, but the audience is shown that the reality of that ending is actually very different
There is lots of blood and some gore. Fake blood is shown in many of the film clips watched by the censors. There are several sequences (fantasy and possibly real) where people are attacked with an axe. A person falls onto an object and is impaled through the head, with lots of blood shown.