The Banshees of Inisheer

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adeliajbrown
The dog is distressed and threatened at times but never physically harmed
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Not a horse but a donkey does
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Does an animal die?
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Around 1 hour 27 mins in you see a dead donkey. At 1 hour 28 mins a man pulls a severed finger from the dead donkeys mouth. At 1 hour 29 mins you see a man petting the dead donkey. At 1 hour 29 mins 40 seconds you see the man burying the donkey. To avoid seeing the dead donkeys skip from 1 hour 27 mins to 1 hour 30 minutes and 23 seconds.
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A donkey chokes on a severed finger
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Does a cat die?
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EmEm
Kind of difficult to believe that the little donkey would actually choke on a finger, but it does and it’s gruelingly heartbreaking. Good storytelling, but damn. Next time I see an R-rated Irish film I’m doing more research. I actually would have left after Colm cuts his first finger off, but there were two ladies with mobility issues (who I already had to move so I could get seated) between me and freedom in a tight art house cinema. I’ll tell you tho, if Padraich had laid a pinky on that dog, I woulda climbed over them. Visually stunning, exquisite depiction of the suffocating isolation of island life, and like I said excellent if effed up storytelling. Not for sensitive animal lovers or for those with debilitating empathy.
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Are there bugs?
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i would say yes. colm’s treatment of pádraic at times resembles gaslighting, albeit unintentionally.
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EmEm
While there is some initial comic element to Padraic’s complete inability to honor Colm’s demands to never speak to him again, Padraic, yes, does obsessively stalk Colm, no mistake. Tho with no *direct* intent to harm Colm, Colm has warned/threatened Padraic more than once with his own significant self-harm if Padraic doesn’t comply however, so Padraic’s relentless pursuit of Colm’s attention is nonetheless brutally harmful as Colm makes good on those threats - twice.
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OuchMyEyes2
While not depicted, the policeman's teen son is beaten with a kettle. His cuts and bruises are visible.
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Sid
Dominic is horribly abused by his father
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Sid
Socialisation on the island revolves around heavy drinking
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EmEm
Outside of the socially acceptable heavy use of alcohol and tobacco there is no other depiction of drug abuse
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OuchMyEyes2
There's heavy use of alcohol, but it's not framed as debilitating.
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Holl
Not on screen but it’s suggested
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OuchMyEyes2
*Spoiler.* One character comes very close, but it doesn't happen.
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Sid
Padraic shaves at one point and of course there is the cutting of fingers
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EmEm
Colm’s self mutilation, the severing of his own fingers, and his delivery of them to Padraic, over the course of two scenes is graphic and bloody
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No active torture, but main character is put in an impossible situation that makes them feel tortured. I was very much triggered.
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EmEm
Yes! Padraic’s beloved miniature pet donkey chokes to death.
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Pantalones
A policeman is punched and knocked out. He REALLY has it coming.
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Sid
Colm amputates all of his fingers on one hand. We don’t see him do it, but we see the bleeding stumps as well as the severed fingers
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Mentioned but not seen
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tasharomanoff
A character's cause of death is speculated as falling into a lake, but it's not shown and it isn't from a height.
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OuchMyEyes2
A man cutting off his fingers is used as a major plot device.
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EmEm
While technically not a kid, Dominic is quite childlike, and takes his own life, it is strongly suggested, by drowning
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RainWolfheart
Unclear if Dominic is a minor or not - the actor is about 30 but he could pass for much younger. We learn he was sexually abused as a child but there aren't flashbacks or anything.
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RainWolfheart
No, but there's many comments and other rude words about people's intelligence that might be upsetting.
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RainWolfheart
There are no toys belonging to a child destroyed, but the puppets and masks that Colm has in his home do get destroyed.
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OuchMyEyes2
I'll say no, but the concept is alluded to.
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RainWolfheart
No horror-style jumpscares, but as said there are a few impacts that made me jump. There's one when Pádraic leaves the general store after speaking to the policeman, and another near the end when he looks at himself in the mirror.
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Pádraic is shown shaving at least once. Couldn’t finish b/c I didn’t want to see other triggers mentioned by others in the app.
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Sid
We see a dead donkey with vomit around its mouth. It’s not particularly upsetting (I’m pretty sure it’s physically impossible for donkeys to vomit anyway)
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OuchMyEyes2
The exact opposite.
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OuchMyEyes2
Dominic can very easily be read as neurodivergent. He's treated like the village idiot and abused by his father.
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Sid
Colm cuts off his own fingers
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Sid
No but he says he will harm himself
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EmEm
It is strongly implied that Dominic dies by drowning suicide
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Sid
Only towards himself. Colm isn’t explicitly said to be mentally I’ll but there’s definitely something wrong with him, and he cuts off his own fingers out of spite
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some body/fat shaming
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OuchMyEyes2
A small house is on fire with a man still inside, creating a briefly claustrophobic scene.
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Sid
Dominic drowns himself in the lake
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RainWolfheart
A few proper F-bombs, and plenty of milder swears (primarily "feck")
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Does a baby cry?
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OuchMyEyes2
Debatable, leaning towards yes. Dominic can very easily be read as neurodivergent, and he's treated like the village idiot.
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Sid
Some brief homophobia. The priest accuses Colm of having “impure thoughts about men” and Colm is outraged. He accuses the priest of the same and the priest says something along the lines of “how dare you suggest such a thing about a man of the cloth”
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dominic’s dad does call him “lady” in one scene as a way of degrading him
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HonestlyJon
related: there is body shaming of a man's genitalia and implicit mockery of his fat body
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there are a couple of comments about “impure thoughts about another man” when colm and the priest are in confession, but that’s the only time anything related to non-heterosexuality is ever mentioned
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RainWolfheart
A young man hits on an older woman (the actors are 30 and 39 respectively, but the man's character is implied to be younger), but she rejects him. There's also mentions of pedophilia in the past.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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dominic is implied to be sexually abused by his father, which leads him to ask pádraic if he’s ever seen his sister naked (he hasn’t). pádraic is uncomfortable with this question, and dominic doesn’t understand why seeing your family members naked would be abnormal, because he sees his dad naked all the time.
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Full frontal male nudity
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EmEm
Dominic speaks about women in objectifying terms, speaks to them with inappropriate candor, and has extreme difficulty responding to cues or even direct requests to desist
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adeliajbrown
Male full frontal, mention of him masturbating and possibly being sexually abusive. No sex shown
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EmEm
In many ways Dominic is rather homeless - he has no where else to go but his abusive father’s house
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RainWolfheart
Extremely sad, way worse than I expected from the trailer. Don't be fooled by the tone of the first half.
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OuchMyEyes2
The concept is alluded to, but it's not shown. (One character is indifferent, but the other is gravely upset.)
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tasharomanoff
*SPOILER* While the actual drowning isn't depicted on screen, a character drowns and we do see their body being pulled from the water.
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EmEm
Remote. We see and hear gun fire attributed to the civil war on the Irish mainland several times throughout the movie
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Fingers are chopped off, you don't see the actual amputation but you see the fingers and remaining hand after
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