The Cleansing Hour
Movie • 2019 • Horror
ReportMillennial entrepreneurs, Drew and Max, run a webcast that streams live exorcisms that are, in fact, elaborately staged hoaxes. But they get their comeuppance when today's actress becomes mysteriously possessed by a real demon that holds the crew hostage. To make matters worse-- the possessed victim is Drew's fiancée, Lane. In front of a rapidly-growing global audience, the demon subjects Max to a series of violent and humiliating challenges meant to punish him for his online charade. Meanwhile, in an effort to save the love of his life, Drew discovers that the demon's sinister motive is not only about revenge, but also to expose the dark secrets he, Max, and Lane have been hiding from one another. With only the show clock remaining, it's a matter of time before either the truth is revealed or the demon forces them to meet their maker.
This movie contains 32 potentially triggering events.
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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saste12
A character is followed and then attacked while in an alleyway trying to find the studio.
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RoboPigeon
Romantic partners physically fight while one of them is possessed but there is no domestic violence.
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IndigoBlue14
Children are abused in Catholic school, violently not sexually, beaten and made to kneel on sharp objects.
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Addiction
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IndigoBlue14
Someone is shown taking pills.
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Animal
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Assault
Is someone restrained?
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saste12
Characters are restrained during the exorcism.
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IndigoBlue14
No, but someone's sexual encounter is recorded and we don't know if its consensual or not.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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icallitjustice
Guy slashes himself multiple times and then slits his throat.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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IndigoBlue14
A character chokes.
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Does a head get squashed?
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IndigoBlue14
A woman's skull is crushed/penetrated by a statuette
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Is there a hanging?
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Elizabeast
Yes, but he does not die.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Alex169
Or dead? Someone gets relatively lightly tossed across a room and hits their head on a pipe.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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RoboPigeon
There are no actual seizures but a character convulses in a way that may be triggering.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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IndigoBlue14
Someone's fingers are bitten off graphically
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Anonymous
A woman falls and a pencil is driven into her eye
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Is there excessive gore?
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saste12
Lots of gore and blood.
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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saste12
(Spoilers) A child does not die, but the child is possessed and forced to harm others at the end of the movie. Their fate is left ambiguous but it probably didn't end well for them.
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Drugs/Alcohol
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thirteendaze
Someone takes drugs and has a very nasty experience, but it isn't an overdose. Just too much.
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Does a parent die?
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RoboPigeon
Toward the end of the movie a character kills both of their parents.
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Does someone cheat?
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RoboPigeon
Two people had a previous sexual relationship before the start of one of their current relationship. Their current partner was unaware and reacts poorly.
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Fear
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Is someone possessed?
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IndigoBlue14
This is the core theme of the film
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Are there ghosts?
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IndigoBlue14
Demons, not ghosts
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Does someone vomit?
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Repeatedly and graphically
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Law Enforcement
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Medical
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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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saste12
A character is traumatized by a horrific event he witnessed as a child. He sometimes sees the face of a person harmed by the traumatic event years later, and the event is clearly a lasting problem for him.
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LillyT
A character tries to fight agaisnt visions that are attacking his limbs, but in reality, is unknowingly cutting himself. He ultimately is killed after slashing his own neck. This scene is intense and switches between his point of view (fighting back) and the viewers (attacking himself).
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saste12
Technically yes? He was forced to hang himself by the evil in the movie, so it might be triggering for some, but he survives the attempt and was never actually suicidal.
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Is there misophonia?
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saste12
Choking sounds, lots of blood gurgling.
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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?
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blairwitch
No, but there is a prolonged scene with fingers down someone’s throat that may be triggering
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icallitjustice
I mean.. not by their own will. In this fictional world if a paranormal force is making someone commit acts against themselves is it actually suicide. A guy cuts his throat trying to get demon spawn off of himself, his intention isn’t to kill himself. There is a theme of suicide however, and the demon makes one of the guys (reluctantly) hang himself - he falls and doesn’t die from this.
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Paranoia
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saste12
Characters speak directly to a camera during a livestream, which is sometimes our point of view. They never actually acknowledge they are in a movie or otherwise break the fourth wall though, instead addressing an audience of live viewers in the film.
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icallitjustice
Calling a DRAG queen isn’t misgendering anyone because its a persona. He (usually but not always) out if drag and She in drag. Y’all are misinforming, again! If anything the guy who said ‘he or she’ was trying to be PC and inclusive.
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Does the black guy die first?
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Alex169
A drag queen is the first death
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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saste12
One of the minor characters is a drag queen, but in my opinion she was treated respectfully by the film.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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IndigoBlue14
A drag queen dies.
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Relationships
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Sex
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icallitjustice
Not really. A woman goes down (fully under the covers so we don’t see anything), to give a guy a BJ but nothing happens before he gets spooked. There is nudity but never full frontal. So there’s barely anything at all.
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Alex169
BUT one of the characters is playing the part of a possessed girl who was SA'd by her father.
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Sickness
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Social
Is someone homeless?
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thirteendaze
Homeless person sleeping in an alley, very brief.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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RoboPigeon
The ending is unambiguously unpleasant for nearly everyone involved.
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Does a plane crash?
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RoboPigeon
It does not occur on screen but during the credits there are news images indicating that a plane seen earlier in the movie crashed.
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Is there gun violence?
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icallitjustice
Someone literally gets shot in the head by another guy possessed. Did you people just switch off before the end of the movie?
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