The Cleansing Hour
Movie • 2019 • Horror
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Millennial 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.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Children are abused in Catholic school, violently not sexually, beaten and made to kneel on sharp objects.
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Romantic partners physically fight while one of them is possessed but there is no domestic violence.
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A character is followed and then attacked while in an alleyway trying to find the studio.
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Is someone restrained?
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Characters are restrained during the exorcism.
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A woman falls and a pencil is driven into her eye
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Someone's fingers are bitten off graphically
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Does a head get squashed?
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A woman's skull is crushed/penetrated by a statuette
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Is there a hanging?
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Yes, but he does not die.
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Is there throat mutilation?
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A character slits their own throat.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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A character chokes.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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There are no actual seizures but a character convulses in a way that may be triggering.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Or dead? Someone gets relatively lightly tossed across a room and hits their head on a pipe.
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Does a kid die?
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(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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Death
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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A character puts himself through emotional and physical torture trying to save another character from possession.
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Someone takes drugs and has a very nasty experience, but it isn't an overdose. Just too much.
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Does someone cheat?
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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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Does a parent die?
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Toward the end of the movie a character kills both of their parents.
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Is someone possessed?
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This is the core theme of the film
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Are there ghosts?
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Demons, not ghosts
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No, but a character does use a box knife to protect himself from monsters and ends up self-harming from it.
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Repeatedly and graphically
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LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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Guy refers to his drag queen friend as "he" but then corrects himself
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Arguably. Old book on exorcism is set on fire
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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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Does someone have an eating disorder?
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Is there misophonia?
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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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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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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A scene in a toilet stall might be triggering. It's the smallest space shown in the movie. But there is enough space to exit below the stall door.
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Is the fourth wall broken?
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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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There is a character that does drag. The main character is good friends with them, but mixes up the pronouns because he is talking about both the man and the drag persona in the same conversation. No intentional misgendering.
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
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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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A drag queen dies.
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Does the black guy die first?
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BUT one of the characters is playing the part of a possessed girl who was SA'd by her father.
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Is someone homeless?
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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Are there end credit scenes?
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Does a plane crash?
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