Nightmare Alley
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A chicken is beheaded
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First scene at the carnival, the ‘beast man’ traps and decapitates a chicken by biting its neck. Very unpleasant and bloody.
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Man graphically bites a chickens head off. It’s really quite awful.
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JackSullivan
The film briefly shows the traditional sideshow “Spidora” act, featuring a gaffed spider with a woman’s head. Several large banners depicting this act also appear in the background.
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Around 5 min in, when they go to see the beast man, it’s on the ground when they show the chicken
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JackSullivan
There is briefly a giant spider with a woman’s head.
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It is not shown, but talked about.
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AnimalLover42
1hr 53m.
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Sid
Lilith gaslights Stan and when she reveals that she has betrayed him she tries to make him think he has gone insane
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Sid
The geeks are drugged with morphine. Everyone smokes cigarettes
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Cmeissrun
At least one person drinks themselves to death.
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Cmeissrun
The carnival geeks are alcoholics that have basically been forced into that life by their addiction. One is even given morphine added to their alcohol to make them more dependent (not shown but discussed).
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Toadsareneat
A character early on in the movie mentions never having sex with a man consensually before. The topic moves on pretty fast.
A man later in the movie admits to hurting women, it doesn’t specify whether this is physical or sexual too.
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gooddoggo
A man's arm is very broken after he gets hit by a car
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Sid
General face mutilation. A woman also shoots herself in the eye but the camera cuts away as she pulls the trigger
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Jan3
A man is held against his will in a cage without food, water, or access to proper hygiene.
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Cmeissrun
Yes and the aftermath is shown pretty graphically.
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pinklemonade
An ear gets blown up after is shot with a gun
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bananareen
It is mentioned and implied but not shown
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Liam2000
It’s not teeth it’s glass
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DoveLavender
There is a brief non-fatal asphyxiation scene.
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Liam2000
False comment above he pulls glass out of his hand
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Only towards the very end
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Jmergel4
Man Hit by car then ran over
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Someone dead is burnt
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DoveLavender
There are several taxidermy fetuses.
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malovela
Yes, a chicken.
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Sid
Stan cheats on Molly with Lilith
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pinklemonade
Stan kills his dad and then burns his dead body
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Raffarin
There are no actual ghosts but the main character pretends that he can connect with dead people as a scam. SPOILER His girlfriend is also dressing up as the dead wife of a man they are scamming.
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Sid
Bath scene that is also sexual
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Sid
Fighting sounds, crackling electricity, sounds of someone biting a head off a chicken
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Raffarin
SPOILER At the end of the movie the main character is homeless and while he's looking for work, someone mentions that he stinks like he "pissed himself".
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A cop briefly asks a women if they are alright, indicating they might care about a human life.
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Not therapy but the visuals may be triggering
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notgoingtoaddcomments
Someone is shown dying of an unspecified illness.
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Sid
The injured geek is left outside a hospital in the rain
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JackSullivan
A character kills themselves graphically onscreen.
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Raffarin
SPOILER The main character pretends that he can speak with the dead son of an old woman, telling her that he is now happy and glad that they will soon be reunited. Later in the movie, she decides to shoot her husband and then shoots herself in the eye. I personally found the scene pretty graphic and abrupt.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Sid
The geek is kept in a cage
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notgoingtoaddcomments
Nothing that triggered mine, but I did happen to notice that there was a lot of lip smacking.
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JackSullivan
There’s several performances of the “Electra” sideshow stunt as well as several flashbacks done via fleeting images.
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Marfanan
The woman died years before the events of the film, but the circumstances are talked about at length.
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Brenna
The carnie who owns all the jarred fetuses mentions that some were stillborn. They never actually show the baby being born that way, though.
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Marfanan
The event is never shown on screen, but one character (also never introduced on screen) was forced to miscarry years before the events of the film. There is also a collection of unborn fetuses kept by one of the carnies.
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captaindrown
The ones in jars
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Greyshadow
A forced termination is mentioned.
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Sid
The whole “freak show” thing
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notgoingtoaddcomments
Pretty light. Making out, brief male nudity, discussions.
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malovela
In flashbacks we see an old man who's bedridden (and so weak as to be fatally defenseless), but we don't know what's wrong with him. It may be simply weakness from old age.
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malovela
Yes, more than one person are as "classically homeless" as it gets, with all the misery it entails.
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Sid
Stan is reduced to almost less than human due to his own actions
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malovela
There are no flying scenes.
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Cmeissrun
Graphically shown.
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Sid
Lilith carries a small pistol in her handbag and at one point she uses it to shoot Stan in the ear. Stan is shot at by Grindle’s bodyguard. There is also a murder-suicide by gunshot
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malovela
There's blood from a chicken being bitten to death rather early on in the movie. Other than that, the blood and gore stuff is near the end. Graphically shown bashed-in face and more.
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