A Nightmare On Elm Street

Movie • 1984 • Horror  

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Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...
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Does the dog die?
1 supporters
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Anonymous
In the 1984 version, there is no dog. In the 2010 remake, a dog does die. However this is the entry for the 1984 version so I think people got confused which is why there are so many yes" entries.
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Unanswered Triggers
Are there heart attacks?
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Are there tsunamis?
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Is there audience participation?
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Is there smoke or haze?
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
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Mcdeville
Adults refusing to believe the real and terrible experiences of teenagers based on "knowing better", and implications that the teenagers are just too emotional, is probably the main theme of the film. Personally I feel like more of the horror comes from this than from Freddy Kruger.
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Are there abusive parents?
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Is a child abused?
124 supporters
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Mcdeville
The entire movie is about children being brutally murdered and the survivors being ignored by the adults who should be caring for them. I'm really not sure why anyone has clicked no for this.
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Is someone stalked?
25 supporters
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56
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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vlixxord
Nancy's mom briefly slaps her.
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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Addiction
2
fraisierdesbois
Sleeping pills
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Yes
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11
Anonymous
Nancy's mother is an alcoholic and frequently shown drinking or hiding alcohol throughout the movie.
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Is there addiction?
27 supporters
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Saniso
Nancy's mother is an alcoholic
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
181 supporters
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Does a horse die?
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Are animals abused?
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ceisan
There are no animals in the 1984 (original) movie at all
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
58 supporters
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DottyBlackheart26
There aren’t any spiders. I’m not sure why there are yes votes for this. I’m incredibly arachnophobic and I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
23 supporters
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Crow777
No, there aren't. Eels are fish, not snakes. There's some real bright ones on this site... 🙄
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
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bricker
40:13 - 40:20 when the woman opens her mouth a long centipede crawls out (very gross) and then turns into a bunch of eels in a pile at her feet.
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Assault
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Mychael
Nancy gets dragged into her bathtub in her dream and it miraculously becomes like an ocean in depth. She struggles as she drowns but is eventually able to escape Freddy’s invisible grasp and is fine
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Is someone drugged?
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Is someone restrained?
33 supporters
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Is rape mentioned?
99 supporters
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6
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lrrrbch
That's in the remake, not the original
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Dreamdust1600
Nancy is Slapped by her mother
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Pants
Yes and no. Tina's murder was meant to represent rape. Robert Englund has explained this. You can also hear Freddy making disturbing noises during this scene. Make of that what you will. It could be triggering for some.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
18 supporters
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
24 supporters
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Yes
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Yes
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eastcraven
Freddy is not a pedophile in the original series. He does make some lewd gestures though.
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Bodily Harm
Yes
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lukehasahead
Freddy cuts his chest to reveal green ooze and maggots at one point
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Anonymous
Freddy purposely cuts off two of his fingers and green liquid, equivalent to blood, comes out
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Is there decapitation?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Are there dislocations?
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Does a head get squashed?
61 supporters
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Is there cannibalism?
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Pants
Possibly, but the crushing is not shown. Glen is sucked into his bed and then blood fountains upward, out of the hole in his bed.
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Is someone choked?
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StanleyKruger
Freddy was burned to death, but IIRC this wasn't shown, merely talked about.
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Is someone buried alive?
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3
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Is there body horror?
71 supporters
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Is there amputation?
37 supporters
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36
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DottyBlackheart26
Freddy slices off 2 of his fingers while antagonizing Tina, but it’s not very graphic and played for laughs. Since he’s a dream demon, it’s not permanent anyway.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
1 supporters
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A man dies of hanging.
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Blastspark01
One character almost drowns
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Are any teeth damaged?
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GreyCaprice
Someone is hung.
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Mulu
No but the scene where Freddie's knife-hand approaches Nancy's crotch when she falls asleep in the bathtub might feel unconfortable for some people
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Does someone break a bone?
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ceisan
Freddy cuts off two of his own fingers at one point
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Is someone tortured?
101 supporters
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ceisan
Not torture in the usual sense of the word but the deaths of most characters are not exactly quick/ clean
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Is someone stabbed?
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GreyCaprice
Freddy falls down two sets of stairs.
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throughourphantoms
A character falls through a sort of portal Freddy created in his bed and is said to be dead. not sure if that counts?
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IanMorris
There is excessive gore in the sense that there is tons of blood in two death scenes, and some other scenes. But the effects are not shown in a truly realistic manner, and most of the scenes are quick.
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
33 supporters
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Does a kid die?
78 supporters
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Anonymous
Teens are killed throughout the movie and it is implied (but not shown) that younger kids were abused and killed by Krueger in the past.
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Yes
12
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Does someone die?
16 supporters
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Does a major character die?
1 supporters
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Yes
16
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Does a non-human character die?
36 supporters
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
1 supporters
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Yes
2
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
21 supporters
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1
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Family
Is a child's toy destroyed?
1 supporters
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Yes
4
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Does a parent die?
28 supporters
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Yes
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Does a family member die?
1 supporters
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14
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0
Does someone cheat?
26 supporters
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Is someone kidnapped?
13 supporters
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ceisan
Not kidnapped but one of the characters is arrested and held in jail, and there is talk of Freddy's past crimes which included kidnapping, but it isn't depicted
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Fear
Are there razors?
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21 supporters
Yes
18
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0
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Mychael
See Freddy’s iconic gloves.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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Yes
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4
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Westley
Technically. It's a bath scene.
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Are there mannequins?
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Slynx
Nancy and Glen are talking while standing on a bridge over a pond.
The area with a lot of water where Freddy dragged Nancy from the bathtub can also be considered a pond.
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Are there clowns?
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Are there jump scares?
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57
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0
Is someone possessed?
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2
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Are there ghosts?
9 supporters
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DottyBlackheart26
Not really. There’s some hallucinations in the characters’ dreams, but no ghosts.
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Gross
Is someone eaten?
38 supporters
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Is there audio gore?
52 supporters
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27
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3
5
It doesn’t fit perfectly into this category, but Freddy does scrape the knives on his glove against a lot of surfaces. Lots of unpleasant squeaking noises that might bother some people with sensory sensitivities.
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Does someone vomit?
1 supporters
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0
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48
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JackLapierre
Not pictured but a character mentions that someone is in the bathroom sick after witnessing a crime scene.

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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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22
Is there farting?
12 supporters
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10
Is there on-screen pooping?
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12
Does someone spit?
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1
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33
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
8 supporters
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0
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
40 supporters
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1
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24
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SiRenfield
The plot of the whole franchise basically happens due to the incompetence of the police (or at least Springwood’s).
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Is there incarceration?
4 supporters
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13
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0
LGBTQ+
Is there bisexual cheating?
28 supporters
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Yes
0
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11
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
33 supporters
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Yes
0
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9
Yes
0
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10
Are there transphobic slurs?
60 supporters
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0
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11
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
45 supporters
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0
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11
Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
1 supporters
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10
Medical
Does someone have cancer?
23 supporters
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0
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33
Is electro-therapy used?
1 supporters
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0
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33
Yes
39
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bricker
50:47 a doctor tries to give a girl a shot but she doesn't let him.
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Is there menstruation?
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0
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9
Yes
46
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bricker
47:30 - 51:20 Nancy's parents take her to a hospital for sleep disorders
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Is there a mental institution scene?
1 supporters
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2
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Mental Health
Is a mentally ill person violent?
1 supporters
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Yes
1
No
20
Yes
1
No
12
Yes
29
No
20
13
Alixandraw
~27 mins into the movie Nancy burns her wrist on a hot water pipe to wake herself up. She later looks at the burn.
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Is there misophonia?
37 supporters
Yes
35
No
1
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SiRenfield
The iconic Freddy scraping his gloves on the metal pipes
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Does someone have a meltdown?
11 supporters
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3
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7
0
carmillavanhelsing
idk if it fits exactly but characters are often not aware if they are awake or asleep and it can be triggering for ppl with derealization/ dissociation
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
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11
Yes
10
No
8
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Mulu
One might consider Nancy's drinking to be an expression of PTSD, but it's not explicitly treated as such
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
48 supporters
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0
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34
Is there body dysphoria?
14 supporters
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0
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11
Yes
19
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0
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Jackaellk
A lot of the movie happens throughout dreams and in such dreams, reality is bent and twisted.
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Is there ABA therapy?
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10
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lrrrbch
The main character is believed to be mentally ilk by her parents, but it's not true
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SleepSystem
An actual suicide does not occur but a character's death is made to look like a suicide and several characters discuss it as if it is one.
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6
No
25
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carmillavanhelsing
there's a lot of scenes where characters are chased in claustrophobic environments (maze of pipes, bathtub, different dreamscapes)
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Is there body dysmorphia?
30 supporters
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0
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32
Are there anxiety attacks?
1 supporters
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Yes
29
No
1
Is there autism specific abuse?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
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27
Is autism misrepresented?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
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11
Yes
0
No
18
Noxious
Is there screaming?
1 supporters
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Yes
13
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0
Are there sudden loud noises?
43 supporters
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15
No
0
Yes
15
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3
Nancy is pulled underwater in the bath
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Does a baby cry?
1 supporters
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3
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18
Are there flashing lights or images?
1 supporters
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Yes
9
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22
Is there obscene language/gestures?
9 supporters
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Yes
11
No
1
Is there shakey cam?
1 supporters
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Yes
10
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
1 supporters
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0
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13
Is someone watched without knowing?
19 supporters
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Yes
11
No
0
Pregnancy
Are there abortions?
25 supporters
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Yes
0
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28
Is there childbirth?
32 supporters
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Yes
1
No
27
Are there babies or unborn children?
17 supporters
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0
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14
Does someone miscarry?
33 supporters
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Yes
1
No
30
Does a pregnant person die?
30 supporters
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Yes
1
No
27
Is a baby stillborn?
42 supporters
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Yes
0
No
14
Prejudice
Does the black guy die first?
1 supporters
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0
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27
Yes
6
No
18
7
Cryptid_Crow
"Fruitcake" is said in a derogatory way.
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Does an LGBT person die?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
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32
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
1 supporters
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0
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20
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ceisan
There isn't anything horrible but the main character is considered "psycho" by a lot of people so some rude things about that are said
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
33 supporters
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0
No
8
Are there fat jokes?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
27
Is there hate speech?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
30
Are there usages of the n-word?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
23
Yes
0
No
24
Is there aphobia?
23 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Race
Is there blackface?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
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11
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
14
Religious
Is religion discussed?
15 supporters
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Yes
3
No
5
Are there demons or Hell?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Sex
Is there BDSM?
35 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Is there bestiality?
101 supporters
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0
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13
Yes
11
No
5
1
Dreamdust1600
There is a bath scene but you can't see any genitals
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Is someone sexually objectified?
50 supporters
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Yes
17
No
0
Are there incestuous relationships?
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1 supporters
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Yes
0
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32
Does someone lose their virginity?
21 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Is there sexual content?
70 supporters
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Yes
50
No
1
Sexism
Yes
0
No
15
Sickness
Does someone have a chronic illness?
14 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
1 supporters
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0
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8
Does someone have a stroke?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
13
Is someone terminally ill?
22 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Social
Are there fat suits?
33 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Is existentialism debated?
18 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Is someone homeless?
1 supporters
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0
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14
Are there anti-abortion themes?
36 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Spoiler
Are there end credit scenes?
56 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
7 supporters
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Yes
0
No
28
Does it have a sad ending?
70 supporters
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Yes
42
No
3
Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
9 supporters
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Yes
16
No
1
Does a plane crash?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
30
Is someone hit by a car?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
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29
Does a car crash?
1 supporters
Yes
4
No
28
3
KaitiMaddox
It’s not shown on screen, but it is heavily implied that a car crashes.
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Violence
Yes
8
No
23
11
ceisan
(Spoilers, obviously!!) There is one scene where a cop points a gun/threatens to shoot one of the protagonists, but it is never fired and no one in this movie is killed by a gun
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
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31
Is there blood/gore?
63 supporters
Yes
48
No
0
2
DottyBlackheart26
Yes, but it’s not too graphic.
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Does someone drown?
33 supporters
Yes
0
No
30
13
Anonymous
No, but a character almost drowns.
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