Absentia

Movie • 2011 • Mystery  

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Tricia's husband Daniel has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia.' As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on with her life, Callie finds herself drawn to an ominous tunnel near the house. As she begins to link it to other mysterious disappearances, it becomes clear that Daniel's presumed death might be anything but 'natural.' The ancient force at work in the tunnel might have set its sights on Callie and Tricia... and Daniel might be suffering a fate far worse than death in its grasp.
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Does the dog die?
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Many pets are implied to have died. One dog is rescued from this fate.
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Is someone sexually assaulted?
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Does a pet die?
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Were animals harmed in the making?
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Is there pedophilia?
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Is a minor sexualized?
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Is there a dead animal?
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Does someone vomit?
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there bestiality?
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Abuse
Is someone stalked?
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Is a child abused?
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Addiction
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Callie is a recovering drug addict, but she relapses.
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Is there addiction?
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Callie is a recovering drug addict, and she uses heroin in one scene.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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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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A man takes pets and (slight spoiler) trades them with the beast in order to keep his father safe.
It is implied that the creature itself eats them, or it force feeds them to its captives.
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Does a cat die?
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not shown, but assumed that all the missing pets in posters around the tunnel were taken by whatever lurks there. Not shown, but missing cat posters are
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Helpful arachnophobe here. The spider appears on screen at 3 minutes and 13 seconds (0:03:13). It's a small tan, black, and white spider. It moves fairly quickly down a string of web. Short legs, but sharp and clawlike. Both the spider and its web are out of sight by 3 minutes and 21 seconds (0:03:21).

The same spider is shown at 14 minutes and 31 seconds (0:14:31) and gone in 4 seconds.

There's another spider around the 40 minute mark that is the exact type of spiders I am horribly, horribly afraid of. So I had to quit watching. Do not watch if youre afraid of spiders. Especially long-legged ones.
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Are there snakes?
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Are there bugs?
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A bug or two is present, one is in the bathroom sink for a moment.
(Slight spoilers) The monster itself is implied to resemble an insect, with "skin like a silverfish". The DVD cover and slight glimpses of it imply it resembles an arthropod.
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Is someone burned alive?
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Is there a hanging?
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Are any teeth damaged?
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Is someone tortured?
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Is there eye mutilation?
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Children
Does a kid die?
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(ending spoilers)
Yes. It's subtle and offscreen, but when you remember that Tricia is pregnant... well...
yeah. It's off-screen, but there is audible screaming and tearing. The corpse is thrown next to a living character, and remains a blur just out of view.
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(Slight spoilers) The creature abducts those who walk in the underpass, and even drags the surrounding civilians to its dimension if they get too involved.
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Does someone cheat?
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Technically yes, but unintentionally. As in the husband was thought to be dead. Oops.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Tricia has ghostly visions of her missing husband, but there are no ghosts.
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For the most part, this movie AVOIDS JUMP SCARES! Finally, a horror movie that DOESN'T rely on them!
Still, there are some sudden visuals. At the end of Tricia's early dream sequence, Daniel, her missing husband, turns to the camera with a warped face (and screams, iirc). However, it is very predictable and clearly only there to signify that it is both a dream and foreshadowing.
Also, in the bathroom, there tension rising, but the real fright comes from the bait and switch that follows.
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Medical
Is there a mental institution scene?
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Mental Health
Does someone self harm?
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Pregnancy
Does someone miscarry?
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An unborn fetus is dropped from an alternate dimension
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Is there childbirth?
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Are there abortions?
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(MAJOR SPOILERS)
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One character experiences a surprise abortion via supernatural force. It is not shown on screen, but the fetus itself rests barely off-screen, and screaming and tearing is heard beforehand.
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Prejudice
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None of the main characters are people of color. There are only two certain deaths.
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Sex
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Some PDA but nothing sexual.
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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One scene shows a bloody and seemingly mangled corpse, but I think that's about it. Even then, it's only for a moment and you'll know what's gonna happen as soon as the scene begins. However, for reference, it happens when the two sisters come across the crime scene at the tunnel, and Callie points to the corpse and says something along the lines of "That's Walter (character's name)." or something like that.
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