Does the dog die?
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The Substance
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Your Triggers
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There are no pets in the movie, and no animals at all except a fly
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Abandonment
Does someone leave without saying goodbye?
10 supporters
Yes
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I would consider leaving your former self in a cold dark room for a week a bit like abandonment
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Yes
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Abuse
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Child in distress during final act at New Year’s Eve show
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
146 supporters
Yes
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Horrible things happen to a woman as this is the point of the movie. But I'd say this is a feminist movie, she isn't brutalized to appeal to audiences
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Yes
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Yes
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Technically speaking yes
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Is someone stalked?
30 supporters
Yes
162
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A side character follows the main character from the location where she gets the subtance to a nearby diner. She’s shown being very stressed about this and constantly looking behind herself as she runs.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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People lie and are abusive but there aren't any plain depictions of gaslighting.
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Not in the classic sense of partner or parental violence, but there is a lot of extreme physical violence in the home.
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Are there abusive parents?
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3
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No parental figure present in the story
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
31 supporters
Yes
190
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Arguable. The main character behaves like an addict towards "The Substance" which is an allegory for plastic surgery and other youth-sustaining products. There are lines about 'wanting to stop' and being unable to stop.
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
25 supporters
Yes
156
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Sue goes out drinking and brings home a man. The next day it is shown that they had a lot of alcohol.
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lingering shots of injection paraphernalia, as well as intermittent and close-up scenes of injection throughout the movie. CW DETAILS: includes healthy vein & subcutaneous injection, tournquet use, slow needle insertion, spinal injection, and injection into an infected site.
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Animal
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Were animals harmed in the making?
228 supporters
Yes
11
No
166
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The fly was CGI.
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3
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152
Is there a dead animal?
192 supporters
Yes
147
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Crayfish can be seen close up in great detail being consumed, as well as a fly drowning in a glass of wine.
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Yes
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Yes
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Are there bugs?
50 supporters
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156
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There are a couple shots of a fly, once on someone's neck and once in a drink.
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
2
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133
Are animals abused?
0 supporters
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5
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Yes
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I love this group cause the fly is something I’d want to know about and not most people would care about that.
Thank you!
Thank you!
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Assault
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4
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157
Yes
3
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149
Is there pedophilia?
169 supporters
Yes
5
No
145
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Not as such, but there is a lot of sexualization of younger women (of legal age) by men far older than them
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138
Yes
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122
Is someone drugged?
42 supporters
Yes
94
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no portrayel of malicious, unconsenting dosing, but one character must set up injection for the unconscious other throughout the movie.
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Is someone restrained?
39 supporters
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25
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I don’t know if this counts but one character is locked in a room against her will
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Yes
135
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Not slapped? But extensively brutalised. This film is very violent against a woman's body.
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
26 supporters
Yes
99
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39
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Physical fighting, no beatings from a bully.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
19 supporters
Yes
39
No
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not a super specific portrayel, but within the realm of body horror, we get an open mouthed face slowly covered by fabric in the third act, as well as the character in the third act who struggles to speak (no covering of her mouth)
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
150 supporters
Yes
125
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There's kind of 'everything mutilation' in this movie but in particular there are some shots of eyes duplicating themselves and bulging
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Is someone tortured?
128 supporters
Yes
36
No
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One person is knowingly causing harm and permanent damage to another person for their own benefit, resulting in deformities and the worsening of a rather grotesque injury. This happens while the abused is unconscious. The abused is always horrified to find this happens and starts to feel more and more trapped, hurt and can no longer live a normal life without fear of the abuser.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
119 supporters
Yes
29
No
87
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in the second act, there is a quick nightmare scene where the main character squats and experiences a bulging/herniation in her buttocks; in the third act, the main character emerges with full-body deformity that includes breast placement. later, a breast is produced through a orifice on the deformed body and falls to the ground.
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Is there body horror?
111 supporters
Yes
219
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Extensive, think 80s horror like The Fly or The Thing
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Are any teeth damaged?
79 supporters
Yes
168
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yeah she pulls out 3 of her teeth very realistic too
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Is there cannibalism?
59 supporters
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No, but fluids are taken out of one person and injected into another for sustenance
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Is there shaving/cutting?
57 supporters
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22
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No, but there is a huge cut - like wound in the main characters back. It is also graphically shown when it is being sewn back up
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Is there amputation?
53 supporters
Yes
129
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in the third act: the flesh of an ear falls off, a hand is amputated and showers blood, and a head is lopped/knocked off. all three of these scenes happen extremely fast and are positioned with an air of absurdity/campiness.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
46 supporters
Yes
129
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There is gasping for air at several parts, but not necessarily suffocating
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Does someone asphyxiate?
45 supporters
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6
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No but more than once a character has an extremely difficult time breathing which could be super triggering to some people
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Is someone choked?
33 supporters
Yes
126
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A character chokes another in a violent fight inside the home
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Is someone stabbed?
30 supporters
Yes
28
No
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No knives, but there are many repeated scenes of needle injection
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Are there dislocations?
29 supporters
Yes
130
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while not explicit dislocation, bone crunching foley heard throughout some transformation scenes, as well as a scene where an old, arthritic knee is forced out of locking in order for the character to stand up.
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Does someone have a seizure?
27 supporters
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10
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there are seizure- like moments but not traditional seizures
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Does someone fall to their death?
20 supporters
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The creature at the end falls and explodes, in a sense dying, but not a traditional “fall to death” scenario
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Does someone become unconscious?
12 supporters
Yes
137
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Each time the drug is used or a 'switch' happens the character collapses dramatically. There is also one scene in the final third where a character is beaten unconscious.
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Yes
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106
Is there decapitation?
0 supporters
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128
No
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an attempted decapitation causes the explosion mentioned
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Is there excessive gore?
0 supporters
Yes
156
No
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Tons of 80s style prosthetics, comically large amounts of blood, surgical stuff, wounds, etc. Extremely gory film.
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Is someone buried alive?
0 supporters
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No, but someone is sealed in a dark room while unconscious
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Are any hands damaged?
0 supporters
Yes
163
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At the end, a fingernail peels off, resulting in loss of the whole finger.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
0 supporters
Yes
138
No
3
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Fingernails peeling off in a grotesque way towards the end of the film
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Does a head get squashed?
0 supporters
Yes
130
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Not exactly squashed but repeatedly (to a comical degree) bashed against the wall with full visual of the gore
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Yes
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Does someone break a bone?
0 supporters
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131
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There's one long moment where an arthritic knee is forced to move, with bone breaking sounds. Later a finger snaps off.
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Children
Does a kid die?
113 supporters
Yes
2
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102
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A child is not physically harmed, but they are shown experiencing a probably very traumatising event and getting covered in blood.
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Yes
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99
Is a minor sexualized?
0 supporters
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7
No
100
19
Old men sexualize young, barely legal women
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Creepy Crawly
Yes
1
No
90
Death
Yes
21
No
66
Does a major character die?
40 supporters
Yes
136
No
1
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upvote this instead of the huge spoiler. come on dude
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Does someone die?
28 supporters
Yes
139
No
0
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Technically the same person dies 3 times
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Yes
5
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85
Disability
Yes
0
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Is someone disabled played by able-bodied?
34 supporters
Yes
15
No
66
15
there is some rapid aging related mobility loss in elizabeth's body, in particular one of her legs and an arthritic knee. however, most of the rapid aging is visual only, rather than mobility related.
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
24 supporters
Yes
93
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13
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Voting yes because it could be triggering to people with drug or cosmetic procedure addiction. Needles are used in an irresponsible way
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Family
Is a child's toy destroyed?
41 supporters
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1
No
90
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A snow globe is thrown and shattered, but it's not framed as expressly a child's toy
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87
Yes
0
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Yes
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Yes
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
98 supporters
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105
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*CONTAIN MINOR SPOILERS*
There's 4 total jumpscares, 2 of them are minor, 1 intermediate e 1 a major, from my point of view:
The first is the intermediate one, that happens when her car is involved in an accident
The second one is the major, ir happens when they make the first transition, a dark road appears and a motorcycle starts to accelerate, then it happens
The thirt one is a sound jump scare, she is gonna take off a post it on from a glass wall, and the sound suddenly pops out
The fourth one is at the final part of the movie, it happens when she goes to her apartment at the new year's eve presentation. She does something at her restroom and the jumpscare happens when she is about to look at the mirror.
There's 4 total jumpscares, 2 of them are minor, 1 intermediate e 1 a major, from my point of view:
The first is the intermediate one, that happens when her car is involved in an accident
The second one is the major, ir happens when they make the first transition, a dark road appears and a motorcycle starts to accelerate, then it happens
The thirt one is a sound jump scare, she is gonna take off a post it on from a glass wall, and the sound suddenly pops out
The fourth one is at the final part of the movie, it happens when she goes to her apartment at the new year's eve presentation. She does something at her restroom and the jumpscare happens when she is about to look at the mirror.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
40 supporters
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45
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47
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There are two brief scenes where a persons iris multiplies on their eyeball, that could be triggering.
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81
Yes
0
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Yes
1
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90
Is there a shower scene?
14 supporters
Yes
133
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0
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There are many times in the film where the characters are shown nude in the shower, usually in various states of distress.
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Yes
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91
Are there mannequins?
7 supporters
Yes
7
No
78
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In the scene where Sue is first out in the world, she spots a unitard on mannequin.
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Yes
0
No
87
Gross
Does someone vomit?
177 supporters
Yes
175
No
3
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15:46 - 15:57 elisabeth v* after drinking martinis at the bar
31:04 - 31:10 sue v* after seeing elisabeth on the floor
1:23:15 sue gags
1:27:24 little gag from elisabeth
1:33:13 sue gags
1:39:03 - 1:39:10 elisabeth coughs and spits
1:51:57 - 1:52:21 sue coughs
1:59:30 - 1:59:50 elisasue v* after transformation
2:06:37 - 2:07:11 elisasue gags while something comes out of her eye
31:04 - 31:10 sue v* after seeing elisabeth on the floor
1:23:15 sue gags
1:27:24 little gag from elisabeth
1:33:13 sue gags
1:39:03 - 1:39:10 elisabeth coughs and spits
1:51:57 - 1:52:21 sue coughs
1:59:30 - 1:59:50 elisasue v* after transformation
2:06:37 - 2:07:11 elisasue gags while something comes out of her eye
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Is there defecation?
62 supporters
Yes
0
No
89
7
No, but there is a shot of a man at a urinal — closeup of his face
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
33 supporters
Yes
2
No
88
3
There is a scene towards the start of the movie where a character is shown urinating in a restroom. They don't wet themselves, but there is audio
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Is there farting?
20 supporters
Yes
0
No
87
1
no but there is a joke towards the beginning with the word farts
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Does someone spit?
19 supporters
Yes
106
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2
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There's one shot towards the end where someone spits directly at the camera, it's quite gross. There is a lot lot lot of mouth misophonia stuff, open mouth chewing, too.
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Is there audio gore?
0 supporters
Yes
131
No
0
18
Tons, constantly. This is a very misphonic movie.
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Yes
0
No
86
Large-scale Violence
Yes
0
No
92
Law Enforcement
Yes
0
No
88
Yes
0
No
90
LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
0 supporters
Yes
1
No
94
15
There’s one scene though where a character doesn’t like another character’s name and comes up with a new name for them
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No
96
Yes
0
No
91
Yes
0
No
89
Yes
0
No
93
Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
6 supporters
Yes
1
No
82
6
No but several expensive items are damaged
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
52 supporters
Yes
153
No
1
27
Many times in the film, in grotesque ways. You can generally see it coming, basically anytime she's in the bathroom with her body double. The worst bit is towards the end she's putting a large needle repeatedly into an infected wound.
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88
Yes
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81
Yes
0
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91
Yes
0
No
12
Is there a hospital scene?
21 supporters
Yes
114
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0
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The main character is briefly in hospital after a car crash.
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Is there menstruation?
4 supporters
Yes
0
No
90
20
no, but when a man sees blood on the floor he asks a female character if she's cranky because she's on her period
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Mental Health
Yes
0
No
97
Is there misophonia?
50 supporters
Yes
124
No
0
18
It’s pretty unbearable throughout the entire movie
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
41 supporters
Add comment
Yes
1
No
78
Yes
0
No
76
Is reality unstable or unhinged?
37 supporters
Yes
111
No
0
11
There are hallucinations sometimes, it is never clear how real they are.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
34 supporters
Yes
129
No
0
16
The main character is so dissatisfied with her body that she goes to extremes to become young again, with catastrophic consequences.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
34 supporters
Yes
75
No
8
3
A character is locked in a walled off room, and a character is essentially locked-in or dissociates for periods of time
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Yes
99
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0
7
Elisabeth suffers alot of DP and DR. She loses her sense of self to Sue, and loses contact with reality after Sue is made.
Also Sue starts to harm her and completely disconnect or dissociate from E. Might be a metaphor for DID or UID
Also Sue starts to harm her and completely disconnect or dissociate from E. Might be a metaphor for DID or UID
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
31 supporters
Yes
3
No
81
12
DID is not part of the story but this story does have DID features, with splits between body and self.
4 comments | Add comment
Are there anxiety attacks?
29 supporters
Yes
57
No
29
2
Not exactly. But the way they film the character's experience when she is due to 'switch' may be reminiscent of an anxiety attack.
3 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
72
Is there body dysphoria?
20 supporters
Yes
24
No
74
16
No. There is body dysmorphia, not dysphoria.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
15 supporters
Yes
96
No
4
11
Not explicitly stated, but a character experiences stmproms of body dysmorphia and depression.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
13 supporters
Yes
99
No
0
6
Depending on the definition of a 'meltdown', the main character experiences scenes of dysregulation and responds with self harm, as well as a scene of overwhelm where she snaps as a colleague.
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Yes
0
No
90
Yes
124
No
2
27
Yes, the main character harms herself several times throughout the movie, through smacking herself in the head/face, pulling her hair, rending at her face, berating herself in a classic dysregulation/punishment cycle, sometimes banging her head against the wall.
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Yes
6
No
82
9
Technically yes? But in more of a metaphorical sense.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
0 supporters
Yes
89
No
6
8
Arguable. If you characterise the main character as mentally ill... there is a lot of violence in this movie.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
0 supporters
Yes
113
No
3
16
Absolutely, I’d say it’s a major theme. Extreme binging & body dysmorphia for sure.
6 comments | Add comment
Yes
13
No
66
22
The character expresses no longer willing to live in a certain version of herself, willing to endure extensive suffering to no longer live in her life anymore, ultimately tries to kill a version of herself. Not a traditional suicide attempt by any means, but could be interpreted as suicidal ideation in certain ways.
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Natural Disasters
Yes
0
No
12
Noxious
Are there flashing lights or images?
62 supporters
Yes
107
No
0
11
there are 2 scenes where they use the activactor, they're pretty long (about 20 sec each) it triggered my migraines
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Are there sudden loud noises?
55 supporters
Yes
105
No
0
1
A ton of loud and nasty noises throughout the movie
3 comments | Add comment
Does a baby cry?
27 supporters
Yes
0
No
78
8
A child cries a lot at the end of the movie
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
94
No
0
Yes
0
No
76
Is there screaming?
0 supporters
Yes
106
No
0
4
Lots, during severe fighting scenes
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Is there shakey cam?
0 supporters
Yes
96
No
0
4
A lot
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
23 supporters
Yes
25
No
43
9
Not explicitly, but there’s implications it could be happening, depending on how you interpret certain scenes
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Is the fourth wall broken?
15 supporters
Yes
1
No
81
12
Not explicitly, although there are a lot of staring-directly-into-mirror-reflection scenes that might trigger someone sensitive to it
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Pregnancy
Yes
1
No
81
Yes
0
No
83
Is there childbirth?
36 supporters
Yes
4
No
73
27
There are scenes reminiscent of birthing as the new self emerges from her former body, pulls things out of her body, and the monster at the end “births” a breast, in a sense.
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
78
Yes
0
No
76
Yes
1
No
80
Prejudice
Is there ableist language or behavior?
54 supporters
Yes
27
No
51
16
No, but I do think some might be troubled by this film's treatment of disfigurement. There is a 'monster' in the film. The message is not at all about disability but could be read that way.
5 comments | Add comment
Is there hate speech?
41 supporters
Yes
6
No
68
6
Misogynistic and ageist comments are made but presented negatively.
1 comment | Add comment
Yes
0
No
77
Yes
0
No
84
-2
This comment is more anti-semetic than anything in the movie
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Yes
1
No
77
Yes
0
No
81
Yes
0
No
77
Are there fat jokes?
0 supporters
Yes
82
No
7
19
Not jokes but derogatory comments about fatness and body image
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
78
Yes
0
No
71
Yes
1
No
78
Yes
0
No
75
Race
Yes
0
No
82
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
45 supporters
Yes
19
No
57
13
Arguable. The main character is 50 but gets to live in a younger body so has relationships with younger men. However, the men in the film are generally portrayed as predatory so it doesn't have the 'vibes' of an age gap relationship.
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Religious
Yes
0
No
72
Yes
0
No
75
Sex
Yes
4
No
88
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
101 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
86
Is there sexual content?
82 supporters
Yes
121
No
0
19
No explicit sex but lots of nudity, sexualised imagery, and one scene of drunk people about to have sex (thwarted)
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Are there nude scenes?
67 supporters
Yes
134
No
0
16
Lots of nudity in this film, not generally sexual though
3 comments | Add comment
Is someone sexually objectified?
54 supporters
Yes
128
No
0
22
The young version of the character is filmed in a highly sexualised way, to a comical degree
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
78
Does someone lose their virginity?
21 supporters
Yes
4
No
80
0
Sue has sex for the first time, its not talked about however. One might Even Wonder if she is a virgin since she is Elisabeth which is not
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Sexism
Yes
0
No
82
Sickness
Yes
0
No
75
Yes
3
No
68
Yes
1
No
74
Does someone have a chronic illness?
17 supporters
Yes
4
No
66
7
No typical chronic illness depicted, but use of the substance is repeatedly shown as necessary throughout, so characters experience illness (ie. vertigo, pain, nose/ear bleeds) only alleviated by injection.
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Social
Yes
0
No
73
Are there fat suits?
36 supporters
Yes
13
No
56
25
Not a fat suit, but a large deformed body prosthetic is used at the end of the film.
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Is existentialism debated?
17 supporters
Yes
18
No
48
11
Sort of? A character is constantly reminded that they and another character are the same person, and the whole movie could be seen as aging, trying to prevent it, and trying to survive within the male gaze
2 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
69
Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
0 supporters
Yes
96
No
4
20
Arguable. It's certainly not a happy movie but maybe you could think she found peace.
4 comments | Add comment
Yes
0
No
79
Yes
0
No
75
Vehicular
Is someone hit by a car?
31 supporters
Yes
30
No
47
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A character is driving in their car and gets hit by another car in a big jumpscare moment.
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Does a car crash?
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Yes
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There is a dramatic rolling car crash towards the beginning of the film. It's shot from inside the car. The character is shown uninjured afterwards.
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72
Does a car honk or tires screech?
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There is a dramatic rolling car crash towards the beginning of the film.
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Violence
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79
Yes
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80
Is there blood/gore?
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12
Tons, constantly.
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Is there gun violence?
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At the end, there are calls for someone to shoot at a monster, but it doesn't really happen.
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