In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast.
This movie contains 22 potentially triggering events.
A character intended to be Native gives a white character a substance that knocks him out, and a character in jail is drugged without his knowledge to fake his death.
The beast is actually a lion that was tortured to become vicious and wear spiked armor. It is severely wounded and Fronsac kills it as an act of mercy.
Multiple women are groped or touched inappropriately, including a man grabbing a maid's breasts and trying to pull her into a bath, and a man assaulting his sister (the scene is very long but fades to black before extreme detail.).
A boy that appears to be a teenager is attacked and killed by the beast. The attack is shown in a flashback and his frozen body is found later. His younger sister manages to hide and survive.
A villainous character does seem to be mentally ill (says he has visions, has inappropriate sexual behaviors, etc.) and does a lot of violence. There is a woman in the cave dwelling group called a witch who has a seizure and seems to have trouble controlling impulses who engages in violence repeatedly as well.
A Native American character (supposedly Mohawk) is played by a non-Native actor (the Iron Chef US guy) and there are repeated uses of slurs against Natives, really inappropriate and racist discussions of their genetics, spirituality, & humanity, plus some very racist stereotypes in clothing, behaviors, etc. SPOILER: in the final scene, a white character dresses in Native clothing and the face paint used by the Native character earlier & also uses the same spiritual rituals. It felt extremely offensive & tasteless. The cave dwelling characters also may be intended to have coding of Roma people, considering the way the main woman character in that group is dressed and dances. There is one instance of the less modern N word for Black people.
The film includes a few uses of terms or framing to imply characters are mentally ill or demonically influenced to account for unusual behaviors that could be associated with mental illness.