When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
The children have been weaponized. They are not actively perpetuating the cycle of abuse. It has much more in common with Hansel and Gretel shoving the witch into the oven at the end of their story than an abused child growing up to abuse his kids
The parents - though under the influence of (bad thing that’s happening in the movie) - try to attack their kid. No physical harm is a done, but it’s scary and has The Shining energy.
Does the dog die defines this tag as “Women in media are often made into narrative props that get used as targets for violence, for shock value. This may overlap with some cases of other categories, but encompasses the broader range of situations where women are made into hapless victims of brutal treatment, for shock.” It would be a disservice to pretend this movie does not fit that. If you read my review, and you know the content won’t bother you, great, but it bothered me, and it might bother other people. Please be kind.
Justine is physically attacked multiple times through the film. I’m leaving out crucial context about why it happens, just telling you what literally happens. • She is stalked home, has her car vandalized, is called a witch, and is confronted by an aggressive man. This is early in the movie, around when she’s in her house and hears a doorbell. • An angry woman throws Justine on the ground, pours liquor on her, and blames her for seducing her husband and getting him drunk. Brace yourself for this when you see a woman in red following her. • A man with intent to kill her attacks her, choking her. In an extended sequence, he chases her, and she escapes. Brace yourself for this when Justine and the Archer (grey haired dad) are talking at the gas station, and again when a man without eyelids leaves his house and starts running towards her. • A police officer chases her in a kitchen during the final showdown, trying to choke her to death. Be ready for this when the police officer waves to her. • Shortly after this, a man grabs her and tries to strangle her from behind. He is stopped, and she is okay.
A woman is killed in a brutal way towards the end of the film, being ripped apart. It’s very focused on her face and distress.
The person described below is posing as a distant family member to a small child, who doesn’t buy it, but is still trapped in the house with them
Later in the movie, the person (does something) to two parents that causes them to chase their son with murderous intent. It stops before they ever touch him, but they break down doors and act like animals while chasing him.
The person makes the parents hurt themselves and also threatens to make the parents hurt each other.
A character uses some type of drugs in a pipe ? Needles are also shown. We can see it at the beginning of the James section when he’s in the tent and then one more time after he sells a bunch of stuff at the pawn shop
Whoever is voting yes to some of the animal questions is a dick. There are NO animals in this movie. You hear a dog bark once. No animals are harmed or killed in this movie.
Who are this person who is just randomly saying yes to everything about animals being abuse or hurt? That's not cool a lot of us rely on these reports and seriously get triggered by animal abuse! Stop it
Twice in the movie, parasites are brought up; once during that ant scene, once in a classroom flashback. During the ant scene, you see a huge closeup of an ant on the tv with a parasite growing through it.
A person causes some characters to be in a comatose, drug-like state where they can barely communicate and cannot feed themselves. I’m including it here because their mental and physical states are altered without their consent or knowledge, and it could be upsetting. This is a big part of the last act of the movie, after the twist reveal.
Two people - broken up - hookup while both are under stress and alcohol. She is very pushy about getting him to drink while she’s already drunk, and then it cuts from “just a drink cmon” to them waking up together the next day. Later, his wife chases her down and attacks her, more upset that she got him drunk than the sex.
Expanding on the other note: whenever you see the stick with stuff wrapped around it, brace yourself for the person pricking their finger on it and bleeding.
The vegetable peeler happens when Justine is attacked inside the house towards the end. She moves the vegetable peeler over his cheek twice before he knocks it out of her hand. It’s gross, and you see it up close.
For the person who asked, there is technically another decapitation.
When a woman is attacked towards the end of the film by a large group of (spoilers), they dismember her with their hands. They grab the top part of her mouth and pull it enough that her face is ripped open. Not technically head parting ways with the body, but definitely trauma to the head.
The man hit by a car is implied and shows a jaw and teeth unattached from the body, and you can look away from the car crash results; you can tell it’s coming because all traffic has stopped and everybody’s freaking out, and our protagonist is the last person to see it.
Not fully dislocation, but could be seen similarly. In one of the final scenes, it is shown that a characters limbs have been torn off. The act of tearing them off is not shown on screen.
Right after a character vomits black goo, not much visual but graphic sounds and then at the end of the scene it kinda pans to the head but you it’s not a graphic close up
Someone makes reference to forcing people to eat each other. At the end of the film someone is torn apart and starts to be eaten but things stop just short of this.
No, but the threat feels like it’s there. There’s a scene where a woman is doused in vodka, and another scene where a gasoline pump falls and covers somebody. Again, no flame, but it could put you on edge.
In my head body horror is usually when the body is made to do things that shouldn't be possible. Most of the body-related horror is just possible IRL gore, but there are a couple moments related to someone being controlled that feel unsettling (no blinking, not reacting to physical damage or pain, super strength and speed)
After the cop pricks his finger on the needle, he punches a character and knocks him out. He wakes the character up. We later see it from the character’s perspective as he fades back into consciousness
Many characters are in a zombie-like state (not zombies exactly) where they are “off” and are unable to communicate or think.
There is a scene where a man repeatedly attacks a character, who is knocked unconscious for a second, and then pops back up with a shout. It’s played as goofy and made my theater giggle, but yknow, still knocking someone unconscious.
The syringe needle poke is a very distressing thing for the police officer, and we experience his panic with him. Brace yourself when the cop begins searching the dude.
Also, the (thing that happens in the movie) is triggered by a person poking their finger on a sharp branch. This happens a few times, so whenever you see the stick show up on screens brace yourself.
Here’s a detailed explanation of the eye mutiliation in this film!
A man runs T-posing at the protagonist, and when she gets close enough to be attacked by him, she sees his eyeballs are exposed / no eyelids. It’s done to look creepy and unnerving.
Later, we see the scene that causes it. When a man bashes his face against another man’s face, the damage results in the no-eyelids, bulging eyeball appearance. The man then goes to attack Justine, and it’s an extended sequence where the scary face is constantly on-screen. After the scene concludes, he does not show up again.
In the movie, something plot related happens that causes characters to lose control of their body, and the implication is that they are forced to keep their eyes open through the whole thing. When you see two people sitting across from each other, their eyes are super bloodshot and red.
When the protagonist is attacked in the kitchen towards the end, the person attacking her has bulging eyes. It’s not as bad as the other guy, but it looks offputting.
At the end, a woman is tackled to the ground and brutally attacked, and amongst tearing off limbs and ripping off face and another gnarly stuff, they press into her eyeballs and damage them. This is a climax where all the plots are converging at the same time, so I’d say just cover your eyes and wait until the sounds get quieter before looking again.
Pretty gory scene at the end, and other events listed in the body horror section. But it’s easy to look away during those scenes so don’t let it stop you if gory’s not your thing!
The film is split between the perspectives of various characters as it's told out of order, and one of the characters with a "chapter" of their own does die at the end of it.
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The parents are essentially comatose at the end of the film. The closing VO explains that they’re in a care home and the child is living with a kinship carer who is nice.
1) Justine’s visitor. She goes to the door after the doorbell rings, begins walking away, and is startled by the door being aggressively knocked 1.5) Justine peeks into a window, and she sees “two people sitting and looking at her” 2) Justine’s nightmare. She lays back down and the ( ) is on the ceiling. I did scream loudly at this. 27:00-27:45 2.5) while Justine sleeps in her car, a house door opens, and a woman with a sharp object slowly staggers out of the house. It’s very creepy and sudden. 3) archer’s nightmare. The third time they show his son’s face, it suddenly turns into ( ). This also made me scream. 4) we see a man running at Justine during a scene where we don’t expect a threat, and it’s very startling 5) the cop apprehends a man, and while patting him down, suddenly pricks himself on a needle. The sudden reveal and the horror he feels are startling. 6) as James explores the house, he jumpscared by the people on the couch and the discovery he makes in the basement
POST TWIST, SPOILERS 7) in the Marcus segment, after the stick breaks, intense violence follows without warning 8) Alex peeks into the bedroom to look at ( ) and slowly scans up the body, getting to the face and seeing them looking directly at him 9) when the stick breaks while the parents are at the dinner table, they suddenly begin to repeatedly stab their own face with forks 10) the final sequence is a nonstop barrage of jumpscares, mostly due to the ( ) people screaming loudly and attacking the characters. It’s initiated when characters cross the salt. 11) the last big jumpscare is when archer is looking for his son amongst the catatonic missing kids. His flashlight goes from person to person, eventually landing on ( ), who was waiting to jump him with a scary expression.
About 1 hr 20 min into the movie. When the woman with red hair rings a bell in the kitchen, one of the characters starts violently attacking someone else, and vomits a lot of black goo onto their face. It lasts maybe 10 seconds.
The cop is very unsympathetic; he cheats on his wife, he chases down and punches a man, and he threatens him into silence. His boss tells him exactly how to avoid getting in trouble, and when the man goes to the police station, the cop angrily chases him and almost kills him with a gun. He traps the man in the back of his police car, and when the ( things in the movie happen ), he drags the man into a dangerous house. During the last act, he waves for the protagonist to enter the house, and since he’s a familiar face and a cop, she assumes it’s all kosher and walks into the house.
The reason there’s a vote split is because cop violence is a focus, but you very firmly will not have a positive feeling about the cops by watching this, so it’s not copaganda.
The single needle is in the "Paul" sequence, you cash probably guess when it's coming. The 3 needles are in the "James" sequence and you will see them for a few seconds before they are used so time to look away.
In the kitchen scene with the principle, a character cuts their hand with a stick purposefully. While not intentional self harm, can def be triggering.
Archer, the dad we meet in the second act, seems to have some symptoms of PTSD around his kid’s disappearance, as part of the larger mission to find his son, and these following things all cause him to progress in his mission; he’s having nightmares about it, he’s rewatching the footage of the kid running away over and over, he’s asking the police chief to do more. It’s not presented as PTSD, but it could feel familiar.
Minor moments of flashes overall
At approx. 35mins: Camera pans up to the sky during dream sequence, subdued lightning flashes appear in the clouds behind the floating assault rifle
At approx. 50mins: Flashing police car lights turn on, prominent for several seconds in an initial exterior shot but then not visible again until Paul gets out of the car for just two shots
Much later on during Alex’s chapter there is a brief flash of explosive sparks when Gladys lights the potion. During finale two single-flash gun shots occur.
The only gay characters in the movie have the most violent deaths (one brutally bashing the head in of his husband) and then having his head run over by a car.
What happens to the parents could feel like seeing a parent with a neurodegenerative disease. They are “not the same person anymore,” cannot do any tasks, and need to be spoonfed by their child.
The main antagonist of the movie is suffering from an unnamed long term illness. Hospice is mentioned and the fact that she might not have a month left is mentioned.
As a person who has been there, I actually loved James as a character. I found him very honest, funny, and lovable. When you’re an addict living in a tent, yeah, all you’re thinking about is your next hit. That is the nature of being in an intense state of addiction. His actions all made internal sense for someone in that place in life, and they were used to further the plot in ways that would be difficult to get a stable, sober person to do.
Also, he has a name and his own segment of the story. He’s not a throwaway character.
The bad guy is killed but the children and other people who were possessed don’t go back to normal. Plus a few main characters died throughout the film. Melancholy ending