Anomaly uses content warnings on website descriptions of selected films to help audiences make informed decisions, and to adequately prepare themselves for any potentially sensitive content.
Triggers vary widely and can be highly personal, so we’ve done our best to identify the most common subjects and situations in each program that may trigger a response in vulnerable viewers. But please use your own discretion.
Anomaly designates “Slightly Safer” films which avoid excessive blood, guts, gore, and explicit terror, but may still contain sensitive content, which we have done our best to note in the content warnings.
Feature films and short films, from Anomaly’s 2024 festival lineup, presented in alphabetical order:
23: stalking, sexual assault, rape, violence, blood
All Kinds of Animals: mild violence, implied death
Battle Beyond the Stars: torture, minor blood, sexual assault (implied, offscreen)
bitter/sweet: grieving a deceased parent
Catamaran: blood, violence, death
The Chain: offscreen violence
Chainsaws Were Singing: blood, gore, suicide, vomit, drug use, strangulation, violence, cannibalism, kidnapping, goo (so much goo), incest
Coléoptère: violence, domestic abuse, goo, blood, domestic violence, body horror,
Dead Mail: violence, blood, kidnapping, torture, surgery, suicide
Dead Talents Society: blood, gore, jump scares, mention of suicide, vehicle accidents, electrocution, self-harm
Dummy!: eating disorder, body shaming, puppet murder, fatphobia
Flow: animal endangerment, themes of abandonment
HADO: car accidents, blood, death
Hey Man: discussion of disturbing themes
INKED: parental death, blood, body horror, insects, body horror WITH insects, needles, goo, blood, vomit
IZZY: sex, masturbation, intense sound, blood
Match: visceral noises, creepy face, jump scare
The Name of the Game is Kill!: violence, mental illness, spider, car violence, abuse (off-screen)
Naualli: gore, horror goo
Never Let You Go: suicide, blood, body horror, possession, jump scare
Pound For Pound: violence
RAT!: violence, blood, offscreen animal violence
Reciprocity Failure: blood
Rita: discussion of sexual assault of minors, attempted sexual assault of a minor, violence, child abuse, child sex trafficking, discussions of abortions, immolation
A Samurai in Time: light violence, blood
The Severed Sun: blood, violence, sexual assault, sexual content
Sound of Love: sexual violence, violence, blood, vomit, visceral noises
The Stain: blood and more blood
The Thaw: vomit, animal death, emotional abuse
Timestalker: blood, violence, gore, animal death, death, suicide, stalking, sexual violence and sexual threats, strobe lights, flashing images
Universal Language: off-screen animal death, coarse language, mature themes
VHX: N/A
Washed Up: decapitation
We Joined A Cult: gore, blood
Whittled Down: disturbing imagery
You Wake to Find Yourself Alone in the Woods: stalking