#sorry if this is like needlessly long & not actually helpful lmao i've had to miss out on several movies & shows that i've really wanted to

[sydmarch]

are there a lot of needles onscreen in the substance? or is the taking of the substance offscreen? i have a phobia of needles so it would be nice to know

hm there's a fair amount of needle shot's i'd say? i guess it kind of depends on what kind of needle shots are triggering for you.

the substance is taken onscreen at 24 mins into the film, right when you see her reach for the activator bottle is when you'll want to skip ahead/look away because a syringe is used to inject the substance. the entire scene lasts until 25:30 and not all of it is showing the needles but there's some close ups & it's probably better to just not watch any of this scene if you're phobic.

extremely mild spoilers to describe the other scenes but there's several shots of a character "stabilizing" that involve shots but these scenes are much quicker & it's more of an epi-pen type of injection than a syringe like the scene where elisabeth takes the substance. if you just close your eyes for a bit when you see the little stabilizer thing come out you should be good because they don't really linger on it iirc.

if seeing skin sutured shut with one of those hooked needles would bother you skip from 31:20-32:30

there's a few shots involving a really long needle used to collect spinal fluid i imagine you'd probably want to skip. this happens from 35:04-35:30, 59:24-59:47, 1:22:18-1:23:29 (happens repeatedly through the scene & some of the grossest shots in the movie are during this part, just listen to the dialogue & don't look lol), 1:33:17-1:33:46

there's another syringe scene you'll probably want to skip at 1:42:15-1:43:02 (if the needle being fully plunged into skin & just the vial part of the syringe being visible bothers you wait longer until 1:43:56) then there's some dialogue and another brief but brutal needle bit from 1:44:50-1:45:11. i'd recommend just listening to the dialogue here rather than skipping ahead bcus some important stuff is said. & then one final one at 1:57:02-1:57:14.

oh & when the liquid food bag is brought out (happens a handful of times) there will often be a quick shot of a needle going into a wrist afterwards, the kind of thing you could quickly look away from & be able to miss. i think i severely underestimated how many needles there are in this movie when i started my response bcus i just kept remembering more & by the time i realized how frequent it was I'd already gotten in too deep writing out timestamps lmao so while i think this post is pretty exhaustive i could definitely understand this being a movie you might have to skip