Violation(2020)
2020 · Madeleine Sims-Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli · 107 min
A troubled woman on the edge of divorce returns home to her younger sister after years apart. But when her sister and brother-in-law betray her trust, she embarks on a vicious crusade of revenge.
Horror · Drama
5.4138 votes
TMDB score
5/5
Intensity
4/5
Gore
5/5
Stays with you
How Violation scares
Violation moves slowly and uncomfortably, jumping back and forth in time instead of following a straight line, so you're never fully settled into what's happening. The dread here comes from watching trust break down between people who are supposed to love each other, and it sits with you long before anything violent actually happens. When the violence does arrive, it's slow, drawn-out, and hard to watch rather than quick or thrilling. This is not a fun scare movie at all — it's heavy, human, and meant to leave you shaken rather than entertained.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Violation rates psychological 5/5, visceral 4/5, gore 4/5, lingering effect 5/5, and overall intensity 5/5.
- Psychological: 5 of 5
- Visceral: 4 of 5
- Gore: 4 of 5
- Lingering: 5 of 5
- Intensity: 5 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 8 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 95 of 100 — leans Real-world
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 92 of 100 — leans Disturbing
Intensity over runtime
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A slow, uneasy family drama that fractures into sudden bursts of brutal intensity, non-linear in structure, with a harrowing peak before a colder, quieter final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 3, 5, 4, 2.
How scary is Violation?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Violation rates 5/5 — one of the more punishing watches in the catalog, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. It works on both fronts, unsettling the mind while going for the body. Expect it to be heavy on gore and genuinely disturbing. Expect it to stay with you for days.
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