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Every 23 years an ancient monster
known as the Creeper comes back to "life" and spends the next 23
days feasting on humans. This time around he finds a broken down
high school bus full of basketball players, cheerleaders and coaches
that are ripe for the picking. With Jonathan Breck, Justin Long,
Nicki Lynn Aycox, Ray Wise and Billy Aaron Brown. Directed by Victor
Salva. [1:46]
SEX/NUDITY 2 - A young man pulls his pants down to
urinate (we see him bare-chested and the top of his buttock). A few
young men are bare-chested in several scenes. A young woman wears a
low-cut top that reveals cleavage. There are accusations made about
a young man being gay and references to his making advances to other
young men.
VIOLENCE/GORE 9 - We see the monster in detail: he has
blackened and slimy skin, has very pointed teeth, sharp claws on his
feet and hands and enormous wings with points at the ends. A young
man is wrapped in a monster's wing, he struggles, other young men
hold on to him, and we see the young man's headless body (with blood
on the neck) flailing about until it falls to the floor dead. A
monster struggles with a spear stuck through his eye (we see his eye
on the end of the spear), he slides it back and forth (we hear a lot
of squishing), and then he pulls the top of his head off (we see it
land on the ground with a splat). A monster punches a hole in the
roof of a bus, grabs a young man by the head and tries to pull him
up through the hole, while a young woman stabs the monster with a
spear once in the arm and once through the eye and the monster drops
the young man. A man is grabbed by the shoulders by a clawed
monster, two young men try to hold on to him, but he is pulled away
and into the sky. A monster hangs on a scarecrow post in a field, a
young boy approaches him, he swoops down and grabs the boy dragging
him by the head through a field, he is chased by a man with a
shotgun and he flies off into the sky (we hear the boy screaming). A
group of young run through a field, one young man is hit in the back
of the head with a knife (he falls dead), another is hit in the arm
with a knife and is stuck to a tree (others try to free him by
pulling on and wiggling the knife and the young man screams in
pain), the monster swoops in and grabs him (we hear him scream as
they go into the sky). A monster attacks a young man, he straddles
him on the ground, the young man holds him by the throat, the
monster is shot through the head and is shoved back off the young
man (we see him with a harpoon sticking out of his head and he
struggles to remove it). A monster grabs a young man by the head,
squeezes and the young man's head bleeds down his forehead. A
monster is stabbed repeatedly with a spear (we see blood splattering
with every blow and blood oozes from his head), it yells, it
convulses, then goes still, then his head is wrapped by what looks
like a cocoon. A monster pulls his head off (we see that part of it
is missing) and then grows a new head (we see a young man's head
ooze up from inside the monster's chest), it pops up through the
neck and then it changes to the monster's appearance. A monster is
shot with a harpoon attached to a truck, he is hit in the chest and
flies back into a field, he flies up into the air, pulls the rope
that slices the roof of a bus, then pulls the truck along a road and
eventually flips it over. Again, a monster is shot with a harpoon
attached to a truck, he is pierced through the chest, he pulls on
the rope, jerking the truck around, and the harpoon is thrown back
through the windshield of the truck nearly hitting a young man
inside. A monster chases a pickup truck with a young man in the
back; the young man shoots the monster with a flare gun, the driver
shoves a young woman out of the truck, slams on the brakes, and the
monster sails through the truck and lands on the ground missing a
leg, an arm and a wing. We hear crunching and chewing after a person
has been attacked. A monster crashes onto the top of a bus blowing
out the windows and knocking the occupants to the ground. A monster
eyes young people on a school bus, sniffs them, licks a window and
shakes the bus violently. We see a young boy with a bloody head
wound, we see a young man with empty, bloody eye sockets, a young
man has blood on his face, and a young man has a bloody leg wound.
Two men and a woman lay flares in a road and are swooped up into the
air by a monster. A young woman faints, her eyes go white and she
dreams about the monster and some of his victims. We hear a news
report of a fire in a church where over 300 bodies are found with
descriptions of bodies being stitched together like a human
tapestry. A man holds a dagger and it appears to shoot out of his
hand and hits a lamp across the room. The decayed remains of a
monster hang on the wall of a barn with a harpoon set up to be
trained at him. A young man talks about kicking certain people off a
bus. A young man yells at others and shoves a couple of other young
men, and one young man shoves him back. We see some of the monster's
weapons: one is a dagger with a carved bone handle with images of
tortured bodies, another is a spiked weapon (looks like a throwing
star) that appears to be made from bone (one is covered with a piece
of dried skin that could be a human belly button, and another has a
human tooth stuck to it). A truck explodes after crashing. We see a
car after it has crashed into a tree and its roof is peeled back
like a can. We hear a loud bang and a bus swerves to a stop (a tire
blew out), and later we hear another bang, the bus swerves and
sparks fly from a wheel rim. Young men tease another young man about
being gay, and another young man yells at him and shoves him for the
same reason. Young men urinate in a field and we hear the trickle.
PROFANITY 9 - 42 F-words, 1 obscene hand gesture, 22
scatological terms, 17 anatomical terms, 17 mild obscenities, 3
religious profanities, 7 religious exclamations. [profanity glossary]
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Supernatural creatures, petrifying
fear, racism, homosexuality, teamwork, friendship.
MESSAGE - People's true personalities come out, for
better or worse, under a crisis situation.
(Note: People are shown smoking cigarettes.)
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