Feb 20,2015
nudity | No nudity or sexuality is shown in this film. There is one scene in which a character describes a woman "picking up a drunken college boy for some sort of sexual encounter," and there is a brief back-and-forth about that topic, but the exchange is not graphic or profane. PG-level conversation. |
violence | A group of monsters attacks a group of people in the woods. No physical damage is done, but the humans' automobile is loudly banged up while they take refuge inside, and there's a lot of shaky out-of-focus camera work and screaming. |
frightening | The filmmakers are deeply entrenched in horror film culture, and this film reflects that. We see people and booths at horror conventions. Latex monster masks & appliances dominate the background throughout most interior shots. GWAR lead singer the late Dave Brockie is interviewed on-camera (in full Oderus Urungus costume and fully in character), and we also see characters such as the Toxic Avenger, etc. Many disturbing drawings of fantastical monsters as well as possibly real (or very convincing-looking anyway) photographs of deformed human beings. Several scenes in which people are in the dark woods waiting for "monsters" to arrive. There is significant nervous tension in these scenes. There are a few monster jump scares in the darkness. The monsters in the film are mostly foam latex and pretty grotesque looking; although the glimpses are usually no more than fleeting, they can be a bit unsettling. Some people are attacked by a group of very angry monsters. It's kind of intense, though all victims walk away unscathed, with only property damage having been incurred. A man is kept in a cage and threatened into making a statement he obviously doesn't believe. The man is obviously completely terrified of his off-camera captor(s). A man's house is quietly broken into by a hostile and possibly homicidal intruder in the middle of the night. We see the homeowners sleeping while the intruder creeps up near their bed (first-person POV). Pretty tense scene. |