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(2001)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for violence/terror and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • Fuller and Lewis watch adult movies in their motel room, with Fuller asking Lewis if he's in the mood for a story or a collection of scenes (but we don't see anything explicit).
  • We see Venna in her underwear and thus see part of her bare butt as she lies on her bed and talks on the phone.
  • We see several views of Lewis and Fuller's bare butts after the trucker forces them (via a verbal command) to walk into a diner completely naked so that they'll feel humiliated (they have their hands over their crotches).

Violence & Gore

  • A man is shown in a hospital bed with his lower jaw missing (we see bloody tissue and his upper teeth) and a police officer describes it as having been ripped off by a perpetrator.
  • A car side-slams into a tree and a truck pins it and begins crushing it; two young men are inside (glass begins to shatter and metal crumples).
  • A man punches a window and grabs another man, and throws him to the ground where he lands on a metal rod which pierces his leg (we see some blood on his pants).
  • A man steps on his wounded leg causing him to scream.
  • The man with the imbedded metal rod in his leg is then hung on a fence -- the rod is attached to the fence and he screams when another man tries to get him down and remove the rod.
  • A man describes the best way to keep a corpse unidentifiable: cut off all ten fingers and then the jaw.
  • A woman is taped and tied to a chair and a shotgun is rigged to a door that, if opened, will blast her in the face.
  • A truck slams through the middle of another truck tearing it in two (we assume the driver of the split truck is killed when it explodes), and a truck barrels down on a group of people and police officers; the officers open fire.
  • A man approaches a woman hiding in a cornfield, grabs her and takes her away as she screams and struggles.
  • A man talks about taking a victim apart piece by piece.
  • A car catches fire and explodes, and a car is chased down a dead end road by a truck until they can go no farther; the occupants of the car panic and start yelling.
  • A truck crashes through a hotel room; a man is then shown with a very bloody arm and chest.
  • We hear the muffled whimpering and screams of a young woman on a CB radio, and a young woman screams for help on a CB radio.
  • We also hear a struggle through a wall and a description of a gasping/gurgling sound.
  • A young woman is shown bound and gagged in the back of a truck.
  • A young man drives recklessly and drives off the road to make a point.
  • A young man yells abusively at a man on a CB radio.
  • Two young men panic and yell at each other when they think they are being chased by a truck.
  • There is a conversation about a young man having been put in jail on a drunk and disorderly charge.

Profanity

  • At least 18 uses of "fuck" words (2 used with "mother"), 20 uses of "shit", 6 slang terms using male genitals ("pr*ck" and "d*ck"), 1 slang term ("p*ssy"), 13 uses of hell, 12 uses of ass (2 used with "hole"), 7 uses of damn, 9 uses of "Goddamn," 6 of "Oh my God," 5 of "God," 3 of "Oh God" and 1 use each of "Jesus" and "Oh Jesus" as exclamations.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

  • Bar scenes show people getting drunk

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • The whole movie is very intense, and has a lot of terrifying moments.
  • There is some disturbing violence; most of it is implied, but the aftermath of a little bit of it is shown.
  • Two young men and a young woman are chased by a truck through a cornfield; they're nearly hit several times, and at one point they fall into a ditch and the truck goes over them.
  • There is some violence which is intense but mostly non-brutal, with little sights of blood and gore.

Spoilers

The Parents Guide items below may give away important plot points.

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • There's relatively little screen violence in the film, it all implied. Aside from the bits already mentioned, at the end of the film, there is a moment where a character is impaled through the leg and hung from a fence post by his hood. At first glance, this can be bit distressing depending on past experiences, as it appears as though the character has been hanged by his neck. This isn't the case, he's alive and survives.

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