(2011) Creepers/ Rites of Passage
PSYCHOLOGICAL HORROR
I saw this movie as it's French title "Creepers" than as "Rites of Passage", straight-to-rental movie co-written and directed by W. Peter Iliff centering on a group of students visiting an old Chumash Indian historical sight for a university class trip with the Brad Dourf character as the professor. At the same time, one of the stars brothers as well as the their fathers caretaker(Christian Slater) often get hallucinations as a result of consuming a strange herb called "Jimsonweed" smoked by the Christian Slater character and drank as tea from the older brother. The Slater character imagines a monkey puppet hanging onto his 12 gauge shot gun speaking to him, and the brother imagines young girls coming on to him offering themselves as wives. The version I saw is called "Creepers" which makes more sense than "Rites Of Passage" since by looking at the name itself looks like an 'archeology drama' which is quite the opposite but it's really a psychological horror film- it should've been called "Creepers" because that is the name the group of friends called his brother as a result of his stoned delusional behavior. The only thing I found amusing about this whole movie is the 'imaginary talking monkey puppet' created from Christian Slater characters mind. Other than that, the film is quite dismissive.
I saw this movie as it's French title "Creepers" than as "Rites of Passage", straight-to-rental movie co-written and directed by W. Peter Iliff centering on a group of students visiting an old Chumash Indian historical sight for a university class trip with the Brad Dourf character as the professor. At the same time, one of the stars brothers as well as the their fathers caretaker(Christian Slater) often get hallucinations as a result of consuming a strange herb called "Jimsonweed" smoked by the Christian Slater character and drank as tea from the older brother. The Slater character imagines a monkey puppet hanging onto his 12 gauge shot gun speaking to him, and the brother imagines young girls coming on to him offering themselves as wives. The version I saw is called "Creepers" which makes more sense than "Rites Of Passage" since by looking at the name itself looks like an 'archeology drama' which is quite the opposite but it's really a psychological horror film- it should've been called "Creepers" because that is the name the group of friends called his brother as a result of his stoned delusional behavior. The only thing I found amusing about this whole movie is the 'imaginary talking monkey puppet' created from Christian Slater characters mind. Other than that, the film is quite dismissive.