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(1998)

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Certification

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MPAA Rated R for sci-fi violence/gore and language
Certification

Sex & Nudity

  • One of the characters has an unhealthy sexual attraction to Lisa. He often makes suggestive comments and gestures.
  • no sex or nudity is shown

Violence & Gore

  • A dead body of a man is seen with his half of his face already melted off.
  • A bat grabs onto a man's face, flies him around to eat his face with bloody results.
  • A group of people shoot a bat.
  • A monster in hiding catches a man and takes him away to be killed off-screen.
  • A monster attacks a man by using its limbs to pop through the suits. Same with other man and a woman. No detail.
  • An alien goes through the suit of a man up to the helmet, and end up possessing him. He is seen taking a piece of glass out of his mouth and spits out the alien as a lizard.
  • A group of survivors shoot at the alien which causes burst of white lights.
  • Two women shoot a possessed man. He survives, but he grows tentacles from his shot off legs.
  • A woman shoots a possessed man in the head. But the wounded head grows into a plant-shaped creature with red guts. It grabs onto a woman. Another woman shoots it in the head and dies. A shot of blood pouring out of the pieces of the skin is shown with gory detail.
  • An alien boy grows a tentacle out of his mouth injuring a man. The man shoots the injection the boy is holding, and ends up killing the boy. His face is shown shaking about as images of anatomy layers appear when the boy disappears.
  • People get violenty attacked by monsters, but not as strong or gory.
  • The dead bodies look a little disturbing.
  • A dog turns into a monster, however this isn't too gory.
  • We see a set of severed hands with bloody stumps.
  • Two decapitated heads fall from the top of a stove. There is some blood.
  • A scientist cuts and slices open the arm of a corpse with a scalpel; blood pours out.

Profanity

  • God damn used.
  • The F-word is said a number of times throughout the film, mostly by Ben Affleck's character.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

Frightening & Intense Scenes

  • Two decapitated heads fall from the top of a stove that scares two women.
  • The town is very eerie.
  • The whole town's siren goes off and the volume of it increases. The loudness spreads throughout the town with some of the lights rotating around as if it was WWII, and it goes off.
  • A man envisions of a young boy pulling a gun on him with two flashes.
  • A woman screams off-screen.
  • A telephone makes disturbing sounds of a man getting killed.
  • The lights go off with people inside a building.
  • A bat flies near a window which makes the group to shoot the window.
  • A bat grabs hold of a man, flies him around and eats his face.
  • An alien goes through the suit of a man up to the helmet, and end up possessing him. He is seen taking a piece of glass out of his mouth and spits out the alien as a lizard.
  • A dog follows a man which turns out to be possessed.
  • The entire possessed town shows up and approach a blue tornado.
  • A survivor gets possessed.
  • After two women shot a possessed man, he survives, but grows tentacles from his legs.
  • A boy has a large tentacle coming out of his mouth.
  • A man shoots the injection the boy is holding, and ends up killing the boy. His face is shown shaking about as images of anatomy layers appear when the boy disappears with a continuous screaming effect surrounding the moment.
  • Some jump senes.
  • The film is about a paranormal force that wipes out a entire town and threatens to do it again but with the entire world.

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