Parental Guide (RUBBER)

Sex & Nudity A woman is seen naked, from behind, but it's through two doors, and in the point-of-view of a killer tire, so it's not really anything you can do much with. Profanity Not excessive, and what's there's mostly from the 'spectators'—the embedded horror-movie audience meant to offer the same objections we would, or already are, thereby anticipating and perhaps deflating those objections (think the pirate contingent in the theater watching Spongebob, or the Woody-Allen-ish 'chorus' offering their commentary on the various goings-on, or even the narrator-cum-singer in Dead & Breakfast, etc.  Not at all an uncommon conceit, the problem only arising when/if the our stand-ins in the movie are only there to pad it out, or make it 'smart' and art-housy). However, those objections: a tire in a music montage? Specifically, a psychokinetic tire with malicious intent (and still a lot of tread) and a taste for blood and NASCAR getting the soft-focus, Baywatch kind of musical interlude? Violence & Gore A bottle is graphically decapitated in the opening scenes (the ' blood sacrifice' all true horror needs to properly begin), and various insects and small animals are similarly sacrificed, largely just to establish for us this killer tire's capabilities and proclivities, but, in the scorpion's death, say, the intent would also seem to be to show us that moviemakers have done their homework (it's updated Peckinpah). Once things move to town, though, the animals are safe, and all subsequent head explosions—the tire's main method, and not at all unpleasing—would seem to owe  . . . → → →