Parents' Guide to Mr. Crocket

Parents need to know that Mr. Crocket is a horror film set in the early 1990s about a children's TV host who invades people's homes to murder abusive parents and steal their children, taking them into his own personal hellscape. Distraught parents try to find their kids, but no one believes them. Expect strong violence, gore, blood, killing, and injury detail. Demonic/grotesque creatures, monsters, and puppets chase, threaten, and attack characters; people's arms and necks are chomped. A character slices a man's stomach open; his intestines fall out, and then various items (a plate, chicken, an iron, etc.) are stuffed into the open wound. In another scene, a character's intestines fall out after he's sliced in half, and then the top half crawls along the floor. Someone's head swells and bursts from the jaw up, exploding in gory detail; a character rips his face off, revealing another person underneath; a decapitated, bloodied dead body with arms ripped off hangs on coat hooks; a character smashes his own hand (broken and bloody); and someone is stabbed through the chest with a wooden spike. An animated sequence shows a boy being hit by his father—then the boy, as an older teen, smashes his father over the head with a frying pan. Police officers get stabbed; other officers shoot a killer many times, but before dying, he slices a long cut down his arm with his knife, takes his own blood, and uses it to draw a magical door frame. Bloody lesions appear on a character's face. A character forces a boy to eat food. A character is passed out with a needle in his arm, burnt spoon and powder next to him, and with beer and liquor bottles around him. Strong language includes "f--k," "motherf--ker," "s--t," "ass," "a--hole," "p---y," "bitch," "goddamn," "damn," "God!" "butt," and "hell."

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