Creature(Junior)

## Poster

**Creature** is the main slasher villain from the 2002 horror film, Junior(also known as **Engine Trouble**)

He is portrayed by **Marcel Romeijn**.

## Personality

Creature is a mentally challenged man who doesn’t know the difference between right and wrong. He acts like a little kid while making whining noises.

## Background

When a woman, named Belinda, was pregnant with Creature, she took the wrong medication and Creature came out deformed. When he was born, the umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck, cutting off the oxygen to his brain for seven minutes. Despite Creature being able survive, it was too late and he suffered from massive brain damage. His parents try to help him through life as a mentally challenged person by taking him to special schools and institutions until his fourteenth birthday where he decapitated a girl with a bread knife for no reason. Because of this, Creature was locked up in an institution for the criminally insane. Later, Belinda, blaming herself for what happened, hangs herself out of guilt. After his wife’s death, Robert, Creature’s father, decided to get Creature out of the institution by bribing a few of the staff members to help him escape. After Creature’s escape, Robert takes his son to an area where a military base was being abandoned and sets up a gas station to lure in lost travelers for his son to “play with” to make him happy.

## Biography

Years later, a lesbian couple, Rebecca and Sandra, stop by at the gas station with Robert’s housekeeper, Martha, watching the place while also watching Creature, who is kept in a backroom. Rebecca hears him growling behind the door until Martha blows a whistle to calm him down. After the couple get into an engine problem, making one of them go back to the gas station, Rebecca is found by the Robert, who helps bring the car back to the gas station to fix the engine. After finding that Sandra isn’t at the gas station, Rebecca heads out, not knowing that Creature got out and hid in the car’s trunk.

Rebecca looks through the empty town for her until her car breaks down again where Creature gets out and starts shaking it multiple times. Rebecca tries to get help from a passing car, but the couple inside avoid her. After a long time of being messed with in the car, Rebecca is horrified to see the necklace she gave Sandra sliding down the windshield along with blood flowing down, followed by Sandra’s decapitated head. Rebecca tries to escape but ends up encountering Creature, wielding a sickle, making her hide back in the car. Creature manage to break into the car, but Rebecca gets out and closes the door on him. She then grabs a container of gasoline, pours on the car, and uses a cigarette lighter to ignite the gasoline and blow up the car.

Thinking she killed Creature, Rebecca walks through the area until she discovers the car that passed her and finds the woman missing and the man dead. After finding out the car is dead too, Rebecca continues walking until she arrives back at her old car, where she realizes that Creature’s body is nowhere to be found and is suddenly knocked out by a canister.

Rebecca finds herself in a room in a bunker where she finds the woman chained up and discovers a room with hanging dismembered bodies. Creature arrives, now wearing bandages around his head, and is about to kill Rebecca until he hears the whistle. Rebecca tries to escape but is knocked out again and is chained up along with the woman.

Robert appears in the room and explains about Creature to Rebecca before letting him kill the woman. Robert than tells her that he plans to make her a gift for Creature for his upcoming birthday before leaving her alone in the room. As they leave, Robert talks with Creature about his upcoming birthday but once he sees that he’s not paying attention, he starts to rave about how he ended up in his situation with his mentally challenged son.

During night time, Robert arrives back at the gas station, while Creature stays in his van, and he and Martha discuss about all the murders they’re involved with and how Creature is nothing but evil. Robert talks back saying that she can’t back out after all these years before knocking her out.

The next day, Robert dresses Rebecca up in Belinda’s dress, while she’s still chained up, and presents her to Creature, saying that Rebecca is his mother. He then tells him to kill her for destroying both of their lives. Rebecca talks to Creature as if she really was his mother to avoid him killing her. Despite Robert trying to talk Creature out of it, he suddenly starts yelling at him for being ungrateful for all the trouble he went through for his birthday. The two continue trying to get through to Creature to get him to listen to one of them until Creature gives in and listens to his father.

Before Creature could kill Rebecca, Martha arrives to put a stop to this once and for all. She tells Robert that she’s only the one who truly took care of Creature whereas all he did was bring people to their deaths when he could’ve prevented them. Feeling insulted Robert beats Martha up and sends Creature after her.

After killing Martha, Creature comes back to Robert and Rebecca. As Creature is about to kill Rebecca, she breaks out of her chains and Creature ends up scratching Robert’s neck, injuring him.

As Rebecca tries to escape, Robert insults his son, saying he should’ve died at birth, and then tells him to kill Rebecca as he seemingly dies. Out of sorrow and rage, Creature runs through the bunker, searching for Rebecca. Rebecca heads back to the room to find the keys for the locked entrance on Robert’s body. After finding the keys, she hears Creature coming back. Using Belinda’s dress, Rebecca continues to act like Creature’s mother to get him to drop his sickle. As she hugs him, she ties the dress around his body and then knocks him to down to spray lighter fluid, which she bought earlier from the gas station, and attempts to ignite it with her lighter. After a struggle, Rebecca manages to ignite the dress with the light and Creature is set on fire until he falls down. With Creature down, Rebecca takes his sickle and uses it to kill him off.

However, as Rebecca is about to make her escape, Robert reveals himself to be still alive and kills her with Creature’s sickle, avenging his son’s death.

## Kills

* **Sandra**: Decapitated.(Off-screen)
* **Mark**: Throat slit.(Off-screen)
* **Melissa**: Throat slit and then hacked with a sickle.
* **Martha**: Stabbed in the stomach with a sickle.