The ending just didn't make sense. The mother's sacrifice was for nothing. Even if Lizzy did start running away, what made them think she could get away? The monster previously catched an ambulance running at full speed, Lizzy wouldn't stand a chance. And the kill was just pure BS. The flame was much bigger than it should have been coming from that little bottle. And was the monster soaked in gasoline that it has caucht on fire so easily?...
shareCompletely agree. Ending was ridiculous. You're telling me a can of spray and a lighter can engulf a giant beast in flames that's already wet from the rain??? Hhahahhaa
shareA little imagination here guys, the Monster has an imperfection, Lizzy was desperately lucky to expose it with flame. Maybe the Monster has an extraordinary coating of highly combustible material(s) and exists in a wet or damp environment because of it.............
I really enjoyed this film, the fine acting drew me in.
Underneath the horror facade, I thought the Monster had become an all encompassing entity developed by Lizzy's imagination to help her deal with her mother's addiction(s). The Wolf is possibly a spiritual symbol of sorts, you will have to make up your own mind about the meaning of its appearance, the breakdown chap and the paramedics being significant characters of intervention through kindness or circumstance but ultimately getting (b)eaten by the Monster with Kathy succumbing eventually to the same beast of all her burdens in the end.
For me, another monster or three and lots more blood and gore would have defined this film firmly as part of the horror genre despite the main character's relational shortcomings.
IMHO it has horror fringes stitched onto its jacket of a few other genres but it is tense, thought provoking and well acted all the same.
Some animals have oily skin. It protects them from the elements more than fur would alone. That might explain the way it went up in flames so quickly.
Yes, it did seem odd but frankly I was hoping Lizzy would fire at it again; just to be sure! As so often in these films, people shoot a creature and think it is dead without making sure with a second blast. Lizzy made the same potential mistake. I think the creature is alive because it is a form of shape shifter. Note early in there is a shot of a full moon; possibly signaling a werewolf.
The house she finds through the woods echoes back to the haunted mansions of old horror films where nothing good goes on. The creature could have been the owner, or a result of the owner\mad doctors genetic experiments.
The point I think was not the monster so much as the relationship between mother and daughter. Had it not been for the talents of Zoe and Ella, this would have been a pretty bad horror movie!
Maybe poor beast couldn't resist smearing flammable vaseline all over his muscular bod cause that shiny skin made the females weak.
Or maybe people should stop making dumb excuse to justify dumb things in movies.
Sure that wouldn't happen in real life, but then neither would the whole being attacked by a monster thing. Why do people so eagerly accept people being attacked by an evil monster in the woods but then get up in arms in realism about the fact that said fictional monster caught on fire too easily?
shareenglish not my language also- nevermind. on the monster: i think it has a natural flammable body, that is why it was afraid of light/heat. but nevermind the monster. i think the point was the mother; she was incapable of making good decision for her daughter due to her alcoholism. she said "yes, that's the plan", but did she really had a plan? and that's what she was doing wasting her life on alcohol, making bad decisions, thinking she has a plan to get out of it (alcoholism, monster, and being a good parent) but it didnt work for her. sometimes, even if our intentions are good, we just screw it up under drugs, alcohol, etc...