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posted 8 years ago by chriscoates
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The monster isn't literal. The film is about addiction and how it can destroy people and the people around them. So many reviews here talk about how the flashbacks are boring and break up the action. You're watching a drama as much as a horror film. The reason you can't engage with the film properly is because you don't seem to understand what you're looking at.
There are actually people here asking where the monster came from. How about the film "Carrie"? How come she has all those mind-powers and no one else does, either in the film OR in real life? That doesn't make any literal sense! What a dumb movie!

If you don't understand this film and others like it then coming on sites like this and complaining about how bad they are really isn't doing yourself any favours.

Please go back to your Hostel movies and stay there. Or you could look up the word "subtext" and spend a few hours trying to puzzle out the meaning. Good luck with that.

For the record the two lead performances and direction are top notch, as is the cinematography, and the practical effects are impressive considering the budget.
It's an intelligent, well-made film, and I'm glad I watched it.

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[–] mkayboi-1 8 years ago

^This

Reading some of the posts on here complaining about the lack of shock value and the monster's origins just made me sad that people couldn't get the metaphor at play.

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[–] JJett131313 8 years ago

i definitely liked this movie but who killed the tow truck driver and the 2 ambulance people? i think the monster is both a metaphor AND is real in the film.

chriscoates when you said...

"For the record the two lead performances and direction are top notch, as is the cinematography, and the practical effects are impressive considering the budget."

i agree w/ you 100%. i plan on watching it again this weekend.

[–] chriscoates 8 years ago

"i definitely liked this movie but who killed the tow truck driver and the 2 ambulance people? i think the monster is both a metaphor AND is real in the film."

don't get me wrong, there's definitely a creature that killed four people. but it's a physical manifestation of the girl's fears - of abuse, of abandonment...

at the end she and the creature stare at each other for a pretty long time, and then when it attacks she burns it to death. how does she know it'll burn like that? because it's a part of her that she no longer wants in her and wants to destroy. it dies because she wants it dead.

i don't think the authorities are going to find a dead monster body lying around, or that claw they pulled from the wolf. They're just going to have a bunch of questions and a scene that looks like a crazed bear attack.

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[–] submachine 8 years ago

That's even more stupid than the movie was. Cut out all the melodramatic nonsense and improve the writing and you'd have a classic horror flick.

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[–] JJett131313 8 years ago

chris, good points! i understand where you're coming from now. now i'm very intrigued to know what happened afterwards with the authorities who arrived on the scene (to see what they found or whatever). :)

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[–] Cletus-Van-Dam 8 years ago

I thought it was a very good movie and thought the metaphor was pretty obvious. Even a little too heavy-handed at times, but overall very well done. I guess people are just used to seeing movies that are single-dimensional that they didn't notice what this movie was really about.

I rated it a 7/10. Loved the use of practical effects. Having it take place in the rain gave the creature that almost slimy or slick looking skin. Great effect.

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[–] Bu54Lb 8 years ago

I liked it a lot as well, it's almost in the same vein as The Babadook.

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[–] bellapeligrosa 8 years ago

Yes, that's what I was thinking...

It's too cerebral! We're trying to make a movie here, not a film!

[–] argonfire 8 years ago

I agree 100%. The Monster is a terrific little film that is actually about something. As much as it is about addiction and its destructive power it is also a fairy tale about children confronting and defeating monsters and is full of classic fairy tale tropes. Plus Zoe Kazan and young Elle Ballentine are both fantastic! And it is genuinely tense and bloody. What's not to love?

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[–] knitsua05 8 years ago

Then don't market your movie as a horror movie and use false advertising, ass hat.

[–] willie_bfmv 8 years ago

The person who makes the movie doesn't get to market it so you can hardly blame them.

[–] JJett131313 8 years ago

knitsua05, what does being gay or not have to do with whether someone liked or hated the movie?

[–] chriscoates 8 years ago

he doesn't like someone else's opinion of a film; so needlessly, unprovoked, gets abusive, uses "asshat" retard" and homosexuality in general as insults.
that tells you everything you need to know about him. he must be lonely as hell. i feel sorry for him.

and yeah, it was me who reported you. do it again and i'll report you again.

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[–] knitsua05 8 years ago

What a *beep*

Most misunderstood film I've ever seen on IMDB *spoilers*

Most misunderstood film I've ever seen on IMDB spoilers