Finding herself the victim of a violent monster attack, Jane launches a vigilante campaign to hunt the beast that tried to kill her. Jane’s efforts intensify, but her troubling history of drug use and mental illness bubbles to the surface causing her family, community, and authorities to question the authenticity of her account. Suddenly alone in her fight, Jane starts to doubt her own memory of the attack…to doubt if Monster exists at all. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 4.8/10 | |
Released: | August 23, 2021 | |
Runtime: | 90 min | |
Genres: | Horror | |
Countries: | United States | |
Cast: | Angela Gulner Jennifer Lafleur Emma Fitzpatrick | |
Crew: | Emma Fitzpatrick Gia Elliot | |
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This is the kind of movie that could have been good - taking a metaphorical monster (sexual assault/violence against women d/t their gender) and making it a “real” monster. Having a protagonist that may or may not be imagining things is a good idea, since RL sexual assault cases are usually defended by attacking the victim’s credibility.
But they run into the problem of trying to have it both ways - the monster is portrayed as maybe a mentally ill homeless man (it first appears in an alley in a mess that looks like someone’s makeshift shelter), but also a monster. It can only be killed (supposedly) by magical means, but if that’s true we’re not really dealing with a metaphorical monster anymore at all. I think maybe that’s another way of saying it can’t be killed, but that just muddies things up more. Everything about the monster - including the way it kills the one person I can remember actually dying in the movie - suggests it could be her having a psychotic break and that the monster isn’t real, but everything around the monster says it’s real. Not a bad premise for a movie, but confusingly executed.