Review of The Monster (2016) by Jp J — 03 Apr 2017

This movie is a shame to the monster genre. What can you say about it when even a little girl is not afraid of a monster. The genre is dead. At the beginning, both men and women were scared shitless and the difference was that men had to do something to save them all. Then they made women in film equally brave. Ok, the genre ate it. But now they started to encourage little girls to be equally brave, to set examples at the expense of the genre itself of course. And now we have an absurd situation when literally nobody is afraid of a monster. We don't see fear in the faces of the main heroines, how does the director want us the viewers to be scared of the monster, if even the little girl isn't scared of it. She just cries a lot, because things went the wrong way, but that's it, she is NOT scared! This poor monster looks pretty pitiable since it found itself in the hostile environment when nobody is scared of it. What is the next step? The next step is a film about a monster who tries to save itself from a legion of brave girls.

And no, I don't buy the metaphorical sense of it, the overcoming your fears (it's amazing that a little girl faces her own fears) bullshit. This is not the right genre for this. In films like "Alien" and "Predator" they fought with their fears too, but they were SCARED of the monsters until the very end. That is the main principle of the genre.

The only thing nice in this movie is cinematography. It's awesome.