What Is It?
The 2016 A24 monster horror drama fantasy movie The Monster by Bryan Bertino.
What Is It About?
This is how Rotten Tomatoes describes this movie:
Acclaimed horror filmmaker Bryan Bertino (The Strangers) directs this suspenseful and scary new film, in which a divorced mother (Zoe Kazan) and her headstrong daughter must make an emergency late night road trip to see the girl’s father.
As they drive through deserted country roads on a stormy night, they suddenly have a startling collision that leaves them shaken but not seriously hurt.
Their car, however, is dead, and as they try in vain to get help, they come to realize they are not alone on these desolate back roads — a terrifying evil is lurking in the surrounding woods, intent on never letting them leave.
Rating: R (Language|Some Violence/Terror)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & thriller, Fantasy
Original Language: English
Director: Bryan Bertino
Producer: William Green, Aaron L. Ginsburg, Bryan Bertino, Adrienne Biddle
Writer: Bryan Bertino
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 11, 2016 Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 9, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA): $12.1K
Runtime: 1h 31m
Distributor: A24
Production Co: Atlas Independent
My Thoughts
My brother GC and I watched this movie at least a year ago.
It was a small slow burn horror drama movie that focused more on the strained relationship of a mother and daughter, which I thought was interesting & unique.
The mother daughter relationship drama was something to enjoy, but the ending should have been better.
I think that this movie was probably symbolic in a way.
The end,
- John Jr
John Jr's Blog 
2 replies on “The Monster (2016 Film)”
Never heard of this movie, but that’s no surprise as I usually avoid horror. All that said, I hear that the new Halloween is performing well at the box office.
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Hello The Otaku Judge,
I probably would not have known about it either if maybe my brother GC had not noticed a trailer for it on YouTube by accident.
Yeah, I am surprised by how well Halloween (2018) is doing, but it is October so I guess that helped. 😀
Thank you for commenting,
-John Jr
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