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Monster!
Tragedy strikes a small town's monster movie festival when the monster featured in the films comes to life.
Release : | 1999 |
Rating : | 5.1 |
Studio : | Village Roadshow Pictures, Wilshire Court Productions, Monster Productions, |
Crew : | Production Design, Director of Photography, |
Cast : | Tobias Mehler Brendan Cowell David Ross Paterson Jonathan Oldham M. Emmet Walsh |
Genre : | Horror Science Fiction TV Movie |
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This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place
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Absolutely brilliant
Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
If you grew up on Saturday afternoon Monster movies like I did this was a whole lotta fun. I laughed at the great spoofs of the shows that scared me as a small child. I think if you are looking for good clean fun with a lotta nostalgia this is for all who loved the "B" movies of the past/present/future. The acting was pretty good and played just right. There have been other movies made by companies like Sci-Fi Channel and UPN that have tried to recreate the feel of the "B" Science Fiction movies but Monster! was the best of these. I wish that some studio would do the same kind of thing for the Hope/Crosby road movies. Between the "B" SciFi movies and laughing at Hope and Crosby my childhood was made a little fuller. Enjoy
If you want to have some real fun this is just the movie for you. Forget all the stuff you have come to expect in "monster" movies. This was just meant to entertain and that it does. I laughed and laughed (I'm laughing now, thinking about it again.) Go back to the innocent ages from a time that has past and relive a parody of what used to be. The story is great. It has all the right stuff at the right time. The town hero has a job to do and does it well while everyone else thinks he is crazy. It has action, adventure, heart warming family interaction, and romance. While you can usually guess what is coming next, you really can't wait and will end up on the edge of your seat rooting for the good guys or the monster depending on your mind set. Best move I've seen in a long time.
This movie wasn't that bad. It was not intended to be taken as a serious horror flick. It was a movie that was in many ways making fun of the obvious stereotypes that are present in horror films of the current and past eras. Haven't we all wondered why the people in movies tend to move towards the darkest places....or why do people always go check out that mysterious noise instead of staying the hell away from it and minding their own business? On top of that, the plot was something similar to that of what you see in the Scream trilogy and the Urban Legend movies. What would happen if the movies started coming to life? This movie gives one answer. If you ask me, it was a much better movie than many I've seen...and it kind of has a Stephen King Langolier's feel to it. If it had been a bigger budget, it might have been a little better quality, but it was still a good movie anyway. At any point, any true fan of horror movies or B movies would enjoy this movie. When i saw it....i endured the commercials to see it, and enjoyed it.
M. Emmet Walsh portrays "Lloyd," an aging former star of a series of 50s "B" monster movies; Lloyd always portrayed the hero, a teenager who, initially was never believed by the adults when he claimed that a monster was about to attack the town. Of course, as in all classic monster movies, he was proved right and he "saved the town!" The movies were filmed in Lloyd's own small town, where, though he is considered a local celebrity, he is also considered a loony -- he is in the "New Purgatory Psychiatric Ward" because he insists that his town is, in fact, about to be attacked by "the monster." Enter Lloyd's grandson, who signs him out of the psychiatric hospital; they settle in at Lloyd's home, where Lloyd, who still takes his role of "town hero" quite seriously, instructs his grandson on how to fight the approaching monster according to "movie rules." People do, in fact, start getting killed; however, the sheriff thinks that Lloyd is the killer. Little by little, his grandson comes to believe that his grandfather may just be telling the truth.Don't look for totally logical resolution, but do look for classic 50s monster scenes: the couple "making out" at Lover's Lane, the people running screaming from the movie theater. This movie follows the traditional monster movie plot perfectly and is a wonderful "tongue-in-cheek" tribute to the B-movie art form.