Comments on: Under the Bed. In Our Head. Monsters. http://www.cinema-suicide.com/2010/12/15/monsters-review/ A celebration of cheap thrills Sun, 16 Jun 2013 07:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Troy Z http://www.cinema-suicide.com/2010/12/15/monsters-review/comment-page-1/#comment-7682 Troy Z Thu, 16 Dec 2010 20:09:19 +0000 http://www.cinema-suicide.com/?p=4405#comment-7682 Those final six minutes of the film are what validated the entire film for me, in particular the first pre-credits minute. Up to then, I felt it was a servicable, if dull, monster movie, or a servicable, if dull, date movie, with some redeeming sequences (the reveal of what the “fin” in the water was during the boat-traveling part of the journey is particularly inspired). When the monsters cut off the attack on the gas station to mate, the protagonists, just as I as a member of the audience did, gaped and marveled believably despite their moments-previously adrenalized terror. It was such an unforseeable nature-documentary moment that is a game-changer for monsters and their portrayal. At that point, these creatures are now seen as just another animal on the planet. Although they are genuinely and thoroughly dangerous animals, there is now a reassuring familiarity to the literally alien.

The director and editor have to be given credit for the notion to separate the out-of-sequence first minutes of the movie from the climax. By culminating the movie with the moment where Samantha has a revelatory decision brought out by this unique witnessing, the makers of this film benevolently give these characters, and you as the audience, the peak experience that one would want to be remembered about oneself, just as all the corpses that were encountered along the path of this journey would wish to be remembered.

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