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The Monster
Directed by
Bryan Bertino
R
2016
1h 31m
[Horror](/on-demand/category/horror), [Drama](/on-demand/category/drama)
5.4
81%
40%
5.5
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A mother and daughter must confront a terrifying monster when they break down on a deserted road.
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Cast of The Monster
Zoe Kazan
Kathy
Ella Ballentine
Lizzy
Aaron Douglas
Jesse
Christine Ebadi
Leslie Williams
Marc Hickox
John Brooks
Scott Speedman
Roy
Chris Webb
Monster
Bryan Bertino
Director / Writer / Producer
Sonny Mallhi
Executive Producer
Ali Brown
Co-Producer
Aaron L. Ginsburg
Producer
Kerstin Emhoff
Co-Producer
Adrienne Biddle
Producer
Jared Carnevale
Associate Producer
Richard Suckle
Producer
William Green
Producer
Robert Menzies
Co-Producer
Emerson Moore
Associate Producer
Garren Dunbar
Art Direction
Shane Boucher
Production Design
The Monster Ratings & Reviews
Complex
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
The Monster lacks bite in the actual horror department, but like many other good horror films before it (Rosemary's Baby, The Shining), it plays with the anxiety of this very primal fear-the betrayal of the mother.
KPBS.org
Beth Accomando
A creature feature is only as good as its monster and Bertino's film delivers on that.
Aisle Seat
Mike McGranaghan
An exceptional lead performance from Zoe Kazan makes the film stand out from the crowd.
HollywoodInToto.com
Christian Toto
Strong acting, ambitious themes and a limp final act make for one frustrating horror film experience.
Film School Rejects
Rob Hunter
It fails to generate anything resembling scares or suspense here, and the fault rests almost entirely with the script.
Madison Movie
Rob Thomas
We're coming up to the end of a year full of great horror movies. "The Monster" may have more modest goals than some of the others, but it deserves a place on that list.
Paste Magazine
Jim Vorel
The Monster feels like a film reaching desperately for profundity and missing by a country mile. The Witch this is not. It's just another arthouse horror film broken down on the side of the road.
IGN Movies
Josh Lasser
Bertino's film is a great setup but one which doesn't move forward from that setup in interesting ways.
Daily Dead
Heather Wixson
There's no doubt that with The Monster, Bertino has confidently reestablished himself as a master of intimate horror.
The Hollywood Reporter
Justin Lowe
A fully realized depiction of elemental fear and desperation, The Monster's modest scale should attract discerning genre fans while establishing a firm basis for potential cult status.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
A film like Bryan Bertino's The Monster, featuring a fantastic and fearless performance from Zoe Kazan, feels oddly timely.
Variety
Dennis Harvey
An admirably lean-and-mean execution of an elemental horror story.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Mr. Bertino, who also wrote the undercooked script, sets the scene effectively, using his leads to give the story a sense of normalcy that he dismantles trick by genre trick.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
The Monster offers solid performances and a real-world subtext. But those virtues aren't enough to keep the movie from getting stalled in some big bad woods, miles short of profundity.
Los Angeles Times
Justin Chang
Not least of the surprises here is that even when "The Monster" is trying to scare you witless, its every scene insistently reaffirms its characters' humanity.
Entertainment Weekly
Clark Collis
A simple but skillfully told shocker.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
The film has an eerily WTF arbitrariness that should be the domain of more films in the genre.
AV Club
A.A. Dowd
It's an intriguing combination in theory, but the individual elements both feel a little half-baked, and stirring them up into one doesn't help.
New York Daily News
Ethan Sacks
There's little originality scared up by "The Monster," but that doesn't make director Bryan Bertino's horror flick easier to watch through the gaps in your fingers.
Collider
Perri Nemiroff
It's an engaging and worthy watch that teases great potential in everyone involved.
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