I never once thought I could be scared by a movie involving aliens, but that's not why the movie was scary. There's a very creepy, realistic scene at the movie's epicenter that left me staring with my mouth agape, glued to the screen. It didn't necessarily have anything to do with the central storyline but it was arguably one of the scariest scenes I've seen in recent years for oddly specific reasons. If you've seen the movie, you know what I'm talking about.
This next paragraph contains spoilers so prep yourself if you haven't seen it:
There's a scene where a monkey attacks and kills a room full of innocent actors during a cute and funny tv production. There's no music, no jump scares, just screams and yells of humans and animal alike as blood sprays about. The film builds this up at uses it to juxtapose the dark sides of creatures and how they can't be tamed. For me, it's absolute nightmare fuel. I love monkeys. I've wanted to help rehabilitate them. This scene was so disquieting for me that it put me off of them, at least for a bit, especially given the set up (something harmless and friendly) and the characters surrounded. What's worse is that after the fact, this story is used as publicity and then scene as something humorous? It's so dark and legitimately terrifying. From the very beginning, I was wondering how this bloodied monkey had anything to do with the plot. I wanted answers so bad. Once the rampage on the set happened and I got the clarification, the aliens weren't too scary to me. That scene was so horrifying that it made the central antagonist of the film seem so pathetic in comparison. The scene was just too good that it trumped the rest of the scenes that were meant to make the movie. But the movie was still amazing and that scene in particular made the film what it was.
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This next paragraph contains spoilers so prep yourself if you haven't seen it:
There's a scene where a monkey attacks and kills a room full of innocent actors during a cute and funny tv production. There's no music, no jump scares, just screams and yells of humans and animal alike as blood sprays about. The film builds this up at uses it to juxtapose the dark sides of creatures and how they can't be tamed. For me, it's absolute nightmare fuel. I love monkeys. I've wanted to help rehabilitate them. This scene was so disquieting for me that it put me off of them, at least for a bit, especially given the set up (something harmless and friendly) and the characters surrounded. What's worse is that after the fact, this story is used as publicity and then scene as something humorous? It's so dark and legitimately terrifying. From the very beginning, I was wondering how this bloodied monkey had anything to do with the plot. I wanted answers so bad. Once the rampage on the set happened and I got the clarification, the aliens weren't too scary to me. That scene was so horrifying that it made the central antagonist of the film seem so pathetic in comparison. The scene was just too good that it trumped the rest of the scenes that were meant to make the movie. But the movie was still amazing and that scene in particular made the film what it was.
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