Right, well I sat down to watch the 2020 movie "Monstrous" because I was expecting it to be a horror movie that revolved around the mythical sasquatch - aka bigfoot - creature. So needless to say that I was more than sorely disappointed when it turned out that the sasquatch was actually just a secondary character in the storyline, as it was centered around a homicidal kidnapper and murderer.
So writer Anna Shields and director Bruce Wemple didn't really deliver on that account. Especially so since the movie's cover openly brandish the sasquatch creature. Sort of false advertisement in a sense.
However, I will say that the actual storyline of the homicidal kidnapper was actually interesting enough, though it was a shame that the movie was presented to be about the sasquatch. So the disappointment of that pushed the value of the actual storyline to the back of the room.
The acting in the movie was actually good, and Anna Shields (writer and playing Sylvia), as well as Rachel Finninger (playing Alex) actually put on good performances and carried the movie quite well with their performances.
One thing that I absolutely loathed about the movie, was the excessive display of women kissing, making out and going to bed together. It was just fully and wholeheartedly unnecessary to the movie and the storyline at large. It just did nothing but sleaze up the movie.
And I also believed that I was in for a horror movie when I sat down to watch "Monstrous", so the movie also failed to entertain me on that account, as this was a fantasy drama.
All in all, my rating of "Monstrous" is a more than generous three out of ten stars. It was nothing at all what I had believed it to be, and this is hardly a movie that warrants a second viewing.
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