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Well, screaming under water isn’t really helpful anyway, so I guess it’s better to hold’s one breath! Suddenly it’s sink or swim, as the bodyguard must fight to keep the vehicle from becoming a watery grave.” But while cruising with a group of friends one night, their stretch limo is run off the road and underwater by a gang of ruthless kidnappers - who then dive in to finish the job. Jonathan Bennett stars as an ex-soldier turned bodyguard hired to protect a young woman. “A limousine joyride goes berserk in this breathless, pulse-pounding thriller. You can’t scream and hold your breath at the same time.Plot: Miller and starring Jonathan Bennett, Mario Van Peebles, Talulah Riley, Tim Daly, Cody Christian, Giles Matthey, Rosa Salazar, Denzel Whitaker, Caleb Hunt, and Willa Ford: He is also the Flickering Myth Reviews Editor.There’s anew poster for Submerged, the upcoming thriller movie directed by Steven C. Robert Kojder is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association and the Critics Choice Association. Monstrous is monstrously bad.įlickering Myth Rating – Film: ★ / Movie: ★ ★ Of course, there are reasons for this, but the explanations don’t take away from the fact that it’s all horrendously executed and acted, and there’s also a case to be made that the movie makes even less sense once all the cards are on the table.

She refuses to listen to Cody about nearly everything and doesn’t even behave like a rational parent. Laura is a likable character because she is trying to protect her son and stand up for herself during oppressive times, but she also comes across as a neglectful mother, not necessarily because she is stressed out. It’s hard to tell if the script or Christina Ricci is the one confused, although it’s probably both. There are also brief flashbacks to Laura’s childhood interactions with the ghost, phonecalls from her abusive partner and mother despite there being no way for anyone to have the number, and an older married couple that owns the cottage, with one of them becoming increasingly more suspicious as to what’s going on over there (which mainly leads to more embarrassingly overblown dialogue exchanges). The creature design also does the film no favors, as it’s visually generic and one of the most overused cliché metaphors in the book. For most of the short 88-minute running time, one is waiting for Monstrous to reveal the obvious. The problem is that everything from the lighting to the set details is so off that from the beginning, one knows it’s either a case of significant incompetence or another supernatural twist afoot. Monstrous also aspires to be a period piece, as Laura looks and dresses like your ordinary 1950s housewife while falling asleep to classic horror movies and mundane infomercials. If nothing else, there is an attempt to get weird and imaginative with some of the terror sequences, but they never really succeed since nothing about the movie is scary or induces dread. The delivery from Christina Ricci is absurdly over-the-top and all-around poor, but it’s hard to blame anyone for not being able to do much with such an inert script from Carol Chrest. Without saying much (the reason I don’t want to is that the film is already incredibly predictable), monstrous is a ridiculous exercise from director Chris Sivertson (responsible for so bad they are good classics such as the Lindsay Lohan vehicle I Know Who Killed Me) that, at one point, sees Laura breaking down in front of her new boss to fight back against the patriarchy while explaining that she has to protect her son from a literal monster at night. There also happens to be a demon emerging from the lake outside, trying to capture the boy and submerge him underwater. The new home has plenty of space and room for activities, but Cody has trouble making friends and often feels ignored by his mom.

She claims to be escaping an abusive husband and suffers from PTSD, although the boy doesn’t see what was so evil about his father and wants to return home. In their new remote sanctuary, they find they have a bigger, more terrifying monster to deal with.Īs Monstrous begins, Laura (Christina Ricci) has packed up her belongings and taken her young son Cody (Santino Barnard) to a rented cottage. The story centers on a traumatized woman fleeing from her abusive ex-husband with her 7-year-old son. Starring Christina Ricci, Santino Barnard, Don Baldaramos, Colleen Camp, Lew Temple, Carol Anne Watts, and Nick Vallelonga.