The Monster Project
When aspiring horror filmmakers post an online casting call looking for "real life" monsters to interview for their upcoming documentary called, The Monster Project, they find three individuals claiming to be a skin-walker, a vampire, and a demon. Meeting these monsters at a remote mansion in the woods on the night of a total lunar eclipse, the filmmakers invite the three subjects to share their haunting, personal experiences. Working on the crew is a recovering drug addict who suffers withdrawal and paranoia. As a person of faith, he fears his friends underestimate the dark powers they are summoning. When the interviews turn deadly, he must battle the demons, inside and out, to escape the house and defeat the rise of evil incarnate.
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- Cast:
- Yvonne Zima , Justin Bruening , Toby Hemingway , Jim Storm , PeiPei Alena Yuan
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I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.
When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
So when I saw all the hate I didn't wanna watch but my bro forced me to watch with him after midnight and I have to say it's scary, it's monsters are awesome and the actors gave it their all and I absolutely fell in love with it. 10!
I am into found footage flicks. So had to watch it. Its OK OK if you are into such ones too otherwise you can def skip it!!
Classic example of a good movie gone bad because it had too much human ego involved. The writer wanted more out of this picture than it could give. He wanted a character study , a romance and a drama and found footage horror .. if that sounds like too much, imagine watching it. I was actually bummed because this could have been so good, if they had just stuck to found footage horror. It has great effects and a great plot. The actors are all talented. The production was OK too. The camera work was awful- they needed to clean that up , have it be more straight forward. But for what they were going for - found footage, this could have been so much better. Instead of doing what everyone else does at the end, have everyone scream at the top of their lungs and run around like chicken with their heads cut off. I mean this got so chaotic and bad at the end, the story just instantly evaporated and seriously all you hear for the last twenty minutes is incoherent yelling and shaky is a kind word for what the camera did. The camera work is so chaotic that it is pointless trying to watch it. They could have made such big differences if they had just allowed some actual attacks and gore to be filmed. It would have upped the horror really nicely. Again, a great plot gone bad. Which is such a shame. The end just seems like they ran out of money and got really lazy ... Where else it went wrong? In all the lame sub plots between characters , and as a consequence the characters themselves. I mean maybe with a better script they could have pulled it off. But the end result here is caricatures of identities. We have the junkie who hates himself for getting high ( even though that doesn't happen in real life. If junkies didn't suffer from major denial issue they wouldn't be junkies.) we have the bitchy ex girlfriend who everyone wants to sleep with except she is really not that attractive to warrant the attention . In real life, this girl would be begging for her ex back. We have the Dick jock who is alpha male ( they don't make movies ) and last but definitely the worst of all is the token black guy who talks like super urban kid and is named Jamel ( the kind of black guy that would never hang out with a bunch of white people and in fact, doesn't even exist to hang out with black people) So the movie was ruined by all the useless and frankly irritating character studies and dynamics of their lame relationships and stereo typical personalities. Guys- you should have just made a horror film. Alluded to the issues and kept it subtle and sharp. Also obviously you're racist . Would have helped immensely if the writer actually knew just one black man.
I first saw this film advertised on the IMDb homepage so decided to check it out after finding the trailer really interesting. Ever since the Blair Witch Project the hand held 'real life' camera method has always given the film an air of mystery as we don't always tend to see what the character sees. However, I can assure you this film is different and doesn't just build up anti-climatic suspense. The film contains a group of adults wanting to make a documentary about different kinds of monsters to bump up views for their YouTube page when they're contacted by volunteers to give interviews, whilst the crew initially brush the claims off as ridiculousness, they soon start to change their beliefs.The premise is interesting and the film starts that way too even if it is a little slow to get into. A film like this shouldn't really go over the 80 minute mark but what you gonna do?There are a few jump scares and once the 'chaos' kicks in it does get really intense. The first 2/3 of the film are the most suspenseful and intriguing parts but come the final third act, we are left with that unfulfilling feeling of emptiness and predictability that these camcorder films tend to conjure up. Overall, its a fun little film to watch with your friends on a weekend night for a few scares, but it's not a film that will leave a trace in your memory. 5/10