Runtime:
97 minutes
Release
Date: March 8, 2014
Rating:
NR
Director:
Matt Jackson
Love in
the Time of Monsters opens with two young girls at a tourist spot
with their dad. When he dies an accidental death that was partially
their fault, we jump to the present day. Carla and Marla are the two
sisters from the very beginning. Marla is the angsty, likes to drink,
slightly slutty sister, while Carla is the good girl. You can tell
which one is which because the bad girl has dark hair and the blond
girl is the good girl.
Carla
dragged her sister to some crappy tourist trap where her boyfriend
works to make some extra money. Since he's gone all the time, she
wanted to surprise him. She lures her sister there with the promise
of seeing their equally slutty and likes to drink friend. Turns out
that their friend is now a by the books employee of Slavko who
doesn't have time to deal with all their crap. Carla heads off to
find her guy, leaving Marla to seek comfort in the arms of the
bartender, the only relatively hot and non-gay guy in the hotel.
Kane
Hodder, frankly I refused to learn his name, is part of a team of
guys who dress up like Bigfoot and head into the woods. Tourists pay
money to get a tour of the property and possibly run into one of
these creatures. When one of the men wanders across a pool of what
looks like toxic ooze, he gets infected and in turn infects all the
other guys. When the Bigfoot dressed crew begin attacking, Carla,
Marla, and the rest need to find a way to survive until help can
arrive.
When we
popped this movie in, my friends rolled their eyes and groaned. I
picked it out without knowing a single thing about it and actually
thought it was pretty funny from the very beginning. The others kept
rolling their eyes and complaining for the first 20 minutes before
they finally started laughing. It's the kind of movie that makes it
very clear that the director and screenwriter have a deep love for
horror movies and aren't afraid to poke fun at those films.
Even
though it has a fairly mediocre rating online, Love in the Time of
Monsters was one of the best horror films I've seen in months and one
of the best horror comedies I've ever seen. Where else will you see
Kane Hodder wandering around in a Bigfoot costume with a dazed look
on his face as he randomly attacks people? It's also the type of
movie where a moose will come out of nowhere and you will laugh but
then realize that it's something you probably should have expected.
And
let's not forget the random guy who lives in a cabin in the woods and
manages to save one of our lead girls only to later reveal that he's
secretly in love with the wife of the owner of the tourist trap. Or
the fact that there's a guy called Dr. Lincoln who wears a Lincoln
costume throughout the whole movie and is pretty much the only person
who can save the day. While it didn't have a ton of jump scenes or
scary moments, Love in the Time of Monsters is my favorite movie so
far of the month!
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