The Monster2016

🏆 6 nominations total

Horror Vault's take

When a car breaks down on a rain-lashed forest road in the dead of night, a mother and her young daughter find themselves at the mercy of something monstrous lurking in the dark. Director Bryan Bertino strips the creature feature down to its emotional core, interweaving flashbacks that expose the raw, painful history between the two women. What begins as a fight for physical survival quietly becomes something far more intimate — a reckoning between a parent and child who have long been running out of time. Bleak, tightly wound, and anchored by two powerful central performances, this is horror that cuts as deep emotionally as it does viscerally.

Content: Creature Violence, Depictions Of Child Neglect, Alcoholism And Parental Dysfunction, Intense Peril Involving A Child, Jump Scares