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No Such Thing as Monsters
Australia 2019
produced by Jordan Hendrix, Chris Bastin (executive) for CineViolet Films
directed by Stuart Stanton
starring Angel Giuffria, Matthew Clarke, Michaela Celeste (= Michaela Pascoe), Georgia Crisfield Smith, Rebecca Fortuna, Jacob Fyfe, Rohana Hayes, David Macrae
written by Karen Elgar, Stuart Stanton, music by Jamie Murgatroyd
review by Mike Haberfelner
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David (Matthew Clarke) takes his girlfriend Mary (Angel Giuffria) on a
camping trip to a lonely and romantic spot in the woods to propose to her
- but the beauty of the scenery is somewhat tainted when a quartet of
siblings - leader of the bunch Nelly (Michaela Celeste), hot and seductive
Becca (Rebecca Fortuna), Elmer (Jacob Fyfe) and masked Amy (Georgia
Crisfield Smith - put up camp right next to them. However, they're a nice
enough bunch, even apologizing in intruding onto their camping space but
claiming it has special meaning to them - and they invite Mary and David
over for drinks, which turns out to be a rather lovely evening ... until
the siblings kidnap both Mary and David to their home even deeper in the
woods where they use David as their breeding stallion while they keep Mary
chained up in her trailer. Mary makes numerous attempts to break free and
to save David, but the siblings always catch and punish her. But Mary
makes a friend in Amy, who wears her mask because of a skin disease and
has always felt an outcast, even among her siblings.
Weeks later, Mary learns that not only she is pregnant but also Nelly
and Becca (all from David of course), and as long as she is with baby
she's relatively safe as the siblings want to keep her baby - but what
happens after birth is really up to anyone's guess, but it's to be nothing
good as the siblings' mother (Rohana Hayes) tells her she plans to kill
David during intercourse. So suddenly time's running out, and Mary has to
make up a plan to escape her chains, free David and make a getaway on the
quick - but she's only days, maybe even hours, away from giving birth ...
Now of course, much of No Such Thing as Monsters
follows the typical backwoods horror formula, down to some of the
characters and character constellations - but what makes this movie work
is that it on one hand doesn't overplay the backwoods clichés, quite the
contrary actually, and on the other the plot of this one adds an extra
layer of meanness to the proceedings with the pregnancy angle. And on top
of that a very dynamic directorial effort that really makes the most out
of the limited sets sees to it that the audience remains at the edges of
their seats throughout for a very entertaining horror trip deep into the
woods ...
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