Monsters in the Closet

Nothing is as painful as seeing a good book make for a terrible movie. I got to love making books terrible from the Agatha Risen series that came out of Britain. These things are supposed to be terrible. It adds to the imagination and leaves room to think and imagine how it would be.

I mean like really think about it. Who gives facial expressions in books or how many times does the reader know exactly what a type of machine gun or tank sound like? Monsters in closet does exactly that pretty well without giving away too much and letting the viewers mind stray or not be led too much. Its great. Sorry if CGi and graphics is what you are looking for wont find it here. Its left to your mind to do the hard work.

This has to be some of the worst acting I have ever seen! I thought things might improve after the first ten minutes but things seem to go from bad to worse very quickly and I had to give up on this after only 15 minutes, do not bother going that far.

The story about how we tuned into dead meat or in a more metaphysical term zombies. A home/amateur-made horror anthology that takes you through the register of ''we move straight on'' zombriery, from the archtypical chronic arthrithis moving parkinsonal huntingtonians lepralibertarians, to the hilarious couple renovating their house while being deterioratingly in love with eachother( this part makes it a four and affordable to watch), but allover its moviemaking that every military base medical department crew or aiseeyu unit couldve made using fake masks of wounds and bloody bandages. Filmtechnically its a poutpourie of glitches and cheap trix that the seasoned sausage of gorecorians have seen before

a film for the gore and vomit lovers, not so much for a grumpy old man.

Well, I can't lie here and say that I was expecting a whole lot from writers and directors The Snygg Brothers for this 2022 thriller titled "Monsters in the Closet". Why? Well, everything was just screaming low budget here. But still, as I hadn't already seen it, I opted to give it a chance.

And lets just be honest here, you are not in for any grand award-winning movie experience when you sit down to watch "Monsters in the Closet". And yeah, "Monsters in the Closet" is every bit as low budget and low key as you would expect it to be. However, the movie had a peculiar charm to it, and it was that particular low budget and amateurish feel that made "Monsters in the Closet" a watchable and sort of enjoyable movie experience.

Yup, "Monsters in the Closet" is one of those low budget movies that actually are so bad that it becomes fun to watch.

The movie has an abundance of things to make you laugh while you watch it, from the dubious acting performances, hilariously bad special effects, sound effects that sounded like something from a 1990s computer game, and just sheer, downright goofy campiness.

Now, "Monsters in the Closet" is not a movie that will appeal to a wide general audience, as you must really appreciate low budget and B-movies to be enjoying this one.

I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in this 2022 movie, but I will say that it definitely looked like the actors and actresses were having fun participating in making this thriller become reality. And it was that particular devotion to the art of making a movie that lifted up the movie a notch.

My rating of "Monsters in the Closet" lands on a four out of ten stars.

Following her father's death, a young woman begins to look into his life as a writer and finds that his latest book was written with black magic, causing the stories he wrote to come to life with deadly consequences.

The Good Stor(ies): Please Kill Me Again-In the midst of a zombie apocalypse, a young woman awakes from an encounter to find that she's become a zombie but is unable to process that fact. Still aware of her emotions but unable to come to terms with being a zombie, she tries to survive the night as the invasion carries on throughout the community. There's a lot to like with this one. The setup is quite enjoyable with the idea of the woman still cognizant of the situation but not realizing that she's a zombie comes off rather well, the situations with the creatures confronting human victims trying to escape the situation keeps this one moving along nicely and is filled with some decent enough gore-gags and zombie make-up to be an intriguing indie effort. The first-person shooting of most of the segment alongside her narration is quite innovative and adds a solid touch to this one that's incredibly fun to see play out.

Frankenstein's Wife-After accidentally killing his wife, a mad doctor sets out to revive her only to inadvertently screw up the process leaving her dissatisfied with the results. Forced to do it over and over again to equally futile results, he finally finds himself forced to great lengths to please her and himself. Overall, this is a quirky and somewhat humorous but still somewhat troublesome ending segment. The fact that so much of this one is dependant on the humor of the various reanimation setups, the decidedly quirky humor of him being a henpecked and exasperated scientist that has to keep on bringing her back to life despite her ungrateful behavior that grows evermore troublesome as the experiments are that much more unsuccessful. The problem is that the joke wears thin after a while and everything just turns into a painful experience the longer it goes on since it feels far longer than it really does, especially with the way it ends. The effects are cheesy fun but that's about all that's going on here.

The Bad Stor(ies): Home Improvement-Moving into their new house, a young couple overjoyed with the prospect of having their own home are unwilling to deal with the fact that their house is so overwhelming they're in over their heads. As time goes on and they continue to deal with the demands that fixing up the house requires, it takes a murderous toll on both of them. This was a decent enough idea but doesn't really have that much going for it. The idea of a couple taking over a house far beyond their means and trying to make it work would've been fine had something much more sinister or malevolent would've been the cause of everything. Instead, it just turns out to be a series of increasingly aggravating segments talking about all the mishaps and accidents that take place between them which would've worked out better had the timeline here being far more reasonable since it takes nearly a year after buying it before the premise takes its full effect that's not that interesting or original.

The One-Percenters-Taking a trip with her friends, a woman joins a group on a camping trip to get away from her controlling father only for an accident to result in the death of one of her tripmates. In the slew of misunderstandings to follow, she finds herself trying to right the wrongs that she believes will befall her if her dad finds out. Generally, this one was a massive disappointment as the whole thing was too goofy and silly to be of much use at the length it is. This needed to be much longer to explain what kind of influence the father has on her to cause such a snap in the first place at it makes nos sense, much less why the ensuing carnage that results plays out the way it does nor why she's even friends with them in the first place. The chases themself are fun enough and tense with the threat posed to her as she tries to get free of the psychopath but it's not enough to make much of an impact against the rest of the segment.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language and Graphic Violence.