Movie Review: One man’s internal darkness manifests externally in “THERE IS A MONSTER”
As Jack’s spiral accelerates...[the movie] becomes an interesting ethical window for its audience.
As Jack’s spiral accelerates...[the movie] becomes an interesting ethical window for its audience.
It succeeds for most of its running time as an elemental survival-horror saga, stripped down…with a commendably focused narrative.
Dima Barch is a name you need to know. A Russian political refugee, the twenty-five year-old journalist turned filmmaker has arrived on the genre film scene with his harrowing queer horror short films, "Dead End" and "The Power of the Strike."
Shot on Super 8, this less-than-stellar release from Visual Vengeance gets by on its own grainy charm.
It proves to be an entertaining if not quite essential study of the man, more than his movies.