Monster X

It's a low-budget indie horror anthology as long as you know that going in it's actually not bad, for what it is

I only write this review to inform anyone looking this up that this movie is undoubtedly a product of rating padding. I'm not here to review the entirety of the movie because I saw just enough to know it's a giant pile of garbage that is only a 7.1 because the creators of it managed to guilt enough friends into hopping on IMDB and giving it a 10. It's just another low budget crapbox akin to even the worst Sci-Fi flicks, but worse.

I was so excited to see a monster flick rated 7+. Nope, just another fake 7+.

Cheap ass version of Creepshow with inflated ratings to trick you into watching. Terrible.

Right, well I can't exactly say that I had any expectations to this 2017 movie, as I sat down to watch it here in 2023. I had never heard about it, so I didn't know what I was in for here, aside from it being a horror movie, and that alone is actually sufficient to make me sit down and watch it.

But had I known that "Monster X" was a horror anthology, then I might have skipped it entirely. Yeah, I am not really fond of horror anthologies, because the vast majority of them are dubious at best. And "Monster X" was not the movie to break the habit. Nay, "Monster X" was also a dubious horror anthology.

The stories, or segments, in "Monster X" were using some of the most beloved horror creatures of the genre; that being vampires, werewolfs, zombies and monsters in general. That was nice enough. The contents of the stories, were generic, watchable sure, but generic.

I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, aside from Leslie Easterbrook. The acting performances in the movie and each segment were fair enough, nothing grand or particularly memorable though.

Visually then "Monster X" was okay. Not a top of the line special effects movie.

Something that did work out well enough here, was the way that each segment was blended into the next. It was a smooth transition from one story segment into the narrative that tied them together and then into the next segment.

My rating of "Monster X" lands on a four out of ten stars.

After the film-crew and the ill-briefed neighborhood of the producers were forced to gave this 'home-brew' an excellent rating on IMDB, the real reviews are coming in... While they probably ment to produce a one and a half hour long movie, only one hour of the shot footage eventually saw the editing room. The rest they HAD to throw away, it really was that bad... The acting, the story, the makeup, audio, continuity and the all-round technical quality....everything is just so remarkably low budget and so poorly executed it should only be shown in the living room from the director's family. Looks like they had a budget of about $30.000 and at the end, when they had about 10.000 left they thought: let's throw worse money after bad on promotion and a nice DVD-cover. The cover is actually not that bad.... I could wish the producers of this turd good luck but the'll probably don't know what to do with it... All in all, avoid like the plaque when you at least expect to have an hour of entertainment.