Corporate Monster

Whoever saw the 1988 movie titled, "They Live" by John Carpenter will immediately recognize the parallel and even some of the scenes.... This is merely an updated version of that film. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

I thought this was a really effective short that I found to be consistently tense and well acted, the idea of insidious monstrous invaders living among us in secret has always been an unsettling one in all the story's and classic movies it's been featured in over the years and I found it especially creepy in this short, the prawn/ladyparts-faced monster people were weird and interesting, I thought the cgi of them was pretty dang top notch, and if nothing else, effects-wise this short is a winner, and I loved how it could have been open to interpretation if you like regarding whether the deranged man was really seeing what he was or if it was all some faulty drug messing with his mind, it never really spelled it out either way, and I thought it was pretty harrowing and sad stuff at the end as he went back to his old office to shoot up the place and let himself be shot, some pretty scary parallels to real life events there, apart from the monsters of course... Doesn't seem to have hit anyone else on here the same way but I liked this, it was an effective spin on an old idea and it creeped me out a little, and monsters that no one else can see as well as losing your mind are both pretty scary concepts, very good short to me, not everyone's gonna like it but it's certainly worth watching! Solid work x

Visually the movie is stunning, that's obviously where the bulk of the effort went, since the story is bland, the actors are stale, the directing was uninspired, and it's all been done before in more competent and passionate ways.

The story is so simple.... Too simple. And the reasonable excuse is to see it as a parable using, in not bad manner, CGI for a noble purpose. The first part is so familiar motivational film . The pills are good tool for remind the embroidery of schizophrenia and revelation about deep face of reality. But the big sin remains the waste of end. No message, no answer, not the good story final, giving a clue or giving to the film more than political manifesto aspect. So, for reasonable image, I see it as parable.

Corporate Monster is based on the Stephen King short story: "The ten o'clock people", which is in the nightmare and dreamscapes. The only change was that in the original story, smokers could see the monsters. In fact this story could be a sequel.