Little Monsters (2019) poster
2019 · horror · comedy · disaster · music

Little Monsters

Directed by Abe Forsythe1h 34m2019
ElsewhereIMDb6.321kRT79%Metacritic59
  • warm
  • kinetic
  • intense
Movie DNA

Warm, breathless, measured horror / comedy, grounded in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.

Our read · Little Monsters (2019) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded horror · comedy · disaster entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want foul-mouthed zombie mayhem with a saintly teacher saving kindergarteners.

ends upliftingyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 3/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgoregraphic violencechild perilnuditydrug useanimal harmcringe humiliation

Skip it tonightGory zombie comedy around real kids is a hard no tonight.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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