{"id":38079,"date":"2024-12-31T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38079"},"modified":"2024-12-29T19:59:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T00:59:44","slug":"the-monster-2016-written-and-directed-by-bryan-bertino-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38079","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Monster&#8221; (2016) written and directed by Bryan Bertino \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z123124zview_themonster.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The Monster <\/i>(2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>Bryan Bertino<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Bryan Bertino<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Zoe Kazan, Ella Ballentine, Aaron Douglas, Christine Ebadi <\/strong>and <strong>Scott Speedman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Stay in the light.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A divorced mother and her young daughter are driving through remote woods one stormy evening.\u00a0 When a wolf crosses their path, they wreck.\u00a0 The wolf is killed.\u00a0 The car axel is busted.\u00a0 Stranded and alone, they call for a tow truck.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t know that a monster is watching and ready for his next meal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Monster<\/em> was originally titled <em>There Are Monsters<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I made it through the film.\u00a0 Barely.\u00a0 I&#8217;m giving it a two star rating for that reason, but it almost earned a 1.\u00a0 As always, your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>The Monster <\/i>(2016) <\/em><\/strong>rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z123124zview_themonster2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"21\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monster (2016) Director: \u00a0Bryan Bertino Screenplay: \u00a0Bryan Bertino Stars: Zoe Kazan, Ella Ballentine, Aaron Douglas, Christine Ebadi and Scott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-horror","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38080,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38079\/revisions\/38080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}