Looking for the great horror movies of 2015 I came across this on a top 10 list - there wasn't much said about the movie as they didn't want to ruin any surprise. Well (and spoiler alert) I will and save you the job of watching it.
You know how Shaun Of The Dead was billed as "a romantic comedy, with zombies"? Well this is a romantic love story, that just happens to have a (sort of) monster in it.
A young American loses his mother and gets into a bar fight so decides to go travel and ends up in Italy. He meets a nice young lady, they get jiggy and he falls in love.
Alas, she has a secret to hide and....well basically she has to decide whether to stay with the guy and fall in love and eventually die, or continue her existence as immortal.
So yeah, it's The Little Mermaid. Or worse....Twilight.
Spoilers coming...
She is 2000 years old and replenishes her youth via injections and getting pregnant (where her body re-absorbs the youth) she is subject to changing into an odd lizard/squid being from time to time. That's it - she's not even a rampaging monster, she tries to hide it.
It's a slow burner that even when it gets to the point was not worth the wait. It is essentially a romance movie, not a horror. In fact if you had a partner or a friend that didn't like horror but liked romance, you could let them watch this to introduce them to the genre.
As a story, apart from being lame, it's an OK watch. but as a horror it fails and as "top ten" material... never.
3/10 Masks.
Directors: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Writer: Justin Benson
Stars: Lou Taylor Pucci, Nadia Hilker, Vanessa Bednar
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