Monster
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After being abducted and taken to a desolate house, a girl sets out to rescue her friend and escape from their malicious kidnapper.
After being abducted and taken to a desolate house, a girl sets out to rescue her friend and escape from their malicious kidnapper.
29 Nov 2023. Premiere Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival. 16 May 2024. Digital17+ Netflix.Based on a US thriller film The Boy Behind the Door (2020), Monster is undeniably similar, but still a solid cat and mouse thriller which strong on tension while showcasing nice performances. Rako Prijanto, in a small amount of runtime, waste no time and made a survival game runs with pure intensity, it's a typical of all gas and no brakes from start to finish just like the original version.
The gimmick in Indonesian filmmaker Rako Prijanto’s new kidnap thriller Monster is that the characters do not speak – they all can, but are only permitted to do so by the film’s screenplay when calling out each other’s names. For the rest of the film’s lean 84-minute runtime, they are restricted to uttering screams and breathless grunts, or simply scowling at one another, even when regular oral communication might mean the difference between life and death.
