“Little Monsters” Review by Kevin Shanks
November 3, 2019 9:54 am |
Light spoilers ahead. Little Monsters is a horror comedy film that premiered at Sundance Film Festival on October 11, 2019 and is now streaming on Hulu. The film was written and directed by Abe Forsythe and stars Lupita Nyong’o (Us, Black Panther), Alexander England (Alien Covenant, Gods of Egypt), Nadia Townsend (Knowing), Josh Gad (Frozen, Beauty and the Beast), and Diesel La Torraca. It clocks in at 94 minutes in length and is rated R for bloody zombie violence, crude sexual content, language throughout, and brief drug use). You may want to keep the kiddies away from this one.
The film follows Dave (Alexander England), a has-been musician (formerly of the band God’s Hammer) freshly separated from his girlfriend Sara (Nadia Townsend), who takes a liking to his nephew Felix’s (Diesel La Torraca) kindergarten teacher, Miss Caroline (Lupita Nyong’o). Dave volunteers to chaperone one of Felix’s class field trips to a local farm. Meanwhile, as the class arrives to the farm, an army of The Undead break out of a United States military testing facility and heads directly towards the farm and all of its unsuspecting visitors. As for the rest of the film, you can probably guess what mayhem ensues as the zombies enter the farm and start to turn the local population. Dave and Miss Caroline must battle both zombie and Teddy McGiggle (Josh Gadd), a local children’s television personality by day and foul-mouthed narcissistic alcoholic sex addict any other time he isn’t on TV. He loves moms and despises all children. Dave and Miss Caroline work to keep the children safe while attempting to find a way out of the farm.
Let’s get this out of the way right now – Lupita Nyong’o as Miss Caroline and Diesel La Torraca as Felix make this movie work. Miss Caroline is charming and an absolute delight to watch on the screen. At one point in the film, she single-handedly fights her way through a zombie brood, retrieves some medicine, makes her way back through the zombie horde fighting the entire way, and with a blood stained yellow dress that she tells the kids is “strawberry jam” she saves Felix from an anaphylactic reaction to some dairy he had mistakenly eaten. Miss Caroline also has a penchant of playing Taylor Swift songs on her ukulele (not a guitar!) and loves Neil Diamond. Dare I say it, but the more I think of the film, the more I see this as a zombie/horror romantic comedy. The dynamic between Miss Caroline and Alexander England’s Dave grows throughout the movie. I wouldn’t be lying if I said I shed a tear at the end of the movie when Miss Caroline and Dave lead the children including Felix in a bubbly version of Hanson’s MMMBop. Felix (Diesel La Torraca’s first acting role in a motion picture) is wise beyond his years and tells it like it is. He is cute and extremely charming as the five-year-old kindergartener and I look forward to seeing him in more films as he continues to grow. With all that said, make no mistake, this is a zombie flick. There is blood. There are guts. There is gore. The typical zombie defense (and offense weapons) range from pitchforks and shovels to military assault rifles.
There is a little bit of something for everyone in this movie. If you’re looking for a charming zombie rom com, then Little Monsters is a film you should watch. It is available on the Hulu streaming platform.
PCL Rating: High Taste It
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: FRESH 🍅
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