Forsythe’s movie is a creative, fun, and genuinely engaging zombie apocalypse tale. It is a farmyard full of gore and giggles, with a few exceptionally tender moments thrown in for good measure. Little Monsters is screening at the BFI London Film Festival.
Delivering something new and inventive in the zombie horror sub-genre isn’t easy, considering the plethora of content already out there; therefore, writer/Director Abe Forsythe deserves credit for bringing us something that feels fresh and different, even if it’s not. With Little Monsters, we have a hilarious zombie comic book adventure.
Dave (Alexander England) is a habitual slacker who consistently runs away from any responsibility, his life stuck in a never-ending teenage loop. Maybe that’s why Dave’s relationship with his long-term girlfriend has just ended after she suggested they could conceive a child, and he’s now sleeping on his sister’s couch. As Dave gets used to sofa surfing, he begins to build a relationship with his young nephew, Felix, who, at five years old, is more mature than he is! And it’s in his new duty, chaperoning his nephew to school, that Dave meets Miss Caroline (Lupita Nyong’o), who encourages him to volunteer for a school trip to the local petting zoo. Little do they know that the animals at the petting zoo will soon be replaced with slow-moving, flesh-munching zombies.
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Little Monsters is, in many ways, a classic comic book horror-comedy, its cult credentials shining through its humour and gore. Here, the classic Night of the Living Dead house is replaced by a souvenir shop of safety as the slow-moving zombies munch their way through the petting zoo in a delicious blood bath of fur and limbs. Performances are warm and engaging throughout, with Alexander England and Lupita Nyong’o perfectly balancing horror and comedy. The pace may sink slightly in the middle, but Forsythe’s movie is a creative, fun, and genuinely engaging zombie apocalypse tale. It is a farmyard full of gore and giggles, with a few exceptionally tender moments thrown in for good measure.
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