Hey, let's stretch out Jurassic Park's first T-Rex attack to 90mins
but we'll do it with a Sesame Street monster that is crossed with Peppa Pig.
And that is the main problem here: the monster.
This is a good film, ruined simply on the fx and and makeup of the main horror element. The creature is quite possibly the most unremarkable and laughable thing I have seen put to film. To make matters worse, as the monster reveal progresses, it becomes more and more frustrating that a good tight narrative focusing on the relationship of mother, albeit a bad one, and her daughter is severely letdown because the first rate acting, editing, directing and sound is at total odds with the beast, which in no way drives the fear factor that the good actors all seem to project. It would have been far better to have not showed the monster at all until the final act, that way the budget could have been saved to really hone in on the make up and fx to really make the beast look like a scary monster.
If you're gonna call a movie The Monster at least have a horrific creature that touches viewers' primal animalistic savage fears, do not fuse together bits of Sesame Street, Muppet Show, Peppa Pig thinking that elements of everyone's childhood with teeth and claws will be very scary. It is not scary it is not clever, but it is a waste of time and money that makes this viewer not recommend this film.
The film would have been perfect had the antagonist been a killer on a motorcycle hiding in the forest.