The monsters in this are nearly impossible to get a handle on, which I mean as a compliment -- they boggle the mind in the best of Lovecraftian manners, making them all the scarier because you are never quite sure what they're capable of. If I had to put them into words I'd say they're part monkey part ostrich, but with... surprises. Shudder.
Anyway the film itself (from director Benjamin Brewer, who previously worked with Cage on the 2016 film The Trust) is clearly beholden to A Quiet Place with its tale of a family (including It's Jaeden Martell) just trying to maintain itself in a post-apocalyptic land overrun with monsters. But I would re-watch Arcadian well before I'd re-watch the vastly overrated AQP -- Arcadian doesn't bog itself down in needless exposition (see AQP's infamous whiteboard) and it knows how to actually shock and sustain tension. Plus Cage giving a movingly restrained turn! A totally solid screamer!
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It played here in LA for a week. About a month ago.
I watched it last night and liked it ok. Cage is "out of it" for a good while but the two sons carried it fairly well.
And YES the monsters are nasty.
Give me a good monster and I will forgive SO MUCH. That was also part of my problem with A Quiet Place actually - the monsters are really boring seen-that-before designs. They're basically Stranger Things monsters. Loved how every time you thought you had a handle on the monsters in Arcadian some new WTF happened, like the belly splitting open or the WHEELS they formed into to travel. Ahhhh it had me screaming with the fun of it
Well, Netflix’s “Mother of the Bride” was disappointing. It had a beautiful setting and a sexy cast —- ohh Benjamin Bratt 🥵🥵🥵🥵—— but the nudity was not there. The plot was lackluster, as expected, but I was hoping for more of a treat in the skin department to balance it out. Sigh.
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