So, this past Monday we were asked to watch a movie called Love in the Time of Monsters.  Pretty exciting for us, as the request came directly from the film producer on Twitter.  So, we'll dive right into different aspects of the film then.

Lets start with the genre.  Its classified as a Horror-comedy, and for the most part it tries to stick with that, but it's very heavy romance as well.  It goes for a B-movie, campy feel, and comes off way to strong with the campy-ness in a lot of the scenes, For instance, the main character plays a female who doesn't want to be in a relationship because her dad got killed. (I know, I know)  She hardcore overplays that in multiple scenes,coming off as an enormous jerk for no other reason than to be an enormous jerk.  Her love interest, who we'll lovingly refer to as discount Ray William Johnson, comes completely out of left field as a love interest.  BUT.  We're getting into details, that will come up later.  So, this is definitely more of a romantic comedy, then an actual horror comedy. 
The cast though, has a couple really strong characters.  Doug Jones.  The Doug Jones.  Plays probably one of the best parts in the entire film, and he is totally underrated, and forgotten about multiple times, and then maybe dies? They don't ever clear that up! A horror Alumni shows up, Kane Hodder(Jason Vorhees) and an actual actor, Michael Mcshane(Bugs Life) but Everyone else is pretty no name in this movie... Soo.. Doug Jones is a fantastic actor in my opinion, but when he is the only actor who has been in a real movie, that may be an issue.  So lets jump into this story then, shall we?
The movie starts with a family making a home video, and a freak accident kills the dad of the family.  Flash forward to I don't know, fifteen years? Present day.  Both girls grew up to be pretty hot, but pretty weird.  One of them is engaged, one of them is an enormous bitch for no reason.  They found out that Carla's fiance has a weekend job as a "Big foot kid" and Marla(Hilarious Right?) keeps making fun of him because like I said, she is a bitch.. So they get to "Uncle Slavkos" american themed bed and breakfast type thing? They never explain that really either.  The Bigfoot kids get into a fight and fall into a river, that makes them mutate into angry bigfoot people, that have a taste for human flesh.  Then all hell breaks loose.  People are getting eaten, pretty much everyone is dying. 

 
The groups get split up, and everyone thinks, when Slavko calls the police hes full of it, but they send a squad car anyway.  One of the bigfoot kids throws up on the cop Ala the fly and he melts and dies.  I honestly at this point lost interest in the film because this came completely out of nowhere. Absolutely nowhere, but almost immediately after this one of the Bigfoot kids grabs a breaker box and can conduct electricity.  Then every animal in the woods is a zombie.  Then they find out everyones head will explode thats infected, BUT WAIT Doug Jones makes an antidote and then disappears from the rest of the movie.  In the dramatic build-up leading to a huge fight, COMPLETELY OUT OF LEFT FIELD.  Big foot, The big foot shows up.  They actually say "Is that bigfoot?" "HELL YEAH IT IS" AND THEN HES GONE TOO.


So, basically in closing.  This movie was not good.  It was recommended to us, and unfortunately, it was nowhere near what we thought we were getting ourselves into.  It provided a couple of laughs, which was really unexpected.  But at the end of the day, you could save your three dollars to rent it and watch something actually enjoyable.