Christina Ricci’s deadly dull Monstrous is psychological horror-lite

It seems vastly unfair to impute the onscreen creative failings of a movie to something as arguably innocuous as its credits, and perhaps in most cases that's true. But in the instance of Monstrous , which tallies 41 (yes, 41!) executive producers (not counting four producers and seven other co-producers), the shoe seems to fit. This inert psychological horror film is so extraordinarily dull and pointless on a purely narrative level that it feels like the product of endless financial horse-trading, tax shelter investment, and a thousand other compromises and accommodations. It's easy to imagine Monstrous beginning its life, perhaps in the minds of screenwriter Carol Chrest or even director Chris Sivertson, as something exciting or unique. Unfortunately, it's hard to imagine a more stillborn finished product, an exercise in tedium which checks the barest boxes of "completed movie" and possibly delivers unknown benefits for some of those executive producers, but otherwise offers nothing that might engage an audience. Advertisement Monstrous opens with Laura Butler ( Christina Ricci ) and her 7-year-old son Cody (Santino Barnard) packing up and moving to California. Ostensibly they're fleeing Laura's abusive husband, but there's no great urgency or panic to their trip. The pair… Read full this story

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