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Sunday, 5 October 2025

Book of Monsters (2018)


A girl's 18th birthday party gets crashed by monsters summoned from an old childhood tome, which proceeds to dispatch the high schoolers (who I'm pretty sure are all 30). It's a dumb splatter comedy that has fun busting tropes, but it's cheesy and not very memorable. It gets points for favoring practical effects over CGI, but it's one of those concepts that would have been better served by a bigger budget. Once again, I feel like I've been catfished by the poster.

1 death by dildo out of 5

Note: It was a Kickstarter-funded movie where the backers chose the direction of the story, which doesn't equal a good film by any measure, but I'm sure it's a lot more fun if you were a part of the process from the very beginning.

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