The Being is one of these typical monster films that for whatever reason feels super fucking disjointed and odd. First of all there must be a story behind the director Jackie Kong, who had never made anything before and for her first film secured a pretty good cast and budget. Then the actual movie. It felt like a weird walk-the-line sort of mix between hammy, terrible, and just plain boring. Nothing quite took center stage, in terms of what I felt the most coming from the movie. In short I watched the whole thing and came away from it pretty disappointed.
The Being takes place on Easter, and did start me on a brief diversion of looking up holiday themed horror movies. I remember watching the significantly terrible Serial Rabbit and several of it's sequels. What can I say.... I was put on this planet for a reason.
The Being fucking sucked. Let's just fast forward this review. What you have is a hard to follow plot about a weird ass monster killing people, and while it should be typical 80's fare, somehow it just didn't ever find it's stride. Most of the movie rode a weird line between self-aware, cheesy to the point of ridiculousness, and tedium at it's worse. To say I liked it...would just be a straight lie.
Ummm.... Yeah. I dunno. I can't say I have a lot to say about this one. Cool monster I guess. But like the movie, it feels like they just tried too hard, and the end result is self aware, too silly, and just somehow didn't work given the material.
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