'The Monster,' the new horror film from 'The Strangers' d...

A stunning performance from Zoe Kazan makes up for an unfortunate lack of scares.

Zoe Kazan stars in Bryan Bertino’s third feature, 'The Monster,' as a single mother navigating a deeply conflicted relationship with her young daughter, pl...

There are horror movies in which unexpected frights befall relatively happy, emotionally stable people.

Trapped in a car in the woods, Lizzy (Ella Ballentine) and her mother (Zoe Kazan) encounter a mysterious creature in a horror movie beset by a leaden script,...

There’s little originality scared up by “The Monster,” but that doesn’t make director Bryan Bertino’s horror flick easier to watch through the gaps...

Right now, a story of overcoming human demons within to face a real nightmare outside us seems like something we could all use.

The Devil is in the details, the old saying goes. And that applies to movies as well as the plans we make in life, and how we execute them. “The Monster”...

Monster movies are tough because there's a desire to go full bore into cat and mouse chaos or metaphorical symbolism. Things get muddled when both are attemp...

Writer-director Bryan Bertino delivers an admirably lean-and-mean horror story that creates a tense mood before the scary stuff even starts.

The Monster reveals a soft, squishy core that's torn out by Bertino's mongrel villain, exposing a beating heart and plenty of feeling.