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Mon Mon Mon Monsters (2017)

Mon Mon Mon Monsters poster
Original title
報告老師！怪怪怪怪物！
Directed by
Giddens Ko
Genre
drama film
Country
Taiwan
Runtime
1h 52m
Rated
PG12
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 64 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A high school student doing community service gets drawn into a group of bullies. They capture a flesh-eating monster and start a cruel game that goes badly wrong.

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What happens

Mon Mon Mon Monsters is a 2017 Taiwanese horror-comedy film written, directed and co-produced by Giddens Ko. It premiered as the closing film for the 41st Hong Kong International Film Festival in April 2017, and was released in theaters on July 28, 2017. Unjustly accused of stealing money, Lin Shuwei is assigned to do community service alongside the bullies from class. As the gang of bullies progressively accept him as one of their own, Lin partakes in their misdeeds to seek their approval. During a night out, the group stumble upon a pair of flesh-eating female ghouls and capture one of them; they begin a sadistic game, which ultimately leads to disastrous consequences. Ko originally intended for the film to be a mockumentary shot entirely on iPhone. This idea, however, was eventually disregarded as the project evolved into a more personal work inspired in part by the backlash the director was receiving at the time for a widely publicized affair. While discussing his inspiration, Ko has stated: "Maybe millions of Taiwanese people hated me, so I wanted to shoot a horror movie to scare everybody, to express my hate." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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