{"id":29897,"date":"2014-02-26T03:01:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T08:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=29897"},"modified":"2018-12-14T03:05:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T08:05:01","slug":"i-heart-monster-movies-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/26\/i-heart-monster-movies-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"I Heart Monster Movies (2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I admire director Tyler Benjamin\u2019s ambition to create a documentary that chronicles what it\u2019s like to be a horror fan. \u201cI Heart Monster Movies\u201d is a simple and very low budget look at the horror convention scene in Portland and some of what many horror fans within that region have done to celebrate their love for the genre. If you\u2019re a Portland denizen, \u201cI Heart Monster Movies\u201d will definitely help you to decide where to visit that\u2019s associated with your beloved genre. If you\u2019re just a random horror geek, \u201cI Heart Monster Movies\u201d is a passable time filler.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not so much a documentary as it is the director traveling to different places and figuring out what being horror fan means to certain people. There\u2019s no real purpose to the film other than to interview horror fans, and hopefully mine some new anecdotes from noted horror icons. There really isn\u2019t much you\u2019ll find from the horror celebrities, even if it\u2019s a lot of fun to hear them talk over and over. Tom Savini discusses once again what made him become a make up artist, Linnea Quigley discusses how she got in to the business, and Sid Haig shows fans some love. It\u2019s the same old stuff you\u2019ll find anywhere, but there is a fun interview with Doug Bradley who discusses his experience with an extreme fan.<\/p>\n

One of the bigger missed opportunities of the documentary is a young fan\u2019s meeting with Doug Bradley. She explains how much she idolizes the actor, and even anticipates meeting him at a local convention. For some reason we not only never get to see her meeting with him, but director Benjamin skips the entire experience altogether and moves on to the more fluffy aspects of the horror worship. It\u2019s pretty interesting to see how he addresses the local flavor, but I\u2019m not sure who\u2019d be interested in those testimonials beyond people within the neighborhood of those establishments.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s both a fun little quirk to the film, but also a caveat as well. It\u2019s not so much a depiction of horror love, as it is just a novel local business or eccentric personality, and it never quite gels with the documentary. I was also never sure what the intention was behind interviewing the psychologist who kept insisting that horror movies were evil and a bad influence on society. Were we supposed to be laughing at her? Agreeing with her? Perhaps consider that she has a point? I didn\u2019t know, really. It felt out of place in a what is mostly a pretty cozy film. \u201cI Heart Monster Movies\u201d is a well intentioned love letter to the horror genre, and it\u2019s a very worthwhile time filler for the respective horror fan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I admire director Tyler Benjamin\u2019s ambition to create a documentary that chronicles what it\u2019s like to be a horror fan. \u201cI Heart Monster Movies\u201d is a simple and very low budget look at the horror convention scene in Portland and some of what many horror fans within that region have done to celebrate their love […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[292,359,477,501,1087],"class_list":["post-29897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-documentary","tag-filmmaking","tag-horror","tag-indie-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29899,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29897\/revisions\/29899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}