{"id":2954,"date":"2018-10-18T06:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2018-10-17T18:12:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T22:12:03","slug":"daily-horror-film-fest-the-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/2018\/10\/18\/daily-horror-film-fest-the-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Horror Film Fest: The Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day during October, the Department of Tangents presents a different short film for the Daily Horror Film Fest. It can be flat-out scary, funny horror, or a little twisty. Today\u2019s selection is <em>The Monster<\/em>, written and directed by Robin Whitten, who also has a small on-screen role. That\u2019s him as Passenger One, the creepy guy with the camera phone on the subway. <\/p>\n<p>Hard to talk about this one with giving too much away, so I won\u2019t say much about the plot. I am still asking questions about how the first half and the second half of the film fit together; how the first half sets up the second and what it says about the lead female character. I would love to see more films with her that broaden her world and her backstory. <\/p>\n<p>Whitten is a talented horror director. He knows how to show audiences just a glimpse of something and make them fill in the spaces and scare themselves, and he can do a lot with some basic lighting and just a couple of well-placed special effects. <a href=\"http:\/\/robinwhitten.co.uk\/portfolio-item\/the-monster\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">On his Web site, he writes of <em>The Monster<\/em><\/a>, \u201cThe film intentionally tries to challenge some of the more common and predictable horror clich\u00e9s.\u201d Well done, sir. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GIr8PG_Gloc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day during October, the Department of Tangents presents a different short film for the Daily Horror Film Fest. It can be flat-out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1422,5],"tags":[641,1939,1940],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-horror-film-fest","category-horror","tag-daily-horror-film-fest","tag-robin-whitten","tag-the-monster"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DHFF-The-Monster.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7lGwW-LE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickzaino.com\/departmentoftangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}