The Monster (2016)
2/10
Great fun if you love plot holes
15 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
*Running over a wolf is apparently sufficient to completely wreck a car and cause severe injuries of the passengers in the car. Given the heavy rain, the limited visibility and the unknown area, the mother should not have been driving too fast anyway, but that may be a topic for another discussion.

* The car mechanic arriving at the scene in order to tow the car decides to try and fix it as opposed to simply tow it. He apparently enjoys crawling under the car and lying on a cold, dirty and wet road in the middle of the night.

* The mobile phone is put in a bag and the bag goes into the towing car while the mother daughter duo remains in the wrecked car. Good thinking.

* The daughter finds the cadaver of the wolf in the woods. The monster appears right behind her but decides that going out of its way to attack her later makes more sense.

* The monster manages to grab and drag off the car mechanic from under the car without anyone in the car noticing any of it.

* Even having his arm ripped off by the monster does not elicit as much as a single cry of pain from the car mechanic to alert the mother and daughter to the situation. Talk about being discreet.

* The monster is not even interested in feeding on its prey. It is only fueled by the need to increase the body count in the movie.

* The car mechanic crawls back from out of the woods and attempts to climb to the safety of his towing car. The monster appears on the street, but instead of making a beeline for the car mechanic, it goes around the towing car and pulls the car mechanic under it from the other side. Very efficient.

* The monster kills a wolf and a huge car mechanic but pouncing on the mother only leaves her with a gash.

* The ambulance arrives at the scene and when one paramedic is flung against the windshield, the other paramedic reacts by kicking out the whole windshield.

* The monster takes on a speeding ambulance and topples it rather effortlessly, but a wrecked car stranded in the middle of a road obviously poses an insurmountable problem for it.

* The daughter uses a lighter and some inflammable spray to light up the monster with not more than one single burst of flame Quite a feat considering how the monster is dripping wet from the hard rain.
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