Experimental filmmaker Richard Myers took seven years to construct this amalgam of familiar horror stories and personal dreams. Its unusual style is both exciting and confusing. The depth of the symbolism and imagery combines well with haunting visuals, but the constant barrage of ideas is
overwhelming. Myers' theme, that the horror stories are ingrained in each of us, is undercut by use of dreams that reflect only his own viewpoint.
MONSTERSHOW has no plot. A traveling show consisting of a narrator (Alan Benson) and an actor (Paul Shuster) act out, in the Grand Guignol style, the stories of Frankenstein, Dracula, and Jekyll and Hyde. Myers presents the show as ...
Released:
1996
Rated:
NR
Length:
90 mins