Little Monsters

2019 Directed by Abe Forsythe

A washed-up musician teams up with a teacher and a kids show personality to protect young children from a sudden outbreak of zombies.

Lupita Nyong'o Alexander England Josh Gad Nadia Townsend Charlie Whitley Shakila Zab Chris Bunton Shia Hamby Kim Thien Doan Jorja Travers-Smith Kathryn Schuback David Sinclair-Smith Yoav Grossman Vivienne Albany Alistair Fawcus Daniel Mendoza Caliah Pinones Leah Trindall Maria Lewis Alison Rosetta Andrew Middleweek Anthony Howes Ava Caryofyllis Kat Stewart Diesel La Torraca

Alternative Title

리틀 몬스터스

comedy horror drama

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Review by clementine ★★★★ 3

lupita nyong’o singing shake it off by taylor swift twice in this movie☝️☝️☝️ that’s cinematic history luv
Review by davidehrlich ★★★ 3

A few questions might race through your mind during the hectic opening moments of Abe Forsythe’s “Little Monsters,” in which an Australian couple shouts their way through an extended public breakup while bubbly piano music plinks by in the background. Questions like: “is that a Hemsworth?,” “can a zombie comedy perfectly split the difference between Edgar Wright and Taika Waititi?,” and “how are Lupita Nyong’o, Josh Gad, and an invasion of the walking dead going to factor into this?”
Like everything else in this funny, spirited, and frequently clever 93-minute romp, the answers come fast and furious (“no,” “almost,” and “with the reckless abandon of a movie that doesn’t have any time for nonsense like ‘reasons’ and ‘logic’ because it’s…
Review by ˗ˏˋ Liam ˊˎ˗ ★★½ 1

no cops at pride just academy award winner lupita nyong'o singing taylor swift's hit song shake it off on her ukulele
Review by Alicia Malone ★★★★

It may sound strange that a zombie comedy made me miss Australia... but that’s what happened here. Aussies know Abe Forsythe as an actor, and he’s now grown into a wonderful writer and director. With this film, he also gets a wonderful Australian/American cast together to have a bloody good time. Alexander England plays a hopeless, selfish slacker who agrees to chaperone his nephew’s kindergarten class on their excursion to a theme park... mainly to get close to their teacher, played by Lupita Nyong’o. But unfortunately they end up in the middle of a zombie outbreak, also with a children’s TV entertainer, played by an insane Josh Gad. Plenty of laughs and fun zombie moments. A really wonderful little comedy!
Review by Syaoran ★★★½ 1

We need more films where Lupita sings.
Despite it being a zombie film, Little Monsters manages to stay lighthearted and charming throughout its course. Probably the first comedy film that made me really laugh out loud this year.
Review by Ian ★★★★

Lupita plays the most diverse roles. I love how she’s not typecasted.
Also, our dude Olaf just bit a zombie!!! Literally never been done before!

Recent reviews

Review by Michael Kwawu ★★★★

Didn’t really like the start, but I can understand why it was the way it was. But by 30 minutes in it strides with great comedy, humour and a small bit of drama. Also dear god the poster is incredible.
Review by Goran Lowie ★★★

2019 Ranked
Simple, decent fun. If you go into this movie with the right expectations, you should be able to enjoy it. Was surprised at how it was actually somewhat funny at times (which movies like these never really are for me).
Review by ellie ★★★½

lupita, our scream queen of 2019!
Review by Joe Harrison ★★★★

Is Lupita Nyong'o a scream queen yet? She should be, cause shes phenomenal at this stuff.
While the zombie genre as a whole is passe at best and burning in the fires of the eternal time vortex at worst, its survives in part by films and TV that seem to have not realised this fact and are content to keep spinning the same tunes they've been telling for years now (see: Zombieland and The Walking Dead).
Meanwhile, you have stuff like Little Monsters, which manages to breathe new life (ha) into zombie horror with a charming, low budget, coming-of-age horror comedy that, while fairly by the numbers in places, is mostly cute clean fun and does a lot with a…
Review by liss ★★★½

i would also fall in love with lupita at first sight
Review by Invincible Asia ★★★½

The best thing about this is Lupita, so the worst thing about it is her not being on the screen. Luckily doesn't happen too often.
Review by Jennifer Schell ★★★½

This was very cute, but I find it hard to believe, even in the midst of a zombie outbreak, that "1 2 3, eyes on me" could ever work on the first try.
Review by Ian ★★★★

Lupita plays the most diverse roles. I love how she’s not typecasted.
Also, our dude Olaf just bit a zombie!!! Literally never been done before!
Review by Andrew Watson ★★★

Amusing enough (and surprisingly cute), but I think I would have liked it more if they'd ditched the romance and made it all about Lupita & the kids (she's far & away the best thing about it).
Alternatively, I would have been quite happy if it had just been 80 minutes of Lupita singing & playing the ukulele (she's enchanting).