‘Monstre numéro deux’ Movie Review – is a powerful sensorial experience
Looking back at the past five years or so, the sub-genre of vampire films has inspired a countless amount of filmmakers and studios to take a crack at telling stories about those haunting creatures of the night. Not that prior to 2008 such cinematic experiences were a rarity per say, but the Twilight franchise (the first installment released in ’08) unquestionably gave the genre a shot in the arm. Interestingly enough, Antoine Barraud, one of France’s few writer-directors working within genre cinema, made his own vampire flick in the same year as the first Twilight picture, not to mention that his also was about the terrible repercussions of vampirism on a romantic relationship. Needless to say, Monstre numéro deux is no Twilight.