2023 · sci-fi · comedy
Monsters of California
Directed by Tom DeLonge1h 50m2023
Teenager Dallas Edwards and his derelict friends go on a quest for the meaning behind a series of mysterious, paranormal events in Southern California. The truths they uncover begin to unravel extraordinary secrets.
Our read: Monsters of California (2023) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive sci-fi · comedy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured sci-fi / comedy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
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