Ella Ballentine cries wolf in this clip from Bryan Bertino’s The Monster

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

One of my most anticipated flicks of the year, Bryan Bertino's THE MONSTER has just dropped an eerie clip. Depicting young Ella Ballentine trying to locate the wolf she and her mother ran over in the street, it's a scene that's more moody than scary, but it effortlessly sets up the dynamic between these two characters. Is Zoe Kazan the least attentive mother in movie history? Check out the clip below and see for yourself!

From the creator of The Strangers comes a world of the lost; freezing, spitting needles of rain, thunderbolt lightning, hypothermic cold and disorientating utter darkness.

Mother and daughter trapped and tormented in a black forest by a screeching creature – it is unlike anything we have heard before. Not human. Not animal. Like a thousand horses, like a mother’s clamour, a baby’s wail, a father’s howl.

Their relationship at breaking point, 10-year-old Lizzy is all out of faith in her mother Kathy but tries to stay brave and fearless. Kathy, on the edge, barely keeping it together, knows that only a mother’s protective love, her most primal instinct, can save her daughter from what’s lurking in the darkness…

THE MONSTER stars Zoe Kazan, Scott Speedman, Aaron Douglas, and Ella Ballentine. It storms into theaters on November 11th.