![]() ![]() ![]() Sure, sure, you've heard this before: drop some real death into a pretty children's fantasy and you're in sad-teen awards heaven, right? But this one will surprise you. But he certainly looks scary, emerging as he does from the gangly tree that rests near the grave plot at the top of the hill, with bright-red eyes and a towering height, walking on roots that creak and crumble with every step. This is a rough yet kindly monster, not here to feed off the boy's grief or make it disappear but rather to help him harness and manage it. In A Monster Calls, a preteen boy in a rambling English countryside manor is visited several times by a beast of his imagining as his mother battles terminal cancer. ![]() Agony Ent: A grieving Conor (Lewis MacDougall) confronts his local monster (voiced by Liam Neeson). ![]()
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