• Director: Michael Giacchino
• With: Gael Garcia Bernal, Laura Donnelly, Harriet Sansom Harris, Kirk R. Tatcher, Eugenie Bondurant, Leonardo Nam, Carey Jones
• Music by: Michael Giacchino
• Duration: 52min
• Based upon the Marvel comics
• My rating: 8,5/10

Synopsis:

Following the death of their fearless leader, Ulysses Bloodstone, a team of elite monster hunters gathers at the towering Bloodstone Manor. It’s now time for the trackers–including the cursed aristocrat Jack Russell and the patriarch’s estranged daughter Elsa–to prepare for a ceremonial hunt to determine who will wield the Blood Gem: a mysterious, alien relic with unfathomable powers. However, as the fragrant scent of warm, bright-red blood fills the air, the masks will fall off. And on a restless, moonlit night like this, there can only be one keeper of the sacred Bloodstone. Who will take over as the monster slayers’ new chief?

Review:

So this was refreshing to say the least… funny, stylishly perfect, in black and white (mostly) which gave it an eerie but also a very classy atmosphere (reminiscent of the monster universe movies from the twenties and thirties in yonder days)

I was very much surprised by Giacchino’s talent as a director (I knew he could make really great music but this was something entirely different!) He aced it!

And I applaud Marvel ànd Disney for allowing this to be made! It’s still not a seriously haunting movie but it does give us a spooky vibe! (That transformation in the cage scene was done perfectly…)

I guess the Black and White was good for hiding any blood in certain scenes so it had that function as well!

And it introduced a few new Marvel characters, for instance Man-Thing, which I hope will be explored further in future Marvel projects!

Definitely one of the best things Marvel released these last years! (There had been a bit of decline recently with Eternals and the latest Thor movie)