Who are the true monsters here?
Mon Mon Mon Monsters is violent and anarchic.
The horror-comedy is all the more shocking for being a sophomore directorial feature by Taiwan novelist Giddens Ko; it's such a contrast to his 2011 rom-com smash You Are the Apple of My Eye despite revisiting Taipei's high school, where the epidemic of schoolyard bullying is now the subject.
Meek straight-A student Lin Shu-wei (Deng Yu-Kai) endures the worst humiliations from the sadistic, handsome head class bully Ren-Hao (Kent Tsai).
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