After learning of her terminal diagnoses, a young man goes through the five stages of grief with his still-alive girlfriend. Rather than spending their last moments together, his focus shifts to the cancer, which he has personified into a menacing monster. His love for her must overcome his ultimate fear of loss.
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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.
The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.