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MoniKa

  • 2012
  • 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
3.9/10
467
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Cerina Vincent in MoniKa (2012)
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The film is a violent, edgy ride focusing on down and out Reagan Tyler, a man who is troubled by visions and premonitions that ultimately lead him to old school Las Vegas. It's there that Re... Read allThe film is a violent, edgy ride focusing on down and out Reagan Tyler, a man who is troubled by visions and premonitions that ultimately lead him to old school Las Vegas. It's there that Reagan meets the beautiful and mysterious Monika, a young woman who turns out to have been k... Read allThe film is a violent, edgy ride focusing on down and out Reagan Tyler, a man who is troubled by visions and premonitions that ultimately lead him to old school Las Vegas. It's there that Reagan meets the beautiful and mysterious Monika, a young woman who turns out to have been killed the night before he even met her. Reagan is then forced to put the puzzle together o... Read all

  • Director
    • Steven R. Monroe
  • Writer
    • Steven R. Monroe
  • Stars
    • Jason Wiles
    • Cerina Vincent
    • Jeff Branson
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  • IMDb RATING
    3.9/10
    467
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Steven R. Monroe
    • Writer
      • Steven R. Monroe
    • Stars
      • Jason Wiles
      • Cerina Vincent
      • Jeff Branson
    • 4User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Jason Wiles
    Jason Wiles
    • Reagan
    Cerina Vincent
    Cerina Vincent
    • Monika
    Jeff Branson
    Jeff Branson
    • Terry Jo
    Andrew Howard
    Andrew Howard
    • Eli
    C. Thomas Howell
    C. Thomas Howell
    • Double
    Elisa Donovan
    Elisa Donovan
    • Andrea
    Lew Temple
    Lew Temple
    • Lloyd
    Shayla Beesley
    Shayla Beesley
    • Leanne
    Tim Thomerson
    Tim Thomerson
    • Thomas
    Suzanne Ford
    Suzanne Ford
    • Katey
    Chad Lindberg
    Chad Lindberg
    • Detective Kean
    Raffaello Degruttola
    Raffaello Degruttola
    • Detective Allendale
    Michael Covert
    • Timmy
    Stacey Hinnen
    Stacey Hinnen
    • Cyrus
    Scott Menville
    Scott Menville
    • Jimmy
    Aaron Behr
    Aaron Behr
    • Billy
    Dean Alioto
    Dean Alioto
    • Andy
    Ryan Dillon
    • Eli's Driver
    • Director
      • Steven R. Monroe
    • Writer
      • Steven R. Monroe
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    • Trivia
      When Monika takes off her jeans to have sex with Reagan, the scene abruptly jumps ahead to them kissing after she has only dropped her jeans enough to expose the top of her butt. This is a shout-out to Cerina Vincent's previous movie Cabin Fever, where she only allowed the top of her butt to be filmed during one of the movies sex scenes, even though the director tried very hard to persuade her to show all of it.
    • Soundtracks
      Make Everything Bright
      Written by Molly Thomas, Amelia White, Mando Saenz

      Kaigler's Bottom Music - ASCAP; Pussydog Music - BMI

      Scrambler, a division of Carnival Music - ASCAP

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    User reviews4

    Featured review
    4/10

    MoniKa: A Wrong Way To Make a Film.

    All his life, Reagan Tyler (Jason Wiles) has been troubled by dreams, visions and premonitions. After he makes the trip to Las Vegas to meet his pal Double (C. Thomas Howell), Reagan becomes involved with beautiful, buxom blonde Monika (Cerina Vincent). The next day, Reagan learns that the girl he has just spent the night with was killed the day before he met her, shot by gangsters searching for some missing drug money. Is Monika a ghost, out to avenge her death and that of her sister, or just another one of Reagan's dreams?

    I find it hard to believe that MoniKa was made by director Steven R. Monroe AFTER his entertaining I Spit On Your Grave remake, the film bearing all the hallmarks of a debut feature from an inexperienced film school graduate who has yet to hone their directorial and writing skills: the script is an embarrassment of dumb clichés that ends with the biggest and dumbest cliché of them all—it was all a dream; the performances are, for the most part, awful, with lead Cerina Vincent clearly cast for her impressive physical attributes rather than her acting skills; and the direction is a massive case of style over substance, Monroe employing irritating wobbly-cam and slo-mo, colour grading his film to within an inch of its life, and accompanying every scene with a soundtrack that is intended to convey pathos, but which only serves to irritate even further.
    • BA_Harrison
    • Feb 20, 2016
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    • Release date
      • February 16, 2013 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Hole in the Desert
    • Filming locations
      • Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
    • Production company
      • Hole In The Desert LLC
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 28 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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