Girl Vs. Monster
Tags: horror

Plot synopsis:
The movie begins on the day before Halloween with Skylar, a fearless 15-year-old teenager with a powerful singing voice, prepares for the ultimate Halloween bash with her best friends, Henry and Sadie. The plan is for Skylar to sing at the party, with rock band member Ryan Dean. Skylar is crushed when the next afternoon, her parents make her stay home and even activate an alarm system to keep her in. She attempts to sneak out of the house by cutting the power so the alarm system won't work. That unfortunately unleashes a monster named Deimata (that was contained in her parents' monster containment unit) who is determined to feed the fear on Skylar and her family forever. As Skylar’s world is turned upside down, she learns that her parents have been keeping a big secret – that she comes from a long line of monster hunters. She is the 5th generation. Now, it’s up to Skylar and her friends to channel their inner strength and conquer more than just this monster. Every person has their own personal monster, which feeds on their fear.
Now that Deimata is loose, Skylar experiences all the fear she never had before and tries to deny what is happening. She, Sadie and Henry go, armed with Skylar's parents' monster-hunting tools, to the party at the McQuarry Mansion. But Henry becomes frozen in fear, after being scared by his monster. Cobb, her parents' assistant, comes and takes him back home to fix him. Meanwhile, Deimata lures Skylar's parents into a trap by pretending that Skylar is in trouble. After this, Myra, Skylar's rival, who is at home with a broken neck, is eating ice cream. Soon, the red smoke comes out and it transforms into Deimata. She then controls Myra and goes to the party where she publicly insults Skylar of being nervous to sing at Ryan's party and Sadie comforts Skylar after she runs out, embarrassed. A possessed Myra sings in Skylar's place and turns to Theodosia and Bob (Sadie and Henry's monsters). Myra falls downstairs after Deimata leaves Myra's body as Skylar and Sadie find her. Myra informs them about Deimata and how she can possess people- like she did with her. Skylar thanks her, and she and Sadie rush to save the people upstairs.
During a confrontation with his personal monster, a fixed and armed Henry learns that letting go of his fears will cause the monsters to disintegrate into nothing. He goes to the mansion to inform Skylar of this. So, she grabs the microphone and tells Ryan to grab his guitar and meet her outside. But, Deimata possesses Ryan to better discourage Skylar from facing her fears, but he manages to break free by facing his greatest fear: asking Skylar out. Skylar faces her fears and sings in front of everybody, while Ryan and his band performs as well. While Skylar sings, all the monsters vanish and Sadie also gathers the courage to stand up to Theodosia by spelling things she couldn't when she was a little girl. When all the monsters are all vanquished, Deimata comes and reveals she cannot be destroyed that way. She then reminds Skylar that she still has Skylar's parents in captivity, and Skylar rushes off to find them, with Sadie and Henry following behind with everybody especially Ryan and Myra watches them from a distance.
Skylar and her friends try to fight off Deimata, but she doesn't seem able to be stopped. Although Skylar has overcome her fear, she soon realizes Deimata is still feeding off of her parents' fears—about Skylar's safety. Once Skylar gets her parents to trust her, Deimata is weakened and the three friends defeat her and capture her. At the end of the movie, Henry and Sadie are shown having no fear by doing what they are scared about doing the most. Later that day, Skylar and Ryan sing at Ryan's party in his basement. Myra becomes friends with Skylar. However, in a post-credits scene, Deimata blows on the glass in the hunting unit, cracking it and we hear it break as Deimata's laugh is heard one last time, hinting at a sequel.

Review: gag me with a spoon.
The kindest thing you could say about this mess is that the budget was too low so they had to take shortcuts.Unfortunately if you read the credits you will see that this is a 100% Disney Channel product, so you had one of the greatest and most powerful corporations on the planet behind this film, so you can't merely blame the budget.You can however blame some overpaid Disney exec blueskying with his team, saying something like "Halloween is upcoming and everyone knows we OWN that franchise but ever since High School Musical, we also have a musical franchise, so let's kill two birds with one stone and do both at the same time.
Now, where do we go for lunch today?" This kind of thinking led to the creation of the SPORK.Nothing is right here -- the writing, the acting, the special effects, the excessive use of colored smoke, easily one of the worst Disney productions of all time..
When Olivia discovers their roots.
The Magic Kingdom came up short with this made for TV movie designed to showcase the talents of Olivia Holt and Luke Benward.
Monster if you're over the age of 12 will have you laughing in all the wrong places.Not that Benward and Holt are bad, in fact they make this somewhat tolerable.
Their best moments are in the musical interludes.
There should have been more of them.Young Olivia typical teen with strict parents wants to go to a Halloween Party real bad, but she's got a curfew.
The parents have reason to worry about her though.
Unbeknownst to their daughter, they're professional monster hunters with equipment that the Ghostbusters got rid of of in a garage sale.
When some monsters get loose on Halloween that's when Olivia discovers her roots.Now maybe if the folks who made Ghostbusters did this one it might have been a whole lot better.
Girl vs.
Girl vs.
Monster is not the best product out of the Magic Kingdom..
Pleasing and enjoyable children's horror/comedy fare.
Trying to keep a rival from her crush, a teen's attempt to sneak out to a party frees the captured monster spirits collected by her monster-hunter parents and must round them up before they overtake the town during the Halloween party.This here managed to be a pretty enjoyable and entertaining children's horror effort that has a lot going for it.
By starting off with all the usual teen drama over the wishful relationship, the friendships between each other and their ability to almost be superheroes by accomplishing anything no matter the situation or solution presented gives this a rather easy integration into the horror scenes, watered-down as they are for such a release format as this one has, that come later on.
Those aren't bad, with a creepy graveyard stalking, a rather enjoyable confrontation in the woods between the group and a pretty creepy creature as well as a rousing hunt for the creatures inside the mansion party when they get released and begin wreaking havoc with the guests, only to be saved by another dose of the super-teen lifestyle mentioned earlier.
It's also got a lot of good by showcasing the monsters mostly as practical effects instead of CGI only for minimal use, plus it has a lot in the overcoming of your fears which is a good message to spread and does nicely in managing to mix the two genres together nicely.
As usual, the comedy's hit-or-miss but it's not enough to hurt it much overall for the lame joke or pratfall doesn't hurt it as much as it could have.Rated Unrated/PG: Mild Violence..
Not Worth Your Time At All. Okay, I think Disney Channel Original Movies are enjoyable but this has been the worst year for Disney Channel movies.
"Let It Shine" was unwatchable, this one is another example, and "Frenemies" was somewhat enjoyable but still not very good but unfortunately the best DCOM of 2012.
Olivia Holt is pretty and talented and I like her in "Kickin It" but holy CRAP...
why did she have to make this movie at all?.
Olivia Holt is decent here as well as Luke Benward (good to see him again since I haven't seen him since "Minutemen"(AWESOME Disney Channel movie) and "Mostly Ghostly"(decently enjoyable movie)) but man he looks different.
The acting except for Olivia Holt and Luke Benward which was overall not too bad but nothing spectacular was just HORRENDOUS...
it's so bad, cheesy, and puke-worthy that it's not even funny.
Good thing this movie didn't release in theaters because it would've been the biggest failure at the box office.
Some of the mild sci-fi action was somewhat cool but it's hard to enjoy the film 1000 times more when it has acting that makes you wanna jump off a cliff, humor that is so horrible and so cheesy that you wanna knock yourself into a coma, and a storyline that could have potential to be good but had so many damn wrong things with it.
Also, just like most of the Disney Channel movies...
there is actually singing like what the hell???
NOT every movie should be singing, singing, singing, just because it's on Disney Channel.
:/ It's predictable and they even made a good message about fear so unbelievably sloppy that it tastes like soiled and expired milk.
I don't want to be harsh with this film considering the fact it's NOT a movie in theaters and a movie on television but we wanna a fun treat and this was most definitely NOT a fun treat.
It's a stupid, predictable, atrocious piece of crap that you need to stay away from.
Even though "Frenemies" was mediocre and not all that good, it definitely ain't bad and I rather watch that movie again then this film because at least that film had some kind of enjoyment.
Just please everyone reading this review, watch any other Disney Channel Original Movie...
just stay away from "Girl Vs. Monster", I'm begging you.
Loved This..
This came out when I was 10 and I loved it so much, I am going to go re-watch it asap just for some memories of childhood.
I would recommend this title to anyone who had children that are into defeating monsters or who are excited by futuristic devices, as this will fulfill their imagination as it definitely did to me.
I loved this movie!.
Girl Vs monster, Olivia Holt?
It's as if she herself wrote this movie just so she can get all of the attention..
I hate this movie SO much.
Olivia Holt doesn't deserve to be where she is at.
There are so many nicer and more talented people in the world.
Why did you have to choose her?
This movie makes her look like she is put over all the other characters: Oh, she gets the boys, she's pretty, she can sing, and she is not afraid of monsters.
No girl is perfect like this.
This movie is making guys think that there is going to be someone just like Olive Holt out there, but nobody is really that perfect.
It makes girls feel bad about themselves who don't have as good as a life as Skylar in this movie.
Some people out there have been so nice, but they get stepped on all over because they are shy and will always let the bratty people get their way.
This movie shows like it is SUPPOSED to be good to put the outgoing people over everyone else.
Some people have been so nice and talented their entire lives, but just because they are shy they don't get anything in return?
This is horrible.
Please don't watch this.
Please don't watch this.
I am sorry but Skylar or Olivia Holt just don't deserve anything.
Some people are shy in this world and have a fear they will never get a boy.
This is ridiculous..
Fun. This movie is enjoyable they should make more movies why do you people hate it?
Come on!
It's one of the best movies I ever saw My favorite part was when Deimata as that girl went on stage and started singing strangely, that is what you call a movie obviously you people have no good taste in movies whoever criticized the movie it's better than any horror movie and I hated them movies called scary movies 1,2,3,4,and 5 I actually watched a few of them on T.V and I wasn't scared!
plus Deimata was really scary looking when the first preview came out last year I was optimistic about it and think it was going to be great I was right It was great it should be the Highest rated movie on Disney channel all the other movies as of the 2010's were HORRIBLE!
but I liked the camp rock movies,I really hated teen beach movie,High school musical was good but it wasn't great,Olivia Holt does a good job acting and singing not like actors in other movies compared to her so what are you complaining about?.
a neat concept ruined by the everything else.
The idea that underlies this movie is pretty good if unoriginal but literally everything gets in the way of it especially the TERRIBLE music.
Disney showcase movie.
Skylar Lewis (Olivia Holt) comes from a family of monster hunters and she doesn't know it.
Her parents keeps her home for Halloween but she decides to cut the power to the home alarm.
The problem is that power is also cut from the containment vessel and various monsters are released.
Family friend Cobb reveals the family secret.
With her scared friends Henry and Sadie, she must recapture Deimata who intends to possess her.This Disney movie is a showcase for some of its young stars and is aimed for their young fans.
It's inferior in many ways.
The writing, the adult actors, the special effects, and the plotting are all second rate in one way or another.
Mostly, this relies on the movie's young stars.
Olivia Holt is definitely a beauty although she may be better off playing the mean girl.
Kerris Dorsey plays the best friend and she may have better dorky innocence to accentuate the leading role.
Why not have the mean girl and the sweet girl team up to defeat the monsters?
The plot doesn't really make any sense.
I don't know why she would go to the party except that it needs to manufacture the situation.
It does have the central premise about fear which is very appealing.
One must grade on a curve for these kinds of movies..
Doesn't Really Have Any Monsters.
The pattern I find with a lot of these Disney Channel movies (and shows) is that they usually have a charismatic, talented performer to build around, but the writing is incredibly flimsy.
In this case, Olivia Holt's performance wasn't enough to redeem the terrible choices the filmmakers made.
Although my elementary age daughter enjoyed it, I had a big problem in that there were almost NO monsters.
The title made me think it was going to be like an episode of Buffy with all different kinds of monsters coming at her.
Then, the design and costuming of the three villains was so underwhelming that they alone pretty much sucked any interest out for me.
Also, you get a lame reworking of Ghostbusters for a story, and some really dismal performances.
Sometimes, in spite of these shortcomings, Disney's made for TV movies still somehow turn out to be watchable and fun.
I didn't think so this time.
It's too bad, because they have some talented kids on their roster, but they don't put nearly as much care into these quickly made productions as they do their theatrical features.
These could do better if they really wanted to..
TOO GHOUL FOR SCHOOL.
Fifteen year old Sklar (Olivia Holt) is fearless.
She can jump high and lip sync.
It is Halloween and her parents are "ghost busters" trapping projections of our fears.
On Halloween, Skylar, not knowing what her dad does in the basement, lets the things loose.
Now with the aid of other clean faced teens, she must re-capture them ghost busters style and face her fear.The film is for kids.
The vocals are overly cut and it appears no one actually sings or plays their instruments...like Monkees on steroids.
The cemetery is clearly a stage set.I can easily see how young girls 5-15 may love this film, but as an adult I couldn't get into it..
Spoilers:This may contain spoilers and Loved It..
Spoiler alert: This comment may contain spoilers, and I loved this movie and Honestly i loved everything about this movie, the acting, the singing, the choreography, everything, nothing is out of place, but then again, here is a message to you haters out there: Have you ever seen a 600lb woman get her own movie or TV series or TV movie(Beside the tlc program, my 600lb life)?
Well, Have you????!!!, Well, no, no you don't and remember these children, grew up somewhat in the spotlight and also in California, where there are more health stores like organic health store, for me, my organic health store is called EarthFare and they have a plethora of organic products.
And I shop there every once in a blue moon, because when you eat healthy, you are supposed to BM 3 to 10 times a day while the unhealthy ones BM once a day and BM stands for Bowel Movement and now about the movie itself, the singing, was perfect and I liked the story line, for some odd reason this skylar teens had overprotective parents which I can relate to, because my mom is that same kind of overprotective or at least close to it.
and I can of like the alarm thing and the reason why skylar was always fearless, was because, well her own monster was contained in a containment unit either her parents built or the ghostbusters built either way once skylar's monster was released just because she sneaked out by turning off the alarm which powered the containment unit, skylar starts to experience true fear after 15 yrs of being fearless.
she was fearless(meaning having never to experienced fear until that fateful night).
until her monster was released thanks to her sneaking out.
by cutting the power off to the alarm.