![]() What it does have is a number of scenes that quote other films. On the other hand, less than the tongue-in-cheek tone we would recognise from the modern monster parody, it feels more like a film with an absurd premise that is otherwise taking itself seriously. Monster in the Closet may have been intended as a movie parody. Monster in the Closet came out not long after Joe Dante made The Howling (1981) and amid the era of other genre parodies such as Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978), Big Meat Eater (1982), Night of the Creeps (1986), Earth Girls Are Easy (1989) and Lobster Man from Mars (1989) where the tongue-in-cheek monster movie – one that spoofed and made references to films of the past as well as featured cameos from actors from these films – became almost a genre unto itself for a time. Monster in the Closet was picked up for distribution by Troma where it gained a modest almost culty reputation for a time. Dahlin has a film career stretching between the 1970s and the present where he has worked as a second unit and assistant director with credits on films such as Damien: Omen II (1978), And Justice for All (1979) and Popeye (1980), among many others. ![]() Monster in the Closet was the only film ever directed by Bob Dahlin.
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