A new, intriguing neighbour (Mads Mikkelson) moves in opposite and she follows him, witnessing him slay a monster in the form of a group of men piloting a Chinese dragon.
When her parents are finally eaten (the monster is very real), concluding he has been delivered by the wish, she steals money to hire him to slay the monster.
The neighbour is an elite hitman but very much doesn't believe in monsters other than human ones.
Bryan Fuller's fantastical mashup of fairytale and John Wick style hitman movie is a surprising gem.
The monster is real but so are the assassins trying to kill the concerned neighbour. It's high on quirkiness: Aurora's apartment is a floral wallpapered trinket box. Sigourney Weaver walks on high heels that are also revolvers, we've the most glamorously dressed FBI agent seen on screen in a while, brightly dressed singing nuns and there's a table lamp made as a chicken with a light bulb in its rear end.
There are touches of magical reality throughout: a rabbit dumpling squirms as it's being eaten and the monster surfaces through the parquet flooring like the shark in Jaws.
Nothing in this is profound and I can't imagine watching it again but while it was playing it completely had me 7/10.