Aurora, played by the irresistible Sophie Sloan, is a no-nonsense, delightfully hard-boiled 8-year-old who knows the facts of life: There’s a monster under her floorboards who has eaten her parents more than once; if you want to live, you have to get around the house without touching the floor; and the neighbor down the hall in her impossibly ornate apartment building (think Tim Burton meets Wes Anderson) might be a guy who can hunt down that monster. That neighbor is played by Mads Mikkelsen, who insists that he doesn’t believe the whole monster story or consider himself an assassin for hire. But he does have a particular set of skills, and he is mixed up with some unsavory characters, not the least of them being Sigourney Weaver’s zestfully evil Laverne. Plus, he seems to feel guilty over the deaths of Aurora’s latest folks. So when she offers him $327.42 – which she acquired, she tells him without an ounce of shame, by robbing the collection plate at church – he takes the job of at least being her protector.-TheWrap