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I, For One, Welcome Our New Tentacled Overlords

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (17)

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There are few movies I’m more excited for than Gareth Edwards’ Monsters. Allegedly made for a mere $15,000, it’s got a District 9-esque buzz going for it. The word is that it’s a character driven sci-fi film with a brilliant story and effects that look way more impressive than their budget would indicate.

Slashfilm has the following synopsis:


Shot with just a five person crew and a cast of two, Gareth Edwards’ team traveled through Guatemala, Belize and Mexico, finding and utilizing their locations and supporting actors as they went. The result is a film as cutting edge as it is classically composed, as emotionally satisfying as it is visually stunning, and the bold announcement of a major new talent.

Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and grow. In an effort to stem the destruction that resulted, half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain the massive creatures… Our story begins when a jaded US journalist (Scoot McNairy) begrudgingly agrees to find his bosses daughter, a shaken American tourist (Whitney Able) and escort her through the infected zone to the safety of the US border.

We showed you a brief, but intriguing clip back in March, that successfully caught my attention. The trailer plays up the action aspects of it a bit more, which is a bit of a marketing ploy — from what I hear it’s less kablooey and kablam, and more of a thoughtful picture. That’s OK, if it gets people in the seats. Anyway, here’s the trailer. I will ask this — if you are fortunate to have seen the film already, please do not post spoilers without seriously warning others. Or else I’ll beat you to death.

Thanks.

Monsters will be released on October. All we know about the creatures is that they’re large, dangerous, and tentacled. Octopus-like. Powerful. Godlike? Perhaps.

I’m just sayin’…









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Comments

The monsters sound, dare I say it? Moist.

Posted by: BWeaves at July 26, 2010 9:22 AM

I wants it. I wants it now!

Moist indeed.

Posted by: admin at July 26, 2010 10:13 AM

hee! i would like to LIKE berna's comment. i wish pajiba was more like facebook.

also, why don't they just get in a plane and fly over/around the quarantine zone? why do they need to drive THROUGH it. (dumbasses)

but of course, i'll be seeing it.

Posted by: gp at July 26, 2010 10:15 AM

Cthulhu's Star Spawn have arrived!

Posted by: Adam C. at July 26, 2010 10:18 AM

That looks awesome. Kind of reminds me of The Mist a little bit, just at a glance.

Posted by: Whorish Mouth at July 26, 2010 10:29 AM

What admin said.

Except, not so much moist, but engorged, rather.

Posted by: Rykker at July 26, 2010 10:30 AM

Shot with just a five person crew and a cast of two, Gareth Edwards’ team traveled through Guatemala, Belize and Mexico, finding and utilizing their locations and supporting actors as they went.
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I call bullshit on the $15,000 thing. If the team got shot with actual human beings (out of a cannon, one presumes), then the emergency room bills alone should have exceeded $15 large, even in Guatemala, Belize and Mexico.

Posted by: , at July 26, 2010 10:54 AM

i wish pajiba was more like facebook.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo {falls to knees, shakes fist at sky}

I call bullshit on the $15,000 thing. If the team got shot with actual human beings (out of a cannon, one presumes), then the emergency room bills alone should have exceeded $15 large, even in Guatemala, Belize and Mexico.

Agreed. I might, MIGHT, believe $150,000. I mean, I have no idea what "scale" for actors is these days, but even paying those two actors scale for as many days as it took to shoot would eat into $15,000 substantially. Even buying those two actors, the director, and five crew members tacos at a taco stand in Belize every day for two weeks would eat into $15,000. Does this $15,000 include seven plane tickets to Guatemala?

But enough with my kvetching. It looks AWESOME and I can't wait.

Posted by: MM at July 26, 2010 11:20 AM

international shooting and CGI sounds more like 15 million, which is considered cheap nowadays.

Posted by: idleprimate at July 26, 2010 11:28 AM

Why is it that no one is interested in the budget for a film other than one if it was really inexpensive (Paranormal Activity) or extremely expensive (Avatar)?

Posted by: Dangerous Dave at July 26, 2010 11:32 AM

Because, Dangerous Dave, we wonder how much money they blow on overpriced pieces of shit and how much money they save on films that are actually good.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at July 26, 2010 11:46 AM

Soon after, new life forms began to appear and grow.

So...it's like Evolution?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251075/

Posted by: coryo at July 26, 2010 1:26 PM

Sorta like Mist without the extra dimensions and the little kid to shoot in the head in the end?

Posted by: OlorinGrayhame at July 26, 2010 2:04 PM

5-6 years ago, I worked as a makeup artist on student and ultra low budget films. Until I decided that the hours sucked and I hate actors and would prefer to work on a canvas that can't talk back. Scoot McNairy was one of the few actors I worked with that was smart, funny, talented, considerate, and I'm happy to see him getting a lot of work. Plus, his name is awesome.

Posted by: Laura at July 26, 2010 2:26 PM

I mean, I have no idea what "scale" for actors is these days, but even paying those two actors scale for as many days as it took

Quite some years ago it was $1500 an hour for anyone with spoken lines. Now, the actors may have agreed to other compensation, basically deferring the cost. With the disproportionate attention "cheap" movies get these days, I wouldn't be surprised if many of them weren't using Hollywood accounting shenanigans to reduce their up front production cost as much as possible.

-Frob

Posted by: frobme at July 26, 2010 3:29 PM

GODTOPUS HAS COME TO EARTH!! RUN!!

Posted by: Uriah Creep at July 26, 2010 9:10 PM

I'm very intrigued by this. If it's as character-driven as all that, I'm very much in. It annoys me to see "genre" works rely on set-pieces and whatnot instead of great writing and acting. This looks very refreshing.

Posted by: Sassafrass Green at July 26, 2010 11:23 PM