"MONSTERS" (2010) Directed by Gareth Edwards #monsters #horrorstories #movies
Reputedly costing under £500,000 to make with improvised dialogue from non-actors in impromptu scenes and special effects that were entirely devised and created in the bedroom of the Director, Monsters is the archetypal low budget film made good. As well as directing this low budget masterpiece, Gareth Edwards also wrote the screenplay, acted as his own Director of Photography, Production Designer and Visual Effects Supervisor and in the process, created a gem of a film. Dark and subliminal yet in spite of it’s imposing title, Monsters is in the main a surprisingly quiet and reflective film that plays against both it’s simple title and the monster movie genre, being more of a science fiction thriller than a horrifying monster film.
Despite the film’s title, Monsters is not ostensibly a film actually about monsters and aside from two particular scenes in near pitch black darkness it’s also not an especially scary or horrifying film, but this is not to decry or criticise the film in any way. Twisting a rather bad analogy the monsters themselves or “The Creatures” as they are more commonly known, are rather like the world’s most unruly children, heard rather than seen as they wreck their devastation on a monumental scale from city to city in the “infected zone” which splits the border between the United States of America and Mexico.
The above paragraphs are taken from my spoiler free review of "Monsters" which was originally penned and published some years ago, transferred to my Medium blog site on 2nd January 2023 and which can now be read in full and for free (please also consider subscribing for free too!) via my Substack blog site and original article linked immediately below:
https://ramblingmusings666.substack.com/p/monsters-2010-e6907f288c55
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