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Title: | Monster |
Director: | Erik Estenberg |
Writers: | Erik Estenberg; David Michael Latt |
Producers: | David Rimawi; David Michael Latt |
Cinematography: | Sarah Lieving; Erin Sullivan |
Editors: | David Michael Latt; Matthew Thornbury |
Production | |
Distributed by: | The Asylum |
Released: | January 15th, 2008 January 18th, 2008 (Uncensored) [1] |
Rating: | Unrated |
Running time: | 86 min. |
Country: | USA |
Language: | English |
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Monster is an American science fiction/horror film directed by Erik Estenberg and produced by The Asylum. It is an intentional knockoff of the more popular creature feature Cloverfield, and was released direct-to-video (uncensored) on January 15th, 2008. The movie follows two young women who go to Tokyo, Japan on a journalism project relating to the failure of the Kyoto Accords. While there, a massive earthquake shakes the city and the two women struggle to survive as something emerges from the rubble to wreak even further destruction.
Cast[]
Actor | Role |
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Sarah Lieving | Sarah Lynch |
Erin Sullivan | Erin Lynch |
Justin L. Jones | Justin |
Kazuyuki Okada | Mizuchi |
Yoshi Ando | Hiro |
Jennifer Kim | Aiko |
Hiroshi Ueha | Japanese grandfather |
Akira Sato | Isao |
Kosei Seki | News crew |
Jason Williams | Soldier #1 |
Robert Chu | Soldier #2 |
Shinichiro Shimizu | Japanese reporter |
Chad Nell | American reporter |
Yosuke Hosoi | Cameraman |
Notes & Trivia[]
- The tagline for this film is "The truth will finally be told."
- Monster is patterned in the style of the 2008 movie Cloverfield.
- DVD features: 16.9 Widescreen Presentation, 5.1 Surround Sound, Making of Featurette, Bloopers, Trailers.
- Monster takes place in the year 2007.
- Despite the title of the film, the actual monster only appears on screen for a few seconds.
- Monster was actually filmed by the two main stars, Sarah Lieving and Erin Sullivan.
- The physical characteristics of the monster are not fully revealed, but it is clearly a cephalopod of some kind with numerous massive tentacles.
- The closing credits of the film provide an amusing take on a disclaimer standard; "The events, characters, and firms depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental (or is it? You be the judge.)"
- In the beginning of the film, one of the main characters mocks the infamous theme song from Steven Spielberg's Jaws, which was composed by John Williams.
Recommendations[]
External Links[]
- Monster at IMDB
- Monster at Wikipedia
- Monster at The Asylum
- Monster at Themoviedb.org
- Monster at Movies Made Me