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Monster
Monster (2008)
Credits
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
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.

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