Monsters (Special Edition) (2-DVD) R
After Six Years, They're No Longer Aliens. They're Residents
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 34 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 1, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Magnolia Home Ent
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Scoot McNairy & Whitney Able | |
Directed by | Gareth Edwards | |
Screenwriting by | Gareth Edwards | |
Composition by | Jon Hopkins | |
Director of Photography: | Gareth Edwards |
Entertainment Reviews:
5 stars out of 5 -- Edwards creatures are astonishingly rendered: pylon-sized hybrids of octopus, giraffe and jellyfish, balletically staking through the night, their bioluminescent tentacles seemingly as capable of tenderness as they are devastation. They are perfectly alien...
Empire
Rating: 4/5 --
This is a very postmodern sci-fi, with its downbeat approach to the monsters themselves, but with a hugely involving love story.
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Guardian
Rating: 2.5/4 --
A better-than-average debut by a filmmaker who merits watching. Let's hope that he keeps some of his indie spirit when Hollywood comes calling.
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Toronto Star
The most interesting thing here is the budget.
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Newark Star-Ledger
What starts as a great B-movie premise, unfortunately, degenerates into clueless moralism.
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io9.com
5 stars out of 5 -- [Y]ou'll leave with no doubt of Edwards' capacity for empathy. He proves his stones as a showman too.
Total Film
A special, wonderfully atmospheric achievement.
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The Spectator
Product Description:
Two people who barely know one another are thrown into otherworldly danger in this independent thriller. Andrew Kaulder (Scoot McNairy) is an American photojournalist on assignment in Mexico at a time when working there has become unusually dangerous -- after a NASA space probe crash-landed not far from the American border, alien creatures that made their way into the satellite were released, and have since thrived in Northern Mexico. Now the area is regarded as an "infected zone," where the aliens (who resemble giant squids) have been contained but move about freely, sometimes attacking humans who cross their paths. While working on a project, Kaulder's publisher contacts him to ask a big favor; his daughter Samantha (Whitney Able) has been traveling outside the United States, and would appreciate an escort from Southern Mexico to California. Not wanting to anger his boss, Kaulder agrees and books passage on a ferry that travels through a safe zone. But bad timing, bad luck, and some foolish choices by Kaulder prevent him and Samantha from catching the ship, and now they have to travel through alien territory with the help of some armed guards, hoping to avoid contact with the bloodthirsty creatures. MONSTERS was the first feature film from special effects artist-turned-director Gareth Edwards.
Keywords:
Aliens
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Disaster
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Monsters
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Post-Apocalypse
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Science-Fiction
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Self-Discovery
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Mexico
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Extraterrestrials
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NASA
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America
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Alien Life Forms
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- Sales Rank: 39,584
- UPC: 876964003957
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