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Gareth Edwards' upcoming film Monsters has me pretty excited, so I let out a little gasp today when I saw the trailer had dropped online. Could Monsters be this years District 9/Paranormal Activity Cinderella story? If the trailer is any indication the Magic 8-Ball says "Maybe".
The plot is as follows - from imdb.com
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 form began to appear and half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures"...... Our story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.
Sounds like a damn fun ride to me. Yet another upcoming piece of work that makes me think all is not lost in Cinemaland.
Check out the trailer below courtesy of IGN!
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 form began to appear and half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures"...... Our story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.
Sounds like a damn fun ride to me. Yet another upcoming piece of work that makes me think all is not lost in Cinemaland.
Check out the trailer below courtesy of IGN!
WHY do people still invoke Paranormal Activity ::blargh!!:: when trying to describe something cool? It really, really wasn't.
Especially when everything about this trailer screams The Mist.
You know what Marty? I TOTALLY AGREE. My point in the comparison was "could it be this years sensation out of left field." which Paranormal Activity certainly was. A runaway low budget hit. I'm not a big fan of the film at all personally (and my first home on the net is the site that broke the film Dread Central)
As for THE MIST though? Dude, I've gone on record saying that film should have garnered Oscar nominations (though imo Oscars are antiquated, at least artistically speaking) for many many things, including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, Best Screenplay...I've said it before and I'll scream it again -
THE MIST IS THE BEST HORROR FILM SINCE JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING and CRONENBERG'S THE FLY.
MEGA-CLASSIC.
Not hyerbole, I promise you this is my everyday attitude towards THE MIST. Brilliant.
This is a really good movie and while the trailer captures one aspect of it I really fear that the marketing of the film - from the title right on down - is leading to false expectations and that those expectations are going to leave the audience angry. This is much more a road movie than anything else and it certainly isn't "a new world of terror" as promised in this trailer. It's about humans coping with the arrival of aliens, not about the aliens itself, and the titular 'monsters' appear only in a VERY limited number of scenes. I really like the film but selling it as a full-bore creature feature is a mistake.
Awfully generic trailer.
Looks really good, albeit a similar approach to District 9 (at least from what I can see right now).