Monsters
After six years, they're no longer aliens. They're residents.
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Budget
$500 000
Box office
$5 639 730
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Director
Actors
Scoot McNairy, Whitney Able, Mario Zuniga Benavides, Annalee Jefferies, Justin Hall, Ricky Catter, Paul Archer, Kerry Valderrama, Jonathan Winnford, Stan Wong
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Camera operator
Composer
Jon Hopkins
Artist
Audition
Editing
Colin Goudie, Laura Andrews
Whole Team (59)
Whole Team (59)
Short description
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 forms 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," while a journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.
What's left behind the scenes
- According to the director, the film was shot over eight months by a team of six people traveling around South America in a minivan.
- The ruins and devastated city were filmed in a real city destroyed by a hurricane. To capture the aftermath of disasters, the director followed TV news – looking for reports of natural disasters.
- When a city recently devastated by a hurricane was found, Gareth Edwards doubted the correctness of his decision to film in the wake of the tragedy, but he instantly made the decision after being told that the filming, on the contrary, would be beneficial for the city, as it would bring at least some money into the budget to help those affected.
- The entire work on the film was a continuous improvisation. The main characters only knew the general outline of what would happen in each specific scene. They simply interacted with each other and with the rest of the creative team, many of whom were not even professional actors.
- The film was shot entirely on location, and often no one even bothered to obtain permission to do so. People who just happened to be in the right place at the time were cast in minor roles.
- The film was shot on a SONY EX-3 camera, with an adapter for Nikon lenses.
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