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Monster

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A giant octopus awakens underneath Tokyo and uses the city as a feeding ground.

Critics Reviews

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Stanley Kauffmann The New Republic So intense is Theron's acting that she changes the film itself. From the start her performance is pungent, but we feel at first-about the picture as a whole-a sense of reportage. Jan 5, 2018 Full Review David Cornelius eFilmCritic.com A fine start does not help Monster stay afloat, and the movie ends as just another stinky little rip-off. Rated: 2/5 Feb 11, 2008 Full Review Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed I laughed, I cried, I think I even held a razor to my wrist at one point... Rated: 0.5/4 Jan 21, 2008 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Couldn't finish it. A monotone of similar 'documentary' style broken up pieces of footage where the characters repeated the same or similar lines over and over again. Extremely annoying to watch. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Holy crap this sucked. The best part was the first 10 minutes of the two sisters traveling to Japan from LAX. This was chock-full of terrible acting and writing. These ladies experience an "earthquake" while filming an interview with some Jap about global warming and the Kyoto Protocol. They start to believe it was a terrorist act, only to change their collective mind after glimpses of humongous tentacles. Made by Asylum to capitalize on the awesome "Cloverfield". I guess its supposed to be a kaiju film despite the lack of a visual monster. Poop. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member "Cloverfield" styled junk. Poorly acted and rather boring. The actresses would have wounds in one scene and they would magically disappear in the next scene. The sounds of the monster was nothing original and the monster is just not that terrifying Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Audience Member Its low budget but there are a few moments when I found the hair on my arms standing on end. Not from any of the monster shots but the moments when the girls learn what's really tearing the city apart. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/28/23 Full Review Audience Member It's not that bad. I like Cloverfield more. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Obligatory rip-off of Cloverfield by Asylum who brought you alot of other rip offs collecting dust on the shelves at your local video store: Transmorphers, Alien Vs Hunter, I Am Omega and most recently, Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls. Two sisters travel to Japan to make a documentary on global warming when an octopus monster (I think. It's never really seen.) shows up and tears up Japan. Not surprisingly it's not any good and it even gives Sci-Fi channel movies a run for their money. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A giant octopus awakens underneath Tokyo and uses the city as a feeding ground.
Director
Eric Forsberg
Producer
David Michael Latt
Screenwriter
Eric Forsberg, David Michael Latt
Production Co
The Asylum
Genre
Action, Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
May 23, 2019
Runtime
1h 26m