A new horror film debuts at the end of October titled Monsters. The film’s website describes the plot:
Six years ago previously, a NASA probe returning to earth with samples of an alien life form, crashed 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”… The story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.
The film draws upon various elements, including horror’s giant monster, alien invasion (most notably a variant on The Andromeda Strain or TAS meets Cloverfield), fear of contagion, fear of the breakdown of social order, reverse search for extraterrestrial intelligence (this time SETI comes looking for us, and not through radio waves and giant listening devices), and the increasingly popular postmodern apocalyptic. I am still skeptical about the quality of this film, but the website includes positive quotes from Aint’ It Cool News and Twitchfilm.com. These endorsements, combined with the quality of District 9, and the mixed reviews for Splice, provides reason for optimism for this horror-science fiction hybrid.
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