by Ryan Stewart
“Are we the monsters?”
– Gareth Edwards
David Spade once had a stand-up bit about how audiences shouldn’t have to cut a movie slack for having a low budget, since ticket prices are all the same. Monsters, a new indie sci-fi film made for $15,000 – less than Kevin Smith’s Clerks – passes the high-expectations test with flying colors.
Filmed on location in Central America and southern Mexico with two professional actors and a gaggle of amateurs, with willing locals filling out the rest of the roles, the film follows Andrew (Scoot McNairy), an American photographer stationed in Mexico to document the ‘creatures,’ a rampaging herd of mountain-sized, Lovecraftian aliens who came to our planet (in larval form) inside a returning space capsule we had sent to collect samples from Jupiter’s Europa moon. When Andrew is unexpectedly tasked with chaperoning Samantha (Whitney Able), his boss’s daughter, back across the massively fortified U.S. border, their journey threatens to take them right into the path of the creatures.
SuicideGirls recently spoke with special effects wizard turned writer/director Gareth Edwards about his impressive debut film.
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