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Monster video shoot

·The film’s special effects budget was only $15,000.

·The film has two shooting crews, using ordinary-level cameras, editing machines and other machines that can be bought directly in the mall.

·The entire film was shot in real locations, and all scenes in the film are real. Generally, the location is used without consent or with prior consent. Except for the male and female protagonists, the other actors are all local people who happened to appear during the filming. Among them is the station conductor in one scene. His true identity is the station conductor.

·The film was shot with hundreds of hours of footage. The director’s first edited version was 4 and a half hours long, and was finally condensed into 90 minutes. However, the director still believed that there were many things that could be added. in.

·This sci-fi thriller premiered at the 2010 SXSW Film Festival, triggering widespread response and discussion. The well-known film review website AICN even hailed the film as 'the best monster disaster movie in recent years'.

The low-cost science fiction film "Monster" produced by British company Vertigo Films has released the American version poster and trailer. Although there have been precedents such as "Cloverfield" and "District 9", the film was still well received after its debut at many film festivals such as Locarno, Switzerland, and was praised as a "original monster movie" . Compared with the road movie temperament shown in the British version of the trailer previously exposed at Comic-Con, this American version of the trailer focuses more on documentary style and monster scenes. However, the monsters in the film still do not appear in full shape, but only reveal a huge of tentacles.

"Monster" is produced by the British Vertigo Film Company, written and directed by Gareth Edwards. The film only has two main actors, the man and the woman on the poster. The story tells that a NASA probe that collected alien life species crashed in Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear, and half of Mexico was classified as an infected zone and quarantined. Until now, the U.S. and Mexican military have tried to control these "new species"... Against this background, an American reporter escorted a frightened American tourist back to the United States across the entire infected area of ??Mexico... This The film is also listed in the romance category on IMDB. It can be seen that the emotional drama between the male and female protagonists is also another main line of the film. In this trailer, you can see the scene where the two are about to kiss.

"Monster" will be released first in the United States on October 29, 2010, and in the United Kingdom on November 12, 2010. What is slightly surprising is that the film was rated R in the United States.