monsters

30 Aug

Doctor Who’s Weeping Angels Are Perfect Horror Monsters But Are They Returning Villains?

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Have you heard? If not, let Steven Moffat be the first to tell you: Whittaker’s Doctor is “going to fight THE WEEPING ANGELS!!”  Moffat, who invented the Weeping Angels, has every right to be proud of his creation. Few would dispute that the Weeping Angels are NuWho’s break-out monster. In a 2020 poll of scariest Who monsters of all time, the angels ran away with the vote. Modern viewers might not retreat behind the sofa anymore when the Daleks roll in, but “Blink” had people giving cemetery statues a nervous second look. There’s a delicious fright to the idea that an innocent…

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16 Aug

This Week In Trailers: Midway, Little Monsters, And TIFF Favorites

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18 May

Doctor Who: Which Monsters Will Return in Series 13?

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Spoilers: contains reference to unofficial series 13 filming photography Doctor Who began life as a time-travelling sci-fi show with a historical bias and an educational bent. One thing – or, rather, one race – changed all of that: The Daleks. Those oppressive pepper pots gave the public a taste for the fearsome, the far-off and the fantastic, and the following five decades would be stacked with all sorts of aliens and monsters, from the sub-slime to the Drashig-ulous, and everything in between. A new showrunner always wants to put their stamp on the series, but if novelty is vital to…

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06 May

15 Best Resident Evil Bosses and Monsters Ranked

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You don’t go 25 years with a name like Resident Evil without introducing a good mix of macabre monsters primed to haunt the nightmares of players everywhere. At their best, these frightening beasties make you want to run away and hide, challenging you to use your limited resources wisely while trying to survive the night. Even at their worst, any Resident Evil monster worth its weight in viscera will still have you gawping at just how disgusting it appears. Eugh! With the release of Resident Evil Village and the arrival of nine-foot-tall vampire Lady Dimitrescu, we thought it worth ranking…

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23 Apr

Love and Monsters: How a Robot and a Dog Became the Heart of Netflix’s Apocalyptic Romp

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Isolated groups of people hide out underground for years after a monster-apocalypse wiped out 90% of the earth’s population in the latest buzzy movie to arrive on Netflix, Love and Monsters. Though the title and synopsis lean toward light-hearted comedy, this movie from director Michael Matthews, which is nominated for an Oscar for best VFX in this year’s awards, is actually a lot more nuanced than that. And while there are some utterly wonderful monsters (giant frog is a personal favourite, though the crab monster also delivers…), and an exploration of themes of love – the key centrepiece scene of…

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02 Apr

MonsterVerse Movies Ranked: From Godzilla vs. Kong to King of the Monsters

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When Hollywood’s history in the 2010s is written, it will be called the era of the big, extravagant shared universes. There were superheroes, yes, from Marvel Studios to DC Films; but there was also the failure to launch the Universal Monsters into the “Dark Universe,” and Star Wars going to TV. And then there was the MonsterVerse. Pound for pound, there was nothing bigger in scale (particularly when it came to protagonists’ height) than this Americanized vision of the kaiju. It’s the wild concept that brought Godzilla back to the West and put him in a death match with King…

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31 Mar

Were Rampage’s Monsters Really Based on King Kong, Godzilla, and The Wolf Man?

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If the release of Godzilla vs. Kong has you feeling nostalgic for the golden age of giant monsters, you’re not alone. There was a time when it felt like giant monsters ruled TVs and theater screens everywhere. They were even prominently featured in one of the most beloved arcade games of the 1980s: 1986’s “smash-em-up” Rampage. Actually, there were quite a few years after Rampage‘s release when it remained one of the best ways to live out your giant monster fantasies. Later games would more fully realize the “destroy everything” philosophy that Rampage was built on, but it took a…

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30 Mar

Godzilla vs. Kong: How Junkie XL Found New Themes for Monsters’ Soundtrack

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Godzilla and King Kong are not characters one approaches lightly. As two of the most iconic monsters in cinema, the big ape and even bigger lizard carry plenty of history on their shoulders as they march into Godzilla vs. Kong, the new monster mash-up from Warner Bros. and HBO Max. Composer Tom Holkenborg (aka Junkie XL) is of course keenly aware of this since he had the task of updating their sounds for 2021. Holkenborg, a lifelong aficionado of nearly every style of music, cites the composer for the original King Kong (1933), Max Steiner, as a personal inspiration and…

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15 Mar

Monster Madness: Vote for Your Favorite Monsters

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Every season is monster season in our hearts. But this March is a particularly good time to celebrate our enormous, scaly, and/or hairy friends. In the film world, the long-awaited Godzilla v. Kong arrives on March 31. Meanwhile on television, the final season of behemoth anime Attack on Titan is in the midst of its final season right now. Given that many of us are already primed for bracketology in March, we decided to create a bracket of our 32 favorite monsters for you, the monster-lover, to vote on.  In honor of Godzilla, Kong, and Attack on Titan’s many titans,…

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24 Jan

Camp Cretaceous Reveals the Real Monsters of Jurassic World

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This article contains spoilers for Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous season 2 and the Jurassic franchise at large. Our first introduction to Jurassic Park and its dinosaurs is on a dark and misty night, Men wait with guns as the crane crashes through the forest carrying a Velociraptor we are only allowed glimpses of. Tension hangs in the air. When she tries to escape, there are cries of “Shoot her! Shoot her!” The raptor attacks, and rest in peace Jophery, first victim of the monster. If this scene tells us anything, it is that we are undoubtedly watching a monster movie.…

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19 Oct

Meet the Monsters of Lovecraft Country

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The finale of Lovecraft Country landed last night with a roar marking a closer to one of the most exciting, intelligent horror series around. As well as the characters, the settings, the history, politics and winding plot some of the biggest delights of the show are the monsters and monstrous effects within the show. UK FX house Framestore worked across the whole of the show in different capacities, including creating early concept art of some of the show’s key episodes. “You start with mood boards and it gives the director or the production designer a very clear idea of the…

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16 Oct

Love and Monsters

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Seven years after the Monsterpocalypse, Joel Dawson (Dylan O'Brien), along with the rest of humanity, has been living underground ever since giant creatures took control of the land. After reconnecting over radio with his high school girlfriend Aimee (Jessica Henwick), who is now 80 miles away at a coastal colony, Joel begins to fall for her again. As Joel realizes that there's nothing left for him underground, he decides against all logic to venture out to Aimee, despite all the dangerous monsters that stand in his way. Rated: PG-13Release Date: Oct 16, 2020

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14 Oct

Monster Hunter Movie Trailer Focuses on Monsters vs. Military Action

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The official trailer for the Monster Hunter movie has finally been revealed and it is…something. This Capcom adaptation is sure to turn some heads. Check out the trailer for yourself: “Behind our world, there is another: a world of dangerous and powerful monsters that rule their domain with deadly ferocity,” reads a description of the upcoming film. “When an unexpected sandstorm transports Captain Artemis (Milla Jovovich) and her unit (TI Harris, Meagan Good, Diego Boneta) to a new world, the soldiers are shocked to discover that this hostile and unknown environment is home to enormous and terrifying monsters immune to…

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15 Sep

Love and Monsters Trailer Has Dylan O’Brien and Jessica Henwick in an Apocalyptic Romance

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Love and Monsters, another would-be blockbuster that’s bypassing theaters for VOD, is arriving at your home quite soon, as evidenced by the release of the film’s first trailer. If there’s one thing that the often-visited genre of post-apocalyptic sci-fi cinema needs, it’s a wholesome romance between two young star-crossed lovers. Someone at Paramount realized this, and, this past October, quickly went into development on the project in question, tapping headliners in Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner) and Jessica Henwick (Iron Fist). Michael Matthews directed the picture, having come off his feature debut, the 2017 South African western-style thriller, Five Fingers…

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15 Sep

Ubisoft May Have Changed Gods and Monsters Name Due to Monster Energy Legal Challenge

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Legal documents suggest that Ubisoft may have been inspired to change the name of Gods and Monsters to Immortals: Fenyx Rising due partially to a copyright challenge by Monster Energy. The legal documents (which were reported on by Techraptor and covered extensively by the Hoeg Law YouTube channel) are quite amusing if you’re into sly accusations made via dry legal smack talk. Basically, the Monster Energy corporation states that a game called Gods and Monsters could potentially conflict with the recognizably of their brand and create confusion. They even note that because the Monster Energy brand is so well-known in…

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20 Jun

Jason Blum: No Plans To Restart Universal Monsters Universe

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It seems like an eternity ago — but it’s only been three years — that Universal Studios’ proposed “Dark Universe” collapsed after its disastrous debut with The Mummy. A proposed slate of interconnected films featuring Javier Bardem as Frankenstein’s monster, Johnny Depp as The Invisible Man, Russell Crowe as Dr. Jekyll (not originally a Universal property, but whatever) and even Angelina Jolie as the Bride of Frankenstein was quietly entombed in the studio’s development crypt after The Mummy unraveled like a…you get the idea. Flash forward to 2020 and Universal took a tentative step back into the monster pool this…

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04 Mar

Universal Monsters: The Invisible Man Shows Life After Dark Universe Death

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Over the last weekend, an eerie thing happened at the box office: Leigh Whannell and Blumhouse Productions’ The Invisible Man brought the Universal Monsters legacy back with a vengeance. Over-performing with a monstrous box office bow of $29 million in the U.S. alone, the horror reimagining of the H.G. Wells novel (and James Whale’s 1933 film) more than quadrupled its $7 million budget in only three days. This is of course good news about a good horror movie, one of the best in a while with its panic attack-inducing allegory about a woman being gaslighted by an abusive ex. But…

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08 Oct

Little Monsters

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Dave (Alexander England), a washed-up musician, volunteers to chaperone his nephew’s kindergarten field trip after taking a shine to the plucky schoolteacher, Miss Caroline (Lupita Nyong'o). Dave’s intentions are complicated by the presence of world-famous child entertainer and competitor for Miss Caroline’s affections, Teddy McGiggle (Josh Gad). One thing none of them bargained for, however, is a sudden zombie outbreak, from which Dave and Miss Caroline must protect the children.Rated: RRelease Date: Oct 08, 2019

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28 May

Godzilla: King of the Monsters

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The heroic efforts of the crypto-zoological agency Monarch face off against a battery of god-sized monsters, including the mighty Godzilla, who collides with Mothra, Rodan, and his ultimate nemesis, the three-headed King Ghidorah. When these ancient super-species?thought to be mere myths?rise again, they all vie for supremacy, leaving humanity?s very existence hanging in the balance.Rated: PG-13Release Date: May 31, 2019

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25 Sep

Monsters and Men

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One night, in front of a bodega in Brooklyn?s Bed?Stuy neighborhood, Manny Ortega witnesses a white police officer wrongfully gun down a neighborhood street hustler, and Manny films the incident on his phone. Now he?s faced with a dilemma: release the video and bring unwanted exposure to himself and his family, or keep the video private and be complicit in the injustice? [Sundance]Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Sep 28, 2018

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