Review of Monster

Monster (2008 Video)
2/10
Another Asylum rip-off of someone's better idea
17 February 2008
Warning: Spoilers
Okay, we all know Asylum's Modus Operendi by now. Find someone else's better idea, get some no-name actors, some YouTube quality special effects, and go to town. Collect a lot of money from the DVD sector from poor chumps thinking they are seeing a better film.

Got it? Good.

So these two babes, Sarah and Erin, go to Japan. Except it's not really Japan, it's probably a Japanese Market in Los Angeles catering to the thousands of Japanese businessmen who live here looting our country, but I digress. In the middle of their interview with a Japanese official, an earthquake hits Kobe. Or maybe it's Toyko. They are never really clear, except the 2003 earthquake actually happened in Kobe.

The cause of the Earthquake is a tentacled monster that pops up out of the ground making a howling noise. To give the producers credit, the scenes with the monster are very effective, giving us a sense of menace without showing us much. Unfortunately, these parts are too few and far between, with most of the movie containing scenes of Erin and Sarah crying, arguing over their camera, and for inexplicable reasons, filming each other's cleavage. All of this is done with shaky camera shots, scrambled film, etc.

Panasonic wants it to be known that their equipment works much better than this.

At the end of the movie, we are told that neither girl was ever found, but their father released the film to YouTube. YouTube would like it to be known that they usually don't have this low of standards.
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