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| Directed by | Erik Estenberg |
| Produced by | David Michael
Latt David Rimawi Paul Bales |
| Written by | Erik Estenberg David Michael Latt |
| Starring | Yoshi Ando Sarah Lieving Shinichiro Shimizu Erin Sullivan |
| Cinematography | Sarah Lynch Erin Sullivan |
| Distributed by | The Asylum |
| Release date(s) | January 15, 2008 |
| Running time | 90 mins. |
| Country |  United States Japan |
| Language | English Japanese |
Monster is a 2008 direct-to-DVD monster film produced by American studio The Asylum, written and directed by Erik Estenberg.
The film is an Asylum mockbuster created to capitalise on the release of Cloverfield. It was released direct-to-DVD on January 15, 2008[1]. Cloverfield was released theatrically three days later on January 18, 2008.
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The film takes place in Tokyo in 2007, where two reporters - Sarah Sullivan (Sarah Lieving) and Erin Lynch (Erin Sullivan) - have arrived from the United States to document unusual seismic disturbances that have been picked up around Tokyo. The disturbances are originally thought to be aftershocks left over from an earthquake that occurred two years previously (possibly referencing the real-life Fukuoka earthquake or the Miyagi earthquake), although careful analysis of the evidence suggests otherwise.
As time goes on, all of Tokyo begins to suffer from abnormal earth tremors similar to those registered in 2005, but the tremors are found not to be caused by an earthquake, but by a gigantic octopus that has been dormant for centuries, but has since been awakened by mankind, and now sees Tokyo as a new feeding-ground, with the filmmakers documenting the catastrophe as it unfolds.
The few reviews of the film posted online have been extremely negative [2][3][4]. A particularly infamous review was made by Dread Central, which habitual Asylum film critic Scott "The Foywonder" Foy did as an audio file in a parody of the "found footage" concept used by the movie: in this case, the file consists of Foy giving his thoughts on the movie while at the same time pretending to be slowly going insane due to the movie's abysmal quality culminating in him apparently jumping out of a window[5]. Foy would later state that some people actually thought his "insanity" was real[6] and would also name Monster the "Worst Direct To DVD Horror Movie of 2008" in a later podcast[7].
  | ''Monster'' at the Internet Movie Data Base - Monster (2008) (V) |
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