Monsters

2010 94 min ★ 6.2 Drama, Thriller, Science Fiction

Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America. Soon after, new life forms began to appear and half of Mexico was quarantined as an infected zone. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures," while a journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.

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Cast

Scoot McNairy

Andrew Kaulder

Whitney Able

Samantha Wynden

Mario Zuniga Benavides

Ticket Seller

Annalee Jefferies

Homeless Woman

Justin Hall

Marine

Ricky Catter

Marine

Paul Archer

Marine

Kerry Valderrama

Marine

Jonathan Winnford

Marine

Stan Wong

Marine

Details

Director

Gareth Edwards

Tagline

"After six years, they're no longer aliens. They're residents."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$500,000

Revenue

$5,639,730

Production

Vertigo Films, Protagonist Pictures

Reviews

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Andres Gomez

March 6, 2014

★ 6/10

Story that is so down to earth in spite of talking about alien creatures that you think it could really happen ... only, it is not thrilling and gets boring at some point. The two main characters, though, are very well played by McNairy and Able.

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Peter McGinn

April 5, 2020

★ 8/10

I enjoyed this film. There, I said it. I have watched it twice and will again at a future time. I see it more as suspense rather than as an action thriller, the difference Hitchcock explained between a bomb going off and the tension of wondering if it is going to go off. A bulging muscled hero or a bulging cleavaged heroine wouldn't have improved it in my eyes. This is a different sort of alien...

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CinemaSerf

February 15, 2025

★ 7/10

The more sci-fi I watch the more I pray that it isn’t the Americans who discover the potential for extraterrestrial life! This time, NASA sends a probe to collect data from something they think might bear fruit in outer space but they manage to cock up the re-entry of their spacecraft and reduce great swathes of Mexico to the status of a quarantine zone. On the wrong side of this restricted area i...