Monsters

Monsters is a British film released in 2010 that starred Whitney Able and Scoot McNairy, the film was written and directed by Gareth Edwards.

The Plot

The film begins six years after NASA had discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. Earth has been invaded by alien life form, and half of Mexico has been quarantined and called the 'infected zone' where the creatures are being contained by the American and Mexican  military. The story begins when an American journalist agrees to help his boss' daughter get back home, however this means them fighting there way through the infected zone in order to get to the safety of the US border.

The estimated budget for the science fiction film was $500,000, however at the box office it recouped $4,242,978 which is a massive profit for such a low budget film.

The film only cost $500,000 because there were only two cast members, Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able, as well as this there were only five members of crew who went out to do filming.
The film was shot in five different locations:

• Belize
• Costa Rica
• Mexico
• Guatemala
• Texas

One of the major reasons the film was such a success was because all of the minor characters were not supplied with dialogue, they could do what they wanted with it and make it up as they went along, this made the characters feel more genuine, this was also the same for the two main characters, they were given a brief synopsis of what was going to happen in the scene, while for the rest they had to improvise and come up with the dialogue as they went through the film, this was so they would give more genuine reactions to what was happening in the scene.