﻿In today’s video, we will be going through the
2010’s British Science-Fiction Horror film, Monsters.
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Six years ago, Nasa had found the possibility of alien life in our solar system. To investigate
it further, they sent a space probe. The craft was successful in collecting alien samples but
when re-entering the earth’s atmosphere, it broke in Mexico... not in the US this time. Very soon,
new life forms began to appear in the cities and half of Mexico was quarantined.
The aliens are now referred to as ‘the creatures’ and have wreaked havoc on the country for the past
six years. But it is considered normal now. People go out for a nice cup of tea and come
across massive land octopus with wiggly legs, and it is treated as a normal day in Mexico. Oh,
and the land creature, wiggly legs will kill any human that comes in front of them.
Mexico and the US military are still fighting the wiggly things... they drop bombs, missiles,
and whatnot but the creature’s population keeps on increasing rapidly every year.
Just then something happens, presumably an alien attack? We see bodies lying on the floor and a
massive wiggly creature on the top of a billboard. She is the queen of the world now. Something tells
me the creature is a ‘she’. We see all this in a blurry night vision camera because the
budget of the movie was really low. I am not even kidding, the side actors you see throughout the
movie are random bystanders. The film cost way less than five hundred thousand to make
and made over four million in the cinema. You go, penny-pinching director!
More blurry camera, shooting, and growling later, we see the aftermath of the attack the following
day. Andrew Kaulder is a photojournalist who takes pictures of the aftermath of the alien attacks
and makes money off of it, but he is our protagonist, so he probably has a
good reason behind it. He gets a call from his boss, whose daughter, Samantha Wynden,
had come to Mexico for vacation. Yes, to a place infested by deadly aliens, for vacation.
The boss wants Andrew to take Samantha to the nearest train station and send her back to the US.
Although it is not Andrew’s job, he agrees because poor Samantha is a damsel in distress and he has
to be a hero. He also has a son back home whose birthday he is missing to get poor Sam home.
Sam has problems of her own; she doesn’t want to marry her fiance. Her problem is as intense
as the alien attack, don’t judge her. The two get on the train and it leaves. On their way,
loud bombings are heard nearby. The creatures are in a battle with the military. Poor Sam and
heroic Andrew both are distressed because the train has to return back to its track.
But they really have to take Sam home, so they get off the train in the middle of nowhere. They take
shelter in a local home at night. The strangers inform them of a quarantine of six months to be
implemented in two days. If Sam cannot cross the border in forty-eight hours, she will be stuck
in Mexico for the next six months. The next morning, Andrew takes pictures of the
local people in poison masks, and the two leave for the border. They hitchhike with some people
and go nearer to the heavily infested zone. They take a bus to the next village. Throughout the
journey, Andrew takes pictures of the locals. Sam tries to shame Andrew for the job he does.
Taking pictures of the harmed, profiting off people’s misery, but our protagonist claps back,
saying that her father is the one who pays heavily for the dying children's pictures. Sam
understands her hypocrisy and shuts up. The two finally arrive at the port where
Sam’s ferry ticket costs Andrew five thousand dollars. He is not happy but does it anyway.
They get a ferry for the following morning. They check into a room,
and steamy awkward conversations follow when Sam comes out of the shower in just a towel.
At night the two go out to eat some street food and have fun, forgetting the wigglies
for a while and just enjoy themselves. They also talk about their lives outside the alien
infested zone, but really it’s just Sam whining about her fiance, who she hates.
Andrew flirts with her the whole time. However, the following morning he wakes up with some other
girl in his bed. Nice going, Andrew...[a] Sam knocks on his door and is visibly upset to
see the other girl. Although she has a fiance back home, a pang of jealousy hits her.
She asks him for her passport to get on the ferry, but Andrew f*cked [b]up big time.
During the drunk night, he lost her passport. Nice going again... Andrew.
He asks the guy who he paid five thousand dollars to but doesn’t get any help.
The ferry then leaves, and the two are back at square one. But they have one last idea left,
they have to cross through the most alien infested area, the red zone. I
never said the last idea was a good idea. But Sam REALLY has to go back to her unloving
fiance, so they decide to take the chance. However, going through the red zone will cost
them ten thousand dollars that our protagonist is unwilling to pay. Sam offers the man her
ring worth twenty thousand dollars. Since Andrew cannot let go of the extra ten thousand dollars,
he decides to trade his life instead. He joins Sam on her journey to the infected zone.
They pretend to be medical workers from America who have lost their passports,
and the people believe them. They finally get on a boat and make their way to the border.
If you’re thinking how they haven't encountered a creature yet, you’ll be happy soon.
Sam has the best luck ever. First, their train was turned back, then they lost their passports,
and now the only boat that was supposed to get them home breaks down midway. The people try to
repair it but cannot. It is now nighttime. Andrew is obviously annoyed that their twenty thousand
dollar trip isn’t going as planned. Just then, a loud screech denotes a creature approaching.
They see it swimming towards them. Andrew starts taking pictures of it,
and Sam scolds him. The creature recognizes our protagonists and
goes right back into the water to help the director stretch the movie further.
How kind of it. When they reach the shore, a group of scary looking men with guns await them.
Their job is to safely take the two to the other side, but they are scared by a cow’s mooing.
They sit around a bonfire at night and talk about different things. Sam asks the guys if they are
scared of the creature. I don’t know if she is trying to be philosophical or is genuinely that
stupid. The guys reply that if they do not bother the creatures, the creatures do not bother them.
They only get wild when the missiles and bombs are launched on them.
When asked why they drop the missiles, the guys take them to the “infected trees”. It turns out
that the creatures lay eggs on tree branches. When the egg hatches, the creature crawls to the water
and eventually comes out as an adult. That is how they reproduce. After an hour-long lesson on alien
reproduction, they go to sleep. But just then, the missiles and bombs start exploding nearby.
The place is being attacked by the military, which means the creatures will soon go wild. The
men quickly get on their jeep, but Andrew starts looking for his camera. We all have priorities,
Andrew, but you are just plain stupid. They are stopped again by the creatures. All
the men wear poison masks leaving none for their customers. Andrew asks everyone what is wrong even
though it is pretty obvious. Then they finally see a large creature in front of them picking
up a car with its wiggly limbs. Andrew is about to pee his pants, but the creature knows he is
the main person in the movie, so he has nothing to worry about. The two stay in the car as the
other men shoot several rounds of fire at the massive creature. They seem to be doing no harm
to the creature whatsoever. It kills most of them as the duo hides. The creature walks right
past their car but doesn’t do anything. They get out of the car in the morning. Andrew
goes around looking for HIS CAMERA and finds it with a corpse. All the people they came
with are dead. He takes the camera and two poison masks. The two then pay their respect to the dead
and continue the journey on foot. The car they stayed the night in is fine,
don’t ask me why they don’t take it. After walking for a while, Sam sees a massive man-made pyramid.
They climb on top of it and see that they are near the wall that separates Mexico and the US.
They continue again and finally reach the border. However, on the other side too,
the houses are deserted. They see a massive dead body of a creature on top of a house.
Andrew, of course, doesn't forget to take pictures of the surroundings.
He is going to make bags out of this trip. As they look through the place, they see an old,
dirty-looking woman nearby. Sam asks her if there is anyone around. The woman replies
with absolute gibberish. It means I am insane; get away from me. Andrew and Sam
seem to understand and get away from her. However, they see no one else around.
The two then decide to walk along a deserted highway until they reach somewhere with people.
As they do, they reach a gas station, but it has no one inside. Luckily for them,
it has a working phone. Andrew quickly calls for help, and the lady on the other
end informs him of an army patrol coming to rescue them. The two finally have hope.
Then, Andrew calls his son and wishes him a happy birthday. He breaks down crying when
the kid tells him that he misses him. Sam, too, calls her father and tells him they are safe.
Sam is inside the station while Andrew is out when the wiggly limbs reappear.
A massive creature is on the roof of the place. It cannot look inside,
but it seems like it is checking if someone is in by the movements of its limbs.
Sam quickly turns off the TV, and the creature leaves her alone. Although Andrew is in clear
sight of the creature, it doesn’t attack him, the usual protagonist thing.
Another creature joins the first one, and the two wrap their limbs around each other. They
might be greeting each other, playing, or mating; we will never know. Sam and Andrew watch in awe
as the creatures hug and then separate. The creatures then go away, but who arrives?
The patrol officers. One would think that our protagonists are relieved, but no. Sam says
that she doesn’t want to go home. After all this trouble, so many deaths caused to get you home,
and now you don’t even want to go? I am team Sam's fiance.
The two kiss, finally. But just then, the patrol officers separate them, claiming that it is not
safe here. The movie ends abruptly with that. What do you think happened to them? I don’t care.
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[a]sarcastic [b]censor in edit