A movie I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz about these past few months is Monsters, written and directed by Gareth Edwards.

Said to be a super realistic take on the giant monster genre, the comparisons to District 9 have been coming pretty steady, but there’s one major difference. Where District 9 was made for a “paltry” $8 Million, Monsters was made for $15,000!  I could afford that, if I were so crazy.

The official synopsis is as follows, and I’ve embeded a trailer (from IGN) below.

Six years ago previously, a NASA probe returning to earth with samples of an alien life form, crashed 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"... The story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.

What do you think, dear readers?