Daily Monsterism #3

The Arachnid
"The Mist" 2007

Frank Darabont’s adaptation of Stephen King’s “The Mist” seems to cop a huge amount of hate from people. Personally, I can’t understand why. All the performances are amazingly solid (especially Tom Jane), it’s genuinely suspenseful, dramatic and horrific, and the monsters look fantastic… in spite of some varying CGI quality…

What I love about “The Mist” and the creatures in it is the escalation. You start off with very little and as the film goes on, the monsters get bigger and bigger, but the film still manages to do what Alien did so well in that it reveals what it needs to and then lets your mind do the rest (in most cases anyway). You’re only ever told as much as the characters in the story — who you can identify with pretty quickly — which I believe gives this film the credibility it needs to to make you accept what’s going on in this film without really questioning it.

Shown above is one of the larger creatures from the film (far from the largest though), and this is all you see of it.

Daily Monsterism #1

The Tyrannosaurus

"Jurassic Park" (1993)

Okay. So. I figured I’d give this another solid go. I'm going to bang this out until it's up to where I left off on the tumblr account (another social networking/media outlet fad I neglected rather quickly). The basic gist is that this is a place for me to express my love for monster movies, or monsters of movies, or movies involving monsters in one way or another. I may even choose to pick out some monsters from comics, games or some other visual medium that allows for cool-awesome monsterage.

Anyway, we’re going to start with the best — the Tyrannosaurus Rex from Jurassic Park. This is (in my opinion) the most impressive monster ever to grace the silverscreen. You see it and you believe there’s a Tyrannosaurus there. Even when you know how it’s done, you forget it at soon as you see it in motion again and get totally reabsorbed by the sheer awesomeness of it all.