Few indie films this year have had the buzz around them of Gareth Edwards’ feature debut “Monsters.” Ever since it debuted at SXSW this year, the super-low-budget monster movie has picked up great reviews and seems to have real potential to become a crossover hit.
Set six years after a crashed NASA probe unleashed giant monsters in Central America, the film follows a journalist who agrees to help escort an American tourist through the ‘infected zone.’ An international trailer for the film appeared a little while ago, but, courtesy of Magnet and Apple, the first domestic trailer went up last night, and you can check it out below.
It’s not wildly different from the existing clip, and there’s a certain amount of bait-and-switch going on: the film, by all accounts, is a genuinely sweet love story more than a sci-fi/horror movie (indeed, stars Scoot McNairy and Whitney Able fell in love on set, and are now married), although there’s little evidence of that here. Still, we’re pretty excited to see it for ourselves; our man at the Melbourne International Film Festival found it touching and impressive. The film hits on-demand on September 24th, before a full theatrical release on October 29th. In the meantime, check the trailer out below, along with a making-of featurette [via /Film]