Monsters

Purporting to be a sci-fi alien invasion movie thanks to the marketeers who have launched an ad campaign that seeks to deceive you into expecting the next DISTRICT 9 Gareth Edwards MONSTERS is more likely to play your local arthouse than multiplex.

A vast area of South America has become a quarantined zone after an alien landing and the invading species are kept there in a sort of extra terrestrial game reserve. Scoot McNairy (Skeet Ulrich lookalike) plays a photo journalist who is tasked with getting his bosses daughter, played by the lovely Whitney (ALL THE GIRLS LOVE MANDY LANE) Able, home to America and the only choice left for them is to travel across the forbidden area through an underground immigration system. What follows is a road movie largely improvised but utterly absorbing and ultimately (sshhh don't tell anyone) a love story.

MONSTERS is a remarkable achievement on all levels, technically brilliant, perfectly performed, mesmerising and if Edwards can top this on subsequent endevours we are all in for a hell of treat.

Full on hard on.