

Monsters
After six years, they're no longer aliens. They're residents.
Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry 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," while a journalist agrees to escort a shaken tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the U.S. border.
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6.2/10
1,854 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $500K
- Box office
- $5.6M
- Language
- Spanish
- mexico
- monster
- dystopia
- pyramid
- radio
- melancholy
- infection
- usa–mexico border
- forest
- alien
- alien invasion
- central america
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSouth by Southwest Film Festival13 Mar 2010
- Digital / OTTRvideo on demand24 Sept 2010
- Theatrical (limited)R29 Oct 2010
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12A18 Jun 2010
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM25 Nov 2010
CanadaCA
- Theatrical (limited)R18 Jun 2010
FinlandFI
- Theatrical (limited)K-1618 Jun 2010
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP1 Dec 2010
- PhysicalTPDVD & Blu-Ray6 Apr 2011
- Digital / OTTVOD21 Aug 2017
GermanyDE
- Premiere12Berlin Fantasy Filmfest18 Aug 2010
GreeceGR
- Theatrical159 May 2011
IrelandIE
- Theatrical12A18 Jun 2010
ItalyIT
- Theatrical7 Dec 2011
JapanJP
- TheatricalG23 Jul 2011
NetherlandsNL
- Theatrical129 Dec 2010
- Physical12DVD8 Apr 2011
- Physical12Blu ray23 Jun 2011
- TV12Veronica21 Nov 2015
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Monsters was released on 18 June 2010.
Audience reviews
3- A6/10
Andres Gomez
3/6/2014
Story that is so down to earth in spite of talking about alien creatures that you think it could really happen ... only, it is not thrilling and gets boring at some point. The two main characters, though, are very well played by McNairy and Able.
- P8/10
Peter McGinn
4/5/2020
I enjoyed this film. There, I said it. I have watched it twice and will again at a future time. I see it more as suspense rather than as an action thriller, the difference Hitchcock explained between a bomb going off and the tension of wondering if it is going to go off. A bulging muscled hero or a bulging cleavaged heroine wouldn't have improved it in my eyes. This is a different sort of alien invasion movie. In …
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
2/15/2025
The more sci-fi I watch the more I pray that it isn’t the Americans who discover the potential for extraterrestrial life! This time, NASA sends a probe to collect data from something they think might bear fruit in outer space but they manage to cock up the re-entry of their spacecraft and reduce great swathes of Mexico to the status of a quarantine zone. On the wrong side of this restricted area is hardened photo-jou…
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