Monsters poster

Monsters

After six years, they're no longer aliens. They're residents.

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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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Status
Released
Budget
$500K
Box office
$5.6M
Language
Spanish
Part of Monsters Collection · 2 films
  • mexico
  • monster
  • dystopia
  • pyramid
  • radio
  • melancholy
  • infection
  • usa–mexico border
  • forest
  • alien
  • alien invasion
  • central america

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Produced in

United Kingdom

Gallery

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Videos

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

Frequently asked questions

Monsters was released on 18 June 2010.

Audience reviews

3
  • A

    Andres Gomez

    3/6/2014

    6/10

    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.

  • P

    Peter McGinn

    4/5/2020

    8/10

    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 …

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    2/15/2025

    7/10

    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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