American Monster Movie

This title pretty much says it all. Recently there has been a big drought in Hollywood when it comes to a really solid monster movie. The last decent one was Cloverfield but we didn't even get a good look at the monster until the last 5 minutes of it. It hurts my heart when the only supernatural thing that people want to see in movies are vampires that bedazzle and big cuddly werewolves that look like collies.

Before Cloverfield it seems like the only way that people would see a monster movie is if it was actually a comedy like Gremlins or Little Shop of Horrors but I still think that if you put some big scary alien thing in the middle of a group of people they will be scared to death and there wont be anything funny about it.

Apparently this week Stephen Hawking says he believes that aliens do probably exist and if we ever do meet them then we are in trouble. For an example he used when new settlers wiped out the Indians when they came to this land. In that scenario we are the Indians. Maybe thoughts like these will inspire people to go back to the good old days of King Kong and Godzilla and come up with some mutated out of these world creatures that come down here and do the monster mash.

I really liked The Mist as a movie and the mist itsef was extremely scary but it bothers me when I can't even get a good look at the monsters that are causing all of this damage. The flies and pterodactyl things dont count because compared to those big monsters with legs that look like sequoias, those little things are ants.