
Silence of the Lambs: (Hannibal Lecter)
Book
An FBI trainee. A psychopath locked up for unspeakable crimes. And a serial killer getting ever...

Gamera: Guardian of the Universe (1995)
Movie
The success of Toho's series of Godzilla films in the early and mid 1990s inspired Daiei to...
monster movie

Jesters_folly (230 KP) rated Cloverfield (2008) in Movies
Oct 5, 2020
I knew some one who absolutely hated this film for the very fact that the monster is rarely seen, although he clamed that you never actually saw the monster, which isn't true so I don't think he watched all the way to the end. He had a point though, if you want to watch a film where monsters fight it out amongst themselves then this probably won't be for you.
The monster is really nothing more than a plot device and the fact that it is only revealed in parts and not fully seen until the end helps to keep the film centred on the people and helps add a touch of reality to the film, after all if you lived in Japan during a Kaiju attack you would be more interested in saving your own life than weather you were about to be eaten by Godzilla or Ghidorah.
Being a found footage film, Cloverfield suffers slightly from the usual shaky camera work and occasional low sound but these are kept to a minimum. The film also manages to avoid relying on night vision or infra red so the footage is, for the most part, much clearer than other films of this style and doesn't keep switching formats which make the film less distracting than others.
Over all Cloverfield is a good monster/survival film which leaves some questions to be answered in the sequels (or not )

France and the Politics of European Economic and Monetary Union: 2015
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Why did France, with its strong sense of national identity, want to give up the Franc for the Euro?...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Invasion of Astro-Monster (1965) in Movies
Feb 22, 2018
Almost wholly mad; still quite entertaining, but the lack of actual monster action (the three big beasts get very little screen-time) is inevitably quite disappointing. Rattling pace makes up for a lot of the film's flaws, and the basic idea - aliens try to conquer the world using monsters - would be endlessly recycled in future proper Godzilla films. Easy to dismiss this movie as quaintly dated 60s tosh, but surely a film where the forces of evil are driven off by the power of rape alarms has something to say to the #time's up generation.

Our Dark Duet
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Kate Harker is a girl who isn’t afraid of the dark. She’s a girl who hunts monsters. And she’s...

Circle of Desire
Book
In ten years of working for the Damask Circle, shapeshifter Katherine Tanner has never come across...