{"id":1198,"date":"2008-08-22T07:44:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T21:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/08\/22\/update-monster-movie\/"},"modified":"2008-08-22T07:48:32","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T21:48:32","slug":"update-monster-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/08\/22\/update-monster-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Monster Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back the Backbrain <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/21\/new-monster-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> on a monster movie that utilises the currently popular technique of &#8220;found footage&#8221; to tell its story of rampage and terror &#8212; this one not in a city, it seems, but more backwoods\/small town-oriented. A conspiracy element runs through the movie, as the concept tells of deliberate suppression of the truth, which the compilation &#8212; made up of amateur footage comprising eight rolls of  &#8220;badly damaged 16mm film&#8221; taken by some buddies on an end-of-summer vacation &#8212; purports to expose.<\/p>\n<p><em>Monster Movie<\/em> was co-director John Polonia\u2019s final film before he died on 25 February at age 39.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monster Movie<\/strong> (US-2008; dir. Mark and John Polonia)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/monstermovie-poster.jpeg\" title=\"Monster Movie poster\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/monstermovie-poster.jpeg\" alt=\"Monster Movie poster\" height=\"466\" width=\"329\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tale involves giant prehistoric reptiles and yes, apparently the town gets trashed!<\/p>\n<p>Kaiju Search-Robot Avery has managed to obtain some pictures of one of the monsters from Tempe Entertainment, who are releasing the film on DVD come 16th of September.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/all-monster-footage.jpg\" title=\"Monster Movie pic 1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/all-monster-footage.jpg\" alt=\"Monster Movie pic 1\" height=\"267\" width=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/night-monster-at-bridge.jpg\" title=\"Monster Movie pic 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/night-monster-at-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"Monster Movie pic 2\" height=\"268\" width=\"393\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/monster.jpg\" title=\"Monster Movie pic 3\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/monster.jpg\" alt=\"Monster Movie pic 3\" height=\"269\" width=\"395\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/monster2.jpg\" title=\"Monster Movie pic 4\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/monster2.jpg\" alt=\"Monster Movie pic 4\" height=\"270\" width=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/monster3.jpg\" title=\"Monster Movie pic 5\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/monster3.jpg\" alt=\"Monster Movie pic 5\" height=\"270\" width=\"398\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/monster4.jpg\" title=\"Monster Movie pic 6\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/monster4.jpg\" alt=\"Monster Movie pic 6\" height=\"270\" width=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"> Cute, eh?<\/p>\n<p>You can pre-order the film <a href=\"http:\/\/store.tempevideo.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=TV&amp;Product_Code=FC-257\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/21\/new-monster-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Previous Backbrain article<\/a>, which includes the trailer<\/li>\n<li><em>Source<\/em>: J.R. Bookwalter of <a href=\"http:\/\/store.tempevideo.com\/mm5\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Store_Code=TV&amp;Product_Code=FC-257\" target=\"_blank\">Tempe Entertainment<\/a> via Avery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back the Backbrain reported on a monster movie that utilises the currently popular technique of &#8220;found footage&#8221; to tell its story of rampage and terror &#8212; this one not in a city, it seems, but more backwoods\/small town-oriented. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/08\/22\/update-monster-movie\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,44,62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}