Monster of the Day #3238

Updated on June 17, 2021 By Ken Begg 11 Comments

I don’t think I ever got around to posting the monsters from A Quiet Place franchise, which I think now is a franchise. I’m sure there’ll be a third film because the second won did quite well, just crushing the $200 million (!!) Cruella, for instance. So good on them.

I will go back to one of my old themes, though. Monster designs now are too complicated and inhuman looking. This can certainly be neat, but I think the reason there haven’t been ‘monster kids’ for the last few generations is because you can’t emphasize with these beasties the way you could with Frankenstein’s Monster, the Wolf Man and Dracula. Hell, even Ro-Man. I say unintelligible crap all that time, and I’m about as fat as he is, and about as successful with women.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    That looks exactly like the Cloverfield monster (much smaller, of course).

  • KeithB

    I have always thought it would really be funny if aliens turned out to look like Ro-Man or Beulah.

  • Wade Harrell

    Sometimes complicated CGI monsters can work, where monster’s very nature is complicated, such as in “The Host” and that crazy deer thing made of human body parts from “The Ritual”. But most of the time it just feels like I’m seeing vfx people padding their resume my making creatures as bizarre and unlikely as possible just to show what they are capable of, regardless of whether it serves the movie or not. The assorted creatures in the Star Wars prequels for example, am I supposed to believe that any of those arena creatures are actual functioning animals? The one that bugged me the most was the “sea serpent” from the “Voyage of the Dawn Treader”, which clearly called for a classic, reptilian type creature but instead they give us something like a Bobbitt worm crossed with a swiss army knife.

  • Gamera977

    I haven’t seen any of these films. I really need to remedy that. The original was on Amazon Prime, need to check if it’s still there.

  • Gamera977

    My Blu-Ray of ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ came yesterday. And I really liked how they did CGI Kong, They knocked the facial expressions out of the park. I’m still on Team Godzilla but I really got a soft spot for the big stinky ape.

    I thought the sea serpent in ‘VotDT’ was okay. But yeah it was really over-complicated. I’d rather they’d went with a more standard model for the serpent like they did with the dragon and Reepicheep.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    I’m not an anti-CGI person–I think an effect that works is great, no matter how it’s made. The issue is that with practical effects, it’s a matter of problem-solving, “How do we make this work?” coupled with some ingenuity.
    Whereas with CGI, I think a lot of the folks working in that field just passed a certification course. There’s rarely an artistry to it (though when there is it’s great).

  • Marsden

    I’ll second that, I thought this was from Cloverfield. Did they really reuse a CGI monster? Reusing a suit makes sense to me but this?

  • Ken_Begg

    I think this monster’s face splits open? (Like so many monster faces do these days.) Does Cloverfield do that? I saw the first half of Cloverfield in the theater, but my friend was made violently ill by the camerawork, and we had to leave. I never was all that interested in catching up to it afterward.

  • Ken_Begg

    No, they pulled it from streaming services when the new movie came out (probably not Amazon but the production company, since it disappeared from Netflix and Hulu too). Maybe to promote buying the Blu Ray or digital sales? I wonder if it will reappear once the new movie makes it to free streaming.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Cloverfield’s face doesn’t split open, but my memory is that this guy and he could be twins, facially. Maybe Cloverfield and A Quiet Place are in the same universe?

  • Gamera977

    Not surprised!