Akira Sato, Erin Sullivan, Hiroshi Ueha

In 2005, it was reported that Tokyo, Japan had been devastated by a massive earthquake. It was reported that thousands were dead. In 2007, a camera belonging to two missing American filmmakers was fou...( read more  read more... )nd. The footage would reveal that it was not an earthquake at all. It was something else...

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Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Eric Forsberg, Erik Estenberg

Release Date: January 18, 2008

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DVD Release Date: January 15, 2008

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  • May 21, 2008
    Obligatory rip-off of Cloverfield by Asylum who brought you alot of other rip offs collecting dust on the shelves at your local video store: Transmorphers, Alien Vs Hunter, I Am Omega and most recently, Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls.
    Two sisters travel to Japan to m...( read more)ake a documentary on global warming when an octopus monster (I think. It's never really seen.) shows up and tears up Japan.
    Not surprisingly it's not any good and it even gives Sci-Fi channel movies a run for their money.
  • September 1, 2008
    Absolute bilge. Avoid like the plague.
  • April 5, 2009
    Like Cloverfield, but really really much worse.
  • February 18, 2009
    The title should've been expanded to "Monster Boredom" or "Monster Disappointment" or how about "Where is the Monster?"
    This fails utterly where "Cloverfield" succeeded (so to speak). This 'documentary' had very little suspense (only 4 'shots' of the monster), no cohesiveness (...( read more)at one point the girls are in a park, then they are in a tunnel without showing how they got there) and no allure that either "Cloverfield" or "Blair Witch Project" had.
    The girls spend two days running around Tokyo, whining and crying how they want to go home, when they should be getting OUT of the city, like everyone else did. They exemplify the 'ugly American' since everywhere they go they tell people 'We're Americans' as if that affords them special privileges. They find people (who don't seem to be too freaked out by a monster attacking their city), then they go off on their own. And start whining and crying about how they just want to go home.
    Also, the monster doesn't appear to do anything above ground except wave its tentacles.
    The videography is horrendous even for a small inexpensive one. If the monster roars in the distance, the picture quality goes to hell. The clips stop and start with no regard for continuity.
    Just skip this one.
  • August 26, 2008
    Low budget cloverfield. Not really that bad except you could tell that to save money on effects they would spend alot of time with the camera pointed at the women. If a giant monster was infront of you you could not help turning to look out of instinct.
  • June 23, 2008
    So Cloverfield is the next film to have received the Asylum treatment, or rather the Cloverfield trailer got the Asylum treatment judging by when this was made. Now Cloverfield is one of the films which shouldn't be too difficult to "remake". You don't really need a film crew, ...( read more)you can get away with a small cast, and you don't need to show lots of expensive shots of a monster. You should be able to get the viewers imagination to do most of the work.

    Anyway the "film" follows two American women who head to Tokyo to make a documentary on global warming, while they are there a "Monster" goes on the rampage and smashes Tokyo up. Now when I say a monster, I'm really meaning two very dodgy CGI tentacles that just flap about in the air and don't do anything. In fact we don't even get to see what these tentacles are attached to, or if they are just the monster itself. Of course the two women decide that they must document what is happening so that people will know what happened, strangely enough they don't really film any of the destruction that they talk about seeing in the film, and spend more time filming each other below the neck if you know what I mean. Along the way they encounter various people who after a brief introduction to their characters, they are abandoned and never seen again. The thing that bothered me the most was how crap their camera was, it's amazing how many times the picture broke up, or the sound cut out and how badly both were done as post production effects.

    So I only paid £2.97 for this film, but I'm feeling kinda robbed, but the people I'm really feeling sorry for are the two actresses who carry this film. They're not bad actresses and deserved better than appearing in this film.
  • May 18, 2008
    Quite possibly the most frustratingly dull movie I've ever seen. Don't be tempted by the similarity to "Cloverfield". This one is - just - BAD.
  • May 17, 2008
    Really lame documentary. These events could have been much better filmed than this 'Cloverfield' wanna be.

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