Though Cloverfield is unquestionably one of the great giant monster movies of late years , it ’s best feature was also its worst feature : the reality - TV spirit to the acting and photographic camera work . I ’m a fan of the jiggy - Cam River stuff and nonsense , but I was one of many who had no fellow feeling at all for the entitled yuppie main eccentric who YouTubed their own death . Now a novel crop of truly indie monster movies may offer a corrective to the New York plenteous kid POV in Cloverfield . The upcoming Blob - meet - illegal - pharmaceutic flick Bio - Slime , whose trailer you could consume flop here , is a good example of these new - style freak flicks , whose low production values look abruptly professional in ignitor of the faux - low product on Cloverfield . Other indie monsters are rampaging in your videodisc campaign next year too .
In Birth of a Legend : Story of the Wawa , enlighten worm used by Alabamans fish in a polluted river turn into a giant giant that eats people . Here ’s a patch synopsis :
Sweet Tee , Alabama was a favorable townsfolk , Family Friendly . But Sweet Tee had a mystery . You see , in the Tennessee River that course right through the middle of town , there lived some kind of a swamp freak . And it preferred the sense of taste of human build over all others . A loser journalist , a burn off - out hippie and a smart as a whip scientist chick found themselves smack dab in the centre of this situation … and it was up to them to sterilise thing .
And another regional flick , Serpent Lake , is set in Minnesota , where people have part disappearing . According to the filmmakers :
This monster is one of the well - known mysteries of crypto zoological science . Most scientists and other expert find current grounds supporting the creature ’s existence unpersuasive and consider the periodic sighting as hoaxes or misidentification of known creatures or natural phenomena . Minnesotans believe in this legend , even though their theory may vary . The creature guess to be a plesiosaur being the most pop of these theories .
Both the Wawa and the Serpent , like Clovie , come from the water and just want to eat on people and be left alone .
I seem forward to a takings to the 1970s freak movie era , when cheapo product in the Midwest and the South churned out great flicks about lusus naturae make by evil polluters , malefic yuppie , evil pot , evil racists , malign people in small town , evil aliens , and evil government programs .
Check out the official sites forBio - Slime , Serpent Lake , andBirth of a Legend : history of the Wawa(Thanks , averyguerra ! )
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