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We just watched this 2010 movie called Monsters, made by a British fellow who created an eerie, fantastic film using off the shelf software and a ridiculously small budget by the standards of most such films. I wasn't sure what to expect of it but I have to say I really enjoyed watching. This is one of those films where silence is even more terrifying than sound.

Gigantic things terrify me. I'm not sure where this come from ultimately. I can remember a vivid nightmare from my childhood about the stone Easter Island heads lumbering around inside my grandmother's home and hiding under a shelf on the floor. Tall buildings sometimes frighten me, looming with such immense presence. Maybe I watched too many radioactive monster movies as a kid, I don't know.

I need to finish this story I'm muddling through, and bake some brownies for Mike to take to the office.

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You've probably already seen them both but if not, if you like intelligent super-low-budget sci-fi I strongly recommend Sleep Dealer and The Brother from Another Planet. (Both satirical rather than scary, if that makes any difference either way.)

Edited 2011-03-28 01:42 (UTC)

I haven't seen either one but I'm excited to put them in my movie watching list. Did you see Moon? I think that was one of my favorite sci-fi features of the past few years.

I haven't yet but it's in my Netflix queue--I've yet to hear anyone say a bad thing about it.

I really liked Monsters as well. I was expecting to hate it but there was something really amazing about its atmospherics. Unexpected.

I wasn't expecting anything more than a lazy afternoon popcorn movie and was pleasantly surprised.