Monster Island (2019)

	Monster Island
	Monster Island
Directed by	Mark Atkins
Producer(s)	David Michael Latt, Paul Bales,; David Rimawi (Executive)
Written by	Mark Atkins
Music by	Chris Ridenhour, Eliza Swenson, Christopher Cano
Distributor	The Asylum
Rating	TV-14
Running time	89 minutes

Monster Island is an American giant monster film produced by The Asylum. A mockbuster of Godzilla: King of the Monsters, it premiered on American television on June 1, 2019, with DVD and VOD releases following on June 13.^[1]

Description

As the world tries to stop a giant kaiju bent on destruction, more and more monsters appear — each one more terrible than the last — leaving mankind defenseless until our heroes reach out to a specialist versed in monster lore.^[2]

Staff

Main article: Monster Island (film)/Credits.

Staff role on the left, staff member's name on the right.

Directed by Mark Atkins
Written by Mark Atkins
Produced by David Michael Latt, Paul Bales
Executive producing by David Rimawi
Music by Chris Ridenhour, Eliza Swenson, Christopher Cano
Cinematography by Mark Atkins
Edited by Marq Morrison, Erica Steele, Mark Atkins
Production design by Ray Wahl
Assistant directing by Laszlo Bene, Giedre Apanaviciute
Visual Effects Supervisor Glenn Campble

Cast

Main article: Monster Island (film)/Credits#End Credits.

Actor's name on the left, character played on the right.

Eric Roberts as General Horne
Toshi Toda as Lieutenant Maxwell
Adrian Bouchet as Billy Ford
Natalie Robbie as Sarah Murray
Donna Cormack-Thomson as Cherise Ramon
Chris Fisher as Riley James
Jonathan Pienaar as Captain Mato
Margot Wood as Rena Hangaroa
Andrew Dennison as Submarine Captain
Meghan Oberholzer as Susan Meyerholder, news anchor
Ryan Kruger as Navigator Thompson
Lindsay Sullivan as Captain Hansen
Craig Young as Helicopter pilot / Jason Underwood
Dewet Du Toit as Jorg Koing
Robert Scott Field as JSDF on ham radio (voice)

Appearances

Monsters

Tengu^[3]^[4]
- The Children of Tengu
The Living Mountain

Weapons, vehicles, races, and organizations

Deep Digger
Explorer

Production

Monster Island was filmed in South Africa, New Zealand, and Los Angeles.^[2]

Gallery

Main article: Monster Island (film)/Gallery.

Alternate titles

Lord of Monsters (ロード・オブ・モンスターズ; Japan)
Monster Mash

Videos

Monster Island trailer

Trivia

This is the second made-for-TV film titled Monster Island. The first, made by MTV in 2004, was a comedy which served as a backdoor pilot for an ultimately unproduced series.^[5]
The silver monster and green insectoid-reptile on the Monster Island poster do not appear in the film itself.
The monster Tengu was designed by artist Matt Frank, who is most known for the comic series Godzilla: Rulers of Earth.

External links

References

This is a list of references for Monster Island (film). These citations are used to identify the reliable sources on which this article is based. These references appear inside articles in the form of superscript numbers, which look like this: ^[1]

↑ Monster Island page on The Asylum's official website
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 First Look At New Kaiju Film MONSTER ISLAND. SciFi Japan (23 March 2019).
↑ MONSTER ISLAND Update: Kaiju Designs By Matt Frank. SciFi Japan (21 May 2019).
↑ MONSTER ISLAND Photo Gallery From Asylum. SciFi Japan (31 May 2019).
↑ Monster Island (TV Movie 2004). IMDb.

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Jacob Burt

2 days ago

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Putting my two cents in, I do like the designs for the kaiju as well as the effort that went into the concepts for both of them. However I do feel that more thought could have been put into the names, even if they just went to Seventh Sanctum or Fantasy Name Generators.

One major criticism I have is that like most of the Asylum movies I’ve seen is that the timeline is too condensed: Sinister Squad seemed to take place over two days; day one, they gather the fairytale villains, day two, shit hits the fan and the bad guy attacks. In Transmorphers the robot war ends less than twenty four hours after the main character is recruited. In this movie; Tengu is awoken in the morning and is killed in the same afternoon.

Another criticism I have is that there isn’t really any emotion; after the Children of Tengu hatch one of the major characters is killed off so quickly that the only real acknowledgement of his death is one of the other characters screaming his name afterwards.

Two more thing: one you would think with a title like “Monster Island” the plot would focus more on an island full of monsters rather that an island that’s called Monster Island. Two the Living Mountain’s sobriquet “the Kaiju Killer” is awesome.