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Monster Island
Monster Island poster
Alternate titles
Flagicon Japan.png Lord of Monsters (DVD 2019)
See alternate titles
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
“
The heavyweight championship has begun!
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— Tagline
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The [lord] of the Earth will be decided. (地球の［支配者 (《ロード》)］が、決まる。)
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— Japanese tagline

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
Japanese Monster Island DVD 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.

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]

  1. ↑ Monster Island page on The Asylum's official website
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 First Look At New Kaiju Film MONSTER ISLAND. SciFi Japan (23 March 2019).
  3. ↑ MONSTER ISLAND Update: Kaiju Designs By Matt Frank. SciFi Japan (21 May 2019).
  4. ↑ MONSTER ISLAND Photo Gallery From Asylum. SciFi Japan (31 May 2019).
  5. ↑ Monster Island (TV Movie 2004). IMDb.

Films
Godzilla films
Godzilla (1954) • Godzilla Raids Again • King Kong vs. Godzilla • Mothra vs. Godzilla • Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster • Invasion of Astro-Monster • Ebirah, Horror of the Deep • Son of Godzilla • Destroy All Monsters • All Monsters Attack • Godzilla vs. Hedorah • Godzilla vs. Gigan • Godzilla vs. Megalon • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla • Terror of Mechagodzilla • The Return of Godzilla • Godzilla vs. Biollante • Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah • Godzilla vs. Mothra • Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II • Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla • Godzilla vs. Destoroyah • GODZILLA (1998) • Godzilla 2000: Millennium • Godzilla vs. Megaguirus • Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack • Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla • Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. • Godzilla: Final Wars • Godzilla (2014) • Shin Godzilla • GODZILLA: Planet of the Monsters • GODZILLA: City on the Edge of Battle • GODZILLA: The Planet Eater • Dream Challenge: Godzilla Appears in Sukagawa • Godzilla: King of the Monsters • Godzilla vs. Kong
Gamera films
King Kong films
Other Toho films
Invisible Man • Half Human • Rodan • The Mysterians • The H-Man • Varan • Battle in Outer Space • The Three Treasures • The Secret of the Telegian • The Human Vapor • Mothra • The Last War • Gorath • Matango • Atragon • Dogora • Frankenstein vs. Baragon • The War of the Gargantuas • Latitude Zero • The Vampire Doll • Space Amoeba • Lake of Dracula • Daigoro vs. Goliath • Horror of the Wolf • Submersion of Japan • ESPY • Evil of Dracula • Prophecies of Nostradamus • House • The War in Space • Magnitude 7.9 • Bye-Bye Jupiter • Princess from the Moon • Gunhed • Mikadoroid • Reiko, the Psyche Resurrected • Orochi, the Eight-Headed Dragon • Rebirth of Mothra • Rebirth of Mothra II • Rebirth of Mothra III • Rosetta the Masked Angel: Rosetta vs. Freia • Go! Godman • Super Fleet Sazer-X the Movie • Sinking of Japan • Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 1 • Attack on Titan the Movie: Part 2 • Shin Ultraman
Other Daiei films
Other Japanese films
Miscellaneous
Documentaries

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SKuLL cRaWLer

9 days ago
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B. R. U. H
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Jacob Burt

5 months 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.
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Triceradon the 8th

8 months ago
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how come asylum methuselah and biolantte do not appear?
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Behemoth1999

14 months ago
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As someone who views Asylum films as guilty pleasures, i'm honestly glad there making mockbuster monster flicks instead of ripping off Pixar. Also, we need some articles for the other three Mega Shark films.
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Behemoth1999

14 months ago
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Working on them now. By the way,sometime back in 2015 Asylum said they were gonna make a Mega Shark versus Moby Dick movie,yet nothing came out of it. Would this go in the scrapped film section?
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Astounding Beyond Belief

14 months ago
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I don't believe the Asylum itself ever confirmed that title; it was just on IMDb and Wikipedia. Entirely possible someone made it up.
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Triceradon the 8th

15 months ago
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as for the two kaiju that we only see on the poster im gonna call them venusbio and smahserk
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Triceradon the 8th

15 months ago
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just want to imform you that tengu is that giant octopus thing and that one eyed thing is clamclops my name for it creative i know
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Godzillakid

15 months ago
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Asylum, stop
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MINEZILLA

15 months ago
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They ruined transformers and Iron man. Now Godzilla is next.
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ShodaiMeesmothLarva

15 months ago
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They ruined Pacific Rim too...
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Triceradon the 8th

16 months ago
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they did the mash they did the kaiju mash the kaiju mash
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ItsDestoroyah

17 months ago
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Everyone: Oh noooooo....

Me: Yes.
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ShodaiMeesmothLarva

18 months ago
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At least Asylum films has better CGI than Yonggary 2001...
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Astounding Beyond Belief

15 months ago
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This one might not...
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