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	Monster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Monster is a term for any number of legendary creatures that frequently appear in mythology, legend, and horror fiction.
		This connection between monsters and the unknown meant that the monster was an important concept in the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, as Western society began to use science and other academic disciplines to try to understand the unknown.
		Pre-World War II During the age of silent movies, representations of monsters were the size of a person played by an actor in a costume: Frankenstein's monster, the Golem, and vampires are the most well-known ones.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monster (1067 words)

	Monster (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Monster is a 2003 American movie about the life of prostitute-turned-serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who was executed in 2002 for killing seven men in the late 1980s-early 1990s.
		The film was written and directed by Patty Jenkins.
		Until her performance in Monster, Theron was best known for conventional supporting roles that a woman of her looks typically gets (such as in The Italian Job and The Cider House Rules), so it can be said that her performance as the unattractive, mentally ill, tragic Aileen was unexpected.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Monster_(film) (419 words)

	"Monster Road"--more info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Monster Road moves between the personal and filmic worlds of Bruce Bickford in an attempt to understand the sometimes baffling animation he produces at a frenetic rate.
		His short films have shown in festivals across the country, and he was awarded a Filmmaking Fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council in 2000.
		Monster Road features a propulsive and evocative instrumental score by Merge Records recording artists Shark Quest, whose music has been described as "an ingenious blend of art-bluegrass and lolling post-modernism" (Portland Mercury) and "Instrumental indie rock with a cinematic, desert-sweeping grandeur" (All Music Guide).
	www.brighteyepictures.com /monsterroad.html (899 words)

	Film Review: Monster (2003)
		The great accomplishment of Monster is not any overwhelming achivement of screenwriting or directing (although both are great), but the way in which you simply get lost in Charlize Theron's performance.
		Monster covers a short (but critical) period of time in the life of Aileen Wuornos, considered to be the first female serial killer in the United States.
		It's clear that Monster is a character study in the purest sense.
	www.lightsoutfilms.com /film_monster.html (468 words)

	Articles: The Ten Best Science Fiction Film Directors, by Jeremy Adam Smith
		This film is filled with truly incredible comic performances -- George C. Scott is hilariously over-the-top as General Buck Turgidson, and Peter Sellers aces all three of his roles -- but its real triumph is its disciplined tone, which strikes a perfect balance between insanity and banality.
		Films like Scanners (1981), Videodrome (1983), The Fly (1986), and eXistenZ (1999) are instantly recognizable for their wintry soundtracks and anonymous cityscapes, which manage to appear simultaneously seedy and clean.
		In all his films, Cameron displays a talent and propensity for depicting violent spectacle (he crafts the leanest and meanest plots in all science fiction), which makes it all the more interesting that he is a genre pioneer in female characterization.
	www.strangehorizon.com /2004/20040419/directors.shtml (4760 words)

	Film Review: Monster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Monster is an obvious and successful attempt to give the finger to those who haven't taken Theron seriously as an actress.
		What keeps Monster from being very good, instead of just a movie to see for the acting, is the filmmakers' decision to wholeheartedly make Aileen a victim and the movie an overt - and, unfortunately, reductive - feminist tract, one that occasionally eschews psychological complexity in favour of sermonizing.
		In Monster - the title is meant to be ironic - she is guilty of little more than trying to find and keep love.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/m/monster_2003.shtml (537 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review MONSTER movie by Patty Jenkins with Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Scott Wilson, ...
		But "Monster," shot in a series of grungy Florida locations by a dedicated cast and crew on a mini-budget in a mere 29 days, is the antithesis of a Hollywood movie.
		And though well-deserved, it's a shame that all the buzz on "Monster" is bound to focus on the gorgeous Theron's phenomenal transformation into the blowsy Florida prostitute who, after 12 years on death row, died voluntarily by lethal injection a little over a year ago.
		In "Monster," Wuornos (who began hooking at age 13 to help out the family which naturally put her out when she became pregnant), constantly calls Selby "my baby." And Selby (who professes to be "grown up") reverts to infantilism with her paramour.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2003/monster.php (877 words)

	Monster (2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Goofs: Continuity: The amusement park in the film is referred to as "Fun World".
		The result is not your usual indie movie that tries to be hip, or a sugar-coated version of this tragic story with an answer for everything and a nice confortable message in the end, but a truly moving and absorbing film that focuses on the people whose story is telling.
		She got to the emotional reasons as to why Aileen's mannerism was like that.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0340855 (428 words)

	Netribution > News > Northern Exposure > Loch Ness Monster Film Malcolm Irvine
		McBain said: "The existence of the film was well documented at the time but it disappeared without trace and most people thought that it had been destroyed and lost for ever.
		When the film of the creature was shown to the Linnaean Society, a body which classified animals, no one could give an explanation as to what it could be.
		Malcolm Irvine's film of the Loch Ness Monster will be screened in a special St Andrew's night programme, Scotland on Film, at 10pm on BBC Two.
	www.netribution.co.uk /news/northern_exposure/94/10.html (776 words)

	Mad Monster Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The film stars Boris Karloff as himself, in puppet form announcing his retirement from the monster community and naming a successor to his horrific empire.
		The film was shown on TV annually, around Halloween and Thanksgiving in the 1970's on East Coast stations like New York's channel 5 (long before it was FOX) and New Jersey's WOR channel 9.
		As a result of neglect, the original film negative was water damaged beyond restoration and the films existence is on the verge of extinction.
	www.misfits.com /MadMonster.html (855 words)

	Monster (2003): Charlize Theron, Christina Ricci, Bruce Dern, Lee Tergesen - PopMatters Film Review
		In the film's timeline, this occurs just as she meets the unexpected love of her life, Selby Wall (the distractingly awkward Christina Ricci), a character based on the real life Tyria Moore, who agreed to have her final phone call to Aileen tapped by police.
		Moreover, the film maintains she's not a man-hater per se, only searching for a sense of purpose, a way to understand her own disorder.
		While Monster is not so well-structured or nuanced as the film to which it has been repeatedly compared, Kimberly Peirce's Boys Don't Cry, and lapses occasionally into over-plotted clumsiness, it does find this space.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/m/monster.shtml (1462 words)

	Frankenstein (1931)
		The film's name was derived from the mad, obsessed scientist, Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive), who experimentally creates an artificial life - an Unnamed Monster (Boris Karloff), that ultimately terrorizes the Bavarian countryside after being mistreated by his maker's assistant Fritz and society as a whole.
		The film's most famous scene is the one in which Frankenstein befriends a young girl named Maria at a lake's edge, and mistakenly throws her into the water (and drowns her) along with other flowers.
		Significantly, this film then launched the career of unknown actor Boris Karloff, who is surprisingly uncredited in the opening credits of the film as the Monster.
	www.filmsite.org /fran.html (1737 words)

	Monster From A Prehistoric Planet (1967)
		Now most kaiju fans are used to the titles of imported films being altered when they are released in America and around the world.
		The film should be considered a direct rip-off of the 1961 UK monster film Gorgo.
		There are many points in the films plot that will leave the viewer a bit puzzled.
	www.kensforce.com /Gappa_the_Triphibian_Monster_1967.html (492 words)

	Monster International - Jesus Franco and Awful Dr. Orlof film review
		The film opens: it is a damp summer night in the Hartog region circa 1912, and a young woman stumbles drunkenly down a dimly lit alley to her apartment.
		Although the film is based on the (no doubt nonexistent) "novel" by Franco (under his pseudonym David Kuhne), it is heavily influenced by mystery author Edgar Wallace.
		One, the film is a horror story and features a monster and screaming women - elements usually considered too exploitive and therefore seen as "bad taste" by critics.
	users.aol.com /timothyp2/francofolder/articles/awfuldrorlof.html (3000 words)

	Frankenstein Films (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Monster vs. Nazi: The monster fights German soldier (Lionel Atwill) and steals his wooden arm in the 1939 Son of Frankenstein.
		Silliness reigns, but the film also reflects Japanese bitterness about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, fears about the results of human use of technology, and residual feelings of cultural inadequacy and fantasies of conquest that remain after Japan’s WWII defeat.
		Some film historians claim that in such movies, robots are modern versions of the Frankenstein monster.
	www.olemiss.edu /courses/engl205/frankenfilm.html (954 words)

	THE ASTOUNDING B MONSTER \| MORE
		Beginning with his fortuitous 1947 teaming with Anthony Mann, Alton proceeded to produce a virtual photographic workbook that film makers of every stripe are still endeavoring to emulate.
		Conflict was filmed from unsettling angles, throwing the audience as well as the hero off balance.
		The credentials of cameraman of John Alton are surely some of the most impressive in film.
	www.bmonster.com /more6.html (648 words)

	Japan Focus Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The same can be said of other American monster films such as Alien and the Hollywood production Godzilla in 1998 in which the main target of attack by Godzilla is again the people, not the city itself, and the monster and its babies are carnivorous dinosaurs.
		The second American Godzilla film, simply entitled Godzilla and produced in 1998, is the story of an iguana that was irradiated by a French nuclear test at Muraroa Atoll and somehow appears in New York as Godzilla.
		It is not surprising that this kind of film is produced as the SDF now demands that their own ideas be included in the script in return for providing tanks, jet fighters and the like for the filming.
	japanfocus.org /article.asp?id=300 (4484 words)

	Amazon.com: Monster's Ball: DVD: Billy Bob Thornton,Halle Berry,Taylor Simpson,Gabrielle Witcher,Heath Ledger,Amber ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		(Incidentally, a "monster's ball" is defined as the party thrown for a prison guard before he attends at his first execution.) Living with Hank at home is his aging, physically debilitated and venomously racist father, Buck (Peter Boyle), formerly a prison guard also.
		The film is hard to watch, especially because of the unflinching racism, words hurled in anger and rage which I, in my protected New York lifestyle, have never heard spoken aloud.
		We hate him for his racist beliefs and yet we see a gradual humanity creep in, as he respects the last wishes of the condemned man and is infuriated by his own son, also a corrections officer, who shows weakness during the execution.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005YU1M?v=glance (2521 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Monster
		She is far better than the film itself, which simplifies and unnecessarily fictionalizes the now classic tale of murder and mayhem — as well as self-defense, homophobia, state-sponsored execution, and sensationalist media.
		When a beautiful actor, such as Nicole Kidman in The Hours (2002) or Halle Berry in Monster’s Ball (2001) (there’s that word again, “monster”) is so confident of her good looks that she can let herself in the name of film acting and fame appear ugly, she’s a shoe-in.
		In the film, the audience is prompted to believe that this violence unleashes Lee’s rage and suggests that it can no longer be effectively contained — the character lets loose a chillingly triumphant wail after she has killed her attacker.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /43/monster.htm (1767 words)

	Monster film movie trailer review at The Z Review
		Monster is the true life story of Aileen Wuornos who killed seven men in the late 80's and at her trial pleaded innocent as she alleged the men raped and abused her.
		Monster will be released in the UK on R2 DVD on the 11th October 2004.
		The film is produced by Brad Wyman, Donald Kushner, Charlize Theron, Mark Damon and Sammy Lee.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/m/monster.shtm (636 words)

	channel4.com/film - Monster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The film shows Wuornos finding some moments of respite from her messed-up life via a loving relationship before succumbing to homicidal urges and earning a date with the electric chair.
		The film is set in 1989-90, the period of Wuornos' life just before she was caught and imprisoned.
		The film implies that he was a psychopath who otherwise would have further tortured her and killed her.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=127942 (342 words)

	Pulgasari (1985)
		Unlike the other films on this website, this film was produced in North Korea, not South Korea.
		In 1998 the film was championed by a Japanese film critic, and was released in Japan, apparetly to some sucess.
		The overall story is very similar to plot of the Japanese monster film Daimajin (aka Majin, Monster of Terror).
	www.stomptokyo.com /scott/yongary/movies/pulgasari/pulgasari.html (478 words)

	Monster.com: Film Producer, Stone vs. Stone, Inc., Web Stone (Q&A)
		Other Stone projects are "Citizen X" for HBO and the upcoming feature film "The Negotiator," starring Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey.
		That resulted in "Citizen X," the second-highest-rated HBO film ever made at that time.
		These deals have the potential to make a lot of money, but often it isn't realized unless the film gets made, and that can be rare.
	midcareer.monster.com /qanda/jtds_010598 (1174 words)

	Monster film review
		In Monster, writer and director Patty Jenkins focuses on the final chapters in Wuornos' life, when she meets up with Selby Wall (Christina Ricci) and embarks on her killing spree.
		The result is an unremarkable film destined to achieve wider acclaim by dint of a remarkable performance by Charlize Theron in the title role.
		And while it's impossible not to marvel at her commitment and skill, it's unfortunate Theron's talents were not matched by the script which offers only a very cursory glimpse into the mind and life of such an extraordinary woman.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/monster.html (639 words)

	channel4.com/film - Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nicknamed 'Alcoholica' by journalists in the 1980s, and almost single-handedly responsible for saving heavy metal from itself in the 1990s, Metallica are arguably the greatest band the genre has spawned.
		Some Kind Of Monster, a candid fly-on-the wall documentary - rockumentary, if you will - slots neatly into the not-very-extensive canon of revealing and entertaining rock profiles that genuinely explore their subject.
		Covering three years, it begins in 2001, at which point the band were already in a state of flux.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=134939 (260 words)

	Japan, Godzilla and the Atomic Bomb
		Unlike typical monster films of the time, the strong character-driven plot and the special effects combined to present a glimpse of the Japanese psyche in a time of war.
		However, unlike the first film, where the bombing of Hiroshima (in fact the destruction of all Japan), is represented by Godzilla’s attack on Tokyo at the end of the film, the bombing of Nagasaki is represented by the battle between Godzilla and Angilas in Osaka, about halfway into the film.
		The film, which is loosely based on the predictions of,Nostradamus depicts the end of the world by nuclear war and the mutated survivors that would survive such a conflict.
	www.historyvortex.org /JapanGodzillaAtomicBomb.html (10512 words)

	A model monster - Film - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		Monster epic: (clockwise from left) King Kong battles the dinosaur in 1933; a poster for the original film; the gorilla and dinosaur square off in the curious sequel, The Son of Kong.
		Claiming secrecy to be of the essence, he would only tell the blonde starlet that her co-star would be the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood.
		Monster epic: (clockwise from left) King Kong battles the dinosaur in 1933; a poster for the original film; the gorilla and dinosaur square off in the curious sequel, The Son of Kong.
	theage.com.au /news/film/a-model-monster/2005/12/07/1133829656549.html (869 words)

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