Short Film
Black and white
16x9
A salute to 50's and 60's "B" grade Horror flicks, Monsters from The Beyond tells the tale of college kids and a hard luck cop, both looking for a relaxing weekend, instead thrown into the same cabin together, pitted against flesh-hungry, trans-dimensional mutants.
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Written and Directed by Ian Stoops
Terrible first effort. Emphasis on terrible. Emphasis on first effort. It's not even good enough to be saved by the classic "So bad it's good" trope. It's awful. Pure and simple.
Ian's Opinion:
THIS FILM CONTAINS MATERIAL THAT MAY BE INAPPROPRIATE FOR SOME VIEWERS. DESCRETION IS ADVISED.
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THIS FILM CONTAINS BLOOD AND GORE, HORRIFIC ELEMENTS, VIOLENCE, AND MATURE LANGUAGE.
Behind the Scenes
This film was shot over a period of a week, for around 600 dollars, with a minimalist crew of myself, my fiancée, and whoever wasn't in the shot we were shooting at the time.
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The prompt for this film came from watching Kung Fury (David Sandberg, 2015) on El Rey Network, when a commercial for "The People's Network" came on. I was up until 3 in the morning brainstorming.
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Now that the film is completed, and terrible, I don't think I'll be submitting this to El Rey Network. I don't want anyone to see it. I don't even want myself to see it.
A table during production, covered with production stuff, mainly those prop guns we used.
The wonderfully talented, and crazy-fun, Rob Perez, in Police Blues for the film. It suits him rather well, does it not?