10 More Criminally Underrated Monster Movies You Need To See

Monsters opens with lifeforms from space crashlanding by the United States/Mexico border. As more aliens appear around the country, half of Mexico is quarantined off, causing thousands of people to be evicted against their will.

If you're expecting a movie centred around a kaiju rampaging across the city, look elsewhere. Monsters takes a much more grounded approach, focusing on the how extra-terrestrials have impacted society. If aliens landed on our planet, how would their presence affect the environment? If a monster destroys a train track, how will that affect commuters? How would it affect your life, knowing there was a decent chance you could be crushed by a gigantic creature any time you left the house?

If you're worried Monsters is going to be a sociological drama and nothing more, fear not. The film is firmly aware of its roots, and ramps up the sci-fi action we've come to expect from a creature feature when it needs to.

Also, the extra-terrestrials' designs cannot be praised enough. Despite the half-a-mil budget, the creatures look more realistic than almost anything you'd see in a summer blockbuster.