Special Monster (2025)

异形兽 ‧ Movie ‧ 2025

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Ratings: 7.5/10 from 7 users

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Over 700 years after the Southern Song Dynasty, Gao Cheng and his team set sail in search of the "Hurricane", a merchant ship carrying countless treasures that mysteriously vanished. However, they end up on a mysterious island inhabited by a primitive tribe and are relentlessly hunted by a swarm of alien creatures. Giant eggs hatch alien larvae, and after several near-death encounters, they finally discover the ancient ship's treasure, only to find themselves once again surrounded by alien monsters with no way to escape. (Source: iQIYI) Edit Translation

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Native Title: 异形兽
Also Known As: Yi Xing Shou , 異形獸
Genres: Adventure, Thriller, Horror
Tags: Web Movie, Suspense (Vote tags)

Country: China
Type: Movie
Release Date: Feb 3, 2025
Duration: 1 hr. 25 min.
Score: 7.5 (scored by 7 users)
Ranked: #99999
Popularity: #99999
Content Rating: Not Yet Rated
Watchers: 11
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Guo Mei Lin Zi
Yue Zi Qian
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8 days ago

Completed 3

Overall 2.0

Story 1.5

Acting/Cast 4.0

Music 3.0

Rewatch Value 1.0

Wuxie meets Alien - discount edition.

I don't even know where to start. To say the movie felt disconnected feels like an understatement. We had Aliens that are not really Aliens, prehistorical "animals", discount version of Grave Robbers' Chronicles, biologist that was determined to die, bur failed even in that.

Why does this movie start mid scene. I've got whiplash from the opening scene, to only around half way through figured out the "opening scene" are just random scenes from various moments in the movie - and with that you kind of know how it ends.

As for the production - hard to tell if a lot of it was AI generated or just poorly done CGI. Or both. I'm leaning towards poorly done CGI, because I feel like AI generated models would look better. I'd take poor CGI done by person, over AI generated images any day though.

Overall, there truly is nothing to talk about. We had vague treasure, mid team trying to find it, no explanation, no exposition, no proper closure.

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