Players take on the role of Blank—a young boy in training to be a Creature Keeper. Creature Keepers are warriors who work together with monsters in order to defend the land and maintain peace. However ...

Hidden in the thick forest of the fictional island of Carpathia lives the Ochi, an orange-furred primate that communicates through distinct whistling sounds — a song, if you will. Though these ...

As Guillermo del Toro’s go-to composer, Alexandre Desplat knew about the filmmaker’s desire to tell his version of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” While del Toro loved the story, Desplat admits his own ...

Now, if there’s one thing we know about nerds out there, it’s that they love a creature. It can be a cute creature, a fearsome beast, a gorgeous animal, or a hideous monstrosity, and ardent fans will ...

Monster Island (originally titled Orang Ikan) is a creature feature wrapped in the historical context of World War II. The film follows a Japanese soldier and a British prisoner of war who end up ...

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...