Production Package - Script Justifying

I thought I would do a short post to justify one main idea within our script that raised issues.

Within many monster films, the monster comes into it pretty early on, however, out of 100 pages, our monster doesn't arrive properly until around the 57th page. We do have reasoning for not bringing him in sooner.

In monster movies for the SyFy network, we noticed there tends to be a trend with the main threat in each film. In Sharknado for example, throughout the film the only threat is the sharks, which are swimming about Los Angeles. It is only towards the last 20-30 minutes of the film where the main threat kicks in - 3 individual tornadoes, now in the middle of LA, with sharks swirling around them.

A similar concept takes place within Piranhaconda - Initially we do see one of the monsters, but only one. It is half way through the film we realise that there are actually 2 monsters, then at the end of the film, the whole threat kicks off to a larger scale when we see that there are 4/5 piranhacondas.

This has helped us to justify why Cthulhu doesn't rise until more than half way through. Up until this point, we do have a threat shown and that is posed. This is the mini goo monsters, known as the Shoggoth. These creatures pop up throughout, taking over peoples bodies and attacking them in their homes, at their work. This then is followed up by ships flying through the city like meteorites, smashing into buildings and crushing people. Then for the last 40 or so pages, we actually have the true threat arising, which is the monster Cthulhu, thus fitting in with the pattern of the other examples of monster movies on the SyFy network I have given. We believe this is just cause to not bring Cthulhu in any earlier.