Arcadian takes place after a catastrophic ... When the director showed Cage the design of the monster (which is almost entirely CGI, painted over a mo-cap performer who was on set), the star ...

Nicolas Cage is back to battling monsters in “Arcadian.” The new family-focused ... against night-roving monsters with a creature design unlike anything we’ve seen on screen in recent ...

Now, Arcadian will be added to the handful of ... Meanwhile, other critics have praised the movie's inventive monster design and how emotional performances elevate the stereotypical story beats ...

To make a story like Arcadian truly sing, the creature design has to be unique and visually gripping. If the monster doesn’t work, it lessens the impact of the scares. More importantly ...

The final monster design in Arcadian features an amalgamation of limbs and features that defy easy categorization, designed to spark fear through its unfamiliarity and eerie semblance to known ...

Whatever “Arcadian” wants to say about the species, it’s basically just a monster-movie version of “The Alamo” or “Attack on Precinct 13,” as the characters cower in their makeshift ...

Arcadian director Benjamin Brewer ... fragile sanctuary uses pacing and practical effects as an extension of this monster to create an atmosphere thick with suspense and impending doom.

The minimalistic design allows for the ... are lots of details missing from Arcadian. Brewer and screenwriter Mike Nilon may have created an effective enough monster but the human characters ...

Though things go off the rails in the third act, Arcadian’s intriguing premise and inspired monster design pack plenty of scares into this post-apocalyptic fable.

Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell, and Maxwell Jenkins star in "Arcadian." Credit ... while in the back there's the out-of-focus form of the monster, its invasion made all the more atrocious by ...

Arcadian is now playing in theaters and streaming ... eventual attacks from genuinely unsettling nocturnal creatures. The design for these beasts incorporates unpredictable rapid-fire stutters ...