{"id":17140,"date":"2025-06-26T19:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17140\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T19:58:08","slug":"monster-island-trailer-shudder-exclusive-brings-gill-man-creature-into-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/17140\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Monster Island&#8217; Trailer &#8211; Shudder Exclusive Brings Gill Man Creature into World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by horror classic Creature from the Black Lagoon as well as Malay folkore, the monster movie <strong>Monster Island <\/strong>(aka <strong>Orang Ikan<\/strong>) has received a trailer from<strong> Shudder<\/strong> today.<\/p>\n<p>Shudder will release the World War II-set creature feature in North America, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand beginning<strong> July 25, 2025<\/strong>. Watch the trailer down below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dean Fujioka<\/strong>\u00a0(\u201cFullmetal Alchemist\u201d) and<strong>\u00a0Callum Woodhouse<\/strong> (\u201cAll Creatures Great and Small\u201d) lead the cast of the film, set during World War II and centered on a fish monster.<\/p>\n<p>In the upcoming Shudder Exclusive movie, \u201cAfter being torpedoed by allied submarines, a Japanese soldier and a British POW are stranded on a deserted island and soon discover that they\u2019re being hunted by a ferocious mythological creature, the Orang Ikan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Singapore-Indonesia-Japan-UK co-production is written and directed by\u00a0<strong>Mike Wiluan<\/strong>, whose producing credits include\u00a0<strong>Crazy Rich Asians\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>The Night Comes for Us<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very proud to have Shudder present the film in territories that have a rich history and appreciation for creature films,\u201d said Wiluan. \u201cThe \u2018Fish Man\u2019 folklore is a globally recognized phenomenon that has enjoyed several re-incarnations.\u00a0Orang Ikan\u00a0is a pan-Asian interpretation of the genre that also questions the nature of humanity during times of war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were thrilled to work with such a talented and acclaimed team,\u201d added producer Fumie Suzuki Lancaster. \u201cThe film has great nail-biting tension from beginning to end combined with plenty of unexpected emotional twists. We believe\u00a0Orang Ikan\u00a0has great potential, and we\u2019re confident that audiences around the world will be just as excited.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inspired by horror classic Creature from the Black Lagoon as well as Malay folkore, the monster movie Monster&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,16694,53,16695,16696,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-17140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-monster-island","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-orang-ikan","12":"tag-shudder","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114751439123330791","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}