Monstrous Teasing: Pacific Rim Teaser Video Released

About a year and a half ago, it looked like things were good to go for Guillermo del Toro to get the green light to film a live action adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness, with a 150 million dollar budget and a commitment to turn the story of the Antarctic discovery of Elder Things, Shoggoths and Cthulhu into a film with a hard R rating, in accordance with the horror of the original story. That was good. However, at the eleventh hour, Universal pulled the plug on the movie, because it had a 150 million dollar budget and a hard R rating. That was less good.

However, del Toro took the adversity on the chin, wiped it off like a pro, and took the disappointment of suddenly finding himself unable to adapt a classic of the cosmic horror genre to sink his teeth into something equally weighty: a flick about giant monsters and robots.

Pacific Rim is scheduled to open on July 12, 2013, and the first teaser video of the flick has been released, which you can check out after the jump.

Yeah, it’s kinda hard to tell exactly what we’re looking at here, due to the flickering images and handheld-looking teaser footage, which reminded me entirely too much of Cloverfield, to tell you the truth. However, there’s no indication that this is going to be a found footage picture – there was some talk of making the movie in 3D (they later decided not to), and the only thing more nauseating I can think of than a shakycam found footage flick in 3D involves Ipecac.

Besides, if there’s one thing that Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth have taught us, it’s that if there’s one thing del Toro can do, it’s monsters. So I can’t imagine that we won’t get some big damn awesome monsters, getting kicked in the taint by some big damn robots that make me miss my childhood Shogun Warriors.