It would have been awesome if Universal was a wee bit braver and gave lower budgets ($10-15 million) to some exciting genre directors. Imagine the likes of Adam Wingard, Nacho Vigalondo, Joel Edgerton, Robert Eggers or Anna Biller coming to this material with distinctive takes on the classic Monsters, delivering the scares and producing something distinctive and memorable. Sure it might cost its budget to market and reach a smaller audience, but you won't be pissing money away like they have done here.