Movies featuring man pitted against prehistoric beasts have been popular since 1925’s The Lost World, where Arthur Conan Doyle’s tale featured a mysterious plateau rife with dinosaurs, and with the success of modern films like Jurassic World, where genetic engineering replaced lost continents, the dinosaur genre has proven itself to always have a spot in…
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Gojira (1954) – Review
In 1953, Ray Harryhausen introduced the world to the first atomic-created monster with The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, spawning such follow-up nuclear-created beasts like the giant ants from Them and the towering menace of The Amazing Colossal Man, but the “Beast” from Ray Harryhausen’s classic’s most famous descendant was Gojira (Godzilla to those in the…