What do you do when you’ve made an extremely successful movie but killed off the title character? This was the problem facing producer Tomoyuki Tanaka and director Motoyoshi Oda when they were tasked with making the follow-up to the 1955 monster hit Gojira.
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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…
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953) – Review
There is something about seeing a giant monster rampaging through city streets that stirs the imagination, from as far back as 1925’s The Lost World, where dinosaurs were let loose in the streets of London, to Warner Brother’s latest take on Japan’s biggest export Godzilla in 2014, that shows that we as a culture have…
Shin Godzilla (2016) – Review
Godzilla is no stranger to reboots, there have been several of them since the original film hit theaters back in 1954, and the nature of Godzilla himself has gone through many incarnations over the years, but the interesting thing here is those past reboots just wiped the slate clean of sequels while still considering the…
The Green Slime (1968) – Review
Remember when you were a kid, and your mother gave you holy hell for tracking mud onto her freshly mopped floor? Now picture that moment on a space station, only it’s not mud you’ve tracked in but alien protoplasm that quickly grows into a legion of monsters.