Category Archives: Daikaiju

Review: Konga

Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 by Robert Hood

Review of the 1961 British mad scientist/giant ape fusion, Konga: This bizarre mix of mad scientist movie and giant ape/King-Kongesque epic starts well enough, full of colourful ’60s clothes, bright photography, stylised English dialogue, rather attractive carnivorous plants and a … Continue reading →

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Scary Green Giant

Posted on Tuesday, October 23, 2007 by Robert Hood

Here’s an ad from the 1950s that featured a stop-motion Jolly Green Giant. It apparently scared the kids so much the ad was withdrawn and further ads only showed the Giant from a respectable distance. That sinister face! Argghhh! What … Continue reading →

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Godzilla Rises Again

Posted on Monday, October 22, 2007 by Robert Hood

Toho may not be making any new Godzilla movies these days, but they’re still marketing the King, it seems. According to SciFi Japan, they are re-releasing the Godzilla series in new box sets, beginning with three collections covering Gojira through … Continue reading →

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The Second Coming of Daikaiju! 3

Posted on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 by Robert Hood

A day on from my previous post, and Daikaiju! 3: Giant Monsters vs the World has appeared on Amazon.com, only two weeks from the launching of its short-run Australian edition. You can order it here.

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Daikaiju! 2 Appears in the US

Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 by Robert Hood

I’ve just found out that the main US edition of Daikaiju! 2: Revenge of the Giant Monsters is now available on Amazon. Yay! To buy a copy, go here. Daikaiju! 3: Giant Monsters Vs the World should be along soon. … Continue reading →

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Unnaturally Human

Posted on Monday, September 24, 2007 by Robert Hood

“… an uncanny effect is often and easily produced when the distinction between imagination and reality is effaced, as when something that we have hitherto regarded as imaginary appears before us in reality, or when a symbol takes over the … Continue reading →

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The Bats Get Mutated!

Posted on Friday, September 21, 2007 by Robert Hood

Three great new pages in Todd Tennant’s graphic novelisation of the original US Godzilla ’94 script have just gone up on his American Kaiju site. For those who haven’t been following it from the beginning, there are 41 pages so … Continue reading →

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The perils of editing

Posted on Thursday, September 13, 2007 by Robert Hood

Some people really can’t handle rejection, can they? Check this out!

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Daikaiju! 2 Review

Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 by Robert Hood

It’s taken a while, but at last a review of Daikaiju! 2: Revenge of the Giant Monsters has hit the blogsphere — and it’s a fairly positive one. You can read it on the ASif site. I always knew it … Continue reading →

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Neon Genesis didn’t lie!

Posted on Monday, September 10, 2007 by Robert Hood

Here it is, proof that all those daikaiju attacks on Japan have resulted in their cities being built to retract underground prior to “an incident”. In this video, you can see the buildings rising again, once the kaiju was dealt … Continue reading →

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