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Category Archives: Kaiju Search-Robot Avery
Top 20 Craziest Kaiju: Number 14
14 The “Monster” from Gwoemul [literally, Monster; aka The Host] (South Korea-2006; dir. Joon-ho Bong) The Han River is very broad, Mr. Kim. Let’s try to be broad-minded about this. Anyway, that’s an order. So, start pouring. Pollution … Continue reading
Top 20 Craziest Kaiju: Number 15
15 The Moorwen from Outlander (US-2008; dir. Howard McCain) After a bunch of entries that mostly hark back to the 1950s, here’s one that’s so new none of us have seen the monster in action yet. It’s included … Continue reading
Top 20 Craziest Kaiju: Number 16
16 Rectuma from Rectuma (US-2004; dir. Mark Pirro) Now, you may rectum… I mean, reckon … that a giant ass [aka arse] doesn’t offer much by way of creativity in its design — and you’d be right. Butt … Continue reading
Top 20 Craziest Kaiju: Number 17
17 The Crawling Eye from The Trollenberg Terror [aka The Crawling Eye] (UK-1958; dir. Quentin Lawrence) “O-On a mountain, uh, dese things sometimes happen. “ Here’s one very weird entry about evil sentient telepathic fiends from space. They … Continue reading
Top 20 Craziest Kaiju: Number 18
18 Dogora from Uchu daikaiju Dogora [lit. Space Giant Monster Dogora] (Japan-1964; dir. Ishiro Honda) [aka Dagora, the Space Monster (US-1965)] This entry from the famed Toho Co. Ltd [creators of ‘Godzilla’] definitely stands out as one of … Continue reading
Top 20 Craziest Kaiju: Number 19
19 The Big Bird from The Giant Claw (US-1957; dir. Fred F. Sears) “Something, he didn’t know what, but something as big as a Battleship has just flown over and past him.” This is definitely one of the … Continue reading
Top 20 Craziest Kaiju: Number 20
20 The Monster Crystals from The Monolith Monsters (US-1957; dir. John Sherwood) “Rocks, Joe? Towers of rock crashing down and then growing up again?” The monsters in this “atomic age” classic are skyscraper-sized obsidian crystal towers. They arrive … Continue reading
Crawler aka Killdozer Redux
Kaiju Search-Robot Avery asks: “Does this count as a kaiju?” I’m a bit dubious myself. It might be 50 tons of terror, but is unnatural size really an issue? What do y’all think?
Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Kaiju Search-Robot Avery, Trailers
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Interview: Sheri Wiggins
Birth of a Legend: The Story of the WAWA (US-2008, directed by Steve Wiggins) Sweet Tee, Alabama, has a problem; a big, wormy, carnivorous mutation that comes out of the polluted lake to chew up the residents and generally cause … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Interviews, Kaiju Search-Robot Avery, Lake Monsters
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Vintage Robots, Part Eight: Re-Made
No longer new, but somehow I’d missed it: This live-action version of Tetsujin 28 was released in 2005. “Tetsujin 28” (lit. Iron Man 28) is a manga by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, the original run of which went from 1956 to 1966 … Continue reading
Posted in Daikaiju, Film, Giant Monsters, Kaiju Search-Robot Avery, Robots
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