{"id":1676,"date":"2009-01-27T22:54:31","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T11:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2009-01-28T17:57:37","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T06:57:37","slug":"obscure-godzilla-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/27\/obscure-godzilla-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Obscure Godzilla Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re all familiar with the standard Godzilla<\/em> posters, beginning with the original Japanese one:<\/p>\n

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But there are many many others. As an excuse to reveal a poster that Kaiju Search-Robot Avery discovered on the Kong is King<\/em> messageboard, here is a bunch of less-well-known Godzilla<\/strong> posters, starting with the one Avery found — which advertises the US version by dissing King Kong and offering up a Godzilla who has — very early in his career — clearly let himself go.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a poster from Belgium for Godzilla vs Gigan<\/em>, featuring a big pile-up of kaiju, though the one that is supposed to be Godzilla looks more like The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\"Godzilla<\/p>\n

Or this fantastic Polish effort for The Terror of Mechagodzilla<\/em> — or perhaps Godzilla vs The Yellow Submarine<\/em> would be more appropriate:<\/p>\n

\"Terror<\/p>\n

Here we have a rather strange poster for Godzilla vs Megalon<\/em>, in which… somehow … the two skyscraper-sized monsters end up on either tower of what might be the World Trade Center:<\/p>\n

\"Godzilla<\/p>\n

This US poster for Godzilla vs the Thing<\/em> manages to both obscure what “the Thing” is and to hint that it’s some kind of tentacled Cthulhan monstrosity, even though this nomenclature was a rather silly attempt to obscure the fact that Godzilla’s opponent was a giant moth — a monster that might not appeal to the target 14-year-old US male:<\/p>\n

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Then there’s this one, a rather snazzy rendering of the main US poster for Godzilla, King of the Monsters<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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And finally a recent poster, rather stylish, advertising the British Film Institute’s release of the original Gojira<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Sources<\/strong>:<\/p>\n