{"id":520,"date":"2008-04-23T06:36:52","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T20:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/23\/top-20-craziest-kaiju-number-19\/"},"modified":"2008-04-23T06:36:52","modified_gmt":"2008-04-22T20:36:52","slug":"top-20-craziest-kaiju-number-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/23\/top-20-craziest-kaiju-number-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 20 Craziest Kaiju: Number 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/kaijulogo-final1.jpg\" title=\"Craziest Kaiju Countdown logo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/kaijulogo-final1.jpg\" alt=\"Craziest Kaiju Countdown logo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#800000\">19<\/font><\/h1>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"center\"><font color=\"#800000\"><strong>The Big Bird<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/font><\/h2>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">from <em>The Giant Claw<\/em> (US-1957; dir. Fred F. Sears)<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/giantclawposter.jpg\" title=\"Giant Claw poster\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/giantclawposter.jpg\" alt=\"Giant Claw poster\" height=\"328\" width=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;Something, he didn&#8217;t know what, but something as big as a Battleship has just flown over and past him.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is definitely one of the silliest kaijus to ever appear on the big screen. Planes begin disappearing left and right with reports of some sort of UFO, but nothing shows up on any radar screens, much to everyone&#8217;s bemusement. Soon it is discovered that a bird the size of a battleship from outer space has decided that the earth would be the perfect planet to build its nest. Apparently the creature is able to generate some sort of impenetrable forcefield around itself that makes it invisible to radar. The &#8220;Big Bird&#8221; looks like a cross between a giant vulture and an ostrich. It may not be the most elegant of monsters, but it&#8217;s certainly memorable.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/giantclaw6.jpg\" title=\"Giant Claw 1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/giantclaw6.jpg\" alt=\"Giant Claw 1\" height=\"242\" width=\"419\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/giantclaw2.jpg\" title=\"Giant Claw 2\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/giantclaw2.jpg\" alt=\"Giant Claw 2\" height=\"281\" width=\"415\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The trailer:<\/p>\n<p><center><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6sKGz-hQ0yg&amp;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6sKGz-hQ0yg&amp;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Big Bird eating a parachutist:<\/p>\n<p><center><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6IeSgSSY4yQ&amp;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6IeSgSSY4yQ&amp;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050432\/\" target=\"_blank\">IMDB<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Coming Tomorrow: <\/strong>Kaiju Search-Robot Avery\u2019s Top 20 Craziest Kaiju Countdown <strong>Number 18!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Top 20 Craziest Kaiju Countdown articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/21\/craziest-kaiju-countdown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kaiju Search-Robot Avery&#8217;s Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/22\/top-20-craziest-kaiju-number-20\/\" target=\"_blank\">Number 20<\/a>: <em>The Monolith Monsters<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 &nbsp; The Big Bird &nbsp; from The Giant Claw (US-1957; dir. 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Sears) &#8220;Something, he didn&#8217;t know what, but something as big as a Battleship has just flown over and past him.&#8221; This is definitely one of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/04\/23\/top-20-craziest-kaiju-number-19\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69,4,44,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}