{"id":838,"date":"2008-05-21T07:34:31","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T21:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/21\/top-20-craziest-kaiju-number-1\/"},"modified":"2009-01-06T10:38:31","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T23:38:31","slug":"top-20-craziest-kaiju-number-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/05\/21\/top-20-craziest-kaiju-number-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 20 Craziest Kaiju: Number 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Craziest<\/a><\/p>\n

1<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Guilala <\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

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from <\/strong>Uchu daikaiju Girara<\/strong> [trans. Giant Space Monster Guilala]
\n(1967; dir. Kazui Nihonmatsu)
\n[aka The X from Outer Space<\/em> (US, 1968)]<\/p>\n

\"Guilala<\/a><\/p>\n

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Monsters have rights also!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Guilala is best known and loved (not to mention derided) as the “giant space chicken”? Whatever he is, Guilala definitely takes the prize as the “craziest kaiju ever”. He arrives on earth as an alien spore attached to a space shuttle and quickly grows into one insanely weird-looking monster, before beginning to wreak havoc on the world. The film itself might not be the crowning glory of the Japanese daikaiju eiga genre, but Guilala wins this particular contest of ours hands down. [By the way, he isn’t a giant X, despite the title of the Americanised version of the film — but the “what the hell IS that?” response suggested by the anonymous letter X expresses the feelings of all those who view him…] News that Guilala is finally being given a second film after all this time — in Girara-no Gyakushuu Touyaku Samitto Kiki Ippatsu<\/strong> [lit. Guilala\u2019s Counter Attack: the Touyaku Summit One-Shot Crisis], directed by Minoru Kawasaki and due for release later this year — has provoked the most excitement we’ve had in kaiju fan circles since Godzilla’s swansong in 2004.<\/p>\n

\"X<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Guilala<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Guilala<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Guilala<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Guilala<\/a><\/p>\n

Below is a remodelling of Guilala created by Angel G. Crespo, who used Paint Shop Pro to turn a model of Zilla by Ulf Lundgren into our chickeny friend (source<\/a>):<\/p>\n

\"Guilala<\/a><\/p>\n

A montage of scenes of Guilalanese rampage:<\/p>\n

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The Japanese trailer (and yes, it looks better in widescreen):<\/p>\n

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