#NowWatching “Shin Godzilla” (2016) on 4K UHD Blu-Ray from Toho
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Written & directed by Hideaki Anno & Shinji Higuchi
Something has surfaced in Tokyo Bay. As the Prime Minister of Japan pleads with the public to remain calm, a horrific creature of tremendous size makes landfall in the city, leaving death and destruction in its wake. Then it evolves.
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It's #Kaijuktober! And to celebrate it I'm watching a #kaiju #movie every day.
Today's movie was: The Secret of the Telegian / 電送人間 (1960)
Apparently a successor to The H-Man (1958), it also features a shape-shifting human. Directed by Jun Fukuda, the #film is a serious work from start to finish, beautifully shot too, nothing to do with the characteristic goofiness of his later films. Looking at you, Son of Godzilla (1967).
I give it 3½/5 Kaiju
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It's #Kaijuktober! And to celebrate it I'm watching a #kaiju #movie every day.
Today's movie was: Varan the Unbelievable (1962)
The Americanization of Varan (1958), and unlike Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) — which uses body doubles to convince you the new main character was always there — and Gigantis, the Fire Monster (1959) — which mostly changes dialog — this one uses only around 10 minutes of the original #film.
I give it 1½/5 Kaiju
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#Q (1982)
NYPD detectives Shepard and Powell are working on a bizarre case of a ritualistic Aztec murder. Meanwhile, something big is attacking people of New York.
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It's #Kaijuktober! And to celebrate it I'm watching a #kaiju #movie every day.
Today's movie was: Gigantis, the Fire Monster (1959)
This #film is the Americanization of Godzilla Raids Again (1955), and unlike Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) they don't go to the trouble of changing the plot, introducing body doubles, and trying to deceive the audience. The dubbing turns what was a bad movie into an unwatchable one.
I give it 1½/5 Kaiju
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Godzilla Day is coming up on November 3, and knowing this in advance gives me time to maybe tidy up the collection to get a good shot by then. We'll see 😂
https://godzilla.com/blogs/news/how-to-celebrate-godzilla-day-2025
More than seven decades after producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, director Ishirō Honda, and special effects master Eiji Tsuburaya first unleashed Godzilla in Japanese theaters on November 3, 1954, the King of the Monsters remains a beloved symbol of imagination and cinematic innovation. Now, after a landmark 70th anniversary ye
It's #Kaijuktober! And to celebrate it I'm watching a #kaiju #movie every day.
Today's movie was: Godzilla, King of the Monsters! / 怪獣王ゴジラ (1956)
October isn't finished and neither am I!
This #film is an Americanization of Godzilla (1954), and a quite competent one if I might say so myself. With heavy use of body doubles and dubbed audio, it tries to gaslight you into believing the main character was there all along.
I give it 3/5 Kaiju
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It's #Kaijuktober! And to celebrate it I'm watching a #kaiju #movie every day.
Today's movie was: Terror of Mechagodzilla / メカゴジラの逆襲 (1975)
#Toho's last #film from the showa era was a sequel to the infamous Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1974). Aliens, robots, international spies, and kaiju are back, but the ancient deities are noticeably missing. Director Ishirō Honda did as much as he could with the hand he was dealt: not much.
I give it 2½/5 Kaiju
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妖怪百物語 [Yōkai hyakumonogatari / Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters] (Kimiyoshi Yasuda, 1968)
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One-hundred monsters! (via). DPs: Yasukazu Takemura & Shōzō Tanaka.
[A favourite] horror movie with more than one bad guy*
A shrine must give way to a brothel, and a game of supernatural storytelling follows. At the end of the spooky tales, the landowner neglects to complete the all-important purification ceremony resulting in one-hundred yōkai – one for each story – coming out to haunt the rich man and his cronies.
* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for October is horror-themed as opposed to date-based, and is all about favourites. Expect non-horror and films I believe to be relevant instead.
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Mr. Woolf 🇺🇦
Max Almonte
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Baja -MONSTER MASH BACKERKIT
Jake in the desert
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