The real world is such a horror show, who needs Halloween? But maybe that’s exactly why now is the time to face our fears or indulge in some flat out horror silliness to distract ourselves. […]
Tag: godzilla
Kaiju Movies Without Godzilla in Them
Godzilla is the King of the Monsters in more ways than one. However, there are a lot of fantastic Kaiju movies without Godzilla in them. Even narrowly defined as giant monster movies specifically from Japan, […]
Tech Suckers and My Lost Battle Against Blu-ray
I recently purchased the Criterion Blu-ray boxed set of the Showa-era Godzilla movies. I hear it’s great. I wouldn’t know. I don’t have a Blu-ray player so I can’t watch it. It was not a […]
Sympathetic Monsters
The greatest monsters aren’t bad, they’re just misunderstood. Just look at all the crap Godzilla got for wrecking a major Japanese city or two. Or King Kong for abducting a young woman. Even Frankenstein, for […]
I Miss Godzilla
This post was originally going to be about why the American, big-budget, Godzilla films are always so horrible and the early, “real” ones, are so good. It was to be a celebration timed to go […]
The Godzilla Hotel
There was never any question in my mind where I wanted to stay on my first visit to Tokyo. It was a hotel dedicated to the King of Monsters, himself, Godzilla. It’s technically called the […]
The Death of Godzilla
They actually did it. They killed the King. In 1995, Toho announced that they would be ending the Godzilla film franchise and making one, last, movie featuring the big guy. He would die. And, the […]
