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August 5th, 2012: Mothra (1961)

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Event Film, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Killer Plants, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged Akihiko Hirata, allegory, atomic, atomic testing, evil businessman, gods, insects, Ishiro Honda, Japan, Kenji Sahara, kidnapping, music summons the monster, musical interlude, natives, newspaper, nightclub, radiation, radiation mutation, reporter, Robert Dunham, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, shipwrecks, stowaway, Takashi Shimura, telepaths, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, twins

June 29th, 2012: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Independent, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Stop Motion Animation, The Original Tagged Arctic, atomic, atomic testing, Cecil Kellaway, Coney Island, diving bell, Drive-In, Kenneth Tobey, Lee Van Cleef, New York City, radiation, Ray Bradbury, roller coaster, scientists, stock footage, Vera Miles, woman scientist with a man's first name

August 6th, 2011: Gojira (1954)

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Disaster, Drama, Horror, Kaiju, Melodrama, Monster, Movie of the Day, Mystery, Sci-Fi, The Original Tagged Akihiko Hirata, Akira Ifukube, Akira Takarada, arranged marriage, atomic testing, divers, Eiji Tsuburaya, Godzilla, inventors, Ishiro Honda, Japan, love triangle, natives, palentologists, radiation, radiation mutation, scientists, secret weapon, shipwrecks, Takashi Shimura, Toho, Tokyo, World War Two Veterans

July 23rd, 2011: Attack of the Crab Monsters

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Giant Crustaceans, Horror, Independent, Kaiju, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged Allied Artists, atomic testing, bad special effects, before they were famous, biblical allusion, Charles B. Griffith, crabs, Drive-In, incongrous quote, low-budget, Mel Welles, psychic, radiation mutation, Roger Corman, Russell Johnson, Science!, scientists, stock footage

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