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October 16th, 2014: Beginning of the End (1957)

Oct16 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Giant Insects, Horror, Independent, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "this enormous X could feed the world", bad special effects, Bert I. Gordon, cash-in, Drive-In, farm, lady reporter, less famous siblings, low-budget, Morris Ankrum, Peter Graves, reporter, rip-off, scientists, stock footage, The Marines

October 11th, 2014: The Black Scorpion (1957)

Oct11 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Black and White, Giant Insects, Horror, Independent, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation Tagged annoying children, arena, cash-in, Drive-In, geologist, kenny, low-budget, Mara Corday, Mexico, Mexico City, Richard Denning, rip-off, scientists, scorpion, train, train attack, volcano, Warner Brothers, Willis O'Brien

August 5th, 2014: Mothra (1961)

Aug5 by Professor Mortis

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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

July 17th, 2014: Godzilla vs. Megalon

Jul17 by Professor Mortis

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2 Comments Posted in Action, Adventure, Dinosaurs, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Lost World, Robots, Sci-Fi, Sequel, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged annoying children, Bad Dubbing, dam, Drive-In, giant robot, Gigan, Godzilla, Homoerotic, inventors, Japan, Jet Jaguar, Jun Fukuda, Katsuhiko Sasaki, Lemuria, lost city, matinee, Megalon, motorcycle, Mu, rip-off, Robert Dunham, robots, scientists, Seatopia, Shinichi Sekizawa, Showa Series, suitmation, superhero Godzilla, Takeshi Kimura, the declining years, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, underwater civilization

May 15th, 2014: Kaijû Sôshingeki aka Destroy All Monsters (1968)

May15 by Professor Mortis

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3 Comments Posted in Action, Aliens, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Giant Animals, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, War with Aliens Tagged "New York", Akira Ifukube, Akira Kubo, alien ultimatum, Angillas, astronauts, Baragon, Drive-In, futures past, Ghidorah, Godzilla, Ishiro Honda, island, Japan, Kenji Sahara, Minilla, Moscow, Mothra, Paris, prison island, Rodan, scientists, Spigas, Takeshi Kimura, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka

May 13th, 2014: Godzilla: Final Wars

May13 by Professor Mortis

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1 Comment Posted in Action, Aliens, Computer Animation, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Giant Animals, Giant Crustaceans, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, War with Aliens Tagged "homage is French for rip off", "New York", Akira Takarada, alien abduction, Antarctica, athlete turned actor, Godzilla, homage, Keith Emerson, Kenji Sahara, Kumi Mizuno, Minilla, Mothra, mutants, Rodan, runaway planet, scientists, Toho, Tokyo, United Nations

June 16th, 2013: Son of Godzilla

Jun16 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Event Film, Family, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "Beauty Tames the Beast", "Son of", "This Lost World is Gonna Blow!", Akihiko Hirata, Akiro Kubo, asshole reporter, Big Damn Spider, Eiji Tsuburaya, father, father-son relationship, Godzilla, Godzooky, insanity, island, Japan, Jun Fukuda, jungle, jungle girl, Kenji Sahara, mantis, Masaru Sato, Minilla, parachute jump, poison, remote island, reporter, Science!, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, spiders, Tadao Takashima, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, weather control, webs

May 7th, 2013: Ghidorah, the Three Headed Monster

May7 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Cops, Crime, Dinosaurs, Disaster, Event Film, Giant Insects, Hit Man, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Superheroes Tagged airplane, Akihiko Hirata, Akiko Wakabayashi, Akira Ifukube, alien possession, alien warning, assassin, assassination attempt, Bad Dubbing, Cassandra, cops, Eiji Tsuburaya, Emi Ito, fishermen, Ghidorah, Godzilla, hanging from a cliff, Hiroshi Koizumi, Japan, Kenji Sahara, lady reporter, model airplane, Mothra, mountains, music summons the monster, plane crash, power outage, princess, prophecy, quotably bad dialogue, reporter, Rodan, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, shock treatment, Takashi Shimura, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, TV show, Yosuke Natsuki, Yumi Ito, Yuriko Hoshi

April 12th, 2013: Earth vs. the Spider (1958)

Apr12 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Black and White, Giant Insects, Horror, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged adults playing teens, AIP, bad rear projection, bad special effects, Bert I. Gordon, cash-in, DDT, Drive-In, gym, high school, James H. Nicholson, low-budget, music summons the monster, musical interlude, rip-off, rock and roll, Samuel Z. Arkoff, Science!, scientists, teachers, teens

March 1st, 2013: Mosura tai Gojira aka Mothra vs. Godzilla aka Godzilla vs. The Thing

Mar1 by Professor Mortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Event Film, Giant Insects, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Puppetry Tagged Akira Takarada, amusement park, Eiji Tsuburaya, Emi Ito, evil businessman, Godzilla, Hiroshi Koizumi, Ishiro Honda, Japan, Kenji Sahara, Mechagodzilla, photographer, psychic, reporter, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, twins, Yumi Ito, Yuriko Hoshi

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