KAIJU DAY MARATHON: King Kong (1976)
Movies get hyped today, but no movie in my experience has ever been hyped like King Kong. I was four years when it came out, a total monster kid, and it arrived at the most perfect time ever in my life, a time when I had no school, no work and only limitless time to obsess […]
KAIJU DAY MARATHON: Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
What I loved about the cherished Godzilla movies of the youth: Since I was old enough — and Mom and Dad had no interest — I could be dropped off at the theater and be my own man. That’s a pretty big deal . . . and back then, you could drop a kid off […]
KAIJU DAY MARATHON: Attack of the Super Monsters (1982)
Oh man, this movie. Seriously, this is a film that will challenge your comprehension of time and space, question your ability to exist and then continually challenge you to remain connected to its narrative. A combination of live action rubber suit monsters and vehicle combat with 2D animation taking place for any human interaction, it […]
KAIJU DAY MARATHON: A*P*E* (1976)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This King Kong ripoff originally was on our site on June 29, 2017. It was originally made in 3D, which probably makes it a better movie. So would a lot of whiskey. I’ve always seen the 1976 Dino De Laurentiis produced King Kong as a big budget rip-off of the original instead of a remake. Therefore, […]
KAIJU DAY MARATHON: King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962)
The third film for both Kong — well, Son of Kong doesn’t feature him — and Godzilla and the first in color for both, King Kong vs. Godzilla gave Toho the idea to keep making Godzilla movies after retiring him for seven years. The original idea came from King Kong stop motion animator Willis H. O’Brien, who […]
KAUJI DAY MARATHON: Kong: King of Atlantis (2005)
This film reunites the cast from Kong: The Animated Series and even had a Game Boy Advance video game made from it. It’s all about Queen Reptilla raising the kingdom of Atlantis back from the ocean floor and her trying to convince King Kong into becoming its ruler. There’s a really great scene in the beginning […]
KAIJU DAY MARATHON: Son of Kong (1933)
Released nine months after the original — perfect timing for the son of King Kong to spend in the womb, when you think about it — this sequel ran every Thanksgiving on WOR and by the end, I was emotionally devastated. I still have difficulty watching it in my late 40’s and have no idea how […]
KAIJU DAY MARATHON: Kong: Skull Island (2017)
The second film in the Legendary MonsterVerse, Kong: Skull Island reboots and remakes King Kong for a new generation that would see the 70’s remake as silly, the Peter Jackson film as old and if that last statement is true, would think that the 1933 original was some kind of archaeological find like the Shroud of […]
Exploring: Dickie Goodman’s Kong
When I was five years old, no record was played more in my home than the Shock Records 45 of Dickie Goodman’s “Kong.” I had no idea that Goodman had an entire lifetime of records like this, I just knew that I had never heard anything that combined my love of music, trivia and monster […]
KAIJU DAY MARATHON: Pulgasari (1985)
In 1978, director Shin Sang-ok was kidnapped* and taken to North Korea by Kim Jong-il, then the son of the country’s leader. Shin resisted being in North Korea and after two escape attempts, he was re-educated and learned why he was in the country: He was to make several films for the movie-loving soon-to-be despot of […]
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