Based on the Native American myth and inspired by Suitmation kaiju movies, Uktena is eighty feet tall and 200 tons thick. He’s an ancient Cherokee monster that has awakened because of the modern world’s greed.
Made by father and son Dan and David Treanor, this pits the titular monster up against Sheriff Poncho Bravo (Marc Bilker), Doc Collins (Kyle Borthick), Colonel Tuttle (Norman Hughes), Dr. Geco (Kayla Rose) and Jerome Greywolf (Jerry Roys). You should not expect a movie that looks like a high budget epic. But you can be assured that the monster against little people scenes are a lot of fun. There’s a lot of green screen and I know that some people can’t get past that. I get the feeling that the filmmakers had a lot of heart and wanted to make the best monster suit movie they could.
This also has a lot of blues music, talk about the blues and Dan’s friends playing the blues. Kaiju blues. I feel like rewriting “Talk About the Blues” by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion just for this:
That’s rightI’m talkin’ ’bout the kaijuI said it looks so huge babyUhI’m talkin’ ’bout the kaijuG-FAN magazineOn the telephone, babyTalk about the kaijuRight nowUhLook outYeah
You can buy this from SRS Cinema or watch it on Tubi.
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