Also known as Space Amoeba and Gezora, Ganime, Kamēba: Kessen! Nankai no Daikaijū (Gezora, Ganimes, and Kamoebas: Decisive Battle! Giant Monsters of the South Seas), this Toho movie is all about aliens that come to Earth and create gigantic monsters from a kisslip cuttlefish, stone crab and mata mata. It’s like the best sushi menu ever except it wants to eat you.

The Helios 7 space probe has an incident near Jupiter — alert Pittsburgh news stations, Hell is full — and comes crashing back down here, bringing the space amoeba with it. It first creates a creature called Gezora, which is the cuttlefish. The humans have a bunch of weapons left over from World War II and set it on fire, killing it.

The stone crab, which is called Ganimes, is next and the humans defeat it as if it were the Tall Man or the Car. They lure it into a pit and blow it up.

The amoeba gets smart and makes two monsters at once, another Ganimes and a mata mata named Kamoebas. Humans grab some bats — a lot of bats — and the space amoeba loses control over the monsters, who start to fight one another. Then a volcano is made live and everything alien dies, all at once.

Never doubt the humans capacity for killing, whether you are a kaiju, space amoeba or some other monstrous being.

Directed by Ishiro Honda, this was written by Ei Ogawa who intended for it to be called Great Monster Assault and have entire continents be destroyed by alien monsters.

This was also the last science fiction film made under Toho’s studio system, which established a subsidiary called Toho Eizo to specialize in tokusatsu films. Most of the actors were released from their contracts, Eiji Tsuburaya’s — who died days before filming started — special effects department was closed and even Honda’s contract ended.