As a kid, we only had Godzilla King of the Monsters! and as far as we knew, that was the definitive edition. We didn’t know that there was the Japanese original cut, the Luigi Cozzi-made Cozzilla or this French edition, which combines the American and Japanese cuts and dubs it all into French.

Made by Les Films du Verseau, this is a balancing act, as the Japanese version has so much terror missing from the safer American cut. What emerges as a little of each and in a world where we can choose to watch either the one we grew up with or the one true version, if you’re not viewing this as a curiosity or to test how much French you know, I’m not sure why you’re watching it. Being a completist? Doing a 24-hour marathon of giant monster movies?

I love that it exists, however, because it’s just another way to experience something that I love.

You can download this from the Internet Archive.