The Asylum put this out one day after Godzilla: King of the Monsters. Your grandmother would have bought you this for Christmas and said, “I know you love that Godzooky so much.”

Directed by Mark Atkins (Planet of the Sharks) and James Thomas with a script by Atkins, this has an industrialist named Billy Ford (Adrian Bouchet) is drilling on the ocean floor — the Kermadec Trench off the coast of New Zealand , if you want to be precise — when there’s an accident. He sends two of his people, Cherise (Donna Cormack Thomson) and Riley (Chris Fisher) to learn the truth, along with a government agent and myth expert Sarah Murray (Natalie Robbie). They find a kaiju that looks like a giant winged starfish, which means that they need to awaken The Living Mountain to fight it.

General Horne (Eric Roberts) is also involved, as he leads the Navy. Wouldn’t he be an admiral? And what’s he going to do against a giant monster with magma for blood? That said, the starfish looks good, but this is a movie that gets all the parts of giant monster movies wrong. Forget humans and their problems, give us a quick reason why two monstrous beings must battle and let them go at one another.

I am a simple man and I understand these rules.

You can watch this on Tubi.