ATTACK OF THE KAIJU DAY: The Great Buddha Arrival (2018)
The lost 1934 film The Great Buddha Arrival holds a special place in film history, inspiring tokusatsu and kaiju movies, while intriguing fans and history buffs alike. In 2018, director Hiroto Yokokawa created a modern reimagining of this story with the blessing of the grandson of the original director Yoshiro Edamasa. Yokokawa also made Nezura 1964, a […]
ATTACK OF THE KAIJU DAY: Mighty Lady Sparkle (2009)
Eventually, otaku who are all into tokusatsu grow up and become perverts. This movie is for them, a Sapphic ode to sentai rangers and giant women called forth to battle kaiju and get goo all over their chests. There’s a whole series of these Mighty Lady movies. In fact, this is not the first movie […]
ATTACK OF THE KAIJU DAY: PMID-101 Giant Woman 04 (2009)
Never change, Japan. Never change, Japan. Rina (AV actress Rina Fukada) grows big when exposed to electricity. When her father is kidnapped, she’s forced to become a kaiju woman and destroy the city. Not even tanks can stop her. But can a tentacle monster? Or a metallic lobster? Look, I get it. These movies are […]
ATTACK OF THE KAIJU DAY: The People That Time Forgot (1974)
The last Amicus film, The People That Time Forgot, is a direct sequel to The Land That Time Forgot and is based on two Edgar Rice Burroughs books, The People That Time Forgot and Out of Time’s Abyss. Major Ben McBride (Patrick Wayne) travels to Antarctica in search of his friend, Bowen Tyler (Doug McClure), the hero […]
ATTACK OF THE KAIJU DAY: Monster Planet of Godzilla (1994)
At one time, in the Tokyo theme park Sanrio Puroland, this Godzilla movie appeared as part of a ride. It was made with costumes and props from the Heisei Godzilla movies (WikiZilla says they’re the “RadoGoji Godzilla suit and Rodan puppet from Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II, and the Mothra imago puppet from Godzilla vs. […]
ATTACK OF THE KAIJU DAY: Fest Godzilla II: Shinjuku in Flames (2025)
First shown at Godzilla Fest 2025 on November 3, 2025, Fest Godzilla II: Shinjuku Burning is a short directed and written by Kazuhiro Nakagawa, funded by Toho and produced by Episcope. It’s a reboot of the annual Fest Godzilla series and the sixth entry overall. Unlike those movies, which use the FinalGoji design, this uses the […]
ATTACK OF THE KAIJU DAY: 2010 Moby Dick (2010)
Is Moby Dick the original kaiju? Maybe. But anyways, Moby Dick 2010. Back in 1969, Captain Jonah Ahab (Barry Bostwick) lost his left leg, his sub and his crew to a giant whale. Now, in 2010, he believes that monstrous thing was Moby Dick, “a legendary sea creature of evil and immortality.” I had to take […]
ATTACK OF THE KAIJU DAY: The Land That Time Forgot (1974)
Before Motel Hell, Kevin Connor made some wild movies in England, like From Beyond the Grave, At the Earth’s Core, The People That Time Forgot, Warlords of Atlantis and Arabian Adventure. Beyond this movie, he made another I really like, The House Where Evil Dwells. Here, he’s working from a script by Elric creator and The […]
ATTACK OF THE KAIJU DAY: Unknown Island (1948)
Directed by Jack Bernhard and written by Robert T. Shannon and Jack Harvey, Unknown Island has Ted Osborne (Phillip Reed) and his fiancée, Carole (Virginia Grey), looking for dinosaurs. Good news. They find them. Along with drunk Captain Tarnowski (Barton MacLane) and even drunker PTSD-having John Fairbanks (Richard Denning), who survived a previous dinosaur attack, they head […]
ATTACK OF THE KAIJU DAY: Big Freaking Snake (2023)
Something is causing the rattlesnakes in Southern California to mutate to enormous sizes, and it’s up to Dr. Kaye (Mercedes Peterson) to stop their growth before they destroy Los Angeles. And yes, Dustin Ferguson already made Rattlers 2, but sure, he’ll make it again. Most of the cast of the Ferguson movies show up. Dawna Lee […]
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