Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Gamera: The Giant Monster

Gamera: The Giant Monster is a 1965 Japanese monster movie. Either you like monster movies or you don't. I do. Besides, this one is a child-friendly turtle, and how can you not like that?

via Youtube:



The reviews of the original film aren't especially positive, but it did better than expected and spawned a number of sequels. It's got a lot of spoken infodump material, where some scientist explains all about this new method guaranteed to destroy the monster interspersed with segments showing that method failing. There is a subplot involving an adorable child who loves turtles, but those scenes are few.

In 1966 it was re-edited for an American audience as Gammera the Invincible:



with Brian Donlevy in new scenes. This one is dubbed in English.

4 comments:

  1. LOL! I think I'll pass on this one but I would imagine it would give me a few giggles. ;)

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    1. The kid is adorable, I'm tellin' ya ;)

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  2. Sounds fun and very entertaining ...lol 😉. Have a great day! J 😊 x

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