kaijusaurus:

kaijusaurus:

• Animal Icons: It Came From Japan - An Animal Planet special produced in the runup to Godzilla’s fiftieth anniversary in 2004.
• Bringing Godzilla Down to Size - A documentary on the genre’s origins and legacy, originally included on the Rodan / The War of the Gargantuas Classic Media DVD set.
• Godzilla & Hiroshima: The Dawn of the Kaiju Eiga - A documentary that explores Godzilla’s nuclear origin, and the influence of the nuclear scare on the genre.
• Godzilla 1954: The DVD Shelf Movie Reviews - A run-of-the-mill but informative YouTube documentary on the making of the original Godzilla.
• Godzilla 60th Anniversary: The Amazing World of Japanese Special Effects - A 2014 NHK documentary looking at the sixty year legacy of Godzilla and the history of tokusatsu.
• Godzilla and Other Movie Monsters - A documentary feature that explores the history of monsters in storytelling, from the earliest dragon legends to Japanese monster movies.
• Godzilla, King of the Monsters - A documentary produced by the BBC in 1998 during the runup to the first American Godzilla film.
• Hail to the King: 60 Years of Destruction - An independent, crowd-funded documentary by über-fan Kyle Yount (kaijucast) that celebrates the sixty-year legacy of the world’s greatest monster, Godzilla. 
• Kaijunited: Japanese Monsters & Us - A fan-made documentary focusing on kaiju fandom in the US, Japan, and France.
• Kaiju Gaiden - A crowd-funded feature that tells the stories of previously-unheard-of independent kaiju films, and the people who made them.
• SciFi Japan TV - A now-concluded online documentary series from the folks at SciFi Japan. The focus shifts per episode.

If anyone can think of or knows of any more, please give me a shout!

Updated with a direct link to Hail To The King: 60 Years of Destruction!

brokehorrorfan:

Brett Piper’s Queen Crab will land on DVD on September 29. Not to be mistaken for a cheesy Syfy rip-off, the creature feature is a loving tribute to the days of practical stop-motion animation monsters.

Special features:

• Special Effects Featurettes
• Behind the Scenes Featurette
• Blooper Reel
• Director’s Commentary
  
• Sneak Peak: Triclops
• Trailers
  

A meteor crashes into a quiet lake in the remote countryside and awakens a centuries-old beast, who tears through a nearby town and its inhabitants, who must fight for their lives and stop this Queen Crab before she can hatch an army of babies.

Radio Blue Heart presents TALES FROM THE PUBLIC DOMAIN!

Episode 58: Yongary, Monster From The Deep!

A 1967 Korean attempt to imitate the success of Godzilla and Gamera. An ancient monster awakens, because of a bomb test in the Middle East, and goes on the rampage in South Korea.  

Once again this film is PUBLIC DOMAIN and not copyright protected in the US at least. You can make and sell your own DVD of it, download it, show it for free or for profit. Or remix it or use it for stock footage

kaijusaurus:

Lost kaiju films.

astoundingbeyondbelief:

You might find this interesting.

http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Godzilla

The Godzilla series and many other kaiju films have imfdb pages. So now you know what weapons have no effect on the unstoppable monsters.

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Thanks for this! I’m familiar with the site, but didn’t know they had so many Godzilla pages.

spankzilla85:

kaijucast:

Dear world, the word Kaiju is Japanese and the pluralization of this word is like deer, fish and samurai. For the love of Godzilla, do not add an “s” to the end of kaiju when talking about more that one of them.

I’m going to reblog this until the world ends.

darknessman666:

i always wanted godzilla facing these monsters zarkorr the invader and kraa the sea monster

do you think godzilla would crush them?

kaijusaurus:

In Germany, a lot of the films were re-titled with the Frankenstein name in them to make them appeal more to German audiences, with whom the Frankenstein myth is very resonant. I’ve heard from different sources that this was also possibly carried over into the dubbing itself, and sometimes monsters (in particular, Godzilla’s enemies) would be explained as being creations of Doctor Frankenstein. I’m not entirely sure either way, though. spacehunter-m is probably the best person to ask about this!

girlsandgodzilla:

Babes love Baragon

Baragon gets all the girls.

spankzilla85:

Y’know…a thought occurred.
In literally a manner of weeks, it’s going to be 2015.
Anyone remember what 2015 is?
Gamera’s 50th birthday.
Know how it’s being celebrated? An action figure. Thusfar, there is going to be one, single figure from S.H. Monsterarts. There…