A beautiful clear and hilariously packed Japanese poster for Noriaki Yuasa's Attack of the Monsters |
Two
boys find a spaceship and explore it, but it then flies them to our
hidden twin planet, Terra, where superior women want to eat their
brains, and monsters attack. Luckily, the children's friend, the giant turtle monster Gamera, goes with them.
Attack of the Monsters is a Japanese kaiju film, (the Japanese word for 'monster', which defines their very own breed of giant monster movies.) It is the fifth film in the original Gamera kaiju franchise, and its original title means Gamera vs. Giant Evil Beast Guiron. Probably because Gamera wasn't a huge phenomenon for kids outside of Japan, the title was altered for its U.S. release, which was on TV. It is written by Niisan Takahashi (Onsen jochû (1963)) and directed by Noriaki Yuasa (Shiawasa nara te o tatake (1964)).
Attack of the Monsters shows some really sick, artificial version of children and parents; awful dubbing, excessive noise and totally flat dialog. There's not much good to say about the film.
The one thing would be that the monsters inspire hearty laughter more than once. Take a look at them in the short trailer below.
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Viras/ガメラ対宇宙怪獣バイラス (Gamera tai uchū Kaijū Bairasu) (1968) - Unmitigated
kaiju trash
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[Attack of the Monsters was released 21 March (Japan) and runs 82 minutes. It received a US TV premiere on American International Television also in 1969. Details about the film's release are hard to come by. Gamera returned in Gamera vs. Monster X/Gamera vs. Jiger (1970). Yuasa returned with Anata gonomi no (1969). 2,289 IMDb users have given Attack of the Monsters a 4.2/10 average rating.]
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