Match against Baragon (unlike Daiei's Barugon, this one looks like a puppy dog). isĪssaulted by an angry cephalopod after a grueling 15 minute Japan Death GODZILLA (1962), an alternate ending was shot where a tired Franky M. At the behest of impulsiveĪmerican producers who went gaga over the octopi from KING KONG VS. Inclusion of a giant, pissed off octopus. Into a giant neolithic caveman and battles a subterranean lizard and Heart of the Frankenstein Monster is eaten by a starving boy who grows BARAGON you're guaranteed a ticket into Drive In Heaven. Mix of Shelley's novel with nazis and kaiju conventions was a bizarre marriage,īut Honda and company make it work. which might not be such a bad idea after all. But try to imagine a giant sea serpent attacking Gene Hackman and the rest of the cast trapped inside the capsized ocean liner from THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (1972) or Charlton Heston faced with confronting a giant creature wrecking havoc in EARTHQUAKE (1974). It's jarring, but considering Japan is teeming with giant kaiju spread out all over the country, it fits. Tomb in the South Pole, runs rampant over miniature sets before being subdued by laser fire. Trajectory is stopped while Magma, a giant walrus freed from its icy But with giant monsters all the rageĪt the time, producer Tomiyuki Tanaka thought it'd be best if one foundĪ home somewhere in the script. Perfectly as a story about mankind contending with a gigantic star (the Gorath of the title) Honda's ambitious and expensive SciFi tale of Armageddon is among the best examples of science fiction cinema.
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