Subgenre Sampler
Monster Mash: 141 Films to Buy & Rent
- Destroy All Monsters! (1968)
- Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Akira Kubo, Yukiko Kobayashi
- All–star monstrosity from Japan's Toho studios, who did for giant rubber–suits what Hammer did for fangs. Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan et al…
- King Kong Escapes (1967)
- Dir. Ishiro Honda
Feat. Mie Hama, Akira Takarada, Rhodes Reason…
- Kaiji co–production between Japan and the USA which pits a robot version of King Kong (MechaniKong!) against a giant dinosaur Gorosaurus. A…
- Yongary (Yongary, Monster from the Deep) (1967)
- Dir. Kim Ki-duk
Feat. Oh Yeong-il, Nam Jeong-im
- In the aftermath of a nuclear bomb test, a giant reptilian monster emerges and proceeds to lay waste to Seoul. A spectacularly bad Godzilla…
- Godzilla vs. Monster Zero (1966)
- Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Nick Adams, Akira Takarada
- Effective monster movie has an alien civilisation 'borrowing' Godzilla and Rodan to save their world from the dreaded King Ghidrah and the…
- Godzilla vs. Sea Monster (1966)
- Dir. Jun Fukuda
Feat. Akira Takarada, Kumi Mizuno
- Lively Godzilla entry sees big G team with Mothra to battle Ebirah, the giant shrimp. The tiny twins Alilenas put in an appearance too. Dubbed.
- Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet / Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1965-1968)
- Dir. Curtis Harrington, Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Basil Rathbone, Faith Domergue, Mamie Van Doren
- A pair of notable cheese–fests from the "planet of the low–budget":
Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965) Directed by Curtis…
- Godzilla Vs Mothra (Godzilla Vs The Thing) (1964)
- Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Akira Takarada, Yuriko Hoshi
- The hulk lizard of Japanese comic book legend takes on the recently hatched spawn of Mothra, with a little help from some spirited stop–motion…
- Day of the Triffids (1963)
- Dir. Steve Sekely
Feat. Howard Keel, Nicole Maurey
- Harmless plants mutate into giant man–eaters after a strange meteor blinds those who witnessed it. From John Wyndham's famous novel.
- Godzilla vs. King Kong (1963)
- Dir. Inoshiro Honda
Feat. Tadao Takashima, Kenji Sahara
- Two titans of movie monsterdom battle it out over a low–budget Tokyo set.
- Eegah (1962)
- Dir. Arch Hall, Sr.
Feat. Arch Hall Jr., Richard Kiel, Arch Hall, Sr.…
- Hailed as one of the most compellingly 'bad films' ever made, this concerns a young woman who is menaced by the world's last surviving caveman…