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[eclecticpjf]

Kaiju Summer continues with “Ebirah, Horror of the Deep”

[randomrichards]

EBIRAH: HORROR OF THE DEEP

Shipwrecked on island

Where army enslaves natives

Friends wake crab kaiju

[justfilms]

#121 Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster - Jun Fukuda 1966

[podzilla2000]

After a LONG sabbatical, your hosts return with an episode covering THREE movies! The long-term plan to finish the series before the new movie came out fell through about as hard as anything has ever fallen through... but Godzilla is timeless and eternal, and so are we!!! (we are not)

Movie info beneath the cut!

EBIRAH, HORROR OF THE DEEP aka GODZILLA vs THE SEA MONSTER (1966)

Directed by Jun Fukuda Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka Screenplay by Shinichi Sekizawa Music by Masaru Sato Cinematography Kazuo Yamada

Starring Akira Takarada, Kumi Mizuno, Chotaro Togin, and Hideo Sunazuka

SON OF GODZILLA (1967)

Directed by Jun Fukuda Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka Screenplay by Shinichi Sekizawa and Kazue Shiba Music by Masaru Sato Cinematography Kazuo Yamada

Starring Akira Kubo, Tadao Takashima, Bibari Maeda, and Akihiko Hirata

DESTROY ALL MONSTERS! (1968)

Directed by Ishiro Honda Produced by Tomoyuki Tanaka Screenplay by Takeshi Kimura and Ishiro Honda Music by Akira Ifukube Cinematography by Taiichi Kankura

Starring Akira Kubo, Jun Tazaki, and Yoshio Tsuchiya

[byneddiedingo]

Mie Hama and Akira Takarada in Ironfinger (Jun Fukuda, 1965) Cast: Akira Takarada, Mie Hama, Ichiro Arishima, Jun Tatara, Akihiko Hirata, Sachio Sakai, Susumo Kurobe, Toru Ibuki, Chotaro Togin, Naoya Kusakawa, Koji Iwamoto, Mike Daneen. Screenplay: Michio Tsuzuki, Kihachi Okamoto. Cinematography: Shinsaku Uno. Production design: Kazuo Ogawa. Film editing: Ryohei Fujii, Yoshitami Kuroiwa. Music: Masaru Sato. Ironfinger is a wacky and somewhat cheesy Japanese entry into the subgenre of James Bond spoofs that swept through movies internationally in the 1960s, attracting not only American and British filmmakers but also Frenchmen like Philippe de Broca (That Man From Rio, 1964) and even Jean-Luc Godard (Alphaville, 1965). Which may be why the pseudo-Bond of Ironfinger is part French. He calls himself Andrew Hoshino -- though it's not exactly clear that that's his name -- and is played a little more broadly than is necessary by Akira Takarada, a veteran not only of films by Yasujiro Ozu (The End of Summer, 1961) and Mikio Naruse (A Woman's Life, 1963) but also of numerous Godzilla movies, starting with Ishiro Honda's original Gojira in 1954. His leading lady, Mie Hama, made her own appearance in the real James Bond series in You Only Live Twice (Lewis Gilbert, 1967), playing Kissy Suzuki to Sean Connery's Bond. Ironfinger isn't unwatchable: There are some good gags, but also some bad ones. The climactic action sequence, in which the good guys foil the bad guys by tossing lighted matches into oil drums, which then explode into an impossible cascade of drums coming from every corner, is flat-out ridiculous. Still, if you can put up with some tacky pop songs and a needlessly complicated plot, Ironfinger is a tolerably amusing period artifact and only 93 minutes long.

[docrotten]

Space Amoeba (1970, Yog: Monster from Space) – Episode 127 – Decades of Horror 1970s

"Spewed from intergalactic space to clutch the planet earth in its ... terror tentacles!” Surely you’re speaking of a giant kisslip cuttlefish! Join your faithful Grue Crew - Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr - as they sail to a mystical atoll in the Pacific that is under attack by the Space Amoeba (1970), aka Yog: Monster of Space!

Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 127 – Space Amoeba (1970, Yog: Monster from Space)

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A space probe is infiltrated by alien beings and then crashes on a remote Pacific atoll. A group planning to build a resort hotel land on the island and discover it to be inhabited by giant mutant monsters created by the aliens in an attempt to conquer the world.

IMDb

  Director: Ishirô Honda

Writer: Ei Ogawa

Selected Cast:

Akira Kubo as Taro Kudo

Atsuko Takahashi as Ayako Hoshino　

Yukiko Kobayashi as Saki

Kenji Sahara as Makoto Obata

Yoshio Tsuchiya as Dr. Kyouichi Miya

Yû Fujiki as the promotion division manager

Noritake Saito as Rico

Yûko Sugihara as Stewardess

Sachio Sakai as the magazine editor

Chotaro Togin as Engineer Yokoyama

Wataru Ômae as Sakura

Haruo Nakajima as Gezora / Ganime

Haruyoshi Nakamura as Kamoebas

For your Decades of Horror 1970s Grue-Crew, the operative word for Space Amoeba is “fun!” Chad, Bill, and Doc are big Kaiju fans, while in comparison, Jeff is relatively inexperienced. Even so, their comments are pretty universal regarding Yog: Monster from Space. Chad says the sillier the better and if you want silly, you got it with Space Amoeba. According to Bill, it’s not great, but how can you not have fun with big rubber monsters slapping each other. Doc wonders aloud if it is good and then answers his own question: technically no, but it sure is a lot of fun. Jeff agrees with the rest of the crew on how fun Space Amoeba is and he manages to learn something as well as Bill schools him on the difference between amphibians and reptiles.

As long as you’re not looking for a Godzilla (1954) type kaiju film and are out for some good clean fun, your 70s Grue-Crew recommends Space Amoeba. At the time of this writing, the film is available for streaming on Amazon Prime.

Gruesome Magazine’s Decades of Horror 1970s is part of the Decades of Horror two-week rotation with The Classic Era and the 1980s. In two weeks, the next episode in their very flexible schedule will be Brian De Palma’s Sisters (1988), chosen by Jeff. 

We want to hear from you – the coolest, grooviest fans:  leave us a message or leave a comment on the site or email the Decades of Horror 1970s podcast hosts at feedback@gruesomemagazine.com.

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[combogamer]

[HorrorScience] Destroy All Monsters (1968)

[HorrorScience] Destroy All Monsters (1968)

En Destroy All Monsters (Invasión Extraterrestre) los extraterrestres han liberado a Godzilla, Mothra, Varan, Baragon, Rodan, Anguirus, Ghidorah, Spiega, Minilla y Manda  de la isla en la cual estaban recluidos, iniciando así una ola de destrucción y caos

Lee el artículo completo aquí:

http://www.combogamer.com/22415/horrorscience-destroy-all-monsters-1968/