Monster of the Day #1356

Updated on May 17, 2016 By Ken Begg 21 Comments

Still kind of a traditional poster design, although I’m not sure teal is the first color that makes me think ‘giant monster.’

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  • An entire week of Godzilla posters.

    In other words, BEST WEEK OF MONSTER OF THE DAY EVER!

  • The Rev.

    I’m having trouble disagreeing.

    “…although I’m not sure teal is the first color that makes me think ‘giant monster.'”

    That’s because you don’t watch enough “Ultraman.”

    Which reminds me…I hope you all take my advice on “Johnny Sokko.” I finished the series this weekend and it was great. The last episode went all out with the chaos and was a great close.

  • Ericb

    Interesting. Unlike the German poster there is no indication on this one that the movie takes place in Japan.

  • bgbear_rnh

    They used to show the chopped down feature film version on LA TV in the 70s and I watched every time it was on. The ending would bring me to tears.

    I did buy the full series a few years back and loved seeing more of the old friend than ever before.

  • bgbear_rnh

    I thought the same thing. It does say the monster from the Pacific Ocean. I guess he just made his way over to France for the heck of it.

  • The people here at least look vaguely Asian. There’s a British poster in which all those fleeing are nice and white, with one blonde displaying an ample amount of cleavage. Oh, and Godzilla depiction that almost defies belief.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I hope we get to see that one.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I’m taking your advice. I’d forgotten just how bizarre and blood-soaked that series was. And those monsters — a flying jawbone? A giant robot claw? A (literal) hairy eyeball? What, they only had enough money for one monster so they decided to chop him into pieces and send them against Giant Robo individually?

  • Flangepart

    “Jonny longtorso- Jonny Longtorso…the man who comes in pieces! He’s Looooong!”
    “Way to go, sirs.”

  • Flangepart

    Godzilla in ‘teal’…well, it IS French.

  • bgbear_rnh

    Nothing like watching 11 year olds shooting down people. The girl was a crack shot.

  • Wade Harrell

    I totally grew up on Johnny Sokko, on TV all the time when I was a kid. I remember one particular episode where the main villain was a mummy, I think, who was putting something in the water that was turning kids into mummies too? At the end he gets knocked off a tall tower and basically shatters on the ground. There was also a giant monster too, and (if memory serves) he spat acid causing everything, including people, to melt. Really bizarre and disturbing to 10-year old me!

  • Rock Baker

    This one is clearly patterned after the American poster art. In that light, the most unusual aspect of this is that Raymond Burr isn’t mentioned.

  • Flangepart

    “Forget it Jake, It’s Japantown.”
    Japan: Home of kids shows where human life is cheaper that a 5 yen hooker.

  • Hopefully not for the cleavage, as though it’s there, it’s really, really small.

  • Eric Hinkle

    This is the Internet, you can find cleavage anywhere. It’s that Godzilla description that I’m curious about.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I remember nothing else about that episode — but I DO remember seeing little boys get turned into shriveled mummies after drinking from public water fountains! Took me weeks before I dared to drink from the fountains at our school.

  • It’s… something else. It really is. Not sure if I’ve overplayed it, but it’s worth seeing at least once.

  • The Rev.

    Wade: You remember the mummy one precisely! And yeah, there’s a squid-ray monster that spits highly corrosive acid.

    The monsters are a lot of fun; not sure which is my favorite. I did like the eyeball growing legs made of what must’ve been optic nerves; the giant robot claw was pretty great, as was the giant flying head and the giant metal sphere. My favorite is probably either the Satan Rose, because who doesn’t like a giant killer plant that sounds like it’s giggling; or Dorogon, the ninja monster that looks like Rodan and Gyaos were Brundleflied, mostly because I don’t think I’ve ever seen a giant monster throw a tantrum before. The squid-ray monster was set to be my favorite, until it killed my favorite character in the whole series.

    I figured people would die. I had no idea how many would, though. I’m not even talking about the people killed in destroyed buildings; throughout the show people are blown up, stabbed, dissolved (by acid and later by a blob-type monster), frozen, exsanguinated, strangled (I think), disintegrated, probably a few ways I’m forgetting, and dozens and dozens are shot. No blood, though, except for a couple of times, and it’s minor bleeding from the mouth each of those times, as I recall.

  • The Rev.

    Found it. And you were not kidding. It’s…something, all right.

  • Wade Harrell

    Thanks for confirming my memories guys! For a long time I wondered if these things really happened on the show or of they were just nightmares inspired by it.I remember this show being pretty violent overall, but the mummy episode is the only one I can remember any details from. I also remember when the main mummy guy (who wore a black trench coat and hat like a proto-Darkman) falls to his death and shatters, it looks like he has no bones or anything, as if he was just made of hollow bandages that break apart like old casts. Somehow this was even more horrifying. Was there a snake in this episode as well? I remember a giant snake eating a villain once but the snake dies and the villain survives, but not sure if it was the mummy guy or not. Man, I gotta track this show down!