Monster of the Day #1674

Updated on December 12, 2017 By Ken Begg 25 Comments

It surely didn’t help the OK but not great Island of Burning Doomed that over here it was the bottom half (!) of a bill with the goofy kiddie flick Godzilla’s Revenge. I can’t imagine many people who liked one got much out of the other.

I’m more intrigued by this French poster, which runs away from what the film is about altogether. Were they trying to suggest it was a Dracula flick?

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Gamera977

I’m guessing the guy who paired them off was like: ‘Well, they’re both foreign monster movies aren’t they? What do you mean they don’t go together?’
bgbear_rnh

“Godzilla’s Revenge”. Is that like when you eat gas station sushi?
zombiewhacker

So I guess I’m the only person alive who liked both Godzilla’s Revenge and Island of the Burning Doomed/Damned.
Rock Baker

Well, for different reasons, natch…
Rock Baker

Yeah, BURNING DAMNED is surprisingly adult, even for a British film of it’s vintage. Pop has a TV print on 16mm, and even it’s a bit racy (presumably meant only for late night slots). Even so, a pretty gripping little film that feels like a cousin to the rather more general-audience (and superb) ISLAND OF TERROR. They might make a good double feature.
bgbear_rnh

Yes you are. I would watch my back ;-)
Flangepart

Gas Station Sushi…sung to the tune of ‘Cat Scratch Fever.’
Flangepart

I of the BD, I liked…the other? Uh…only if Joel and the Bots had gotten a hold of it.
Cullen Waters

What’s really unbelievable is that people Godzilla v the Smog Monster is the worst Godzilla with Godzilla’s Revenge out there. Yeesh.
bgbear_rnh

It is really just a stock footage mish mash isn’t it? Hard to compare to Smog Monster.

Save the Earth ;-)
Cullen Waters

As bad as Smog Monster is (and I’d say it was 3rd from the bottom) at least it had no stock footage and a for that’s a credible threat.
The Rev.

I can understand Smog Monster not being everyone’s cup of tea, even though I enjoy it quite a bit. Probably helps that I saw it in high school, and had already kind of dipped my toe into the insanity that is Asian genre cinema.

I can appreciate Godzilla’s Revenge for what it is, but alas I was too old when I first saw it for it to really grip me. I did enjoy the clip show, though; I also enjoyed that aspect of Gamera: Super Monster. I should probably give it to my nephew this year for Christmas; he’s not getting any younger.
Beckoning Chasm

Island of the Burning Doomed is an interesting little film, but anyone seeing it based on that poster is going to be sorely disappointed. As ever twas, I suppose.
Marsden

Feel free to mock me, but I liked Godzilla’s Revenge, Godzilla vs. Smog Monster, and Godzilla Vs. Megalon.
Cullen Waters

I saw Smog Monster when I was five, maybe six. It has a certain place in my heart. But not a big enough place to ever call it good.

(Should have been more clear with the earlier post: I’m talking the first Godzilla series when I say bottom three. I really am not that big a fan of the nineties Godzilla, or most of the Millennial Godzillas (Shin Godzilla being one of the exceptions.))
Cullen Waters

Every other viewing I like Smog Monster (I can’t explain that) and once Godzilla starts fighting I like Megalon, so I’m not one to mock…
Ken_Begg

I concur! Seeing Smog Monster as my first G movie in a theater was a crushing experience.

Sadly, I missed the Monster Zero/War of the Gargantuas double bill because it hit theaters the summer my mom decided watching monster stuff was making me weird (well, duh) and put a moritorium on such fare. It played at a drive in a mile from our apartment at the time and it KILLED me not to be able to go.
Marsden

I know you guys here aren’t like that, but there is so many sites where if you like some things then you’re not whatever everyone else thinks you should be.

And some mocking puns aren’t too bad, I do enjoy joking about how bad something is, why else would I be here?
bgbear_rnh

The Millennial Gamera films are much better than the Millennial Godzilla films.
The Rev.

Marsden: I wouldn’t judge anyway, but considering what I said about Smog Monster and Revenge, and that I love Godzilla vs. Megalon completely unironically, I’m in no position to do so.

bgbear_rnh: Well, to be fair, the Kaneko trilogy is better than almost every other giant monster movie, period. That said, Kaneko’s contribution to the Millennium series was the only one of those I really liked. I did enjoy Tokyo S.O.S., but it may have benefited from following the previous movie, which I found a bit of a slog. I haven’t watched it again, so we’ll see what happens when I finally do.
bgbear_rnh

Oh, yes “All out monster attack” I’ll have to catch that one again. I get dates mixed up (10 years, 20 years whatever it takes) and used “Millennial” kind of broadly, but you knew that.
Eric Hinkle

I liked Godzilla Vs. Megalon too. It may have helped that I got to see it on TV with some oddball host dressed up in a Godzilla costume.
The Rev.

I didn’t notice anything that broad; everything from G2000 to Final Wars is considered the Millennium series. For Gamera, we only had Gamera the Brave in that same period of time.

I refer to the ’90s Gamera films as the Kaneko trilogy or the ’90s trilogy, but I suppose they could be considered the Heisei series for Gamera, the way Return of Godzilla through GvDestroyah are for Godzilla.*

Along with those two, we have the Showa series running from the original through Terror of Mechagodzilla, and then we whatever series Shin Godzilla will lead to, assuming it does. Hopefully we’ll get something a little more catchy than “the Shin series.”

*Although technically falling within the Showa era, Return is generally included in the Heisei series since it came a decade after the previous film, and is obviously the set-up for the rest of the Heisei run. For added confusion, everything from Return on could be considered part of the Heisei run, since that era hasn’t ended yet!
zombiewhacker

John Belushi on NBC?
Eric Hinkle

Might have been.

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