Monster of the Day #3271

Updated on September 27, 2021 By Ken Begg 18 Comments

Or when making movies, apparently.

Well, the first watch party went pretty well. I had stumbled across a movie, last minute, a Korean kaiju film I’d never heard of. So I switched the movie to that. It was a good decision. By nature, you don’t want a super plot-heavy movie while doing a watch party, because everyone’s constantly looking away from the film to type and/or read each other’s messages. So there was basically no monster action for like 40 or 50 minutes, which made us all a tad grumpy, and then it was all monster stuff. The Rev, an aficionado of all the various skeins of Ultra-Man, said the monsters from stolen from various versions of the show. That makes sense, because you’re not going to build a dozen monster suits and then feature them all for two minutes. Anyway, we’ll be taking another swing at it a week from Friday, 9:00 PM EDT, if anyone new wants to join us. Just send me your email address that attached to your Amazon Prime account.

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  • Beckoning Chasm

    The bat-blanket-thing was my favorite. And they never did explain the wandering mole, did they?

  • The Rev.

    So, for anyone curious, the stolen monsters:

    Ones I recognized during the movie: Bemstar (“Return of Ultraman,” the bird-ray thing with the hexagon on its stomach); Pestar (“Ultraman,” the double starfish with the bat head), Seamons and Seagorath (“Return of Ultraman,” the dino-rhino and its mate which created the lightning and tornado).

    Ones I had to look up later: Verokron (“Ultraman Ace,” the rubber coral dragon), Terochilus (“Return of Ultraman,” the bird monster), Dorigon (not an Ultra-monster, but from “Fireman,” the bipedal triceratops).

    I’ve been unable to determine where the two Chinese dragons fighting underwater came from.

    As far as the movie…meh. It was fun to see different monster destruction scenes but it took way too long to get there and probably wasn’t worth the effort. The human story was completely unenthralling. I’m glad we saw it as a group so we could at least suffer together.

  • Gamera977

    Ditto! Pestar was the coolest!!!

  • Gamera977

    Where’s that beautiful blue bus!??!

  • Were the monsters the gods, or did they belong to the gods?

  • bgbear_rnh

    What’s the difference between a baby and a pillow?

    I don’t know.

    Aha, so you’re the one.

  • Ken_Begg

    Am I the only one haunted by the fact that we never learned the fate of the daughter’s doll?

  • bgbear_rnh

    The lost doll was Fraught with Portent (Eddie and George, nice guys).

  • Beckoning Chasm

    The daughter’s doll and the mole are off solving mysteries in southern Germany.

  • No. That doll haunts me in my dreams.

  • I’m for more. Do I need to resend ye olden email?

  • What are the odds that those dragons are the only original creatures in the film?

  • Ken_Begg

    No, I have it. I’ll just send all previous attendees the link, and obviously people who aren’t available won’t use it. Easier than trying to tailor a new list each time. Of course, if anyone ever wants to be removed, just let me know.

  • The Rev.

    Exceedingly unlikely, but not entirely impossible. It would explain why I can’t identify them, but they stole all the other monsters so why would they make their own for one 15-second scene? And if they did make them, they were good enough that they should’ve kept going.

  • I agree with you, don’t get me wrong, but it could be a case of FX artists going “Here’s this awesome thing we did”, and the producers going, “Yeah, that’s too expensive, let’s steal from Ultraman.”

    I’m still a little flabbergasted by that, incidentally. It’s not like the Ultraman series was an unknown.

  • The Rev.

    So, Brandon Tenold just did a review of this, and as a result I have a couple of updates that no one but me will care about.
    During our viewing of this, I was talking about how the monsters were stolen from Ultra-series, which would make sense given that’s how things seem to be done with these movies. However, it being pointed out that it got an official release from SRS Cinema would make theft seem much less likely. Someone in the comments of the review said that the makers indeed did have permission to use the footage, and that does seem more likely, all things considered.
    Another comment finally led me to the source of the Manda-looking dragons. They named a movie called The Fairy and the Devil, a 1982 Taiwanese film. However, they didn’t have Tsuburaya Productions listed in the credits, and those dragons scream Tsuburaya. But this lead finally got me to what appears to be the original source, 1971’s The Founding of Ming Dynasty, which indeed had Tsuburaya’s company listed in the credits. Both films are currently available (sans subtitles) on YouTube. Mystery solved!

  • Most interesting. Thanks for the update!

  • Ken_Begg

    Neat! Thanks, Rev!