We ended on our usual kaiju film. I picked Gamera Super Monster because its so damn goofy. Pleasingly, Chad first say Gamera vs Jiger on the multi-film disc menu, and got very excited. His cries of pain upon realizing which film we were actually watching were pretty sweet. That said, as objectively awful as the film is, with its clunky space superhero women team and the organ-playing—literally organ-playing, you weirdo—and tons of stock footage and the baldly outrageous use of Star Destroyers as the bad aliens ships and the even more jaw-dropping shot of the animated spaceship from the Battleship Yamato anime to the cheap plastic Gamera used in some shots…it’s craptastic.
And so ended Basement Fest 2023.
