Monster of the Day #3444

Updated on January 11, 2024 By Ken Begg 5 Comments

Man, imagine having to design a new monster (to probably be used one time) after the thousands of episodes of various tokusatsu shows. Then you probably have a week or two to actually build the suit, and so on. Sic trasit gloria.

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    Yeah, I paused about halfway though Ultra Seven and noticed that there’s a few returning kaiju and reworked suits but most were all new in it and Ultraman. I’m guessing most of the show’s budget went to costuming.

  • Gamera977

    Oh, and earlier this week it watched ‘Vengeance of the Zombies’ Paul Naschy as an Indian swami! Plus he pops up as a horribly mutilated ‘evil twin’! And in a dream sequence as Satan Naschy!!! I’m not sure if it’s better or worse than Satan Borgnine in ‘The Devil’s Rain’ but I sure got a kick out of it!

    The story was about a bad dude using zombies for vengeance (duh!) but it really confused me in that it was pushing zombies and voodoo as being Indian rather than Caribbean. Then again not much of the film made a whole lot of sense. It was fun though, I’d recommend it. Not strongly or anything but it was a trip.

    And then last night ‘The Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll’. Naschy as a drifter who gets a job with three not too mentally stable sisters. By the halfway point Naschy’s character has bonked two of the sisters and I was expecting the film to end with him knocking up all three. Alas, it wasn’t meant to be in that one of the sisters was way more nutty than the man-crazy younger one. And there’s a fun plot twist later on that I won’t spoil for anyone. This one was actually a pretty nicely made and stylish film. I mean it’s not a actual good film or anything but it did seem like some work went into making it a decent production.

  • The sound track for Vengeance of the Zombies did nothing for me. The movie didn’t, either. But by that point I’d been spoiled, having watched the glory that is Horror Rises from the Tomb and Night of the Werewolf. Those were fun.

  • The Rev.

    Dreamgiras, as you might imagine from the name, was a monster that haunted a boy’s dreams until he daydreamed, whereupon it was unleashed into the real world. It was kind of a weird episode: the monster was so terrifying the boy kept wetting the bed and the stains looked like the monster. Oh, Japan.

    Apparently this was one of many monsters that was refurbished from a previous monster in the series, although looking at the two there was more work done than usual. No simple “put a frill on a Godzilla costume” this time.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    So, Ultraman is pulling out his spine….