Yay! More Toho coming out…

Updated on May 14, 2009 By Ken Begg 11 Comments

On August 18th, Sony will release a box set of three of the few remaining Toho science fiction films. The big gun is Mothra; it will be nice to get that out (although too bad Classic Media wasn’t given a shot at it). The other two films will be H-Man and Battle in Outer Space. I’m not sure I’d buy the latter, but hell, now you’ll get all three in one shot.

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  • roger h

    H-Man was on TCM a few weeks ago, I had not seen it in over 30 years. Good film.

    SciFi noir before Blade Runner with a Blob-like monster that interesting enough does not look to be a copy cat monster despite coming out at the same time as The Blob.

  • I am excited about H-Man. I have only been able to acquire it in a super-bad DVD-R version.

    I wonder why film-makers often don’t confidence in their monsters. H-Man has the whole gangster sub-plot that really is extraneous, and Dogora has the idioitic jewel thieves set against a backdrop of monsters eating civilization. I don’t mind some human interest in a monster tale (I liked Cloverfield, after all), but sometmies the monster starts becoming subsidiary. I love my wife, but I would probably not spend lots of time assuring her of it if our hosue was invaded by werewolves or something.

  • Wow. And yet that’s exactly the sort of man Wendy deserves. Life is so unfair.

  • You may not be professing love during a werewolf attack, but if the two of you ever split up, you better pray for werewolves on the rampage or maybe giant locust swarms, as everyone knows those are the surest way to reunite estranged couples…

    I know if my wife ever gets tired of my, I am going to unleash the telepathic, super intelligent, armored, flesh eating pigs I have been breeding in my basement in order to set the stage to win her back.

  • The Rev. D.D.

    Cool, I’ve been wanting H-Man and BiOS on DVD for a while now. I will definitely be marking that one for purchase.

    After I finish snagging the rest of ClassicMedia’s Toho discs, that is…

  • Good grief, Andrew, you’ve been talking about unleashing those telepathic, super intelligent, armored, flesh eating pigs you’ve been breeding in your basement for years now. Just do it already.

  • Oh, you will live to regret those words! They all laughed at me when I bred singing leeches too, and flying porcupines. And now you’re laughing at me too. But you’ll! You’ll see! And then you will all pay!

    Um, think I should stop watching all those giant creature films on Sci Fi Saturdays. (Or is that Sy Fy Saturdays now?)

    Well, time to feed the pigs.

  • Actually, I was thinking about the post that started my comments, about professing love during a werewolf attack, and realized that Underworld had done just that, turning a werewolf attack into a soap opera. Then again, it is just doing to werewolves what they already did to vampires, turning them from an embodiment of either primal urges or evil into emo soap operas with fangs (later into superheroes with fangs, and then finally, into emo superheroes with fangs starring in a soap opera…)

    So, you might not be professing your love during a werewolf attack, but if they follow the Underworld model,t he werewolves may b professing THEIR love (or at least angst) during the attack.

  • Wendy has a rough time of it. I wouldn’t even go see TWILIGHT with her.

  • Now, wait, there’s a big leap between fighting werewolves and seeing Twilight. The woman has to be reasonable.

  • Petoht

    I actually found some werewolves to fight to avoid seeing Twilight.