Special effects master Carlo Rambaldi has died. Rambaldi is probably most famous for his work in ET, The Extraterrestrial; Alien; and Dune, but Rambaldi also worked extensively for Mario Bava. The New York Times has an obituary. Here are a video homage, another by Il Centro Sperimentale di […]
Kaiju invade the airwaves as The Cinementals discuss the work of Godzilla director Ishiro Honda, King Ghidorah is the monster of the month at Monster Island Resort and this week’s Drive-In Mob movie tweetalong will coincide with Turner Classic Movie’s screening of 4 Ishiro Honda movies on Friday, […]
At the Criterion Collection blog, Curtis Tsui shares, “10 Things I learned About Godzilla.” My favorite involves sugar wafers. (via Kaijucast)
At TCM’s Movie Morlocks, David Kalat writes a passionate defense of silly Godzilla movies and how Godzilla vs. Megalon conquired the world in “The Importance of Being Godzilla (Part 1).”
A meditation on Ultraman and Ultraman in manga form, drawn by “horror comics auteur” Kazuo Umezu: “The boys who read this would grow up to read even more outlandish and violent mens’ comics; the girls would have a whole sub-genre of girls’ horror comics, jam-packed with beheadings, defenestrations, […]
Kaijutastic Ultraman poster art by Takayoshi Mizuki. (via The Japan Society)