![]() ![]() Unfortunately Toei Studios isn't known for its giant monster movies and the resulting special effects, despite the use of some full-size props, are totally laughable. The premise is that a sort of Loch Ness monster has been found in one of the lakes round Mount Fuji, and it’s killing local people and holiday-makers. Jaws also prompts the use of a little more blood and gore than is usual with Japanese monsters. Worse still, it seems to have been influenced by other Jaws rip-offs, like Tentacles (as a victim is lifted clean out of the water screaming her lungs out). Instead, this is a perplexingly bad riff on Jaws, with a dinosaur instead of a shark. They’ve released many classic giant monster movies… but this isn't one of them. ![]() I'm really impressed with DVDs from Media Blasters - spectacular presentations of classic Japanese fantasy films. the legend of one dinosaur and one monster bird… Sounds like a darker type of creature feature.thanks ninja, good review.More like. "The dark themes, the blood and twists, the more mature characters, everything makes this a very fine example of Japanese genre cinema." ![]() Another fine detail I like is the inclusion of - I guess - the infamous suicide forest Aokigahara."īizarre inclusion.never heard about that place but it sounds like a forest I don´t want to visit. "They fit the genre and even if this is less "fun", the script is also dark enough to make the story work even with rubber and plastic filling the screen. ![]() "No nudity though, which feels even odder when you look at the rest of the movie - because it belongs there." "Already here the movie feels very off-kilter and has a very modern (for the time) look and characters who are more grown-up and cynical than everyone else who ever appeared in a Godzilla-movie - not to forget Gamera." ![]()
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