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Socrates has the high ground in The Food of the Gods (1976), American International Pictures
November 24, 2025
This month in Kaiju History, find out how an infestation of rats led to Gamera and his parity with Godzilla.
The Creature (Tom Hennessy) knows how SeaWorld treats employees so he is making a break for it in Revenge of the Creature (1955), Universal Pictures
October 23, 2025
'Creature From the Black Lagoon' manages to avoid an update to this day despite efforts by John Carpenter and Rick…
Megumi Odaka
September 23, 2025
This month in Kaiju History, we look at 'Godzilla vs. Destoroyah' on its 30th anniversary and the ending that almost…
It has
August 18, 2025
This month in Kaiju History, we dive into a proposed sequel to 'Shin Godzilla' that Hideaki Anno submitted to his…
Super Monster
July 28, 2025
This month in Kaiju History, we get to the bottom of why Gamera failed to get the "Shin" treatment unlike…
Canceled Apocalypse
June 25, 2025
This month in Kaiju History, we take a look at what could've been with 'Pacific Rim: Uprising' and why it…
Dream therapy
May 26, 2025
This Kaiju History goes back to Korean Cinema, kind of, to cover a movie released everywhere in 2007 that you…
Hogzilla goes for low-hanging fruit in Razorback (1984), Western Film Productions
April 22, 2025
Russell Mulcahy is known for the 'Highlander' series but made his name off the Ozploitation movement with an unconventional "Kaiju."
That ain't Yoshi
March 22, 2025
1998 was "the year of Godzilla," and at least one other Kaiju movie from Fox that Sony couldn't have been…
Godzilla-2000
February 25, 2025
Once upon a time Kaiju History, the Spider-Man business at Sony spelled doom for a low-budget Godzilla movie set in…