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Midwest Emo Boys vs. Giant Monster -- Who Wins?
We've told you before about Zero Trooper F, a giant monster flick set in a town much like Madison, Wisconsin, and now there's an action-packed clip from it online as well as a full trailer. Basically it's the simple tale of a mad scientist having a life crisis while super-soldiers fight a giant monster (see clip) that looks a lot like those those cute felted animals with scary eyes and teeth that you always see hipsters making in CRAFT magazine. Except this cute animal is as tall as a skyscraper and fights by kicking buses like a hackysack. Plus, the soundtrack is great. More »
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You Can Never Have Too Many Cute Monsters
Cinemarcade has a great sheet of tiny, cute kaiju icons. For some reason, they decided to randomly rename all the Godzilla creatures Elvis — so you've got MechaElvis and Baby Elvis in among the other giant monster classics. I guess Godzilla is the king. Of course, my personal favorite is Ghidorah, but Megalon and Hedorah the Smog Monster are close behind. Collect them all! [Cute monster icons via Cinemarcade — Thanks, Eliot]
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A kaiju is a giant monster like Cloverfield or Godzilla, and there have been some pretty insane ones invented over the years. The discerning kaiju aficionado has exposed herself to creatures great and large, from the giant ass in Rectuma and the giant rat-bat-spider in Angry Red Planet, to the giant chicken in Guilala (pictured above). Now one of the web's foremost experts in giant monsters, Kaiju Search-Robot Avery, has brought us the definitive list of the 20 weirdest giant monsters ever.
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Enjoy "Unnatural Hugeness" with the 20 Craziest Kaiju
A kaiju is a giant monster like Cloverfield or Godzilla, and there have been some pretty insane ones invented over the years. The discerning kaiju aficionado has exposed herself to creatures great and large, from the giant ass in Rectuma and the giant rat-bat-spider in Angry Red Planet, to the giant chicken in Guilala (pictured above). Now one of the web's foremost experts in giant monsters, Kaiju Search-Robot Avery, has brought us the definitive list of the 20 weirdest giant monsters ever.
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A 5-Minute Crash-Course in Giant Monsters
Maybe you've been asking yourself how you can get into giant monsters, especially with Cloverfield 2 and Host 2 on the way. Or maybe you're ashamed of the fact that you really don't know a lot about the Godzilla pantheon. Well, I'm here to help you out. Thanks to the nice people at Slideshare, you can now get my 5-minute introduction to giant monster appreciation, which I performed live at the Ignite show in San Francisco a couple weeks ago. [Giant Monsters via Ignite]
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Giant monsters stomping across your gaming table, thrashing each other and destroying an entire city in the process: Is this heaven? Nope, just Monsterpocalypse, a forthcoming collectible miniatures game of kaiju combat by Privateer Press. The pre-painted collectible minis and the buildings they will stomp will come in random booster packs starting this fall. Privateer is ramping up for a grand roll-out, with a comic book series and promo monsters to get the kaiju fans drooling.
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Giant Monsters Destroy All Cities
Giant monsters stomping across your gaming table, thrashing each other and destroying an entire city in the process: Is this heaven? Nope, just Monsterpocalypse, a forthcoming collectible miniatures game of kaiju combat by Privateer Press. The pre-painted collectible minis and the buildings they will stomp will come in random booster packs starting this fall. Privateer is ramping up for a grand roll-out, with a comic book series and promo monsters to get the kaiju fans drooling.More »
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Do Giant Disasters Provide Inspiration for Giant Monster Movies?
It's practically a truism to claim that the giant monster movie craze of the 1950s was inspired by the atomic bombs the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the hundreds of atomic tests done afterwards. And some have argued that the Cloverfield monster's attack on New York was a not-so-subtle reference to the terrorist attacks on New York's World Trade Center in 2001. But is there a real historical basis to these claims? We've charted some of the biggest disasters of the last century, and lined them up next to a timeline of giant monster movies, to see what the temporal correlation is between giant disasters and giant monsters. The results revealed an interesting giant monster cycle in pop culture. More »
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Giant Monster Trashes Madison, Wisconsin
Tired of those giant monsters only attacking the big cities and ignoring the heartland of America? So is one film-maker in Madison, Wisconsin, apparently. Eric Lim brought the world-crushing kaiju action to Greenside City, which looks remarkably like his hometown of Madison, in his new film Zero Trooper-F, which just premiered last month. More »
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Giant Monsters vs. Giant People - Who Wins?
The bitter debate that rages between the proponents of giant monsters and the advocates for giant people is one that will probably never be settled, but we can at least attempt to explain what each side brings to the table. On the one hand, giant monsters like Godzilla and Space Godzilla (pictured here in an awesome fight) can do things like gnash their teeth and fly. But human giant monsters can actually talk and also flash their breasts (see video below). We lay out the pros and cons of giant monsters, and the pros and cons of giant people, and you can decide for yourself which mega-forms will rule. More »
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Stop-Motion Dinosaurs on Another Planet
You can never get enough dinosaurs in space, and that's why indie filmmaker Larry Arpin spent the last several years filming his dinotastic space opera Galactic Raiders in the deepest California desert. The whole flick is done old-school, from the Ray Harryhausen-style, stop-motion dinos, to the retro Mitchell camera he filmed with. And the plot is pure pulp. Rymir zooms to a distant planet (full of dinos, whom he fights in this clip) to rescue his girlfriend from the evil Acastus.More »
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Cloverfield Spawns a Crop of Indie Monster Flicks
Though Cloverfield is definitely one of the great giant monster movies of recent years, it's best feature was also its worst feature: the reality-TV feel to the acting and camera work. I'm a fan of the jiggy-cam stuff, but I was one of many who had no sympathy at all for the entitled yuppie main characters who YouTubed their own demise. Now a new crop of truly indie monster movies may offer a corrective to the New York rich kid POV in Cloverfield. The forthcoming Blob-meets-illegal-pharmaceuticals flick Bio-Slime, whose trailer you can consume right here, is a good example of these new-style monster flicks, whose low production values look suddenly professional in light of the faux-low production on Cloverfield. Other indie monsters are rampaging in your DVD drive next year too. More »
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Who's The Tallest Giant Monster?
Now that the Cloverfield monster has won a place in the giant-monster canon, everybody wants to know how he'd do in a fight against Godzilla. The answer: he'd have a chance against the original 1954 Godzilla, but none whatsoever against the newer, twice-as-tall version. See how Cloverfieldy stacks up to other giant monsters in the crucial giantness department, after the jump. (Very minor spoilers only.) More »
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