In the rocky wastelands of fictional Wester Island, lightning strikes as a volcano erupts in the distance. Here, a gnarled beast armed with horns and tusks —clad with a tough red-brown hide and ...

When a giant stone statue on Wester Island is disturbed, the legendary monster Jiger appears and heads for Japan. Gamera tries to stop this new rival, only to be injured when Jiger lays eggs inside of ...

The turtle that was cool long before anyone dreamt of anthropomorphic chelonians wolfing pizza, Gamera is back in two feature-length adventures released for the first time in the States in their ...

Trent Berchtold is a screenwriter with a degree in Creative Writing from Pepperdine University. Highly passionate about film, he has spent years honing his writing skills so that he may contribute to ...

The undisputed nadir of the Gamera franchise, Gamera: Super Monster was made solely to get Daiei out of financial trouble. It was released nearly 10 years after the franchise’s previous entry, Gamera ...

Gamera (ガメラ?) is a giant turtle Kaiju (Giant monster) from a series of popular Giant monster films produced by Daiei Motion Picture Company in Japan. Created in 1965 to rival the success of Toho ...

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While Godzilla may be the undisputed King of the Monsters, it wasn’t always so undisputed. During the heyday of the kaiju movie boom, another Japanese franchise sought to overtake the giant monster ...