In the far future of 1999, the giant monsters of the world, including Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra, and others no one cares about, have been imprisoned on an island cleverly named Monster Land (Monster Island in the subtitled version, which is… better). Of course all is not well as aliens plan to invade Earth using the
Dragons appear on Earth and destroy the castle of corrupt King Fastrad (John Rhys-Davies). Fastrad takes the opportunity to impose on the hospitality of King Wednesbury (John Hansson) and secretly plans to overthrow him and take his castle. Overtly, Fastrad works with Wednesbury, preparing a team of dragon slayers that include the woodsmen, Silas (Maxwell
When Ulrich (Ralph Richardson), the last wizard in the world, dies, his apprentice, Galen (Peter MacNicol) takes on the job of killing a dragon. But the King has devised a lottery where one virgin is chosen as a sacrifice to the dragon in order to keep it placated, and is not happy with anyone upsetting the
Warrior-turned-politician Berek (Mark Dymond) and low level mage Melora (Clemency Burton-Hill) discover that the evil undead Damadar (Bruce Payne) has returned to the land of the living by freeing an ancient orb of power that held a dragon god in check. Berek, with four other adventures, an elven wizard, a berserker girl, a thief, and
The still beating heart of Frankenstein (they don’t say Frankenstein’s Monster; they say Frankenstein) is taken to Japan in 1945, but it is lost when the atomic bomb destroys Nagasaki. Fifteen years later, an American medical researcher (Nick Adams), his sidekick vivisectionist, and a nurse find a radiation resistant boy with a flat head. The
A Princess goes missing after an assassination attempt, and turns up in Japan, claiming to be a 5000 year old prophetess from outer space (Venus in the subtitled version, Mars in the dubbed). She predicts that Rodan will rise from a volcano, Godzilla will destroy a ship, and a space monster named King Ghidrah will
Yuri (Chiharu Nîyama), a faux reporter for a fake documentary TV series, stumbles upon information about three guardian monsters, Baragon, Mothra, and Ghidorah, who will rise up to defend Japan when Godzilla returns. Obsessed with reporting real news, she sets out to film the monster combat. Her father is an admiral who lived through Godzilla’s
Godzilla is back, and out-of-work scientist and partial comic-relief, Professor Yuji Shinoda and his daughter, calling themselves the Godzilla Prediction Network, want to study him. They drive up and down the coast, joined by a full comic-relief reporter, because that’s how you study a giant monster. Meanwhile, the head of a government crisis agency takes
When Kobayashi crashes his sea plane on a small island, he discovers a second Godzilla (the first died in Gojira) fighting an enormous, mutated Anklyosaur. The beasts fall into the sea and soon turn up in Osaka, and destroy it. Godzilla disappears into the ocean, and Kobayashi, and his more-able friend, Tsukioka, search for the
Dr. Shiragami, believing the spirit of his dead daughter inhabits a rose, splices Godzilla’s DNA with the flower’s, creating a giants rose-monster. Meanwhile, a psychic has sensed that Godzilla will return, so a bio-lab starts working on radioactivity-eating bacteria. This draws out American corporate terrorists and Arabic terrorists, who will do anything to get the
A hard to define nuclear event has caused Godzilla’s internal nuclear “heart” to overheat, and the giant monster will soon explode, destroying Earth’s atmosphere. At the same time, creatures created by the oxygen destroyer that killed the original Godzilla forty years ago have appeared and threaten to lay waste to Japan. The scientific/military organization known as G-Force
In Godzilla vs. Gigan, the aliens are intelligent space cockroaches (disguised as humans of course) and the evil monsters double team is a plastic model of Ghidorah and a turkey with a dull spinning blade in its tummy. If you are a fan of Ghidorah, don’t fret over how horrible he looks when he first