The Gamera Movie That Never Happened

Fellow blogger and giant monster enthusiast “Enshohma” shared some trivia with me regarding a previously unknown Gamera film concept from the earliest days of that character’s cinematic history. Titled Gamera vs. The Ice Men, the movie was intended to be the second entry in the series but the production company abandoned the idea and made Gamera vs. Barugon instead. It’s weird how this little tidbit of information remained hidden for so long (at least to Western fans, anyway- it might have been more commonplace knowledge in Japan) only being recently revealed on the audio commentary track of the Gamera vs. Barugon DVD from Shout! Factory. At any rate, you can read up on some additional details about this unmade film over at Enshohma’s blog.

Giant Monster Valentines

Need some last minute Valentines? No worries- this blog has got you covered:

Let the loving commence!

Great Showdowns of Giant Monsterdom

I stumbled across a very cool Tumblr account by artist Scott Campbell which profiles rival characters from various films by way of awesome, cartoony portraits. With Mr.Campbell’s permission, I’ve uploaded a bunch of entries that pertain to the theme of this blog, but I recommend visiting the site for all the non-giant monster stuff too. Check it out here: Great Showdowns

A Musical Interlude

Alas... friendship between giant monsters and humanity is seemingly a doomed exercise, as illustrated in this music video for the song “Aberdeen” by Cage The Elephant:

Cage The Elephant - Aberdeen (dir. Isaac Rentz) from More Media on Vimeo.

Holiday Hibernation

Without fail, the month of December is never kind to this blog with respect to posts and this year has been no exception. Work and holiday preparation is just too much of a demanding mistress, unfortunately. At any rate, I'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year- try to keep the spiked egg nog consumption within reasonable limits! Or don't. It's all good.

See you all in 2012!

Two Trailers with Giants

While browsing the Dread Central website over the weekend I came across a couple of relevant trailers and figured that I’d post some links to them (I couldn’t seem to embed them directly on the blog, unfortunately). First up is the trailer for Bunyan, a horror spin on the folk character of the same name who prefers chopping up impudent teenagers instead of trees (click on each picture to go to the site):

The second is Jack the Giant Killer, which seems to be a re-imagining of the original Jack and the Beanstalk story verses a remake of the 1961 movie of the same name:

Admittedly, Bunyan looks like typical horror fare with a huge, axe-wielding mutant dude standing in for a machete-carrying maniac wearing a hockey mask. Hard to tell what to make of Jack, as the trailer’s kind of all over the place.

Sunday Funnies: A Somewhat Familiar Story

From the 2nd issue of Sergio Aragonés Funnies: