Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s pay homage to that colossal chelonian, that towering testudine, that really big freakin’ turtle, Gamera…
Developed in the mid-60s by Japan’s Daiei studios as a Godzilla knockoff, Gamera is an enormous, tusked, oddly endearing turtle who can fly, courtesy of his own rocket propulsion. My own favorite of the many Gamera movies is 1970’s Gamera vs. Jiger, released in the U.S. as Gamera vs. Monster X, in which the Gamster defends Expo ’70 in Osaka from this beast…
It’s amazing how much of the dialogue in the later stretch of that film consists of children yelling the name “Gamera” again and again.
RIP to uber-auteurist critic Andrew Sarris, departed at 82, and to the creepy, ever-reptilian TV and movie actor Richard Lynch, a perpetual heavy owing in part to a mug...
...he’d supposedly scarred by setting himself on fire under the influence of LSD, departed at 76.
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