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Attack of the Monsters 10 Movie Pack

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3 star:		(18)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

Gamera vs Guillon, is the fifth film of the original Gamera series. This film is mainly aimed for children. This is a monster film from the worst period of the Kaju films; Shoe string budget, silly story, silly monsters - But a lot of charm!

Story; Did you know that there's a kind of "anti Earth", a planet orbiting the sun on the same distance as Earth? Now you know! This planet called Terra, mirrors Earth's orbit and is invincible to us, because it's on the opposite side of the sun. But Terra is a haunted and a dying planet; Space Gyaos roams its surface!
2 boys, investigate a strange landed spacecraft - Suddenly, the spacecraft takes off!
But the trip seem to be cut short; A huge interstellar rock is on collision course to their space ship...
Suddenly Gamera appears, and saves them! But something doesn't seem to be right; Gamera don't like the way, where they are heading...
At Terra they discover a horrible world of monsters, and Guillon seems to be the worst brute of them all...
They also meet two beautiful women; Barbella and Flobella - They seem to be nice, but there's more than meet the eye...

I've given this film 3 stars - Mainly because of its charm. The film has also very few reused monster scenes from earlier films. (Which was a very common in the end of the 1960s)
Technically this film is bad; Small budget, bad miniatures, bad monstersuits and some silly monsters designs.

This edition is a quality one; Hard video box, trailers and theatrical stills after the film, and a lot of info on the two sided cover sleeve. It's also is subtitled, not dubbed - Which me, from a non-English speaking country, without tradition of dubbing - Appreciates a lot!
Thanks, Neptune media!

To paraphrase Shakespeare, the gods look down on this uncertain event and laugh. For anyone who thought that the lesser Godzilla movies were the bottom of the Japanese sci-fi barrel, this movie is a reality check. Gamera wars against Guiron, a knife-headed giant lizard that crawls around on hands and knees. Guiron also slices through Gaos earlier in the film. (Who comes up with these names, anyway)? Two reckless pre-teens, Akio and Tom, journey to a counter-Earth planet inhabited by warring monsters and two space babes in svelte togs. For some viewers, the girls are the best part of the movie. Especially when the Japanese Thelma and Louise get the idea they need to eat the kids' brains. Akio's preparatory haircut adds a definite style statement. It does nothing to diminish his concern that road accidents are one of the great banes of life. He asserts this theory at least three times in the film. Great dialogue is evident when Space Babe #1 says, "Let's fix the ship first and then eat their brains." The dubbing and technical qualities of the DVD transfer meet low rent expectations. The FX are clumsy and rubberized, as usual. This juvenile sci-fi flck is strictly for indiscriminate kiddies, and steadfast fans of cheesy movies. It's fun in a reverse sort of way. ;-)

Gamera is the most charming of all the suitmation monsters. The bozo's who can't appreciate the effects in this movies are really missing the point. A+++

This flick is among the very worst of Gamera movies. Very simply, Gamera has to save two boys from the clutches of aliens who control Guiron, the monster known for nothing else than having a cheap kitchen knife for a head. DON'T EVEN BOTHER WITH THIS FLICK...instead, check out one of the three 1990's Gamera movies. In all honesty.

The scene where Guiron chops off Gaos's wings and head is completely missing! The best fight scene in the movie and it's not in there. Buy the VHS instead, at least that doesn't have a missing scene.

I found this movie to be a lot of fun. Gamera, the giant turtle who walks upright vs. a giant talking shark from another planet. How can you possibly go wrong with that? Throw in a way cool soundtrack, one of the hottest looking women I've ever seen in a giant monster flick (Zigra's earthling female servant), cool monster action, and funny, cheesy dubbed dialogue and you have a movie that ranks right up there with Destroy All Monsters and Godzilla vs. Monster Zero as one of my all-time favorite Japanese monster flicks. Personally, I would stay away from the MST3K version. If you need someone else to tell you what to find amusing about this movie, go buy the new lame-assed American Godzilla movie and leave the classics to those of us who really appreciate them.

This movie is really fun to watch, the story is exciting and the monster Guiron is a really cool monster! Nice touch to add the aliens having a different kind of eyes that is used in the movie Gamera vs. Viras.

First off, let me say, that I love the Gamera films. As others have said before it mystifies you that these films are geared toward children audiences and yet, the violence and violent themes abound.

The deliciously wicked and attractive female aliens in this film want to eat our young heroes brains. In a wonderful cameo, a silver Space Gaos gets sliced and diced by Guiron, thus showing his powerful might. This film rocks!

Yes, we laugh at the comical fight between Gamera and Guiron as he spins round and round on the metal building support like a kaiju athletic star. Yes, we love it when Guiron materializes metal shurikens in his head from no where and fires them at Gamera's eyes. Gruesome yet hilariously fun at the same time.

If you want to have some brews with the boys and watch a TOTALLY entertaining Japanese monster flick - you should check out this poorly dubbed wonder. It is as fun as "Godzilla Vs. Megalon" and is a great double feature with "Gamera Vs. Viras" (aka: Destroy All Planets) and/or "Gamera Vs. Jiger" (aka: Gamera Vs. Monster X).

For anybody out there looking for a good night of uninentional hilarity, you could do worse than check out "Attack of the Monsters" (originally titled "Gamera vs. Gaos"). It's the story of several creepy schoolboys who board an alien spaceship with two spacebabes who want to eat their brains. Gamera, everyone's favourite flying, rubber turtle, comes along to fight a knife-headed monster named Gaos and save the kids from certain death. The special effects are particularly below average this time around, and the dubbed dialogue is so full of hilariously bad lines that it's amazing the voice actors could say any of it with a straight face. Overall, very entertaining.
The DVD from Alpha video is in the pan and scan 1.33:1 aspect ratio, severely cropped from its original 2.35:1 image. Billed as an "American International Television Release" at the very end, an old and battered print has obviously been used. There are numerous scratches, with smeary, faded colour and an overall soft look. Unsurprisingly, the English dub is the only audio available. A gallery of publicity stills and posters have been included as an extra feature, and they're mildly diverting. A catalogue is also included, but I don't consider that a very "special" feature.

It should be noted that this is the original American International version
of this film and not the horribly dubbed Sandy Frank produced version from
the 80's. The dubbing here is far superior.