Attack Of The Monsters aka Gamera vs. Guiron

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Silly

2006-01-23
It seems like Japan is visited by more monsters and aliens than any other location on earth; a sort of Bermuda triangle of monsters. I have to believe that someone has generated at least one college paper based on the incredible coincidence of monsters and Japan. This time we have three children looking through a low-power telescope when an alien spacecraft lands nearly in their backyard. The obvious choices for the children would seem to be, a) tell their mother, b) call the police, or c) climb aboard the spacecraft and journey to another planet populated by brain-sucking babes. You can guess which answer wins.

On the way to the other planet Gamera shows up and, other than breathing nicely and making growly monster noises in the vacuum of outer space, tries to keep the spacecraft from landing on planet Terra (do not be confused with our planet named Terra - I am sure you can see the immediate distinction between names).

Once on the planet, Tom and Akio (Akio's little sister had to stay behind because she was too little) immediately encounter Guiron and Gaos. Unfortunately, this early scene generates a huge laugh when Gaos's foot is lasered off. Seriously, this scene is unintentionally funny. The movie continues a downhill slide from here.

The boys soon encounter the only two inhabitants of planet Terra, two females hungry for boy brain. The movie never explains why boy brain is a delicacy on Terra. Through a variety of machinations and Gamera, who clearly was preparing for the summer Olympics (in yet another hilarious scene) the boys and Gamera are able to escape back to the earth and the end of this film, thereby ending their movie career.

It is usually at this point where I point out the redeeming values of this movie and explain how much you should watch it. The problem is that this movie is a cheesy monster movie with horrible costumes for the monsters. Gamera is too rubbery in some scenes. You can see one of Guiron's seams in one scene. Another problem is that it seems each version of the movie has been edited differently from the other versions, so there are different scenes in each one. I am guessing that someone was trying to keep this movie as oriented to children as possible, and so the edits were done to reduce different aspects of the violence. Sad to say, as bad as this movie is I will probably watch it again one of these days.

For those into trivia, according to imdb this movie has been known by a bunch of other titles:

"Attack of the Monsters"
"Gamera VS the Giant Evil Beast Guiron"
"Gamera Vs. Guillon"
"Gamera vs. Guiron"
"Gamera vs. the Devil-Beast Giron"

I am guessing that similar cheese can come in different titles.

NOT THE SANDY FRANK DUB!

2005-12-25
MST3K fans will remember this film in it's horrible glory from the worst English dubbing company ever, Sandy Frank. This however is a different dub made by people who have a firmer grip on the English language.

It's still enjoyable for the background music track stayed the same. So your ears will be treated to the same music, but not the same stunted English.

I recommend this for someone who's seriously obsessed with the film and desperately needs it on DVD, for say, taking screen grabs, etc.

One of the best of the original series

2005-12-08
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.

A space turtle with a massive under bite

2005-09-09
Gamera tai daiakuju Giron (1969)
Gamera vs. the Devil-Beast Giron
AKA Attack Of The Monsters

Mysterious messages from space. Soon two mischievous boys Akio and Tomoko checking out their telescope spot a space ship that looks like a tinker toy top. It conveniently land s in an empty lot and is undetected by anyone else. Naturedly they enter the ship and play with the interments. Yep they are being bratnaped. Fussy space beings change themselves into slick chicks. Soon they learn of Gamera from looking at reruns of previous movies in Akio's puny brain. His tasty puny brain.

Can Gamera save them or will it take Officer Kondo?
Hopefully the kids will be dispatched before they can make the obligatory
"We should all work together" speech.

A Japanese film that is fourth in a series. It is dubbed in English. Really hockey graphics and while Giron makes a fair terradactyl but Gamera looks like a large space going turtle with a huge under-bite and file coming from behind.

A Knife-Headed Monster... Priceless!!!

2005-08-13
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).

This is the ONLY accurate review for Brentwood's ATTACK OF THE MONSTERS 10 MOVIE PACK. (NOT a Gamera review!)

2007-08-20
The "Gamera" reviews on this page are NOT at all related to the pictured item here: BRENTWOOD's "ATTACK OF THE MONSTERS 10 MOVIE PACK." This is actually a budget-priced collection of ten public domain fright flicks-- there are NO JAPANESE MONSTERS here!

SYNOPSES:

"The Ape Man" - Mad scientist changes himself into a hairy creature, then seeks a cure using human spinal fluid.

"Attack Of The Giant Leeches" - People who live near a swamp are disappearing orbeing found dead with odd wounds on their bodies.

"Creature From The Haunted Sea" - Crook murders some Caribbean islanders and blames their deaths on an imaginary sea monster. Then the real critter appears!

"Eegah" - Teenagers discover a prehistoric caveman, who goes on a rampage.

"The Giant Gila Monster" - The 1950s fad of macro-photography transforms an ordinary lizard into a gargantuan thing that threatens a small Texas town. Or, in the words of this movie's original advertising campaign: "ONLY HELL COULD BREED SUCH AN ENORMOUS BEAST. ONLY GOD COULD DESTROY IT!"

"Indestructible Man" - Lon Chaney Jr. in a modern retelling of the Frankenstein story. An executed criminal is reanimated as a mute killer that seemingly can't be stopped.

"The Killer Shrews" - People on a faraway island are terrorized by giant rodentia.

"The Monster Maker" - Mad scientist injects his enemies with a virus that causes them to become hideously deformed.

"Phantom From 10,000 Leagues" - A lame story about a radioactive rock on the ocean floor that causes a monstrous mutation.

"The Snow Creature" - Himilayan expeditioin captures Bigfoot. The monster escapes while being shipped to Los Angeles.

BRENTWOOD 10 Movie Packs offer a variety of cinematic genres at bargain prices. Video transfers of their "B" movies are pretty decent, as is sound. The manufacturer's hinged boxes house DVDs adequately, but be careful the hinged sections don't pull away from the main spine! They're not that easy to reassemble.

For a more modern collection of creepy movies from BRENTWOOD, their SCARED STIFF 10 MOVIE SET will leave you... well, you know!

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Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings maintained by a film resource website.

(3.9) The Ape Man (1943) - Bela Lugosi
(2.8) Attack Of The Giant Leeches (1959) - Ken Clark/Yvette Vickers
(2.7) Creature From The Haunted Sea (1961) - Antony Carbone/Betsy Jones-Moreland
(2.6) Eegah (1962) - Arch Hall Jr./Richard Kiel
(2.9) The Giant Gila Monster (1959) - Don Sullivan/Fred Graham
(2.8) Indestructible Man (1956) - Lon Chaney Jr./Max Showalter
(2.9) The Killer Shrews (1959) - James Best/Ingrid Goude
(4.8) The Monster Maker (1944) - J. Carroll Naish/Ralph Morgan
(2.4) The Phantom From 10,000 Leagues (1955) - Kent Taylor/Cathy Downs
(2.3) The Snow Creature (1954) - Paul Langton/Leslie Denison

Who Knew That Gamera Lettered In Gymnastics?

2006-08-29
This has got to be one of the silliest of all the Japanese rubber monster movies. Two Japanese boys discover a flying saucer, fly it to a planet inhabited by Guiron, a ridiculous monster with a knife-snout and throwing stars in his nostrils (watch and learn,) and two space babes dubbed very poorly. They uncover a plot that involves both head shaving (a theme introduced early in the film by helpful policeman and Jerry Lewis impersonator, Detective "Cornjob"...don't miss the practice with the disemboweling cutlass) and brain eating. Somehow Gamera (a friend to all children if you'll recall your Gamera history) learns of the kid's distress, comes to the planet, defeats Guiron with a missile through his nostril (really), and takes the boys back to Earth in his mouth.

If this sounds muddled, it is: it is one of the more ludicrous plots of the genre, and is definitely worth a few laughs for the unadulterated cheese factor. My favorite scene in the film hands down is the gymnastics routine Gamera performs in mid-fight (followed by the daintiest dance you have ever seen a giant turtle monster do.) This is all, of course, utterly ridiculous, but therein resides the appeal.

gamera on dinosaur planet

2006-07-02
i wave seen three gamera movies so far this is my favourite one because it has the most monsters. the story has gamera a prehitoric monster fithg a huge dinosaur on a distant planet here aliens have kidnaptte two kids. this films have the monsters gamera the giant turtle gyaos a pteratactyle from space and of course guiron the intergalactic reptile monster.

Sad to see what became of our favorite giant flying turtle

2006-05-05
This was a rather sad entry into the Gamera series of movies. The plot, such as it is, is two young boys, Akio and Tom find a spaceship and go inside to explore. The ship takes off and lands on a planet that is in our solar system but is directly on the other side of Earth so we never saw it. The only inhabitants left are two attractive women and their monster, Guiron. Guiron is basically a lizard with a knife for a head. The women read Akio's mind to find out information and then plan to eat the boy's brains before flying to earth. But of course, Gamera, the friend of all children, comes to the rescue. He defeats Guiron and takes the boys back to Earth safely.

The dubbing in this movie is absolutely horrible. The monster fight scenes were comical. In fact, Guiron's whole look is ridiculous. Akio, one of the young boys, is obsessed with living in a world without traffic accidents and keeps calling planets "stars". Back on Earth the adults won't believe Akio's sister that he took off in a spaceship, except for one policeman, "Cornjob".

These Japanese monster movies are always fun to watch, but some of them also had at least a semblance of quality. This one has none. A very strangely written script, beyond terrible dubbing and lower than low-budget effects.

Bad Science but Good Brains!

2006-04-19
I love zombie movies. Especially campy ones like Return of the Living Dead and Night of the Creeps. Imagine my pleasant surprise to find *brain lust* in a Japanese monster movie! And they're two of the cutest brain eaters you'd ever want to meet! So sad they never got to dine on Akio. Basically, a UFO lands lands on the outskirts of a Japanese village...two kids decide it would be an excellent idea to take a joyride while the alien's away...they race a giant space turtle...then land on a star(?) inhabited by the aforementioned ladies...the girls have a monster with a head shaped like an exacto knife named Gurion...Gurion cuts off a pterodactyl's leg with a laser beam...he also fights Gamera the space turtle a few times...the alien babes die and the kids return to Earth to spread the message of world peace and...ending traffic accidents! Boy is this film ridiculous. The science is so flawed you'd think one of Bush's cronys at NASA wrote the script. Landing on a star! Stopping traffic accidents! Come on guys..but you really can't go wrong with hot brain craving japanese girls and giant rubber monsters smashing each other up, can you? Recommended