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Gammera the Invincible (1965)
Though he began life as a humble Godzilla rip-off in a land and time glutted with them, Gamera would come to symbolize everything that went so horribly wrong with the Golden Age of daikaiju cinema. But...
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Gamera vs. Barugon (1966)
Gamera vs. Barugon is the high point of the original Gamera franchise. After the (relative) success of Daikaiju Gamera, the far-sighted and responsible men of Daiei Studios could have carried on, as...
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Gamera vs. Gaos (1967)
Insert indigestion joke here. This is the exact midpoint of Gamera’s original (or “Showa Era”) film series. Not chronologically, or in any other terms material, but in terms of tone. This is the point...
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Our review of the (fourth) original Gamera film, wherein the series continues its downward slide into annoying kiddie entertainment that those same kids would grow up to champion, once they became...
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Gamera vs. Jiger (1970)
“As you can see here, there’s a flaw built right into the heart of this series…” This, the sixth Gamera film, (released in the U.S. as Gamera vs. Monster X) is really the third part in a Pentalogy that...
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