Rodan (1956)

After the success of Godzilla, Ishirō Honda reunited with FX wizard Eiji Tsuburaya and composer Akira Ifukube to give it another go with a new monster and a slightly sillier, more colorful style that has less of the dark, haunting nuclear holocaust mood of the original and…

Josh Lewis

I always forget that Rodan is a quite serious movie, lots of people die on screen and I accuse the goofier later guest appearances of being responsible of that. No, this is more in the tone of the original Gojira (though nowhere near as bleak) but it compensates with an…

Joachim Andersson

very amusingly modern, with its slow burn reveal of the monster, a twist-heavy script (you mean the giant grubs these miners dug up are just food for something even bigger? say, what do you think's in that enormous egg?) and endless scenes of military and scientific…

matt lynch

Practical effects going crazy.

George Carmi

KAIJULY: GODS AND MONSTERS It took me a while to get into the film enough to enjoy it, namely because it starts one way and then ends in another. As you can imagine, I was expecting a lot of Rodan’s fun, and while he does make an appearance around the second half, most of…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

The colours! Ah! The beautiful colours! The first 45 minutes of this are an eerie creature feature about big pincer handed beasties racking up a body count in a coal mining town, but then Rodan shows up and every character is thrown out the window to make room for…

Justin Decloux

Godzilla and Friends Marathon: 3 of 46 I just reviewed this one in October. You can read that review here. I watched it again because it slots into my Godzilla marathon, seeing as how Rodan goes on to be featured in multiple Godzilla films. Anyway, I'm quite fond of…

Aberrant Ghoul

they don't want you to know that rodan is secretly one of the most alluring & powerful kaiju.

comrade_yui

i'm with rodan. i'm on his side

Jacob