Any day when we can report on a new classic Gamera flick getting the treatment that it deserves is a good one, and Shout! Factory has just dropped the 411 on upcoming release of Gamera vs. Barugon.

The show Mystery Science Theater 3000 was gifted with many bad films, but few as entertaining as the Gamera films. When it originally aired in Minnesota, the five Gamera films (in the Sandy Frank ...

In the rocky wastelands of fictional Wester Island, lightning strikes as a volcano erupts in the distance. Here, a gnarled beast armed with horns and tusks —clad with a tough red-brown hide and ...

During the original 1988-89 run of Mystery Science Theater 3000 on KTMA in Minneapolis, the show drew heavily from the library of Sandy Frank Entertainment, a company that made a few dollars over the ...

When a giant stone statue on Wester Island is disturbed, the legendary monster Jiger appears and heads for Japan. Gamera tries to stop this new rival, only to be injured when Jiger lays eggs inside of ...

Gamera (ガメラ?) is a giant turtle Kaiju (Giant monster) from a series of popular Giant monster films produced by Daiei Motion Picture Company in Japan. Created in 1965 to rival the success of Toho ...

Daiei Film isn’t as close to being a household name as Toho is, but they still knew an opportunity when they saw one. After Gojira and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds proved to attract attention even ...

Trent Berchtold is a screenwriter with a degree in Creative Writing from Pepperdine University. Highly passionate about film, he has spent years honing his writing skills so that he may contribute to ...

The turtle that was cool long before anyone heard of Donatello and his buddies, Gamera is back in two feature-length adventures released for the first time in the States in their original ...

Gamera is back in the last two feature-length adventures of his first series. You can watch them both in their original Japanese-language versions, which is really ...