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The visual effects in King Kong, created by Willis O'Brien, inspired future monster film effects artists such as Ray Harryhausen and Dennis Muren. [2] Early giant-monster films often had themes of adventure and exploration of unknown regions, and incorporated fights with giant monsters as a climactic element.
This is a list of monster movies, about such creatures as extraterrestrial aliens, giant animals, Kaiju (the Japanese counterpart of giant animals, but they can also be machines and plants), mutants, supernatural creatures, or creatures from folklore, such as Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster.
' Giant Monster Midair Battle: Gamera vs. Gyaos ') [a] is a 1967 Japanese kaiju film directed by Noriaki Yuasa, with special effects by Yuasa. Produced by Daiei Film , it is the third entry in the Gamera franchise and stars Kojiro Hongo , Kichijiro Ueda, Tatsuemon Kanamura, Reiko Kasahara, and Naoyuki Abe, with Teruo Aragaki as Gamera .
Gamera (Japanese: ガメラ, Hepburn: Gamera) is a fictional monster, or kaiju, originating from a series of Japanese films.Debuting in the 1965 film Gamera, the Giant Monster, the character and the first film were intended to compete with the success of Toho's Godzilla film series.
The War of the Gargantuas (Japanese: フランケンシュタインの怪獣 サンダ対ガイラ, Hepburn: Furankenshutain no Kaijū: Sanda tai Gaira, lit. ' Frankenstein's Monsters: Sanda vs. Gaira ') is a 1966 kaiju film directed by Ishirō Honda, with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya.
Walking with Monsters – Life Before Dinosaurs, marketed as Before the Dinosaurs – Walking with Monsters in North America, is a 2005 three-part nature documentary television miniseries created by Impossible Pictures and produced by the BBC Studios Science Unit, [2] the Discovery Channel, ProSieben and France 3. [3]
Daimajin (大魔神, Daimajin, lit. ' Giant Demon God ') is a Japanese tokusatsu [note 1] series centering on an eponymous fictitious giant warrior god. It initially consisted of a film trilogy shot simultaneously and released in 1966 with three different directors and predominantly the same crew. [3]
Monsters Resurrected is an American edutainment television series that premiered on September 13, 2009, on the Discovery Channel. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The program reconstructs extinct animals of both Mesozoic and Cenozoic.