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Did this movie creep you out as a kid?

posted 12 years ago by indyhu
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I remember seeing this first when I was about 5 or 6. The Green Gargantua really creeped me out back then. I actually had nightmares that I would look out my bedroom window and see him running about our neighborhood, looking for one of us to eat.

And the first time seeing it was on a 13" black and white tv. It kinda added to the creepiness.

My son and I watch the movie together now. He loves it and the Godzilla movies as well.

What's really funny is one night, I turned on the TV and the Dallas Mavericks were playing. My son pointed at Dirk Nowitzki and said "Dad! It's the Brown Gargantua!"

[–] kingofthemonsters1995 9 years ago

Gaira was created to be pure nightmare fodder. A gigantic deformed green humanoid that comes ashore at night and eats people. He's like the kaiju version of the boogeyman. Gaira was something more nightmarish than most of Toho's other kaiju. Yet Gaira is at times portrayed in a sympathetic and almost human light, especially in his interactions with Sanda. It's really impressive to me that this movie gives its monsters so much personality and character development. I still do find Gaira a bit unsettling.