It's unheard of for any monster movie to have a stylish jazzy film score. The music by Masao Yagi is of the times but is often effective and very original. Most notably is when we catch a glimpse of a girl's bloody thrown-up arm and a headless horse. There is graphic violence in this film but it's used quite effectively in quick cuts sending a jolt to the viewer. A pteranodon also makes an appearance as they duke it out at the end of the movie. This film, about an obsessed paleontologist(dubbed by Robotech's Greg Snegoff) who comes back to his home town in search of a plesiosaur living in the lake. I believe people always have a right to their opinions but this is vastly underrated. This is regarded as the worst kaiju eiga ever made. I don't know if I'd let kids watch this, even though I saw it when I was 6 or 7 years old, I don't know if I'd let a kid that young watch it. Still, if you want to watch a cheap kaiju knockoff with shock violence, it's worth hunting down a copy. It's also fairly unoriginal, as it's merely one of many Godzilla knockoffs, made cheaply to make a quick buck. Basically, this is probably one of the most violent kaijus ever made, and even though I'm not easily shocked, I watched that ancient tape again the other day, and was surprised how violent this movie is, and how graphic the violence is.
I think he regretted it for some time afterwards, b/c my mom was not happy. I saw this back in the late 80s on the USA Network (when it was still in its weird, still-trying-to-find-an-identity-among-all-the-other-basic-cable-channels days) on an edition of the sorely missed "Commander USA's Groovy Movies." My dad taped this movie from that show (like he did with many Godzilla and Gamera movies on that ancient, crappy VCR we had in the 80s).
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