#king kong lives

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Linda Hamilton - King Kong Lives (1986)

#linda hamilton #king kong lives #giant monster movies #b-movies #john guillermin #80s movies #1980s #1986

[chernobog13]

Kong through the ages:

King Kong (1933), Son of Kong (1933) King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962), King Kong Escapes (1967), King Kong (1976), King Kong Lives (1986), King Kong (2005), Kong: Skull Island (2017).

#King Kong #Son of Kong #Kiko #King vs. Godzilla #King Kong Escapes #King Kong Lives #Kong: Skull ISland #kaiju #monster

[citystompers1]

King Kong Lives (1986)

#King Kong Lives #1986 #1980s #vintage #film #movie #poster #movie poster #king kong

[80smovies]

#King Kong Lives #John Guillermin #Charles McCracken #Ronald Shusett #Steven Pressfield #Merian C. Cooper #Edgar Wallace #80s

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Kaiju Week in Review (October 9-15, 2022)

Supreme shock sensation of our times: a Godzilla comic released on schedule! Godzilla: Monsters & Protectors - All Hail the King! #1 dropped on Wednesday. I'll confess I forgot about it for a couple of days; your priorities get scrambled when you're recovering from knee surgery. This is a direct sequel to last year's Monsters & Protectors; I don't recommend going in blind. Two big reasons to pick it up: Gabara's debut in American comics (in a dream, natch) and a professional Xilien troll who muses over which reaction .gif he should deploy. Yeah, me too.

Toho released a teaser and this very cool still for the upcoming short Fest Godzilla 3: Gigan's Attack, showing off the Showa Gigan replica suit Shinichi Wakasa built. It's strange to see it opposite FinalGoji (presumably the same stunt suit from last year's Godzilla vs. Hedorah short). I guess it's just his destiny to face Godzilla suits that are barely holding themselves together.

I cannot hope to comprehensively cover the deluge of Godzilla merchandise forever threatening my bank account in this column, but I would like to spotlight this enamel Baragon pin, designed by Christian Gonzalez for Ghost X Ghost. When I saw it my hands simply moved to order of their own volition.

The Dino De Laurentiis King Kong films are getting format upgrades. StudioCanal has a 4K restoration of the 1976 remake slated for November 28, while Umbrella Entertainment is bringing King Kong Lives, long out of print in the States, to Blu-ray on January 18. Neither company is American, but 4Ks don't have region codes and I hear Umbrella Blu-rays are typically region-free.

Probably neither will be a buy for me. The color grading on the 4K King Kong doesn't look great, and the special features don't measure up to the Blu-ray Shout! released last year. I will grant that the King Kong Lives Blu looks like a winner, with great packaging and new special features including a Ray Morton audio commentary. (They had to be new; the old DVD didn't have a thing to mine.) But it's not exactly one of my favorites, and since Shout! recently picked up the rights to it, I'd rather hold out for a version I don't have to import.

Just over a year after it premiered at Fantastic Fest, Iké Boys is out on digital courtesy of (they just keep coming up) Shout! Factory. Hopefully a physical release will follow, because this heartfelt American tribute to tokusatsu doesn't deserve to be buried in the Google Play Store. Set in the last month of 1999, it concerns a pair of Oklahoma tokusatsu geeks and a Japanese exchange student trying to prevent the apocalypse, empowered by the obscure 1969 anime film that predicted it. It's very low-budget and hits a lot of predictable coming-of-age beats, but it's got a good heart and Yumiko Shaku (yes, Akane in Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla) classes it up. Also... it's not often I'm pandered to so directly. The director's one of us, to put it mildly.

Big thing are happening on the bootleg circuit... a couple of them last week, but I never posted about them on Tumblr and this is the first installment of this column. Yesterday, Skeweds Translations posted fansubs for What to Do with the Dead Kaiju?, Toei and Shochiku's kaiju comedy with no U.S. release outside of film festivals in sight. The film is catastrophically bad, I'm sorry to say, failing as a satire and as a genre exercise; Day of the Kaiju handled the same premise far better in a quarter of the time. But if you're so inclined, you can find a copy of the movie itself on the cat site... along with a higher-quality copy of Shin Ultraman than was uploaded there previously. I don't know where these things are coming from (Zarab?), but I'm not complaining.

And in the how-can-this-be-real category, a treat for your ears: the recently unearthed Hong Kong dub of Hanuman and the Seven Ultramen. As in Godzilla vs. Megalon, Ted Thomas, Chris Hilton, and Warren Rooke voice many of the characters. You won't believe the words coming out of their mouths—I don't think they did either. Between the child murder, checkmated atheist, and Hanuman's unquenchable thirst for carnage, this was always one of the kaiju movies with the most jaw drops per minute, and it just got better. A VHS containing the dub turned up in Lebanon; @Redcome40977685, @PrissMegaforce, Omayyad, and Elie Al Hajj got it digitized and @spacehunter-m synced the audio up to a fine-looking widescreen version.

#kaiju week in review #godzilla #godzilla monsters and protectors all hail the king #fest godzilla 3 gigan's attack #gigan #gabara #baragon #king kong #king kong 1976 #king kong lives #home video #ike boys #what to do with the dead kaiju? #hanuman and the seven ultramen #kaiju

[fatmagic]

#King Kong Lives #1986 #gif

[movieposters1]

#king kong lives

[blueruins]

King Kong Lives (1986)

#king kong lives

[reborn-kaijuverse]

Lady Kong

Portrayed by Elisabeth Shue

The female ape is known for being the mate of Kong as it turns out that her ancestors have been taking refuge in one of the places of the Skull Island to escape the ancient Hollow Earth War.

Lady Kong is the wife of the notorious King Kong of our current times, she resided secretly within the Hollow Earth; until King Kong traveled to the Hollow Earth and made an alpha call, drawing Lady Kong's attention, she responded and both apes became attracted to each other. After meeting each other, they developed a close relationship and now rule the Hollow Earth as king and queen.

#the karate kid #ali mills #heisei era #king kong lives #lady kong #reborn kaijuverse #elisabeth shue #paramount

[monster-ock]

The legend of King Kong

New concept art

#king kong vs godzilla #king kong 1976 #king kong lives #The legend of King Kong #kong #art #kaiju #movies #documentary #Cancelled film #🦍 #Art #king kong 2005

[randomdeinonychus]

Had an argument with someone on a Facebook group about whether Kong counts as a kaiju or deserves honor in tokusatsu, either.

The guy insisted Kong does not count because he is a "kaijin," which is apparently a category for humanoids like Ultraman, and also because he was originally stop-motion he does not count as tokusatsu.

Well, nuts to that.

Kong has appeared in 8 live-action films. In 4 of those films he was portrayed by a guy in a suit. So a good 50% of his film appearances, then, are basically tokusatsu.

Especially since 2 of those 4 appearances had him brought to life by Eiji Tsubaraya himself!

Plus, let's not forget that the successful re-release of the 1933 King Kong was one of the inspirations behind Godzilla's creation in the first place!

I get that some fans have an irrational hatred for Kong, because I have had that mindset, too. However, I grew out of it and the rest of them need to, too.

#king kong #king kong vs godzilla #king kong escapes #king kong 1976 #king kong lives #kong #godzilla #tokusatsu #eiji tsuburaya #rick baker #carlo rambaldi #gif party

[bbeeaavviiss]

#king kong lives

[farminglesbian]

King Kong Lives (1986) John Guillermin

#absolute babe #linda hamilton #obscure linda hamilton film hour <3 #king kong lives #john guillermin

[monsterasia-zero]

This day King Kong Lives! was released

#king kong #king kong lives #monster movies

[godzillafan84]

This just arrived from Amazon. The 1986 monster classic King Kong Lives on Blu-ray.

#king kong #king kong lives #daikaiju #monster movies #scifi

[baltharino]

Enchanted (2007) + References

#this probably isnt Every Reference but I think the post is long enough tbqh #enchanted #enchanted 2007 #snow white #sleeping beauty #the little mermaid #beauty and the beast #king kong #king kong 1933 #cinderella #the sound of music #live action #dailyflicks #filmdaily #filmedit #movieedit #cinematv #dailytvfilmgifs #filmgifs #moviegifs #parallel #gif #gifset #disneyedit #disney