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When I was a kid, my dad would frequently take me to Menards. Before the arthritis, he was a woodworker and was constantly going on runs for materials and assorted tools. On one of these fateful trips when I was around six years old, we walked by a rack of DVDs that were all priced at five dollars. One of the DVDs was a combo pack of Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla and Godzilla vs. Destroyah. I immediately grabbed it and begged my dad to buy it for me. He obliged and I remember that twenty minute drive home feeling like a cross country road trip. Finally getting home, putting that movie into the DVD player, and watching “Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla” for the first time was a core memory for me as a kid. To be honest, this was my introduction to the Heisei movies (outside of my brief exposure to them in Cinemassacre’s Godzilla) so, I really do think that it was the perfect introduction to the Heisei era for a young kid. You had Little Godzilla bringing the cute factor. You had a terrifying villain with SpaceGodzilla, which side note, my introduction to SpaceGodzilla outside of this movie was in the Wii game “Godzilla: Unleashed” where the campaign had him as the final boss and I vividly remember losing my mind at how badass the concept of a space Godzilla sounded. Even outside of SpaceGodzilla, this movie has it all. You have a robot being piloted by humans that could separate into a tank and a jet like a Combiner Transformer. And, of course, you had the King Of The Monsters himself; Godzilla. It was the perfect mix of science fiction with fantasy and kaiju cinema being presented in a really accessible way.
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When I was a kid, my dad would frequently take me to Menards. Before the arthritis, he was a woodworker and was constantly going on runs for materials and assorted tools. On one of these fateful trips when I was around six years old, we walked by a rack of DVDs that were all priced at five dollars. One of the DVDs was a combo pack of Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla and Godzilla vs. Destroyah. I immediately grabbed it and begged my dad to buy it for me. He obliged and I remember that twenty minute drive home feeling like a cross country road trip. Finally getting home, putting that movie into the DVD player, and watching “Godzilla vs. SpaceGodzilla” for the first time was a core memory for me as a kid. To be honest, this was my introduction to the Heisei movies (outside of my brief exposure to them in Cinemassacre’s Godzilla) so, I really do think that it was the perfect introduction to the Heisei era for a young kid. You had Little Godzilla bringing the cute factor. You had a terrifying villain with SpaceGodzilla, which side note, my introduction to SpaceGodzilla outside of this movie was in the Wii game “Godzilla: Unleashed” where the campaign had him as the final boss and I vividly remember losing my mind at how badass the concept of a space Godzilla sounded. Even outside of SpaceGodzilla, this movie has it all. You have a robot being piloted by humans that could separate into a tank and a jet like a Combiner Transformer. And, of course, you had the King Of The Monsters himself; Godzilla. It was the perfect mix of science fiction with fantasy and kaiju cinema being presented in a really accessible way.
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![The Most Disturbing Movie From My Childhood
When I was a kid, I was completely obsessed with Famous Monsters of Filmland. I went through every issue I could get my hands on, but my favorite was issue #274, and I could probably still recite that thing cover to cover if you handed it to me right now. Somewhere in the back pages of that issue was an ad for the Warner Archive Collection, and that ad is the reason Im making this video.
The ad featured this strange, half-ape, half-man hybrid standing in the middle of a playground while kids played around it, completely unaware, and the thing just stared straight into the camera. I was maybe ten years old and it wrecked me. I begged my mom to put a hold on it at the library. I needed to see this thing. When it finally came in and I sat down to watch it, I was bored out of my mind. It was cheesy in a way that one creepy promotional still never prepared me for, and the movie Id been building up in my head for weeks turned out to be nothing like the movie I actually got...
[00:00] – Famous Monsters of Filmland & The Ad That Terrified Me
[02:17] – Plot Overview: What Trog (1970) Is Actually About
[03:59] – Production Background: Fading Hollywood Stars & Low-Budget Exploitation
[04:46] – Development & Timeline: Script Changes & Casting Joan Crawford
[06:15] – The Ape Mask, Joe Cornelius, & the 2001: A Space Odyssey Myth
[08:12] – Special Effects, Stock Footage, & Budget Cuts
[09:08] – On-Set Realities: Joan Crawfords Final Film Role & Production Rumors
[12:09] – Release, Box Office Success, & Parody (Schlock)
[12:50] – Final Thoughts & Channel Outro
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