Flawed Diamonds

The personal blog of John Goodrich, including, but not limited to kaiju film and comics involving swamp creatures.

Thursday, May 29, 2014

A God In the Heart of the Big Apple: Q the Winged Serpent

The year is 1982. Godzilla has been hibernating for seven years, since Terror of Mechagodzilla . Kong's 1976 outing , although commercia...

Thursday, May 22, 2014

That Other Island God: Atragon (But the Monster is Manda)

Toho wasn't just making monster movies in the sixties. They created a series of war films that were quite popular, such as developing s...

Sunday, May 18, 2014

You've Been Lying To Us: Godzilla 2014 (FULL OF SPOILERS)

Short version: Godzilla 2014 is eminently worth seeing. It's a fitting tribute that respects the Godzilla franchise, and at the same tim...

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Breaking the Monster Mold Hard: Mothra

The gap between Toho's last monster movie, 1958's Varan and the 1961 Mothra saw little Toho monster action. However it had seen th...

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Unbelievable: Daijaiku Varan

In 1957, AB-PT ( American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres), a division of ABC-TV, approached Toho to make a few monster movies. One of these...

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John Goodrich

John Goodrich: Vermont; I write horror, science fiction, fantasy, and literary criticism. I love kaiju films, comic-book swamp monsters, and semiotics.

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