Watched: 11/02/2026
Format: HBOmax
Viewing: Unknown
Director: Ishiro Honda
This movie I may have seen too many times.
Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964) is 90 minutes that feels three times longer than that. I always forget that when I put it on.
Ostensibly the movie is about how King Ghidorah comes to Earth after devastating Venus, but the movie is 80% about a princess of a country where people dress like they raided a Shakespeare festival getting possessed by the ghost of a Venusian and the problems it causes. There's a cop who is supposed to help her and his goofy sister who works for a publication that is basically In Search of....
Godzilla doesn't make an appearance until about the 39th minute. And then disappears again for way too long. He is goofy and does a "my butt!" jump when Ghidorah stings his butt with Ghidorah-lightning. I am fine with this, but that's the sort of Godzilla we've got here.
Eventually we get Rodan, Godzilla, Mothra the Faeries, etc... but holy god is it a long walk to get there. I did enjoy this movie at one point, but I've seen it too many times, I guess.
We don't even really get how much fun King Ghidorah is as a boo-able villain until Invasion of Astro Monster, a plainly better and more entertaining movie.
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