Frankenstein vs. the Giant Devilfish: Explained!

[August]

Read all about it on my blog:
http://augustragone.blogspot.com/2009/0 ... sh-or.html

[king_ghidorah]

Interesting...as always..nice work!

[Gabbara Davis, Jr.]

That was a great article.

[ultrazilla2000]

Great read August!

Man, how I love this movie! So many memories as a child of seeing pictures in some genre magazine and then having to wait YEARS before finally getting a chance to see the film. What was funny though, was the magazine (Famous Monsters of Filmland?) had airbrushed lightening bolts from Baragon's mouth...so seeing the red heat ray in the actual film was unexpected. Plus pretty much every picture of Baragon was a mid air shot of him jumping, so in my child's mind I thought he was flying around with his huge ears like Dumbo, LOL! Ah...memories...

Hopefully someone else remembers that magazine as well...otherwise maybe I'm just crazy?

[Xenorama]

those lightning bolts weren't airbrushed from FM- i think they came from Toho. Ghidrah also had curious flames coming from it's heads, even well past the first movie, in various stills.

i'd reckon they were done by Toho themselves.

David

[August]

All of those photos were PR stills prepared by Toho. Thanks for the kudos, everyone!

[ultrazilla2000]

Yes, I know they were from Toho's publicity department...I just worded my sentence a little strange! When I said "had"...I just meant the magazine featured pictures that were air brushed...not that THEY had done it themselves.

I've come to really love those kinds of "touched up" Toho pictures though. Misleading as they are, they have a certain mysterious quality to them. Plus the fond memories of a childhood Godzilla book I have stored away. The little orange backed, black and white photo'd book found in most elementary schools in the early 80's which had a whole series of other monster volumes?
I swear almost EVERY picture in that book had the monsters shooting something air brushed from SOMEWHERE, lol. Loved it!

Anyways...I'm sooo off topic!

[The Dark Uniter]

That was very interesting, nice blog. I actually seen the Devilfish ending and I don't think it adds much to the film but I like extended footage/ director's cut since they don't have certain footage in a regular version of a film.