5/10
Gamera vs. Guiron (1969) **
1 October 2010
Pretty outrageous chapter in the GAMERA series. Two boys stumble upon an actual flying saucer and step inside, only to get whisked away to a planet inhabited by another ludicrous-looking monster. This one's named Guiron, and he crawls about on all fours but has a head which is constructed like a huge, long butcher knife with eyeballs. This comes in handy for nodding on his monster opponents (like Gyaos, who makes a cameo appearance) and slicing them to ribbons. The boys are also met by two lovely Japanese alien women who pretend to be all kind and accommodating, but who in reality are spicing them up so they can eat the kids' brains. Pretty disturbing stuff for a very child-friendly movie! Gamera the protector must fly to the rescue to fight Guiron and rescue the children. The special effects got more and more fake looking as this series progressed, and the plastic monsters make the ones from the rivaling Toho Studios look positively dazzling in comparison. ** out of ****
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