I really like Godzilla. The Huge G and I’m going manner again to my salad days of taking part in with motion figures, crafting tales between Godzilla, King Ghidorah, and no matter Batman toy was useful. Sadly, the latest American output for Huge G has left me underwhelmed within the excessive. Whereas Japan has been knocking it out of the park with Shin Godzilla and Godzilla Minus One, the American movies have been on a downward slope of high quality since Godzilla: King of the Monsters (what I might see of it).
So, in an effort to imbibe some American Godzilla cinema that wasn’t the animated vacancy of Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, I regarded round on YouTube to see if there have been any creators doing one thing fascinating with the Godzilla universe.
Fortunately, I discovered simply that.
Residing with Monsters
My search led me to the channel Misplaced Utopia Movies, an outlet that has been making a lot of movies and animations based mostly round Godzilla and different big monsters. The video that crossed my path was Residing with Monsters and it instantly received me over.
Residing with Monsters is introduced as if it’s a reliable documentary movie made within the Sixties. The idea is that Residing with Monsters acts as an introduction and rationalization for a brand new world the place big monsters run amok. The dedication to the bit is what hooked me with this. Seeing a low-to-no funds video strive one thing I hadn’t seen totally executed earlier than was thrilling. Why hadn’t an official Godzilla film or sequence tried one thing this aesthetically appropriate?
What I additionally loved about Residing with Monsters is that it may be freed of any copyright worries and pull collectively monsters from many alternative films and properties. It implies that the Misplaced Utopia Movies gang is getting to construct their very own distinctive monster world with its personal mythology.
Which ends up in Shelter 54.
Shelter 54
The subsequent video from Misplaced Utopia Movies I watched was the follow-up to Residing with Monsters. As a substitute of one other riff on the old-timey documentary, Shelter 54 takes the type of an official authorities video detailing a horrific incident that led to the creation of one other monster.
This one takes the idea to some unexpectedly freaky areas and provides one more fascinating interpretation on a basic monster. It’s this type of ingenuity that you simply don’t see fostered within the American Godzilla outings. Shelter 54 proves there may be nonetheless reliable horror to be mined from these many monsters.
Misplaced Utopia Movies simply put out one other Godzilla video that acts as if it’s a vacationer advert for a monster safari. It’s this type of recent method that I really feel is lacking from a lot of the fashionable American Godzilla output. If Hollywood was good, they’d scoop up author/director/editor Tarrell Christie and allow them to make some form of full-length fake doc or a sequence. That is among the most creatively stimulating stuff I’ve seen from a Godzilla story/universe shortly.
Right here’s hoping for extra from Misplaced Utopia Movies and their Godzilla output.
