Gamera versus Gaos - Frankenstein's battle of the monsters
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| German title | Gamera versus Gaos - Frankenstein's battle of the monsters | ||
| Original title | Daikaiju Kuchusen - Gamera Tai Gyaos | ||
| Country of production | Japan | ||
| original language | Japanese | ||
| Publishing year | 1967 | ||
| length | 83 minutes | ||
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| Director | Noriaki Yuasa | ||
| script | Nisan Takahashi | ||
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Hidemasa Nagata Masaichi Nagata |
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| music | Tadashi Yamagauchi | ||
| camera | Akira Uehara | ||
| cut | Tatsuji Nakashizu | ||
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Gamera versus Gaos - Frankenstein's Battle of the Monsters is a Japanese feature film from 1967 . It is a film from the film series about the turtle-like monster Gamera and is inspired by the Godzilla films.
action
Due to increased volcanic activity in the Fuji volcanic chain, the flying turtle Gamera is attracted and another monster is set free. It is a vampire-like giant bat with the name Gaos (originally Gyaos), which Gamera renders harmless and then sets off on a raid into the settlements and searches for blood victims. After Gamera is regenerated, she takes on the fight with Gaos and tears off her leg as she flees from the rising sun. However, the leg grows back again. Attempting to lure Gaos to a hotel with a huge, blood-filled disk and hold onto it, also goes wrong. Only one more attack by Gamera means the monster's death, as it hurls it into a volcano.
World premieres
- Japan: March 15, 1967
- Germany: October 15, 1971
Reviews
The film Gamera versus Gaos - Frankenstein's Battle of the Monsters was translated into several languages and continued the series of successful monster films from Japan. As a single film, however, it didn't leave a particularly lasting impression. While Gaos did not appear again until 1995 in Gamera - Guardian of the Universe , Gamera played the lead role with changing opponents in a series of other films that followed immediately.
While movies like this are considered cult among fans, there are also plenty of critics. This film was criticized, among other things, in Splatting Image by Jörg Buttgereit : " What remains is the strange thought why grown men squeeze into stupid rubber suits and hop around plastic houses. " Ronald M. Hahn and Volker Jansen also comment in the lexicon of the Science- Fiction films. 1000 films from 1902 to 1987 (Heyne, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-453-00731-X , p. 314) not very gracious: "A Radaufilm from the bottom drawer."