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15 Kaiju You Should Know (That Aren’t Godzilla or King Kong)
And whether they’d stand a chance against the big guys.
Another Godzilla wannabe whose name starts with “G,” Gorgo, was the title kaiju of a British-Irish film from 1961 that has a lot going for it (if you can overlook the brutally stiff upper lips that render every human character drabber than the London sky). Defrosted from the Arctic ice thanks to a nuclear test, the big dino lays waste to New York, toppling buildings and bringing with it a deadly prehistoric plague that’s frankly scarier in the COVID era than the giant monster is. Featuring an oddly complex plot about a botanist who develops a serum that turns his pet chimpanzee into a gorilla-size henchman he sics on his critics, Konga doesn’t even make its titular ape grow to kaiju proportions until the climax.
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