"Gorgo" on the Space network. I thought it would just be another another monster movie but it actually proved to be pretty good. I find that the older monster movies just have a much darker and scarier feel to them than modern ones.
It's about a small fishing village that's being harassed by a Godzilla-like sea-monster. They employ the help of some treasure hunters who manage to capture the creature and they take it back to London. Bad idea.
It turns out that the monster is merely the child of an even bigger creature. The rest of the movie plays out very similarly to the original Godzilla movie. The monster attacks the coast and works its way through London, destroying beloved landmark and army battalions along the way.
What grabbed me about this movie was how well they captured the sense of terror and chaos that the monster ensued. People were trampling over one another and even jumping out of the third story windows of their homes in a vain attempt to escape. You don't see a lot of that in monster movies anymore, and I think it adds so much more to the realism of the monsters rampage.
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