Fun movie with a great soundtrack. I dig that 70s vibe!

13/52 The Criterion Challenge 2025💫
"Ever since the A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, flying saucer sightings have increased dramatically. Our senseless wars have given extraterrestrials an irresistible opportunity to invade our planet."
I enjoyed this bleak horror film with mucilaginous aliens splitting human heads open to create vampires and accomplish their goal to destroy all humans. These iridescent alien blobs don't appear to have any aspirations beyond that mission. The visual effects are gruesomely cool, the body count is high,…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
"Officer Tashiro's head was left dangling by a scrap of skin."
Sometimes a description of horror is way more gruesome than the visual.
Giant killer caterpillars screeching and decapitating people for no apparent reason other than they can is a good start to a movie. It would have been cool to see the caterpillars morph into giant dragonflies, but hatchling Rodan must have gobbled them all up before that could happen. I was hoping the Rodans were going to escape to a more hospitable place to nest and raise baby Rodans, but it was not to be. Tragic ending for two pterodactyls in love.