Before moving to Japan to see what was going on there, one last early American giant monster movie worth highlighting is The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms. This one proves pretty compelling as far as ...

The great Guillermo del Toro has one of the most fascinating careers of any modern genre filmmaker, because he's been able to explore so many different things in a relatively short period of time.

the Japanese word for 'monster,' is a particularly popular genre of film in Japan -- spawning dozens of movies of Godzilla and countless other copies since the giant lizard for showed up on the ...