Aiddon

Vampire Hunter D!

Dr Plague Productions

Damn, this episode was REALLY interesting

Joe

Excellent! This is one of the greatest Monster Madnesses ever.

JohnPaulJ2

Ngl that is a pretty badass monster.

Gene

Great review james. Is there gonna be a Filipino Horror movie in Monster Madness?

Joe

Well critiqued. I first tried to watch this movie thinking it would be laughable, but knowing it was actual evidence of many terrible crimes, it was just too sad to finish.

Xena

Gotta love the Mecha Godzilla theme song in the background.
That was very interesting though!

Deeny

Hey James love from Argentina man. I know you probably got all these videos planned out for monster madness this year but it would be sick if you could cover a horror movie from Argentina it would mean a lot to me! (Just a suggestion/ request) I’m a huge fan dude! Been watching since I was in middle school. October has always been my favorite month and monster madness is one of the top reasons why. This show is literally how I discovered my love for horror! Much love man, we appreciate you!

Constantine Furman

The Toho effects crew were not tricked into making this movie. They were asked to do it much like Toei was for South Korea’s “Yongary, Monster of the Deep.” The effects director was Toho’s Teruyoshi Nakano and he agreed only if they had contracts stating they could leave North Korea when the movie was complete.

The Pulgasari costume was created from one of the leftover 1984 Godzilla suits. Kenpachiro Satsuma later wrote a book about making “Pulgasari.” And in 1998, when he saw the Tri-Star “Godzilla,” Satsuma infamously remarked, “Even ‘Pulgasari’ was better.”

Oh, and the baby Pulgasari was played by Little Man Machan, the same dwarf who played Minya in his three Showa films.

Xavrrulez216

Can you do a russian horror movie!

Wolfgang Schneider

I’ve heard this story a few times over the years but after studying more of North Korean cinema over the years I have to question the notion that they had to kidnap people because they “didn’t have a film industry”

North Korea did have a film industry since the 60s although it was limited, most famously it produced a long running spy movie franchise where infamous American North Korea defector James Dresnok played the American villain. If you aren’t aware of Dresnok’s story it’s equally interesting. He defected over to North Korea during the war and is one of the only dozens of Americans to defect in the history of the conflict.

Enrique

I loved this review! It´s true, the backstory is very interesting…and sad.

Danny

cool looking monster. great episode James!

The Flail

As a Korean adoptee with a mother who was also adopted during the Korean War, I really appreciate you going into that history with enough detail, even with the short length of the video itself. Love seeing Monster Madness continue full force, always wonderful work!

FarBeyondDriven

I’m glad that you’ve went out of your way to expose the ludicrousness of N Korea. That place is a nightmare and truly is a real horror.

Yggdrasil

Speaking of North Korea and horror, I gotta tell this story:

The Swedish horror movie Frostbite (pretty okay from what I recall) was actually the first straight-up horror movie to be shown in North Korea (at least according to director Anders Banke). The film had a lot of comedic elements that didn’t work, due to the pretty intense cultural barrier, instead, everyone was scared shitless, even strict party-officials in their fourties who went to see it.

The one exception was a young kid who absolutely loved it and complimented the creators (who were also there for the screening). He sincerly asked them if working with vampires wasn’t difficult, as if the actors in the movie were actual vampires.

Citrakite

Best Korea’s totally original Kaiju movie. /s

Grafikdrummer

If you’re interested in the story behind the movie, I recommend the documentation “The Lovers and the Despot”!

Gilvan

That story about the kidnapping of the director and his wife has more holes than a swiss cheese. They probably were under contract with the North Korea government and changed the story to clean their names and for propaganda purposes.

Duke Dakka

A monster movie from Pakistan would be great as well. There are few really good movies on ghosts and the super natural, and the cringe Texas Chainsaw Massacre copy called Ziba Khana “Slaughterhouse”…. But it would be great to have some representation for South Asian movies, apart from Bollywood

Ron

Great review. I hope you can find the english version of a Filipino film “Anak ng Bulkan” (1959). It was better than the claw imo.

JayRam

I’m fascinated by the backstory to this movie.

But dear god, tell your editor to cool it with the Team America cutaways.

Godzilla

The music from Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla is seriously the best from any kaiju movie.

Cinemassacre

“In the Godzilla genre”

You mean kaiju genre? Godzilla’s a franchise in a genre.

Baggzey23

Another great review, I’ve been looking forward to this one with it having a shady backstory and being a kaiju movie

VicHD

I don’t know what’s darker, the movie’s plot, or the stuff that happened behind the scenes.

Aggron

Aggron isn’t weak to fire because it’s also a Rock type.

Christian

I hope you review i film from the Philippines. I suggest reviewing Eerie. Thanks for the content guys..

kamposter

laugh so hard on pulgaSORRY

Stiv64

Said Pokemon, Aggron, actually is not weak no fire attacks.

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cilimandra

Ok, this movie was more disturbing because of the story behind it, wow North Korea is a messed up place

Josh L

This is my favorite MM review since the first season. Brilliant work.

Hayley

These videos are great but they take forever to load and I have a great computer. The playback stops repeatedly to load even on the lowest setting. Can you upload these to YouTube as unlisted?

Nedburns

Wow, he sure is saying Pulgasari a lot…
“Pulgasorry?”
Okay that was funny.

Raizqo

James ,

Maybe make a covering of Dutch Horror movies ?
Bumperkleer in particular is equal to Unhinged with Russel Crowe .

Raizqo

Bumperkleef in particular .
My last post had a grammar mistake :/

I always enjoy to see your vids

And there is no cinema without a massacre

Artur L

Check out first Latvian found footage horror movie – The Land of Blue Lakes (2021)

Agent36496

I think you’re right about the backstory being more interesting than the actual movie

Robert M

The movie clip at 52 seconds was from what film?

Donny DePaola

That pub at the end was classic

Donny DePaola

pun*

Shane Juche Gang

Great movie, horrible review, sad to see that you guys take US mainstream narrative about DPRK at face value, considering US is still at war with Korea, after killing 3 million of them in the 50s including with viral and bacterial warfare. Not to mention the nukes and depleted uranium brought into the south. The whole story about DPRK needing to kidnap people from Japan (another country which tried to colonize Korea like the US does to this day), and other places for movie making is absolute nonsense, they came voluntarily, and when they couldn’t get any evidence of the nightmare that was supposed to exist in DPRK, and weren’t becoming as famous there as they thought they should, they make up b.s about being kidnapped but then leave. Also DPRK never stole anything from Toho they licensed it out and have done cultural exchange with Toho in the past. Btw cultural exchange such as that, and because of north south relations at the time, much of the Simpsons movie was animated in the north. Again great movie sad to see the review just swallow all this nonsense up wholesale even when it flies in the face of pretty simple logic and readily available evidence.

Leo S. Luna

I wonder who owns the rights to this? It would be nice to have a Kaiju mashup. I mean I wouldn’t put North Korea as a total enemy, but you can’t argue about the kidnapping stuff. And yes, US has done a lot of uncool stuff to Korea more so they provide economic benefits without having to deal with Japan, in a strange way Japan has good relations with US. What a mess man, all I know is that movie truly benefit from all this, specially Kaiju genre.

erg arg

Good lord that ending was a groaner. In fact I’m still groaning as I type this.