10 Horror Movies Hiding In Plain Sight

How do you capture the grim magic of the original 1954 Godzilla? Putting Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno in charge is one way of doing it.

A giant lizard monster from the sea is rampaging throughout Japan and the country must unite to stop it before everything turns to ash. A task made more difficult than it should be through bureaucratic absurdity.

Godzilla’s design here is wonderfully grotesque. The kaiju from a deep watery hell looks like that’s exactly where he crawled out of. He goes through several transformations, each one more freakish than the last, before landing on the more classic design. Even then he doesn’t look like any Godzilla seen before. Anno knows that Godzilla is a monster movie above everything else, so he treats it just like one.

There's even a homage to the sequence in the first Godzilla that paralleled the real-life firebombing of Tokyo. Only here it's a hundred times worse and with laser beams. Yes, laser beams.

Shin Godzilla translates to God Godzilla, and he feels like a god alright. A god of destruction that is.