- The namesake of all those books that your school library had as a kid
- This movie doesn’t bullshit around, the creature shows up almost immediately and starts killing people
- That clawed hand peeling through the tent scared me as a kid
- The creature is teased so frequently and tastefully before he’s fully revealed
- “My boys call it, the Black Lagoon”
- Is Creature from the Black Lagoon not the most iconic movie title ever tho??…

- I would fucking hate to be eaten alive Jesus Christ
- This doesn’t sound real. The voice acting is just so bad. In contrast the animation is actually really dynamic and fluid
- Ryo has so much aura
- “Oh of course it’s my old friend Ryo” has been something I’ve quoted for years
- Ryo’s exposition dump about Hell and the Divine Comedy sounds like an early Youtube video essay
- The consistent use of the fuck word…

-Gaira is so scary fr. I can see how this movie inspired Attack on Titan
-the airport scene is peak kaiju horror
-the human characters do not matter. They’re secondary because Gaira and Sanda (the titular Gargantuas) ARE the main characters. They get a ton of screen time, they have distinct personalities, you understand them with no dialogue, they have genuine pathos and they steal the show every time they’re on screen. I hesitate to say Kane and Abel but…