Recent Godzilla Posters

Godzilla Final Wars (2004)




Details on the film here.

Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S. (2003)



Details on the film at its Wikipedia page.

Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002)


Information on the film can be found at its Wikipedia page.


Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001)

Read about the film on its Wikipedia page.

Godzilla vs Megaguirus (2000)
Painting by Noriyoshi Ohrai.


Details on the film at its Wikipedia page.


And this concludes the week of Godzilla related posts. The next Godzilla film will be coming out in 2012, you can read about it here. I think that I covered at least 90 percent of all the best posters out there for the Godzilla films. If I missed any good ones please let me know and I'll add them.

Godzilla Posters From the Eighties and Nineties

Godzilla 2000 (1999)

Details on the film at its Wikipedia page.

Godzilla vs Destoroyah (1995)

Painting by Noriyoshi Ohrai.





The original plot for this would have been awesome.. "This film's original idea was to feature Godzilla fighting the ghost of the original 1954 Godzilla. Godzilla would be killed by it then be revived and manage to destroy it."

Details on the film at its Wikipedia page.

Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla (1994)

Painting by Noriyoshi Ohrai.



Details on the film at its Wikipedia page.

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla II (1993)

Painting by Noriyoshi Ohrai.



Information on the film at its Wikipedia page.

Godzilla vs Mothra (1992)

Painting by Noriyoshi Ohrai.





Information on the film at its Wikipedia page.

Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah (1991)

Painting by Noriyoshi Ohrai.





"Originally, this film was going to be a remake of King Kong vs. Godzilla with the title Godzilla vs. King Kong, but Turner Entertainment demanded too much money for the use of Kong. After this, Toho had the idea of making Godzilla vs. Mechani-Kong, but Kazuki Omori feared that this would ultimately violate Turner's copyright. Toho eventually settled for Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah." - quote from the Wikipedia page for the film.

Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989)

Painting by Noriyoshi Ohrai.





Biollante is one of my favorite Godzilla related monsters, a giant tentacled thing with the head of an alligator and built from the remains of a dead girl, very disturbing.

"The film is set after the events of The Return of Godzilla, and involves a sample of Godzilla's DNA being recovered from his last rampage and falling into the possession of a tormented scientist who combines the samples with the DNA of a plant and his deceased daughter, creating Biollante." Read more about the film at its Wikipedia page.

The Return of Godzilla (1985)

This is one of the few posters where I can say with certainty who the artist is, the above was created by Noriyoshi Ohrai, probably best known for his amazing Star Wars posters.





As a big fan of Woody Allen's "What's Up Tiger Lily?" (See scenes from it here.) I found this bit of info concerning Godzilla 1985 really interesting..

"After acquiring The Return of Godzilla for distribution in North America, New World Pictures changed the title to Godzilla 1985 and radically re-edited the film. Originally, New World reportedly planned to re-write the dialogue in order to turn the film into a tongue-in-cheek comedy (à la What's Up, Tiger Lily?), but this plan was reportedly scrapped because Raymond Burr expressed displeasure at the idea, taking the idea of Godzilla as a nuclear metaphor seriously. The only dialogue left over from that script was "That's quite an urban renewal program they've got going on over there", said by Major McDonahue." - quote source from the Wikipedia page for the film.

Thanks to Mystery Science Theater 3000, we did get a few What's Up Tiger Lily versions of Godzilla.

And this doesn't really have anything to do with Godzilla other than maybe J-Men Forever and Godzilla were both shown on Night Flight, but you should check out J-Men Forever!

Godzilla Posters From The Seventies

Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

Released in Japan as "Mechagodzilla's Counterattack" and "Mechagodzilla's Revenge" The American theatrical release had the film titled "The Terror of Godzilla" and "Monsters from an Unknown Planet" in the U.K. Read about the film at its Wikipedia page.

It will be another ten years before the next Godzilla film, tomorrow we'll start there and finish off Godzilla week with all remaining films from the series.

Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (1974)

Originally known in the United States as Godzilla vs. the Bionic Monster then later as Godzilla vs. Cosmic Monster. Read about the film at its Wikipedia page.

Godzilla vs Megalon (1973)

"In 1976, Cinema Shares released Godzilla vs. Megalon theatrically. Riding the coattails of Dino De Laurentiis' big-budget King Kong remake, poster art showed Godzilla and Megalon battling on top of the World Trade Center, despite the fact that no scenes were set in New York City." - quote taken from the Wikipedia page for the film.



This Israeli Godzilla poster was labeled as being from Godzilla vs Megalon but the imagery being taken from so many different Godzilla films, it's difficult to say.

Godzilla vs Gigan (1972)

Released in Japan as Earth Destruction Directive: Godzilla vs. Gigan and also known as Godzilla on Monster Island when first released to U.S. theaters. Read more on the film at its Wikipedia page.

Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971)

Also known as Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster, read about the film at its Wikipedia page.

Godzilla Posters From The Sixties

All Monsters Attack (1969)

Released in Japan as Godzilla, Minilla, Gabara: All Monsters on Parade and America as Godzilla's Revenge.

I like how the second poster implies with the phrase "Revenge Against The Living" that Godzilla is a zombie.

Read about the film on its Wikipedia page.

Destroy All Monsters (1968)

Released in Japan as Attack of the Marching Monsters, read more about the film on its Wikipedia page.

Son Of Godzilla (1967)

Details on the film can be found on its Wikipedia page.

Godzilla vs The Sea Monster (1966)

Other titles include Ebirah, Horror of the Deep and Godzilla, Ebirah, Mothra: Big Duel in the South Seas. Further details can be found on the Wikipedia page for the film.

The bottom poster with the Frankenstein title originates from Germany. There seems to be a lot of Godzilla films from Germany with the Frankenstein name on them, no idea why.

Godzilla vs Monster Zero (1965)

Other titles include Invasion of Astro-Monster, Great Monster War, Monster Zero and Invasion of the Astro-Monsters. Read about the film on its Wikipedia page.

Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964)

Titles include Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, released in Japan as Three Giant Monsters: The Greatest Battle on Earth and released in the US as Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster. Read about this film at its Wikipedia page.

Mothra vs Godzilla (1964)

Also known as Godzilla Against Mothra, Godzilla vs. Mothra, and Godzilla vs. the Thing,  It's interesting that the American release of the film advertised a monster simply called "The Thing" and hinted that it was some insane tentacled beast. I'm guessing the promoters thought that looked better than a giant moth. Read more about the film at its Wikipedia page.

King Kong vs Godzilla (1962)

The third Godzilla film was originally going to be a true sequel to King Kong, with Kong going up against a giant Frankenstein. It had the involvement of Willis O' Brien and would have been an amazing stop motion feature film. Unfortunately things didn't turn out that way as the following quote from Wikipedia details..

"The film had its roots in an earlier concept for a new King Kong feature developed by Willis O'Brien, animator of the original stop-motion Kong. Around 1960, O'Brien came up with a proposed treatment, King Kong vs. Frankenstein, where Kong would fight against a giant version of Frankenstein's monster in San Francisco. O'Brien took the project (which consisted of some concept art and a screenplay treatment) to RKO to secure permission to use the King Kong character. During this time the story was renamed King Kong vs. the Ginko when it was believed that Universal had the rights to the Frankenstein name (they actually only had the rights to the monster's makeup design). O'Brien was introduced to producer John Beck who promised to find a studio to make the film (at this point in time RKO was no longer a production company). Beck took the story treatment and had George Worthing Yates flesh it out into a screenplay. The story was slightly altered and the title changed to King Kong vs. Prometheus, returning the name to the original Frankenstein concept (The Modern Prometheus was the alternate name of Frankenstein in the original novel). Unfortunately, the cost of stop animation discouraged potential studios from putting the film into production. After shopping the script around overseas, Beck eventually attracted the interest of the Japanese studio Toho. Toho had long wanted to make a King Kong film and decided to replace the Frankenstein creature with their own monster Godzilla. They thought it would be the perfect way to celebrate their thirtieth year in production. John Beck's dealings with Willis O'Brien's project were done behind his back, and O'Brien was never credited for his idea. In 1963, Merian C. Cooper attempted to sue John Beck claiming that he outright owned the King Kong character, but the lawsuit never went through as it turned out he was not Kong's sole legal owner as he had previously believed."

Check out this previous Monster Brains post to see some of the Willis O'Brien concept art from the film.