Dr. Cube and his perfect monster smack down…

Screw the Cloverfield monster. And although I have it on rather expert authority that Cloverfield was good (not great), Kaiju is where it’s at. Kaiju is basically your favorite Godzilla movie come to life, Steel Cage wrestling death-match style.

Kung-Fu Soup

Seriously though, Kaiju, which means “mysterious beast” (like Kung-Fu Soup, above) in Japanese, is a Boston-based monster-wrestling league that stages full-scale matches, contests, and tournaments. Kaiju is influenced by seizure inducing Japanese anime, World Championship Wrestling, all while paying homage to the classic guy in a rubber monster suit movies. I can’t tell you how many hours a young Cherrybomb wasted watching “Creature Double Feature” back in the day but it wasn’t enough. I could have watched that shit all day.

And, while I’m on the topic of monsters, SIFF Cinema will have two showings of the original 1954 movie, Godzilla (the version without Raymond Burr, thanks SIFF) on Sunday, February 3rd. If there is a better way to cure a hangover than watching Godzilla destroy a miniature version of Japan for 98 minutes I haven’t found it yet…

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 at 1:50 pm and is filed under Art?, Boston, Bullshit, Cherrybombed, Culture, Wrestling. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.