No city is safe when thereโs a movie monster lurking about. From South Africa to Japan to Australia to the U.S. of A., no one is safe. This weekendโs Sunday night movie sees the return of the destructive Kaiju in Pacific Rim Uprising, which is why weโre taking a look at eight of our favourite movie monsters.
But weโre reluctant to call all the creatures featured, monsters. Sometimes youโll even find that the real monsters in these movies are us humans โ whether weโre ripping a creature out its peaceful habitat or fighting a monster inside.
From A to W, hereโs our list!
- Avengers: Age of Ultron
Letโs first talk about how awesome it is that one of the MCU movies features over very own City of Gold. In a fit of rage, the Hulk tears through the streets of Jozi damaging our civilians, cops, and cars until Iron Man comes along to lull Bruce Bannerโs inner beast.
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- Colossal
Anne Hathaway is this movieโs monster as she finds herself curiously connected to a colossal creature destroying Seoul, South Korea. Itโs a creature feature with a comedic twist as Hathaway revels in the characterโs dark and delightful quirks.
- Ghostbusters
Not all monsters gnash razor-sharp teeth and clench colossal claws. Sometimes theyโre big and puffy and smiley, like the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man who wreaks havoc in New York City in the filmโs ghostbusting climax.
- Godzilla
Since being born in 1954, Godzilla has attacked countless cities in countless movies, TV shows, and comic books. From Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka in Japan to NYC, San Francisco, and Honolulu in the U.S. Godzillaโs been around the block.
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- King Kong
New York Cityโs sustained a lot of damage from all kinds of creatures. One of the most memorable is certainly King Kong. But letโs refrain from calling him a monster. After all, Kong was living quite contentedly out of harmโs way (both his own and others) on an island before a pack of greedy humans transplanted him to the city and his untimely deathโฆwell, depending on which version you watch.
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- The Lost World: Jurassic Park
San Diego falls prey to a T. rex in Jurassic Parkโs first sequel. Humanityโs greed is on display yet again as they plan to transport a bunch of dinosaurs to a proposed theme park in said city. Clearly, they didnโt learn anything from the first movie, but luckily Jeff Goldblumโs Dr. Ian Malcolm is on hand to save the day and the dinosaurs.
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- Pacific Rim
Guillermo del Toro is a monster master. From the Pale Man and Captain Vidal in Panโs Labyrinth to the heroic Hellboy, del Toro is a man who knows monsters in all shapes and forms. So no one could have been more up to the task of bringing Pacific Rimโs fearsome beasties, the Kaiju, to life in the franchiseโs first instalment. Rising from the depths of the Pacific Ocean, cities arenโt spared as the Kaiju rampage through Anchorage, Sydney, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.
- War of the Worlds
NYC, Paris, London, and Washington, D.C. are all attacked in this adaptation of H.G. Wellsโs sci-fi novel. But the action is centred in New Jersey, where Tom Cruiseโs reluctant hero Ray Ferrier is trapped with his children, desperately trying to hide from the Tripods. Menacing machines of war from outer space, they arrive to cause chaos in a wholly unexpected way.
Watch the Kaiju back in action in Pacific Rim Uprising, your #SundayNightMovie on 25 November on M-Net channel 101.