For Tarantino, this is the “perfect giant monster movie” and it even inspired Kill Bill!

For Tarantino, this is the “perfect giant monster movie” and it even inspired Kill Bill!

While Godzilla x Kong: The New Kingdom, the latest installment in the famous franchise, directed by Adam Wingard, is currently a hit in theaters, focus on another monster movie that almost 60 years ago established itself as a true classic of the genre. , going so far as to inspire Quentin Tarantino to film a famous scene from Kill Bill: Volume 2.

A classic monster movie…

Released in 1966 (12 years after the original Godzilla, also directed by Ishiro Honda), this is War of the Monsters (or War of Gargantua for English-speaking audiences).

The American-Japanese co-production follows Tokyo as it is attacked by two giant creatures: a giant green humanoid that unleashes a giant octopus at the beginning of the featurette, and another equally menacing colossus that engages it. A relentless battle.

Aside from some pretty convincing stop-motion visual effects for the time and some pretty scary sequences (like the one where a woman is swallowed alive by one of the two creatures), Monster Wars has the distinction of being real. A reference to many filmmakers, including Quentin Tarantino.

…who inspired Tarantino

Indeed, this insatiable almost, lover of all kinds of nuggets, defined it as “The Perfect Giant Monster Movie” (According to our colleagues from the Espinoff site). According to HuffPost (which brings up the DVD bonuses kill billy), the filmmaker would be directly inspired by The War of the Worlds to set up the violent confrontation between Uma Thurman and Daryl Hannah in the second part of his famous diptych.

Tarantino reportedly nicknamed the scene “War of the Blonde Gargantuas,” a reference to the American title of Honda’s film. During the fight, Daryl Hannah’s character utters the word “gargantuan” several times.

Have you ever seen “War of the Monsters”?

(re)discover the trailer for the film…

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