Even Gyaos was embarrassed to be seen in this movie. Later, he went to a therapist, but twenty years of therapy did nothing to salve his conscience.
When the eponymous monster Gyaos appears in the third Gamera franchise installment, Gamera vs Gyaos (1967), my Arts Editor hooted with laughter. True, the scientists hypothesized it has two throats and thus can’t turn its head, but it was really just a cover for the inferiority of the story-tellers’ guest monster, which appears to be Rodan-like, but way too stiff. Add in a laser coming from its mouth and lavender blood, and this was one unbelievable monster.
And one really dull plot. Why Gyaos? Errrr, why not? So we can spin him ’round and ’round before letting the rays of the sun kill him? He does seem to be just a giant vampire.
And, as my Arts Editor comments, “Oh, it’s that annoying kid!” You can guess what the target of her venom might be.
Yeccccccccch.
