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The Return of Godzilla + Recorded Intro by Kaiju Expert Steven Sloss (PG)

Outdoor Cinema 2025

Thirty years after the original Godzilla, the King of the Monsters was resurrected in this thrilling 1984 reboot, which successfully inaugurated a new era in the franchise’s history.

Nine years after the last of the Showa-era Godzilla films, the iconic kaiju made a triumphant movie return in 1984. Ignoring all of the previous films save the 1954 original, Koji Hashimoto’s reboot returned to the dark roots of the first film, updating the film’s sociopolitical commentary for the late Cold War era. Here, the radioactive monster returns to wreak destruction on Japan and subsequently inflames tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.

The imaginative special effects and 1980s aesthetics update Godzilla for a new era, while the thunderous sound effects, from the monster’s chilling roar to Reijiro Koroku’s stirring score, make for an intense and exciting cinema experience. While Godzilla was the hero of most of his films, Hashimoto’s film shows him at his villainous best.

Steven Sloss is a lifelong fan and scholar of kaiju cinema who has written and presented on the subject for the BFI, BBC, Arrow Films, Glasgow Film Festival, and more. He is the former co-host of the AV Club-featured Kaijusaurus Podcast and is currently writing a book on the original Godzilla (1954) for Bloomsbury Publishing and the BFI.

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