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Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema Rewind.

This is Rob Lamb, and, oh, today we are going to revisit 1964's Mothra versus Godzilla.

This episode originally published, 523, 2025. It is a whole lot of fun. Let's have it.

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of IHeart Radio.

Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is Rob Lamb.

And this is Joe McCormick. And today on Weird House Cinema, we are going to be talking about the 1964 giant monster movie, Mothra versus Godzilla, directed by Ishiro Honda.

This is our third Godzilla movie following 1971's Godzilla versus Hedera and 1969's All Monsters Attack.

That's films 11 and 10, respectively.

This is also our third Ishro Honda film.

He directed this, All Monsters Attack, and a 1969 film titled Atragragon that we've talked about on the show before.

That is a flying submarine and another kaiju creature.

He is one of only a handful of directors that we have featured on three or more Weird House Cinema selections.

You know, we are really doing the Godzilla films in a strange order. And by that,

I mean, we're working, first of all, backwards through time, but also we started with what are

widely seen as some of the weirdest most divergent films in the Shoah era Godzilla catalog.

So the first one we did, like you said, was Godzilla versus Hedera.

That's from 1971.

That was indeed the 11th film in the Godzilla canon.

And that one was a psychedelic ecological doom trip in which Godzilla is summoned to defend Japan from a toxic sludge monster that powers up by huffing pollution out of factory smokestacks.

A lot of Godzilla fans regard Hedera as one of the worst films in the series. I do not share that opinion. I like it a lot more than some of the more

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