Radio Free Godzilla

In a shocking twist of fate, Daiei delivered a Showa Era film that all of our hosts loved! It's the first true period piece of the podcast, in a simple but shockingly engrossing tale of warring feudal clans and a vengeful mountain god, this is 1966's  Daimajin ! Send us Fan Mail

BIG SNAKES! DENMARK! MULTIPLE POLITICAL GUEST APPEARANCES! Lee, Heather, and Chris tackle Denmark's only kaiju in a film that's part tourism brochure! The gang descends into politically charged lunacy with a notoriously awful film with a hilarious musical number that has our hosts losing what remains of their sanity, this is 1962's  Reptilicus! Send us Fan Mail

From the UK back to Japan! From killer plants to killer fungus! The gang returns to talk about an old familiar friend in Ishiro Honda, in a film that falls outside his usual kaiju-fare. Lee, Heather and Chris are talking killer mushrooms and themes of Western materialism with a few unexpected political guests, this is 1963's  Matango ! Send us Fan Mail

In a change of pace for this podcast, the gang talks about a movie that doesn't feature any giant monsters, but still features abnormally large plants and lots of Brits, in the second film to be featured in the introductory song for  The Rocky Horror Picture Show,   this is 1963's  Day of the Triffids ! Send us Fan Mail

In what is perhaps the most politically charged episode to-date, Lee, Heather and Chris discuss the politics of the UK, the history of Ireland, and go positively off the rails in this week's discussion of Europe's most iconic giant monster pair in 1961's  Gorgo! Send us Fan Mail

Given that this week's film is barely a monster movie, Lee, Heather and Chris spend a lot of time dissecting the  Godzilla Minus Zero trailer, and go down several other tangents in their efforts to avoid talking about the film that's more TVLand than kaiju flick, 1959's  The Giant Gila Monster! Send us Fan Mail

Another Eugene Lourie effort, which means Lee, Heather, and Chris are doing  The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms again, but this time British and with a longer neck. Apologies to any listeners from the UK, both for the jokes about the British, and for having to have  The Giant Behemoth  as one of your only bits of monster representation. Send us Fan Mail

Space Jelly! Rebellious youth! Teenagers that look 40 years old! This week our team tackles the forbidden jelly from space, and the first monster to have a theme song since Gamera! Lee, Chris and Heather get particularly unhinged while talking about an American monster classic in 1958's  The Blob ! Send us Fan Mail

Misogyny! Divorce scams! Macrophilia! This episode has it all, but does the movie? That's the question Lee, Heather, and Chris are going to find out in this week's discussion of 1958's B-movie classic,  Attack of the 50 Foot Woman! Send us Fan Mail

This week, the gang tackles a mythically infamous B-Movie of battleship-sized proportions! That's right, we're talking about the Giant Condor's inbred puppet-cousin, in an episode dedicated mostly to Heather's vendetta against Mitch, the film's misogynist lead.   This episode also features the debut of a special guest appearance on the show, offering advice on how to deal...

It's the final installment of the Big Bug Trilogy, and this is perhaps the most unhinged discussion yet. Do you agree with Chris? Is this an allegory for Communism? Or are you on the side of Lee, believing it to just be about a Big Bug?  Either way, join in for this week's particularly ludicrous discussion of 1957's  The Deadly Mantis! Send us Fan Mail

The Bug-a-Thon continues! The gang tackles another spectacle of Willis O'Brien stop-motion, this time featuring enormous scorpions that emerge from deep within the earth to feast on mankind! Join Lee, Heather and Chris as they discuss 1957's surprisingly entertaining The Black Scorpion! Send us Fan Mail

The Big Bug Arc begins here! Lee, Chris and Heather begin their journey down a series of unrelated films that share one commonality. All of them feature a giant bug of some kind! This week they're tackling an enormous tarantula and a few inexplicably mutated people in 1955's Tarantula! Send us Fan Mail

It wouldn't be a new season of Radio Free Godzilla without the gang losing their minds over a subpar movie. Turns out not even a Harryhausen sixtopus can save Lee, Heather and Chris from suffering through 1955's It Came from Beneath the Sea! Send us Fan Mail

ANTS! The next entry in our Atomic Era Arc is the first of many to feature Big Bugs™️ and unnecessary exclamation points! Join Lee, Chris and Heather for their first foray into a world of big ants and flamethrowers for 1954's Them! Send us Fan Mail

We're finally back for season...2? 3? You decide, but either way, welcome to the Atomic Era Arc of the show! Lee, Chris and Heather are going back to the 1950s, to a time before Godzilla, back to the film that helped to inspire it, with a Ray Harryhausen monster classic in 1953's The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms! Send us Fan Mail

Lee, Heather and Chris revisit an underrated classic, once again tackling the Horror of the Deep alongside one of the internet's most prolific monster creators, horror artist Trevor Henderson ( Scarewaves, Mayfair Watchers Society ) New regular episodes return next week!  Send us Fan Mail

Merry Christmas one and all! We're back with another very special guest and very special episode. This week, the gang is revisiting a local favorite in Shin Godzilla , alongside prolific contortionist and creature actor, friend-of-the-show Troy James aka TwistyTroy! Our first ever real movie monster on the monster podcast! Send us Fan Mail

In a change of pace, the gang brings on comic book artist Freddie Williams ( He-Man/Thundercats, Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Godzilla vs Power Rangers ) to revisit discussion on Invasion of Astro Monster and talk about his newest comic, Godzilla vs Kansas City, in stores now!  Note: Apologies for the audio on my end, I'm still getting things adjusted in my new setup. -Lee Send us Fan...

Our crew has made it through the Gamera gambit, and have decided to celebrate with a modern kaiju epic handled in a much different fashion than we're accustomed to. Lee, Chris, Heather, and friend-of-the-show Dylan Sindelar take an extremely deep-dive into the found footage kaiju film with an ARG at its center, 2008's Cloverfield and its extensive viral marketing campaign.  Send us Fan M...

The gang is back for one final go at Gamera in his 40th anniversary, and his final on-screen film appearance. This is the film that brings Gamera back to his child friendly roots, but does it do so in a more satisfying way than its Showa era predecessors? Will our hosts enjoy the final Gamera film? Find out in this week's discussion of 2006's Gamera the Brave ! Send us Fan Mail

The crew has finally arrived at the end of the Heisei Gamera trilogy, and Shusuke Kaneko ends this series with a bang -- one that left all 3 of our hosts incredibly impressed. Lee, Heather and Chris discuss the incredibly bleak, incredibly deep, incredibly Evangelion-coded finale of the Kaneko's Gamera series, 1999's Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris Send us Fan Mail

Gamera finds religion!  Your hosts talk about a film that changes their perspective on Gamera, perhaps in a similar way that religion changes one's perspective on life. This is Gamera's toughest battle yet, with the fate of the world at stake at the hands of space bugs, in 1996's Gamera 2: Attack of Legion Send us Fan Mail

The gang has finally arrived at the long fabled Gamera Heisei era! Does it live up to the hype? Will Lee, Chris and Heather finally change their tune on the friend of the children? Will Shusuke Kaneko finally find a way to make Gamera cool? Find out in this week's discussion of  Gamera: Guardian of the Universe! Send us Fan Mail

Incredibly, the third movie in this trilogy is the best by far, and our entire crew has nothing but praises to sing about Mothra Leo's final outing, and Mothra's final solo film to-date, battling another familiar foe in 1998's  Rebirth of Mothra III !  Send us Fan Mail