Ingrid and I are back again with another Gamera Movie Marathon as we rewind now to the original 8 movies of what is known as the Showa Era. We'll be going over it's highs and it's incredibly painful lows. Now for the record, we will be going with the AiP dubs/re-edits of the movies when applicable. The Sandy Frank dubs were just too corny (but we know at least one movie we'll have no choice but to use that one). Ingrid and I watch the final movie of the Showa Era and...it was absolutely, positively, the WORST movie of the entire franchise and could hardly be called a film! Basically we get a movie that's 90% Stock Footage! And it shows...BADLY! This movie features a kid who is worse than Toshi (YEAH believe it or not) and three "Super space women" who are meant to protect the earth...yeah...uh huh... We also get a villain team made up of an evil Super Space Woman and a Star Destroyer rip off! Somehow, without any explanation, all the old villains from the other Gamera movies are back (through Stock Footage) and it's up to Gamera to defeat them all...again! This movie's quality is so bad that the experimental green screen technology can not be remastered and stands out way too obviously from the rest of the film! The Stock Footage is so blatant and annoying. The writing it atrocious! What little original new Gamera footage we get is equally as bad! The ONLY positives we can give are 1) The Space Women had potential but even that gets wasted 2) They actually come up with a smart way to reuse the Black and White footage from the first movie and 3) A nice tongue in cheek jab at Godzilla! But other than that this movie is an utter bomb! And to make it all worse? The creators involved saw the dumpster fire it was becoming and decided to have it be Gamera dies at the end, to ensure no more embarrassing movies would come out again! And they wouldn't until the Heisei era would begin in the late 90s! So yeah...Gamera ended not with a bang...not even a whimper...but with a mercy killing! This was such a pain to watch...but Ingrid and I made it through! But unless you're a completionist...AVOID this movie at all cost! It's not even "So bad it's good" levels! Tune in next time as Ingrid and I finish our entire Gamera Marathons with a retrospective on the entire franchise as well as give our own take on how we'd bring back the fire turtle to a modern day! ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgNA4TCTswU

We're into the final stretch of the retrospective as we go over the first of two Secret Wars Battleworlds minis related to the Marvel Zombies. I say "Related to" because the Marvel Zombies are more of a backdrop than anything else. This mini is more about the character of Elsa Bloodstone as she and a young child trek through the dead lands, where there's whole bunch of marvel zombies, and they'd pop up and attack. On it's own the mini is fine character piece for Elsa...that is if you know anything about her. Unfortunately as a marvel zombies work it's very lacking in that department. When we do get a zombie it's just long enough to justify this being a Marvel Zombies mini but other than that...nothing really that much here. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKjEP7q3uZM