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Gorath1962

Name: Gorath
Genre: Monster & Creature, Sci-Fi Horror, Survival
Released: 1962-03-21
Rating: 6

“The crisis of the colliding mystery star is imminent! Can the Earth break free of its orbit?”

Directed by Ishirō Honda

6.0

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Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 5.7TMDB 6.5

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Year

1962

Runtime

88 min

The premise

In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.

Horror Vault's take

A rogue star of staggering mass is locked on a collision course with Earth, and no weapon in humanity's arsenal can stop it — only an audacious, near-impossible feat of planetary engineering stands between civilization and annihilation. Produced by Toho Studios at the height of their tokusatsu golden age, Gorath blends large-scale disaster spectacle with genuine existential dread, asking what the human race is truly capable of when extinction is the alternative. The story follows scientists, astronauts, and world leaders racing against an unforgiving cosmic clock, while one survivor of a doomed mission carries psychological scars that haunt the mission's future. Equal parts grand sci-fi epic and creeping survival thriller, it remains a distinctive entry in Japan's tradition of catastrophe cinema.

Content: Scenes Of Mass Destruction And Disaster, Depictions Of Psychological Trauma