FilmPG-13Monster & Creature Sci-Fi Horror Body Horror

Shin Godzilla2016

Name: Shin Godzilla
Genre: Monster & Creature, Sci-Fi Horror, Body Horror
Released: 2016-07-29
Rating: 7

“A god incarnate. A city doomed.”

Directed by Shinji Higuchi, Hideaki Anno

7.0

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 6.9Rotten Tomatoes 87%Metacritic 66TMDB 7.2

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Year

2016

Runtime

120 min

Box Office

Budget

$15,000,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$78,053,145

Domestic

$5,960,549

🏆 13 wins & 10 nominations total

The premise

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a foreign superpower. But time is not on their side - the greatest catastrophe to ever befall the world is about to evolve right before their very eyes.

Horror Vault's take

When an enormous creature rises from Tokyo Bay and begins carving a path of destruction through Japan's capital, the country's labyrinthine government machinery struggles to mount any effective response. A determined group of mavericks works outside official channels to find a solution before the situation spirals beyond all control. Rooted in post-Fukushima anxiety, this reimagining of the iconic kaiju legend is as much a biting political satire as it is a monster spectacle — and the monster itself is unlike anything audiences have seen before.

Content: Mass Destruction, Graphic Creature Imagery, Body Horror, Nuclear Disaster Themes