Stars: Han Eun-jin, Kim Hie-gab, Won Namkung, Kim Seon-kyeong | Written by Byeon Ha-yeong | Directed by Gwon Hyeok-jinn
Long thought lost the Korean kaiju film Space Monster Wangmagwi made its first North American appearance at this year’s edition of the Fantasia Film Festival. If Shin Ultraman was the festival’s tribute to old-school kaiju, Space Monster Wangmagwi is the real thing.
Some aliens in a spacecraft that makes the ones in the early Gamera films look high tech and big budget have their sights set on taking over Earth. To do that they drop a radio-controlled creature from their ship and by the time it lands near Seoul it’s grown to a monstrous size and begins attacking the city. But even worse than that it’s caused Ahn Hee’s (Kim Hye-kyeong; Echo of Love and Death) wedding to Air Force pilot Oh Jeong-hwan to be postponed when he...
Long thought lost the Korean kaiju film Space Monster Wangmagwi made its first North American appearance at this year’s edition of the Fantasia Film Festival. If Shin Ultraman was the festival’s tribute to old-school kaiju, Space Monster Wangmagwi is the real thing.
Some aliens in a spacecraft that makes the ones in the early Gamera films look high tech and big budget have their sights set on taking over Earth. To do that they drop a radio-controlled creature from their ship and by the time it lands near Seoul it’s grown to a monstrous size and begins attacking the city. But even worse than that it’s caused Ahn Hee’s (Kim Hye-kyeong; Echo of Love and Death) wedding to Air Force pilot Oh Jeong-hwan to be postponed when he...
- 7/27/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Part of the giant monster boom in the late 1960s, the major focus on Japan to provide that style for the masses is understandable with the exploits of Godzilla, Gamera, Daimajin, and numerous other entries cashing in on the success of these properties, giving the country a major leg-up in the genre. However, it wasn’t the only country providing output in the style as several others offered up their take, with Denmark offering up “Reptilicus,” the UK providing both “Gorgo” and “Konga” and South Korea chipping in two efforts with “Yongary, Monster from the Deep” and this one. A film long thought to have been lost, director Gwon Hyeok-jinn’s long-unseen giant monster epic “Space Monster Wagmagwi” will screen at the 26th edition of the Fantasia Internation Film Festival.
“Space Monster Wangmagwi” is screening on Fantasia International Film Festival
Trying to initiate an invasion of Earth, a group of aliens release an enormous,...
“Space Monster Wangmagwi” is screening on Fantasia International Film Festival
Trying to initiate an invasion of Earth, a group of aliens release an enormous,...
- 7/17/2022
- by Don Anelli
- AsianMoviePulse
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