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War Of The God Monsters (also called The Flying Monster, Flying Dragon Attacks, Rise Of The God Monsters, and The Undead Beast) is most definitely a truly fascinating movie for me to review because it is film that for many years, was considered to be have been lost due to its obscurity (and the only other release of it being on an old VHS tape which can be found online when searching on the internet well-enough), that is until Kaiju News Outlet shared the announcement that SRS Cinema was able to luckily acquire the distribution rights to finally have it released on the year of 2021 in North America on home video at last in an official Region 0 release too as well I might add.
In order to be more specific about it in this review, War Of The God Monsters is an independent giant monster kaiju film from South Korea that either came out in 1984, or 1985 (the few sources that exist about this movie sadly aren’t too specifically clear about its true release date), and it features stock footage mainly from Tsuburaya’s tokusatsu kyodai hero shows such as Fireman, Ultraman, The Return Of Ultraman, and Ultraman Ace, to use for the scenes featuring only the giant monsters wreaking havoc and causing destruction with mostly fighter jets being seen repelling them, and it really needs to be clarified that the stock footage was in fact (and indeed) used with approval & permission in order for it to be edited into the final product that was made.
Despite its obvious & blatant use of stock footage (even if it was accordingly used legally as already mentioned & explained at this point), War Of The God Monsters is a surprisingly very good movie with some solid human characters portrayed by actors & actresses who turn in believable performances, and the plot & story is intriguing enough to help deliver a compelling narrative, which helps in watching the film until it ends in my opinion.
A very impressive (and noteworthy) aspect about the official Blu-Ray release from SRS Cinema to point out (which is how I even saw War Of The God Monsters by the way) is that the video quality is awesome considering that this was a lost film that went through some massive degrading as a result of it not receiving any newer releases after both its theatrical run, and VHS transfer in South Korea back in the day. The digital restoration & remastering on this release put out by SRS Cinema is truly something to admire on how to perfectly restore a lost film, and the box art provided by Matt Frank is great to look at too as well. Also, the English subtitles provided for when viewing the movie are truly of professional quality in order to help when understanding what’s being said by the characters in War Of The God Monsters.
War Of The Monsters honestly is a true hidden gem worth adding to your movie collection as it while may not be the most unique & original film in the kaiju genre, it’s still worth knowing about (and watching) for seeing how giant monster movies were made many years ago in a country outside of Japan like South Korea, and it is very nice to see that such an obscure lost film has been rediscovered & restored in HD (high definition), and released in North America by an independent home video label as cool as SRS Cinema.
I give War Of The God Monsters 5/5 Stars, and Two Thumbs Up!
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