Horror icon introduced: Duh....Godzilla
Stay with me here for a minute. It's hard to accept the original as a horror movie due to the neverending series of sequels over the last FIFTY years. Those became Godzilla versus the newest monster threat of the week - and as classic as they were, relied more on camp and comedic monster battles on most occasions. The original IS a horror movie, plain and simple. It was a metaphor for the atom bomb and it far reaching effects, for the horrors of war itself, and for humanity's folly with death and destruction. One of the best anti-war messages ever - in the form of a giant beast destroying Tokyo.
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