Several boats and a small fishing village are subject to mysterious, deadly attacks, leading the villagers to make reference to an ancient monster. Gojira (1954)/Godzilla: King of The Monsters! (1956) It can also be argued that the disease in the creature’s blood may be a variation on the fire breathing dragon and other mythological monsters with fouling breath of various kinds. This film marks the first well known instance of giant creatures having a connection with radiation. It is also capable of standing on two legs for brief periods, such as the previously mentioned lighthouse destruction scene: The Rhedosaurus is primarily a quadruped, however… Counterattacks by military forces reveal a horrifying discovery: the animal’s blood contains a disease deadly to humans, forcing them to find a way to kill the animal without causing a pandemic. Though it has little to do with the story, there is one direct reference in a scene where the dinosaur tears down a lighthouse on the shore of Maine.Ī nuclear test at north of the Arctic Circle awakens a Rhedosaurus (not a real dinosaur species) from its ancient hibernation and leads to it rampaging through Canada and the northeastern part of the United States, eventually ending up in New York City. The stop motion animator Ray Harryhausen was friends with Bradbury and convinced him to sell the rights to adapt the story. The films was loosely based on the short story The Fog Horn by Ray Bradbury, involving a reptilian sea monster that mistakes a foghorn for a mating call.
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