Talk:Matango (1963 film)/@comment-25285745-20160319052957

I finally saw this movie, and I have to say I see why this is considered one of Ishiro Honda's greatest films. It takes a sort of fantastical concept and manages to make it very dark suspenseful and at times downright terrifying. The special effects are some of the best I've ever seen in a Toho film. The fully-assimilated Matango are convincing, and the transitional ones are just hauntingly grotesque. The acting is great, the characters are well fleshed-out, and the story itself is solid and suspenseful. It's definitely one of the best entries in Toho's library, and in terms of Ishiro Honda's films I'd rank it right up with the original Godzilla, Mothra and War of the Gargantuas.