The Giant Claw Review Alexthehunted

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so godzilla made quiet a bit of money in the usa so of course hollywood wanted to make some money from that to but of course they rushed it out to make as much money for spending as little as possible which brings us to today's movie the giant claw on of the most infamous monster movies made but is it as bad as its made out to be well lets take a look at The Giant Claw
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[@uraveragesocialmediaaccoun8593]

Fun Fact:the giant claw is the most evil monster because it makes people die of laughter.

[@talhajubair4823]

Even gabara would laugh

[@DariusKetchum2010]

I read somewhere that one of the actors went to a premiere of this movie in their home town incognito; they had slunk out embarrassed due to everyone laughing at the 'monster'. 7:42 ...,...wut? 12:27 again, ...wut?

[@lylejohnson7591]

It was Jeff Morrow.

[@wopjohn]

big birds "special " brother

[@nametager7539]

Special is spelled rong

[@DeanxPeaceMaker]

Rlex Aeents r/whoosh?

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

The Gaiant Condor from Godzilla vs The Sea Monster looked beter than that........

[@idurisu930]

yup

[@andrewgan557]

I agree. The reason it's difficult to create a bird kaiju

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

Couldn't agree with you more. And the fact that it was onscreen for only, like, a minute or two was definitely in its favor.

[@skyslasher2297]

Jesus Ramirez Romo a plank of wood looks better the the claw to but your right

[@nametager7539]

The worst American monster movie till Godzilla 1998

[@TallSilentGuy]

It's bad but it least it's bad in a fun way. The kind of bad that makes you chuckle rather than facepalm.

[@user-ve6pj4cu1l]

Simon hi

[@Zoki4444]

The funny thing is that when antimatter collides with regular matter, they both obliterate each other and release 100% of their energy. The giant claw monster would've exploded as soon as it hit the Earth's outer atmosphere.

[@YowLife]

4:24 Wait this exact order and pacing of clips... Dude tell me you did not just rip footage from James' Monster Madness review of the Giant Claw for this part.

[@kingofmonsters14]

i bet Legendary would be able to make this monster better in the Monsterverse. can't do any worse then this. hell, i'd be interested in see the Beast from 20000 Fathoms and THEM from Legendary

[@CJCroen1393]

"One of the stupidest looking monsters in movie history!" Don't say that! ... I think it's adorable!

[@digunder14]

worlds ugliest flying battleship XD

[@cavemancult1999]

I mean the creature spooked me when I first saw it when I was like 12 or something but looking at it now, it's pretty embarrassing

[@ka1juhunt3r]

great review as always good to see some quality and good reviewing especially on the kaiju films also im excited for rodan! bring it on!

[@turogamer-oi4nq]

can i just say that the giant claw looks like the roadrunners meth addicted brother

[@nickmontoya3001]

Actor 1: Looks like a battleship Actor 2: Looks like a battleship Actor 3: Looks like a battleship Actor 4: Card games on motorcycles Actor 3: Your looking The YuGiOh Abridged recording room Actor 4: Oh...sorry

[@matthewwiles8518]

I like the new additions with King Caesar, King Ghidorah, MechaGodzilla and so on.

[@skyslasher2297]

What do battleships look in this universe cause how can you confuse the giant claw for one

[@captainboose8788]

I have to say, that bird must be huge, comparing it to the state building

[@theultimatememelord5494]

Perhaps..... As big as a battleship?

[@naturalattorney]

Love how you sneaked in road runner in the thumbnail

[@MasticinaAkicta]

I like this movie. Yes, the actors hadn't seen the monster before the grand opening, that effect was added later. This movie isn't the worst as in it isn't a boring slow dreck. As you say, well acted, and due to the special effects it will be remembered where so many other movie monsters of that age are already forgotten. It works great as comedy! And a piece of said time. Good? Well, eh comedic yes!

[@varanid9]

Someone needs to alter that final shot of it's claw sinking into the ocean as giving us the bird.

[@georgeorwell4534]

The Korean War ended with an Armistice. Both sides agreed to stop shooting. If they would have lost the whole of Korea would be a single communist country.

[@BTMONE]

glad for the new camera

[@adamshore8293]

The U.S. didn't lose the Korean war. The war ended in a stalemate.

[@ThatGamingCh4nnel]

for the US that is a basically a loss. Imagine being the sole world super power and the best you could was stalemate. In fact if it continued it probably would have set the US back decades considering how it cost. So yeah I'd say it was a loss

[@MrVato53]

@@ThatGamingCh4nnel Not really. The US was actually fighting the Russians also. Those were Russians in the MIG Jets.

[@Lord-xy2fr]

Rodan : A giant pterosaur that is a friend/enemy to Godzilla The Giant Claw : A worse version of the Giant Condor

[@docthemetalfreak]

the alternate ending had the giant claw giving the finger sinking into the ocean. or you might say it....flipped the bird.

[@DariusKetchum2010]

Boooo.

[@spidermanfan.3161]

Yay you uploaded the giant battleship ...I mean the giant claw, XD.

[@adfl7790]

Really funny review as always! I know this is unrelated, but do you watch Ultraman?

[@alexthehunted]

no sorry its really hard to find full episodes online

[@adfl7790]

+alexthehunted You can get them of eBay and Ioffer for about £10-20 each. A couple days ago I started binge-watching Ultraman Leo.

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

+alexthehunted Kissasian has all of them with subs and also has ultraseven, and others

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

+alexthehunted idk if its oficall or not but you should check it out

[@andrewgan557]

+alexthehunted i agree

[@turogamer-oi4nq]

Im just wondering if/when a remake of this happens will they pull a gigan and make it look badass or will they still make it look like the roadrunners meth addicted brother

[@Nethercroc]

I feel like the monster should have been a battleship

[@drrichardew7878]

Am I the only one who would want them to Ew make the giant claw monster? I mean, a giant Vulture is a neat idea for a monster. hell, throw it into the Kaijuverse as a joke, idc

[@DariusKetchum2010]

You know, I would have expected the egg of something the size of a battleship to be a bit bigger and tougher.

[@Isaac-gh5ku]

10:56 Giant Claw: Did you get my good side? 😉

[@Gojimon630]

That thing gave me nightmares as a kid

[@daisyandbear1950]

BIRD : What am I going to do with BROTHER! Me : Make a very handsome BROTHER !!!!!!

[@matiokong5112]

I hope the wheel will land on Godzillas revenge I watched as a kid it's one of those things you look back on and say wow I watched really stupid things as a kid lol

[@user-neptune84]

okay which movie is the worst of all time Godzilla's revenge or the giant claw or gamera super monster

[@alexthehunted]

oh trust me there are worse movies than the giant claw on this wheel

[@Funkytones314]

EVIL CRASH BANDICOOT shin godzilla was actually a good movie

[@skyslasher2297]

The giant claw is citizen Kane compared to those movies

[@davidmorales5797]

Neptune-Venus 1984 giant claw

[@danielcain8136]

hey those guys in suits get lit on fire try to top that USA

[@shoresean1237]

1 - Sorry to do this, but you could have just compared Canadian folklore with American myths about Bigfoot, Thunderbird, the Jersey Devil, Mothman et al. 2 - Believe it or not, while Giant Claw is an abomination for the goofy-bad creature FX, The Werewolf, made around the same time by the same producer, Sam Katzman (who also made the 1949 Batman serial) is actually a worse movie. You know how this one is almost passable but for the creature? Not so for The Werewolf.

[@digunder14]

the bird looks more like it got hit in the face by a battleship, several times

[@gregmarks6297]

Is that my cousin Road runner

[@kaiportercrafton2152]

A bird as big as a battleship.

[@Feyt]

I do sure love a Quiet bit of money.. lol

[@Cybergoji]

Could you make a review of war of the worlds?

[@alexthehunted]

i'll put both versions on the wheel

[@Cybergoji]

+alexthehunted thanks

[@megalodon7916]

The United States didn't lose the Korean War. At the very least it was a stalemate, although I would call it a victory, since North Korea started the war to take over the South Korea, and they failed miserably. South Korea wouldn't exist if the United States had lost. Vietnam, on the other hand, was a disaster, so you could easily argue that it was a defeat (and yes, I would call giving up and abandoning the fight a defeat). I don't mean to go off topic here, but as a history major whose Grandfather served during the Korean War, I couldn't help but correct that error.

[@thehaloscrolls391]

Aren't they still in Afghanistan? I have a friend in the military who says that their still in Afghanistan and they lost 8 people in the last 4 months

[@davidmorales5797]

Stop praising america

[@coltonannunziata1274]

The Korean War was a tie

[@blueseanewt2138]

If we really want to get technical the coalition forces deployed on behalf of south Koreas only goal was to preserve the independence of South Korea, mission accomplished.

[@lordkalistos4124]

Uhm can we get Godzilla to kill this thing with his atomic breath??

[@CEfect]

Jacob Hoover not until 1966

[@Average_Fizz_Enjoyer25]

O.m.g It can take selfies

[@The_MMS]

And you thought Zilla was weak

[@kingofmonsters14]

Birdemic, Emoji, and Manos are challenging Plan 9 for worst movie spot

[@charleskemley6539]

Love the cover art. Road Runner would have made a less ridiculous creature.

[@WRConcerts]

review gorgo

[@digunder14]

why did they call it the giant claw? the damn bird abomination dosnt seem to use it's claws that much if at all

[@Kosh131]

We didn't "lose' the Korean War.

[@gangstergoji2k5isgod]

This was made the same year Rodan was made,right?

[@alexthehunted]

actually rodan came out a year before the giant claw rodan was 1956 the giant claw was 1957

[@skyslasher2297]

alexthehunted wait if rodan came a year before and it was in color why wasn't this movie in color to

[@ericmoss8928]

SkySlasher, Varan the Unbelievable came out in 1958 after both Rodan and The Mysterians. Varan was done in black and white likely to save money. This was also in Japan. The Giant Claw is an American movie. Most American giant monster movies in the 1950s were done in black and white again likely to save money and to hide the bad effects more.

[@TheGingerburger]

I think most of the budget went to buy the director drugs

[@BTMONE]

sorry Alex but you have forced my hand.

[@larryminer3754]

Sharktopus

[@cpcva724]

Matter.anti matter. It doesn't matter.

[@shoresean1237]

About it not being that bad (I watched the review in two parts), James Rolfe, really a back-handed fan of the work rather than a critic, said essentially the same thing. Like the false notion that Number 3 was Nana's older sister in Elfen Lied, certain things pick up steam as they chug across the internet, repeated and repeated. I've a feeling at least some of the later reviewers weren't used to being bad SF/F gourmands, and that puppet blew their minds. Even the BS Science wasn't the worst in a Sam Katzman movie; again for that, see The Werewolf. You know, if Toontown were for real, Buzz Buzzard could have sued the producers of this film so bad...

[@theoneinthebackground4209]

Lost? South Korea is still a country last I checked.

[@ericpham1354]

This is a road runner

[@TheGodofShades]

Hello

[@benderbendingrodriguez420]

It's looks like a giant battleship! LOL srsly besides that classic line how does The Giant Claw look anything like a battleship

[@francoisuntel6238]

i am french canadian, theres no cocagna legend, WTF? lol

[@tuijapiiroinen8613]

I know this movie is old and everything, but the giant claw couldn't make itself an antimatter shield, because since anything made from antimatter would explode more powerful than a nuclear bomb when touching anything made from actual matter including: everything in our whole universe!

[@larryminer3754]

Dino shark

[@starclone4]

This movie always made me laugh !!!! 😆

[@YeahBoi91]

The only thing I can say about this movie is..... B A T T L E S H I P

[@JeffreyDeCristofaro]

I remember when I finally saw this in my mid-to-late 20's from the Sam Katzman Collection - and by the time I finished watching it, I was eager to carve this ET turkey REAL slow! And I seriously had nightmares about my DICK breaking off and mutating into that freak of low-budget B-movie nature! What a waste of two good leading actors who deserved better than they got, some noirish atmosphere, professional cinematography and better-than-average dialogue - for the time. And to think that this was the same producer who gave us Ray Harryhausen's IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA and EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS. (Oh well, love your new shelf additions and camera!) Now for the really good stuff with RODAN!

[@shaggydoofus5590]

Ay daddy’s get ya tin can off thu road

[@shaggydoofus5590]

I mean daddyo

[@donaldpetkus1637]

Mitch is an electronics engineer rather an electrician. It makes it more credible that he would be doing test flights to calibrate the radars.

[@the_once-and-future_king.]

But surely he would do a better job being WHERE THE RADAR IS? Seriously, how can he calibrate a ground radar from a plane? 1950s military: Making dumbass decisions so you don't have to!

[@TheCyberman1966]

Ok I can explain the whole Michal thing basically when they where making the movie the monster footage hadn't been finished yet so the actors had to pretend they could see a monster like for example when they are looking at pictures of the monster notice how it cuts to the pictures then a shot of them reacting to it

[@ryanwilliams1456]

I can answer all your questions Moive logic

[@TheKyrix82]

As dumb as it looks, and it does look REALLY dumb, I actually find the fact that it's so derpy looking even MORE horrifying than if they'd gotten a decent looking monster. It's an indestructable derpy predator from another dimension

[@garonw2001]

The original The Blob had a better ending

[@garonw2001]

It was still shit but still a million times better than the ending to this f*cking film

[@garonw2001]

Also Alex is all three blob films (1958, 1972, & 1988) on that wheel

[@m2v-animatez]

Is this bird angry Like if you get it

[@ironlion992]

WHAT HAPPEND TO YOUR HAIR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@alexthehunted]

bad hair cut

[@ironlion992]

+alexthehunted oh=/

[@andrewgan557]

+alexthehunted ever wonder what the male of her species might look like? she looks like a vulture right? well most male birds of prey are smaller than their mates. so don't worry Alex cause the males were less impressive than the females.

[@theamazingiris2768]

It should be called the giant crap

[@JohnSmith-eo5sp]

alexthehunted, You just love to to stereotype 1950's America, don't you? Be advised the lion's share of the best American movies ever made came out of the 1950's. Back then actors and starlets had to have talent or end up in these very low budget pictures. They weren't overpaid, and these film makers had no CGI to compensate for continuity errors.

[@poochuno8822]

CGI did exist in the 50s, that’s how they made Godzilla’s atomic breath.

[@timhutchinson3264]

@@poochuno8822 No, sorry, CGI did NOT exist in the 50s! Jesus, the very first use of true CGI was in Westworld in 1973. But if you want to consider 1973 as "the 50s" then sure, you're correct. 😏 And by the way, Godzilla's atomic breath in the original 1954 film was hand-animated.

[@rordapor]

The beast from 20,000 fathoms was the movie that started the trend of giant monster movies

[@TheZerox500]

Not quite, remember, King Kong and it's sequel Son Of Kong, came out 20 years before Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

[@wopjohn]

"he begins screaming " as French men are wont to do

[@ericpham1354]

1:30 that is a roadrunner

[@garthdavis4320]

More like the giant clAWFUL.

[@dr.davidhutchings5170]

Did you have to make fun the Bible

[@alexthehunted]

actually that line wasn't even in the script i just made it up on the spot

[@varanid9]

You have to understand, he's English.

[@faishiro5009]

Well the Bible is a lil goofy. Then again this comes from someone who believes in Dog-headed deities and cow headed goddesses. So maybe we are all a lil goofy.

[@Shark-R900]

What terrible garbage this is

[@digunder14]

all they do is comepare it to a battle ship, they never call it a battleship or say it looks like one, and weather or not something flies when comparing the size of something to that u find in the air has nothing to do with such

[@WilAdams]

YOU, you are a part of the problem with having younger individuals review older films. There is a TV show from around this same time period call Rocky and Bullwinkle where the narrator did exactly this same thing. You have no frame of reference, obvious from your nonsense rant against 'Mitch'. First, it is established that Mitch had served in the Air Force during the war thus he knew how to fly a military plane even if he was just an ELECTRICIAN. As for Mitch saying the object was a 'big as a battle ship' that is because battle ships were NEWER than Zeppelins, so naturally the Hindenburg did not instantly leap to his mind. Yes, he kissed her while she was asleep, kind of like Prince Charming did in literally EVERY story that features him. Why? Because in some cases--and this is one of them--it is seen as ROMANTIC. Yes, I agree this is one of the worst monsters of all times, and why? As you pointed out, because they used INFERIOR Mexican 'talent'. Oh, and do you know what British film is worse than this one? "DON'T OPEN THE WINDOW". Talk about cheap effects. Hammy acting. And stupid writing. Yeah, and this film was made in the 50s, but Don't Open the Window was made in the 70s.

[@leeboy26]

It's still a terrible movie, and that opinion hasn't changed since it's release.... are you the Director or something?

[@jessehamm3573]

Indeed. While the effects are pretty shoddy, I'll have to at least praise the tight editing, which maintains a frenetic pace to the action. And with the cream of female casting in monster movies serving little more purpose than inept scream queens, it was nice to see a woman take a more pro-active role in the action, and who doesn't freak out every two seconds.