#ZEIRAM

[kanataueda]

[maxidango]

i love the lovely angels!!!!

[maskedbeliever]

Can you imagine if Zeiram (1991 dir. Keita Amemiya) came out today. Everyone would want to fuck Zeiram. There would be so much art of him the monsterfuckers could finally die happy.

[posthumanwanderings]

Hyper Iria (TamTam / Banpresto - SNES - 1995)

[2001hz]

ゼイラム (1991)

[chernobog13]

Writer/director Keita Amemiya's designs for the bad guy Zeiram in the eponymous 1991 film.

[seatopian]

i am once again begging for more tokusatsu movies and shows that feel like these.

(don’t mention GARO. i tried GARO. it doesn’t feel like these.)

[sentientcrt]

[omercifulheaves]

Art from the Iria: Zeiram The Animation official "mook" by Keita Amemiya

[kostusha]

[atomic-crusader]

Behind the scenes of Zeiram (1991)

[metabotulism]

[rassilon-imprimatur]

I'm such a Biogoji purist compared to the later Heisei designs and suits. I think I've always really resonated with how it syncs with Godzilla vs Biollante's wider biopunk horror aesthetic and grim tone, and I think the design just barely borders being flatout disturbing?

So much of the look of Godzilla vs Biollante clearly and famously owes to Gunhed, which reflects a sense of the Cronenbergian in its grisly biology just as it is a showcase of gorgeously grisly mecha.

Putting the obvious factor of Biollante herself aside for a moment, the whole of Godzilla vs Biollante feels so tethered to the roughly contemporaneous Shin Kamen Rider: Prologue and Zeiram. Its truly a flatout biopunk horror flick. It’s to a point where it actually looks a little wrong to me without VHS fuzz.

Feels like a relative of Hiruko The Goblin as well, if I'm being honest.

I dunno! The movie’s just blatantly a horror picture show in a way not a lot (not enough) of Godzilla movies are? 

I think Biogoji becoming the basis for the later Heisei suits, the design morphing over the 90s to the 1994 and 1995 suits becoming the "defacto" Godzilla for so long, has overshadowed the aspects of the design that are truly... gross? The texture of his skin, constantly soaking and in the movie's color palette, his dark brown predatory eyes that look completely black (like a shark's), his double rows of shark teeth. His dorsal fins, while a reworking of the classic 60s look, are actually distressingly "gory" in a way I think that gets taken for granted. Bone tearing out of his flesh.

There's so many classic elements of his body (mostly the Shodaigoji and Kinggoji) at play, and he is supposed to carry a regal “classic” aesthetic to contrast with and act as an uncanny dissonance against Biollante's more blatant nightmare, but I dunno! He's a quietly nasty boy, a simmer of energy Shin Godzilla cranked up to a boil?

(And he's goT THE BEST WITTLE ANGWY SCWUNCHED UP FACE!)

[haveyouseenthistoku]

[squishyproductions]

Iria: Zeiram the Animation (1994)

[pleistocene-polina]

Recently watched Zeiram (1991) with @galionne-vibin and it's 1994 sequel

These movies are so good you guys, they're so much fun! They have a cool badass female lead and an even cooler monster. Please check them out if you like weird sci-fi action adventure movies with cool practical effects - you gonna love them

The first movie is on YouTube (both sub and dub) you have literally no excuse not to watch it