The "Kong inside a robot suit" factoid is apparently just a myth. All they did was change Jet Jaguar and Mechagodzilla's names to Kong and nothing else.
i wonder how disappointed those two countries would be if they found out Willis O'Brien. originally pitched an idea for King Kong vs Frankenstein movie. Germans and Italians would have lost their collective minds if that movie happened lol
I don't know that the Frankenstein focus is even close, since F's Monster is usually not even shown on those posters, but Kong (often a half-reptilian version) of often is!
@@jasonpratt5126 yeah thats the most deceptive thing i have seen a movie distributer do, making misleading posters feating Kong. the reptilian versions are also really weird like are they implying Godzilla in the movie is Kong?
as an Italian I always don't understand how the only Godzilla movies to come here were mainly of the Shōwa era and were always sold with titles showing them as King Kong movies or strange words like "Watang" which doesn't actually mean anything
I always thought that the weird tentacle-monster posters for _Mothra vs. Godzilla_ would actually have made pretty decent, if way off model, posters for _Godzilla vs. Biollante_ so many decades later.
This reminds me of the posters that were made for Mothra's first film. How they portrayed her as this evil looking bug with sharp teeth and how it showed a guy running away from her.
Since "Ebirah: Horror of the deep"/"Godzilla VS The Sea Monster" was meant to star Kong instead of Godzilla, the bigfoot is probably meant to be Kong. That actually makes ( some ) sense.....
Not gonna lie, the idea of keeping the monsters a secret is actually a pretty cool way to get audiences curious. I bet it was an awesome surprise going to the cinema and seeing Godzilla fight a brand new monster you'd never seen before. Of course, it would never work these days due to pretty much everything being leaked onto the internet, but still.
@@PaperFinz My favorite is the one for son of Godzilla. I've been trying to find out why the Polish ones are the way they are. But I can't find an answer.
I'll always remember the Godzilla vs The Thing poster. I first saw it on a Godzilla website during the time Sony and Tristar had distribution rights to the series following the 98 movie's release. They had all the Godzilla movies released at the time in order on the site, but they were all listed with their American titles. I hadn't seen Mothra vs Godzilla yet, so seeing this poster got me excited because yea it got me. I was like" What is The Thing? I wanna see Godzilla fight whatever this thing is." Granted the page on Mothra vs Godzilla had promotional pictures with Mothra, but I thought maybe she was in it along with The Thing, not realizing they are calling her the thing. Of course, years later, I would get Mothra vs Godzilla and learn that it was just America's way of promoting the film. But yea I fell for that poster as a kid. I still really like that poster tho and Mothra vs Godzilla is one of my favorite Godzilla movies lol.
Meanwhile, "The Return of Godzilla" poster sort of makes sense (minus the train) since the Ebirah film was originally supposed to be Toho's next Kong film!
Sundays are "COWBOYS and KAIJU" day at my place. I watch either westerns or giant monster films all day. Some Sundays are a mix! Tomorrow? It's Showa Era ALL day!
@@scaper8 thank you! I've been a Gwanji fan since came out in '69! As a kid I didn't get to see it because it didn't come the one theater in my town. But l did have the comic and the coloring book! I was allowed to stay up late and watch it on TVI. Valley of Gwangi gets watched at least once a month, whether it's a Kaiju Sunday or a Cowboy Sunday! Thanks again!
The WATANG poster is by far my favorite one in this vid because of the design of the odd tentacled monster. Looks very alien and something that would make a cool monster for Godzilla to save the world from "Godzilla 2000" style.
I love these videos! I'm a big monster-movie fan, especially of the crazy posters that were interpreted from the artists from different countries. Really hope you'll make more of these, they're such a treat!
3:54 actually, no: the way they justify "Kong" in the title, is simply by changing Titanosaurus name to "Titano-Kong". I'm not joking. Oh, and I don't think "Watang" is supposed to mean anything (unless it's the name of the supposed "Empire of Monsters"), it's just a flashy meaningless word to introduce something, like "Voilà".
@@succubastard1019 Well, in Destroy all Monsters Mothra was renamed Polluk in italian; unfortunately Mothra in the italian versions of Showa movies has always had these problems (in Ebirah, Horror of the Deep is call Matra)
You include a lot of my favorite foreign posters in this video. I like the super 70s Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band meets Godzilla poster, the Terror of MG with King Seesar, the Godzilla vs Mothra with the 1973 Godzilla design, the French KK vs G with the massive Kong and the tiny Godzilla and the cityscape. Lastly, I agree with you about Polish Godzilla vs the Sea Monster. Great work!
Godzilla: "How do these people confuse me for Kong?!" Kong: "Why do I look like a Gargantua in some?" Sanda: *Playing Chess with Gaira.* Gaira: *Screeches and flips the table.* Mothra: "I can't be that terrifying and gross looking."
I have to say, it speaks volumes to what a monument the original King Kong was, that movies were still trying to piggyback off of its success 20 or 30 years later. That’s as if the latest Avengers movie poster had Brad Pitt’s Achilles and Mel Gibson’s William Wallace shoehorned in there to spark interest.
@8:30 the tentacle monster is a reference to shuma-gorath from marvel comics whom is based on the works of h.p Lovecraft. That's said the thing in the center is an eye
If you look at the cover at 5:42, they just drew a new head for Kong on top of the old head (as this image came from a still from the movie). But if you look closely, you can see the lips of Kong’s original head as they are still visible and facing the building (actually facing Godzilla in the original image).
That AIP GODZILLA VS. THE THING poster is one of the coolest pieces of promotional art in the history of cinema. Yes, it's absolutely false advertising. But in terms of hype, it doesn't get better than a tentacled monster "censored" because it's just too terrifying to show. And in fairness, an awful lot of US filmgoers at the time had probably never seen nor heard of Mothra anyway, so it makes perfect sense to hype Godzilla's foe up as something all-new and terrifying.
I think the 1961 Mothra movie was distributed in the US 2 years before Mothra vs Godzilla came, but even that poster made Mothra looked terrifying 💀 Then again, back then Japanese Kaiju flicks were seen as low quality B movies, so imagine not a whole lot of people saw the film prior.
a small correction on the Italian version of "terror of mechagodzilla", I saw the movie and I don't remember King Kong piloting mechagodzilla, instead I remember Titanosaurus being renamed "Titano-Kong"
Love how the Italian and German posters for King Kong vs. Godzilla only credit three actors from the movie and it's the three actors added to the movie in the US version though the German poster misspells Michael Keith's name. Even more insulting the German poster credits direction to the guy who directed the US insert scenes totally removing Ishiro Honda's name from the poster. And then the Italian poster to Destroy All Monsters , I don't remember there being any western actors by the name of Gary Graham or Kenny Lousen in that movie and Andrew Hughes (who played the minor part of Dr. Stevenson) is credited as lead actor. And the Italian poster for Terror of MechaGodzilla credits some more western actors that don't appear in the movie like "Harris Bartley" and "Alan Baker" and "Mood Stanley"? They still credit the three actual Japanese stars to the movie but shove in all these not featured Western names.
The real reason why Kong was replaced with Godzilla was because the company that Toho got the permission to use Kong from did not like the movie, so King Kong was replaced with Godzilla and Toho ended up making King Kong Escapes instead.
8:56-10:19 That Italian posters could be a coincidence, but it could be a reference to how that movie was supposed to be for King Kong, before it got switched to Godzilla.
The 1st movie poster shown really should have had mechaGodzilla tower over Godzilla. And I'm pretty sure there were 2 Rodans depending on which 3 pronunciation you choose in that poster. If you don't believe me on the 3 pronunciations of the name Rodan then please watch the American Dubbed version of Rodan. But Rodan was still popular and was most likely a callback to the Rodan film where there were two of them and if you look closely they are over top of an active volcanoe.
Godzilla vs mechanic monster. The one where Godzilla agreed to carpool for jr's soccer game but his fan belt is making noises, he isn't an expert but fixing that *definitely* shouldn't cost 200 dollars.
To be fair, some Kongs (including the current one) do look like big hairy sasquatch -- and that's so true for the Toho Kong, that his vG suit often gets credited as left over from the Toho film "Half-human" (about a Bigfoot creature.)
Italy uses kong in every poster because he's more appealing than godzilla to Italians, due to the fact that kong is an American thing Here's explained why the ape is everywhere
Huh, I think the poster at 6:06 or so, "The Return of King Kong" must have been the image I saw in this old documentary about monster movies almost 3 decades ago. Always struck in hindsight weird that they had a smaller "T-Rex" apparently shooting out fire out of its mouth and didn't think it had that much to do with Godzilla, just a rexie doin' that on bigger Kong. Guess that tells how well those posters worked. The documentary also had remarking how Kong is the American smart ape and Godzilla the moronic Japanese lizard. Either way, an old mystery that I didn't think that much about solved.
The saw king Kong VS godzilla and decided to put him on just godzilla movies lol. Also on 2 of the posters it looked like they made a mix between Kong and godzilla
Is it just me or does the french poster for godzilla vs mecha godzilla kinda make showa mecha godzilla look like the heisei version maybe its just the head making me think that
8:55 That poster probably stems from the fact that originally, Ebirah: Horror of the Deep/Godzilla vs The Sea Monsters was originally supposed to be a King Kong movie, but Toho lost the rights to him halfway through production. Which is why Godzilla acts the way he does in that movie to begin with.
They didn't loose the rigths Rather they where making an adaptation of the Kong cartoon, and Rankinbass said the script was nothing like the cartoon, so they made KingKong Escapes Toho then reused the idea replacing Kong witg Godzilla
Honestly I'm wondering how well known Godzilla was in Italy at the time and how much of that was due to posters always advertising Godzilla movies as King Kong movies.
I never realised how much other countries didn't give a fuck about godzilla movies in the 60s-70s. Legit they either posted of kong or frankenstien. I'm just glad the 80s stopped that trend forever
The Godzilla vs the Thing poster portrays Mothra as an abomination alien thing. I still don't know why do classic monster movie posters get the creatures wrong
Funny that they made Godzilla Kong in the Ebirah posters, since it was originally meant to be a Kong movie
I was about to say that until I saw your comment, haha xD
The "Kong inside a robot suit" factoid is apparently just a myth. All they did was change Jet Jaguar and Mechagodzilla's names to Kong and nothing else.
In the italian version, it's actually Titanosaur that gets called Kong. Well, "Titano-Kong" to be more precise.
No wonder king kong was famous in my country he was all over the place
I mean like godzilla movies like destroy all monsters just slap king kong on the poster
Italy’s idea that “Everything is King Kong” is only rivaled by Germany’s policy of “Everything is Frankenstein” on many of their posters 😄
i wonder how disappointed those two countries would be if they found out Willis O'Brien. originally pitched an idea for King Kong vs Frankenstein movie. Germans and Italians would have lost their collective minds if that movie happened lol
I don't know that the Frankenstein focus is even close, since F's Monster is usually not even shown on those posters, but Kong (often a half-reptilian version) of often is!
@@jasonpratt5126 yeah thats the most deceptive thing i have seen a movie distributer do, making misleading posters feating Kong. the reptilian versions are also really weird like are they implying Godzilla in the movie is Kong?
LOL
as an Italian I always don't understand how the only Godzilla movies to come here were mainly of the Shōwa era and were always sold with titles showing them as King Kong movies or strange words like "Watang" which doesn't actually mean anything
Godzilla: *Exists*
Every single country: "Is this King kong?"
I always thought that the weird tentacle-monster posters for _Mothra vs. Godzilla_ would actually have made pretty decent, if way off model, posters for _Godzilla vs. Biollante_ so many decades later.
I totally agree.
6:54
Let's pretend this is the American poster for Vs. Biollante and we're good.
"Watang" is what Mothra was called in the Italian dub of the film.
No i think "Watang" means a Chinese/Japanese phrase used in martial arts or something like that.
It's also said like "Wataaaang!"
I’m pretty sure watang means “courage”
The tentacle monster and that sea monster would probably make for some neat godzilla monsters themselves.
This reminds me of the posters that were made for Mothra's first film. How they portrayed her as this evil looking bug with sharp teeth and how it showed a guy running away from her.
To be fair, she destroyed a lot of shit in her first movie. As a larva she sank a ship just because it was in her way. She could have swam under it!
Since "Ebirah: Horror of the deep"/"Godzilla VS The Sea Monster" was meant to star Kong instead of Godzilla, the bigfoot is probably meant to be Kong.
That actually makes ( some ) sense.....
I don't know if the people making the poster knew that piece of trivia.
Polish movies posters were notoriously minimalist during the 70s. I kinda loved those ones
Not gonna lie, the idea of keeping the monsters a secret is actually a pretty cool way to get audiences curious. I bet it was an awesome surprise going to the cinema and seeing Godzilla fight a brand new monster you'd never seen before. Of course, it would never work these days due to pretty much everything being leaked onto the internet, but still.
Dude I highly recommend looking at more of the Polish posters. They all have a abstract design that makes them look like books rather than movies.
Honestly the Polish one was incredible.
lol. you weren't kidding. i just looked them up on google and its like an abstract museum.
@@PaperFinz My favorite is the one for son of Godzilla. I've been trying to find out why the Polish ones are the way they are. But I can't find an answer.
@MADISON RUSELL there's a link in the description for part 1.
In Poland, we heavily inspire godzilla to look alot like those of our polish mythology like the wawel dragon or the beliefs in whales.
The polish sea monster poster looks like an awesome album cover.
In the Italian dub of "Terror of Mechagodzilla" Titanosaurus is called Titano Kong, justifyng in some way the title
Lol I've never seen some of these. The Italian Gvm one looks like Goji is about to face off against a kaiju version of John Carpenter's the Thing haha
Cthulhu?
@@dubuyajay9964 lol yup or him
The Godzilla vs The Sea Monster posters are the weirdest in my opinion.
I'll always remember the Godzilla vs The Thing poster. I first saw it on a Godzilla website during the time Sony and Tristar had distribution rights to the series following the 98 movie's release. They had all the Godzilla movies released at the time in order on the site, but they were all listed with their American titles. I hadn't seen Mothra vs Godzilla yet, so seeing this poster got me excited because yea it got me. I was like" What is The Thing? I wanna see Godzilla fight whatever this thing is." Granted the page on Mothra vs Godzilla had promotional pictures with Mothra, but I thought maybe she was in it along with The Thing, not realizing they are calling her the thing. Of course, years later, I would get Mothra vs Godzilla and learn that it was just America's way of promoting the film. But yea I fell for that poster as a kid. I still really like that poster tho and Mothra vs Godzilla is one of my favorite Godzilla movies lol.
Glad to see some of the posters I posted on Wikizilla, such as the Iranian Biollante poster or the King Kong 2000 one. :)
The Italian Godzilla vs Mothra poster reminds me of the creature in Space:1999's Dragon's Domain.
In my opinion, I think those Godzilla vs. The THING posters would have worked better if the unused kaiju, Barubaroi was a concept that far back.
I admire your ability to consistently produce entertaining Videos
The Polish Posters looks so Dope
Meanwhile, "The Return of Godzilla" poster sort of makes sense (minus the train) since the Ebirah film was originally supposed to be Toho's next Kong film!
10:20 no, it was titled "Ebirah:: Monster from the depths"
Sundays are "COWBOYS and KAIJU" day at my place. I watch either westerns or giant monster films all day. Some Sundays are a mix! Tomorrow? It's Showa Era ALL day!
If you haven't already, _The Valley of Gwangi_ is a must at some point. 1969 stop-motion "lost world" type film. With cowboys. Fighting dinosaurs.
@@scaper8 thank you! I've been a Gwanji fan since came out in '69! As a kid I didn't get to see it because it didn't come the one theater in my town. But l did have the comic and the coloring book! I was allowed to stay up late and watch it on TVI. Valley of Gwangi gets watched at least once a month, whether it's a Kaiju Sunday or a Cowboy Sunday! Thanks again!
I would love a film shot on 35mm in modern day, practical effects
Called:
‘Godzilla V Watang’
This is my favorite Godzilla channel.
thank you.
4:25 never noticed that lmfao.
Watang is Italian for "Fooled you! Money please!!!"
That first Polish Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla poster looked more like the cover of a Beatles album then a movie poster
The WATANG poster is by far my favorite one in this vid because of the design of the odd tentacled monster. Looks very alien and something that would make a cool monster for Godzilla to save the world from "Godzilla 2000" style.
I love these videos! I'm a big monster-movie fan, especially of the crazy posters that were interpreted from the artists from different countries. Really hope you'll make more of these, they're such a treat!
3:54 actually, no: the way they justify "Kong" in the title, is simply by changing Titanosaurus name to "Titano-Kong". I'm not joking.
Oh, and I don't think "Watang" is supposed to mean anything (unless it's the name of the supposed "Empire of Monsters"), it's just a flashy meaningless word to introduce something, like "Voilà".
Watang is Mothra's name in the Italian dub
@@giuseppecapra That explains why while watching Destroy all Monsters, her name sounded so weird.
@@succubastard1019 Well, in Destroy all Monsters Mothra was renamed Polluk in italian; unfortunately Mothra in the italian versions of Showa movies has always had these problems (in Ebirah, Horror of the Deep is call Matra)
We need more Weird Poster Art in a different region.
Polish Godzilla posters were artsy as hell. I have a few
I love this channel so much. Deserves more attention.
You include a lot of my favorite foreign posters in this video. I like the super 70s Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band meets Godzilla poster, the Terror of MG with King Seesar, the Godzilla vs Mothra with the 1973 Godzilla design, the French KK vs G with the massive Kong and the tiny Godzilla and the cityscape. Lastly, I agree with you about Polish Godzilla vs the Sea Monster. Great work!
All these posters with a green Godzilla makes me think of Reptar from Rugrats. I'm sure these images influenced the design.
Godzilla: "How do these people confuse me for Kong?!"
Kong: "Why do I look like a Gargantua in some?"
Sanda: *Playing Chess with Gaira.*
Gaira: *Screeches and flips the table.*
Mothra: "I can't be that terrifying and gross looking."
The Polish Terror of MechaGodzilla poster looks like something I created back in Kindergarten.
It is more of mix of impressionism and surrealism
I had NO idea Godzilla vs. Biollante was released in Iran
Time to get the artist glasses again boys.
what did i stumble onto
Here is an explanation King Kong on the Ebirah posters. Ebirah was originally a King Kong movie. Then Godzilla replaced King Kong
I gotta say, I like your use of SNES and 90s video game OSTs. It's kinda nostalgic to listen to them and see which ones you remember their names.
Americans during the 60's: "We hate giant bugs!!" xD
Finally a part two i’m so happy thank you
No problem. glad you enjoyed it. :)
I have to say, it speaks volumes to what a monument the original King Kong was, that movies were still trying to piggyback off of its success 20 or 30 years later. That’s as if the latest Avengers movie poster had Brad Pitt’s Achilles and Mel Gibson’s William Wallace shoehorned in there to spark interest.
DIE BRUT DES TEUFELS
Good old Bad German Memories...
@8:30 the tentacle monster is a reference to shuma-gorath from marvel comics whom is based on the works of h.p Lovecraft. That's said the thing in the center is an eye
For anyone who might be wondering the pterosaur mentioned for that MG poster at 1:18 is it is spelled like this “Ctenochasma”
They should have called it King Kong vs King Kong in Italy
If you look at the cover at 5:42, they just drew a new head for Kong on top of the old head (as this image came from a still from the movie). But if you look closely, you can see the lips of Kong’s original head as they are still visible and facing the building (actually facing Godzilla in the original image).
That AIP GODZILLA VS. THE THING poster is one of the coolest pieces of promotional art in the history of cinema. Yes, it's absolutely false advertising. But in terms of hype, it doesn't get better than a tentacled monster "censored" because it's just too terrifying to show. And in fairness, an awful lot of US filmgoers at the time had probably never seen nor heard of Mothra anyway, so it makes perfect sense to hype Godzilla's foe up as something all-new and terrifying.
I think the 1961 Mothra movie was distributed in the US 2 years before Mothra vs Godzilla came, but even that poster made Mothra looked terrifying 💀
Then again, back then Japanese Kaiju flicks were seen as low quality B movies, so imagine not a whole lot of people saw the film prior.
a small correction on the Italian version of "terror of mechagodzilla", I saw the movie and I don't remember King Kong piloting mechagodzilla, instead I remember Titanosaurus being renamed "Titano-Kong"
Fun fact: king kong was the old idea for eberah horror of the deep
But they switched kong to godzilla
Jet jaguar in that version was never claimed as king kong in a robot suit
Love how the Italian and German posters for King Kong vs. Godzilla only credit three actors from the movie and it's the three actors added to the movie in the US version though the German poster misspells Michael Keith's name. Even more insulting the German poster credits direction to the guy who directed the US insert scenes totally removing Ishiro Honda's name from the poster. And then the Italian poster to Destroy All Monsters , I don't remember there being any western actors by the name of Gary Graham or Kenny Lousen in that movie and Andrew Hughes (who played the minor part of Dr. Stevenson) is credited as lead actor. And the Italian poster for Terror of MechaGodzilla credits some more western actors that don't appear in the movie like "Harris Bartley" and "Alan Baker" and "Mood Stanley"? They still credit the three actual Japanese stars to the movie but shove in all these not featured Western names.
Fun fact Godzilla vs the sea monster was supposed to have kong instead of godzilla but the license for kong ran out so they used godzilla
The real reason why Kong was replaced with Godzilla was because the company that Toho got the permission to use Kong from did not like the movie, so King Kong was replaced with Godzilla and Toho ended up making King Kong Escapes instead.
@@GodzillaFan-ok7ek i was close enough lol
8:56-10:19
That Italian posters could be a coincidence, but it could be a reference to how that movie was supposed to be for King Kong, before it got switched to Godzilla.
The 1st movie poster shown really should have had mechaGodzilla tower over Godzilla. And I'm pretty sure there were 2 Rodans depending on which 3 pronunciation you choose in that poster. If you don't believe me on the 3 pronunciations of the name Rodan then please watch the American Dubbed version of Rodan. But Rodan was still popular and was most likely a callback to the Rodan film where there were two of them and if you look closely they are over top of an active volcanoe.
I really wish we got Godzilla Vs Cthulhu~
The reason Kongs on ebras poster is because that was acctuly suppose to be a King Kong movie
Godzilla vs mechanic monster. The one where Godzilla agreed to carpool for jr's soccer game but his fan belt is making noises, he isn't an expert but fixing that *definitely* shouldn't cost 200 dollars.
The Polish Ebira poster is legitimately interesting
0:52 the right corner...
The thing looks like it’s going to shoot a lazer.
I love the spanish posters
UKs king Kong vs godzilla poster is good I like the rainbow background
2:05 just looks straight out of 'Yellow Submarine'
To be fair, some Kongs (including the current one) do look like big hairy sasquatch -- and that's so true for the Toho Kong, that his vG suit often gets credited as left over from the Toho film "Half-human" (about a Bigfoot creature.)
I’m pretty sure watang means “courage”
Godzilla vs bionic monster has Caesar going super sayin
Edit! I thought the “thing” was biollante
By the way if you're wondering what watang means it's actually a form of puppet used in China
7:19 It Could Be Talking About Skeleturtle
"watang" is like how asian people sound to old italian people
Italians godzilla vs Mothra poster is also cool
These posters are odd and interesting
Godzilla vs the thing was actually gonna have Cthulhu but was replaced by mothra early on.
The monster at 7:50 looks like an H. P. Lovecraft creature to me
3:27 why does that sound like from GvK "we need kong, the world needs him"
Godzilla vs Ebirah was originally slated to be a Kong film so its likely why Kong is featured in the foreign posters
I recommend that you look at weoird Godzilla VHS and DVD cover art.
Definitely gonna do some videos on those. there's quiet a bit to talk about in that territory.
@@PaperFinz By the way, how could you NOT talk about the American poster for Destroy All Monsters!?
Italy uses kong in every poster because he's more appealing than godzilla to Italians, due to the fact that kong is an American thing
Here's explained why the ape is everywhere
Fr though how pissed would you be if you paid to see a kong movie and it was godzilla
Huh, I think the poster at 6:06 or so, "The Return of King Kong" must have been the image I saw in this old documentary about monster movies almost 3 decades ago. Always struck in hindsight weird that they had a smaller "T-Rex" apparently shooting out fire out of its mouth and didn't think it had that much to do with Godzilla, just a rexie doin' that on bigger Kong. Guess that tells how well those posters worked. The documentary also had remarking how Kong is the American smart ape and Godzilla the moronic Japanese lizard. Either way, an old mystery that I didn't think that much about solved.
The saw king Kong VS godzilla and decided to put him on just godzilla movies lol. Also on 2 of the posters it looked like they made a mix between Kong and godzilla
Is it just me or does the french poster for godzilla vs mecha godzilla kinda make showa mecha godzilla look like the heisei version maybe its just the head making me think that
8:55 That poster probably stems from the fact that originally, Ebirah: Horror of the Deep/Godzilla vs The Sea Monsters was originally supposed to be a King Kong movie, but Toho lost the rights to him halfway through production. Which is why Godzilla acts the way he does in that movie to begin with.
They didn't loose the rigths
Rather they where making an adaptation of the Kong cartoon, and Rankinbass said the script was nothing like the cartoon, so they made KingKong Escapes
Toho then reused the idea replacing Kong witg Godzilla
Honestly I'm wondering how well known Godzilla was in Italy at the time and how much of that was due to posters always advertising Godzilla movies as King Kong movies.
i thing the watang is stand for beast i was a kid i made a low budget movie call watang beast
Godzilla und die Urweltraupen Translates as Godzilla and the Primeval Caterpillars
I assume truth in advertising laws just did not exist in Europe.
I never realised how much other countries didn't give a fuck about godzilla movies in the 60s-70s. Legit they either posted of kong or frankenstien. I'm just glad the 80s stopped that trend forever
Also why does almost every poster with King Kong on it, it always look like kongzilla (this was from a comic it was a fusion between you now how)
The Godzilla vs the Thing poster portrays Mothra as an abomination alien thing. I still don't know why do classic monster movie posters get the creatures wrong
WATANK! Is mean a punch
1:18 What are cenocosmas?! Aren’t those pterosaurs?!
EUH ... The use of King Kong name and picture to promote a Godzilla movie, and i thought using Frankenstein doing the same thing was bad ....