Gigantis The Fire Monster [Godzilla Raids Again (1955)]/Teenagers from Outer Space (1959) - Newspaper Ad

San Francisco Examiner - June 26, 1959

The first Godzilla movie took two years to reach theaters and drive-ins in the United States, albeit in a cosmetically altered version. This quickie sequel, released the very next year in Japan, took twice as long getting to the states. Titled Godzilla Raids Again in Japan, the film was retitled Gigantis The Fire Monster because, well, the distributor did not have the rights clearance to use the moniker Godzilla.

While Gigantis The Fire Monster is no Godzilla King of the Monsters, it does introduce Anguirus. Although a quickly vanquished antagonistic nuance to the Godzilla here, Anguirus would, much Godzilla itself, be resurrected and evolve into Big G's forever BFF.

I have never seen Teenagers from Outer Space, not even on Mystery Science Theater 3000. All I know about it is that one of the alien threats is represented by the black silhouette of what is clearly a lobster. It was evidently a real lobster and quite dead and therefore quite odiferous.

There is also a moment, at the very beginning, where an "annoying" dog gets zapped by a raygun and collapses as a skeleton.