Ebirah, Horror of the Deep Review

Review of Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966) by screenqueeen: 👍 4/5

A breath of fresh air! Crisp, clean jazzy score, a band of rag-tag misunderstood youths fleeing from a marathon dance competition run into a lone safe-cracker hiding out in a fully provisioned yacht wash up on the shore of a nuclear plant run by terrorists lead by a mysterious man in a captain hat and an eyepatch with a tiger on it. There's also a giant lobster in the ocean surrounding them who can only be repelled by yellow liquid made from a fruit that looks a lot like lemons that they apparently need slave labor to extract.

The above normally ensures that the audience is in for one weird ride but it's actually executed in such a smart way that it feels like a heist flick for the first couple acts until Godzilla enters the fray and fights Ebirah. From then on it's just top-tier kaiju action.