Alex Adams

I know how you feel - whenever I finish a book, all I can see are the bits I want to change. From a reader's perspective, though, I think you've done a terrific job!

Very useful! Really helpful for understanding a lot of aspects of the movie. I'll be citing it a lot 🙂

If you want a model of how to do Kaiju scholarship, look no further than @chrisstewardson.bsky.social's great book on Ghidorah, the Three-headed Monster! Snappy & accessible, but wide-ranging and informed by deep knowledge of relevant historical, political and genre contexts. Highly recommended!!

Trying to find the article that Honda wrote about his time working in a comfort women camp - "Reflections of an Officer in Charge of Comfort Women", in Movie Art Magazine (perhaps Eiga geijetsu in Japanese). Does anybody have any insight into finding this article, or better, a copy of it?

About to watch Predator: Badlands & trying not to get too caught up in the hype. Here's my We Are The Mutants essay on the original, in case you missed it: wearethemutants.com/2020/12/03/i... #predator #predatorbadlands #demonology #monstermovie

Quick reminder that my episode of KAIJU COMICCAST discussing GODZILLA IN HELL is live now: open.spotify.com/episode/5nCQ...

Quote from Rachel Falconer, Hell in Contemporary Literature: Western Descent Narratives Since 1945 (2005), p.3: In classical katabasis, the descent to Dis or Hades is about coming to know the self, regaining something or someone lost, or acquiring superhuman powers or knowledge. The descent requires the hero to undergo a series of tests and degradations, culminating in the collapse or dissolution of the hero's sense of selfhood. In the midst of this dissolution comes the infernal revelation, or the sought after power, or the spectre of the beloved. The hero then returns to the overworld, in some cases succeeding, in other cases failing to bring back this buried wisdom, love or power from the underworld...

One of the things we talked about was katabasis, a template for stories about Hell which emphasizes the trials endured during the journey through Hell. Godzilla in Hell is a katabasis story! 3/

Screenshot from Altered States (1980). A grainy red and black image of multiple damned souls hanging from crucifixes.

Screenshot from Godzilla Vs Destoroyah (1995). A huge horned and winged monster rises from flames.

Screenshot from Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (1966). Teenagers party at a dance competition.

Screenshot from Tokyo SOS (2003). As Mothra flies into the sunset, her fairies make a cruciform sillhouette.

We had a really wide-ranging conversation about comics, kaiju, late night discovery of oddball movies, and the iconography of hell! 2/

The logo for Kaiju Comic Cast: Godzilla reading a comic. Insert: The cover art for Godzilla in Hell, which is Godzilla surrounded by a whirlwind of damned souls.

I had a great time talking to the lovely Russell at @kaijucomiccast.bsky.social about GODZILLA IN HELL. It would mean a lot if you could have a listen via @kaijuunited.bsky.social here: kaijuunited.com/kaiju-comicc... 1/

You're welcome! My copy arrived yesterday and I'm really excited to dig in to it 🙂

I really enjoyed talking to Russ about GODZILLA IN HELL. Check it out!!

Very excited about this news, and intrigued about what we will see in this sequel. Also fairly irked by the mathematically incoherent title

Holy moly 😍😍😍

Kaiju United thumbnail for my article, featuring characters from the movie reacting dramatically to Godzilla.

Noriko, a dark-haired young Japanese woman, walking dazedly through a crowd fleeing Godzilla. Caption, from the Minus One novelization: "Surrounded by all of this chaos, she couldn’t help but be reminded of that horrible night she lost her family in the firebombing. In her current state, she was too dazed and weak to even tell whether it was Godzilla or an air raid these people were fleeing from."

Screenshot of a journalistic article. Image: a Japanese tank. Caption: "Japan re-emerges as an Asia-Pacific military power. By 2027 Japan plans to take 'primary responisbility' for national defence against overseas invasions and is seeking to expand its stand-off strike capabilities."

GMK Godzilla looms menacingly against a blue sky. Caption: "One nagging question kaiju fans have is why giant monsters keep attacking Japan. In GMK, I plan to suggest it’s because Japanese have forgotten the sins of their fathers and that affluence and luxury have made them complacent. Godzilla doesn’t like this. He’s angry at the Japanese and wants to smash them! Unfortunately, as much as I’d like, I can’t come out and say this directly. There are zealots here who will make a stink if they believe I’m bashing the nation. I’ll have to say these things in a roundabout way. Shusuke kaneko, director of GMK, speaking in 'Behind the Kaiju Curtain'."

NEW LONG READ on Kaiju United! (@kaijuunited.bsky.social). "God-killing and the Gag Order: Revision, Rearmament, and Takashi Yamazaki’s ‘Minus One’ Novelization" looks at the politics of G-1 thru a close reading of the newly-translated novelization. Get reading, gang!
kaijuunited.com/2025/10/03/g...

Love it! Sounds like an awesome screening 🙂

After years of being unable to remember the name of a weird & unsettling movie that I saw way too young, I finally cracked the mystery. It was ALTERED STATES. Though it is dated and pretentious in places, its visions of hell struck me as strongly this week as they did when I was a baffled teenager!

Godzilla 2000 (1999) Trailer
#godzilla

As an LGBTQ+ writer/creator, I stand in solidarity with @hamishsteele.bsky.social & all other LGBTQ+ creators. #lgbt #solidarity #writer

Read all my Godzilla work here: www.atadamswriting.com/godzilla-a-c...

Don't forget that DEVASTATION SONGS, a gorgeous collection of weird, whimsical, and wondrous kaiju writing by loads of amazing writers, is available from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social! Learn more here: www.atadamswriting.com/devastation-...

I wrote four blogs for We Are The Mutants, and this essay on Ghidorah is my favourite of them: "the Showa Ghidorah movies are a rich engagement with world-historical themes of Cold War antagonism, first contact, and imperial manipulation." wearethemutants.com/2021/10/06/t...

Another essay about colour, aesthetics, politics: The Blackness of the Beast: Godzilla in the Heart of Darkness. "The contemporary incarnation of Godzilla is an embodiment of the natural rightness of violently enforced hierarchy." sftpinstitu.us.es/revistas/est...

For anybody who enjoyed my recent @kaijuunited.bsky.social piece, a quick thread of some of my other Godzilla writing! First up: The Colour of Monstrosity, an essay about the MV's use of colour! "Godzilla Vs Kong needs you to know that it likes to party." popmec.hypotheses.org/5186 1/

Very pleased with this essay on @kaijuunited.bsky.social! It was a really interesting piece to think about and research, and the guys at KU are wonderful to work with. Give it a look if you can!

Thanks for being so lovely to write for! 🙂🙂

NEW COMMUNITY ARTICLE

Guest Contributor @gdemonology.bsky.social dives into the political themes of the newly translated 'Minus One' novelization.

Read here: kaijuunited.com/2025/10/03/g...

#Godzilla #Kaiju #Esasay #GodzillaMinusOne

Kaiju United thumbnail for my article, featuring characters from the movie reacting dramatically to Godzilla.

Noriko, a dark-haired young Japanese woman, walking dazedly through a crowd fleeing Godzilla. Caption, from the Minus One novelization: "Surrounded by all of this chaos, she couldn’t help but be reminded of that horrible night she lost her family in the firebombing. In her current state, she was too dazed and weak to even tell whether it was Godzilla or an air raid these people were fleeing from."

Screenshot of a journalistic article. Image: a Japanese tank. Caption: "Japan re-emerges as an Asia-Pacific military power. By 2027 Japan plans to take 'primary responisbility' for national defence against overseas invasions and is seeking to expand its stand-off strike capabilities."

GMK Godzilla looms menacingly against a blue sky. Caption: "One nagging question kaiju fans have is why giant monsters keep attacking Japan. In GMK, I plan to suggest it’s because Japanese have forgotten the sins of their fathers and that affluence and luxury have made them complacent. Godzilla doesn’t like this. He’s angry at the Japanese and wants to smash them! Unfortunately, as much as I’d like, I can’t come out and say this directly. There are zealots here who will make a stink if they believe I’m bashing the nation. I’ll have to say these things in a roundabout way. Shusuke kaneko, director of GMK, speaking in 'Behind the Kaiju Curtain'."

NEW LONG READ on Kaiju United! (@kaijuunited.bsky.social). "God-killing and the Gag Order: Revision, Rearmament, and Takashi Yamazaki’s ‘Minus One’ Novelization" looks at the politics of G-1 thru a close reading of the newly-translated novelization. Get reading, gang!
kaijuunited.com/2025/10/03/g...

Excited to see the new Ishiro Honda documentary at a cool cult cinema in Manchester!

Yet another novelization for the collection - this time the junior novelization of G98. Just waiting on The Luminous Fairies and Mothra...

Novelization collection grows!!