I started thinking about something recently: are there any
scary Godzilla movies? I mean, Godzilla does kind of fit in the horror genre.
Heck, his first film from 1954 was in a lot of ways a horror movie. Now,
Godzilla didn’t stay that way after that first introduction. Heck, by the late
1960’s, he was a sometimes goofy friend to humanity. Also, it’s tough to make a
guy in a rubber dinosaur suit scary. It wasn’t until the mid-80’s with the Heisei
Era where Toho decided to make Godzilla a threat again. These days, he’s all
over the place. He’s a god, a protector, an evolving and grotesque behemoth, a
danger to all humanity, ghost, and an overall bad mofo.
So, here are what I could consider the scariest movies in the Godzilla franchise. These are ones where I kinda got a little creeped out. While most of these don’t creep me out as an adult, some movies are just weird enough to do it. It’s not in order from best to worst. In fact, I might as well handle this chronologically. So, let’s start with the legitimate horror that is Gojira.