Kaiju Fever: The Monster X Strikes Back/Attack the G8 Summit (2008)

After 41 years the Kaiju Guilala finally returns in a wacky comedy directed by Minoru Kawasaki. The film is kind of a political satire and is basically involves the world leaders of the G8 summit trying to use their own different tactics to take down Guilala.
It also features a second Kaiju 'Take-Maji'n which is based upon and portrayed by the great Takeshi Kitano which is pretty cool. The film is pretty fun overall, it's a little clunky, has some bad acting (that USA president) and uses quite a bit of Stock footage from 'The X from Outer Space', but has enough there to keep it enoyable and rather funny.**1/2

Martyrs (2008)

What a movie, eh?. A tense, completely unrelenting and utterly disturbing film and a great one at that.
It's a truly effective horror that twists in different directions, leaving you uncertain of what will happen next. It also seems to have more to it than most films in the extreme horror genre(a genre I'm not particularly keen on)  and is one of the few films that manages to keep you on edge throughout without having to cheat.
It's definitely not an easy watch and although I really liked it, I don't think I could ever watch it again, though, I'm sure many of its images will stay etched in my mind for a while.
A must see for fans of extreme horror, but even if you're not, it could still be worth checking out, just approach with much caution.
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