Our first feature was the digitally shot 2004 Korean giant monster film Garuda. A bunch of soldiers and a couple of civilian researchers release the ancient murderous god-bird Garuda, who kills most of them and escapes into the city. 
The people-eatin' monster in Garuda isn't too bad, kind of a bird like thing, with nice wings once he gets out of his underground tree prison and gets around some soldier snacks for revitalizing energy. The CGI is pretty good for a crew of seven. There is an annoying but cute half-caste girl who everybody hates, who comes with her own annoying white guy assistant. The Thai people don't like her because she's half white but I didn't care for her because she's a pain in the ass who gets people killed. The hating of foreigners pops up several times in the film, the monster-fightin' soldiers pick on Tim the 
white guy assistant for being not-Thai. I am not sure of what to make of this, but Joe said that Thailand is the only Asian country never ruled by western countries, maybe they're going through some changes. Still a fairly good giant monster film, with lots of running and screaming. I do like the graphics on the box of the dvd alot. The Hindi's have a Garuda. Check out this cool statue.
Our second feature The Wild Women of Wongo is a 1958 comedy from the SCIFI Classics dvd box set, 50 movies for under 30 bucks. It's not very science-fictiony but a voice over talks about Mother Nature's experiment which puts beautiful women with ugly men in the village of Wongo at one end of an island, and ugly women with beautiful men in the village of Goona at the other end of the island. After that comedy insues, and everyone finds a mate. For 60 cents this is a pretty good buy in the 50 movie package, I laughed a lot, sometimes with the film and sometimes not. There is a seperate version at 6.99 on Amazon. That's where this box cover comes from. It's a amazing what you can find out on the internet. Everybody liked Jean Hawkshaw as Omoo, she's the one with the spear and leopard skin suit. The set contains other films we are determined to see, I myself have only seen about half of them. I have a BestBuy coupon and I am determined to go find one at 10% off.
It's later and I have returned with said box set. Here is a list of the movies included. The Incredible Petrified World, Queen of the Amazons, Robot Monster, She Gods of Shark Reef, The Amazing Transparent Man, The Atomic Brain, Horrors of Spider Island, The Wasp Woman, Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet, Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women, King of Kong Island, Bride of the Gorilla, Attack of the Monsters (aka Gamera vs. Guiron), Gammera the Invincible, Santa Claus Conquers The Martians, Teenagers From Outer Space, Crash of the Moons (Rocky Jones), Menace From Outer Space (Rocky Jones), Hercules Against The Moonmen, Hercules and the Captive Women, Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon, Hercules Unchained, Lost Jungle, Mesa of Lost Women, Assignment: Outer Space, Laser Mission, Killers From Space, Phantom From Space, White Pongo, The Snow Creature, Son of Hercules, Devil of the Desert vs. the Son of Hercules, First Spaceship On Venus, Zontar, the Thing From Venus (remake of "It Conquered the World"), The Astral Factor (aka "The Invisible Strangler"), The Galaxy Invader, Battle of the Worlds, Unknown World, Blood Tide, The Brain Machine, The Wild Women of Wongo, Prehistoric Women, They Came From Beyond Space, Warning From Space, The Phantom Planet, Planet Outlaws (Buck Rogers), Colossus and the Amazon Queen, Eegah, Cosmos: War of the Planets, Destroy All Planets (aka Gamera vs. Viras). I'll let you know how some of them are when I get done watching the lot.
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