Viras Movies

Gamera vs. Viras

The fourth Gamera movie, this is the point in the series where the budgets start to decline drastically. There's a fifteen minute stretch which is nothing but stock footage from the previous two movies, and some of the city destruction is from the original Giant Monster Gamera tinted to match the surrounding color footage as well as possible. Aliens who travel around in spaceships that look like yellow and black striped beach balls decide to take over earth, but they first they have to neutralize Gamera. Luckily for the planet two Japanese boy scouts (one Asian, one Caucasian) are on the case, and stymie the aliens at every turn. At the end the aliens combine into one huge monster called Viras. This movie was dubbed for U.S. TV by AIP. It's now available on DVD as a double feature with Gamera vs. Guillon.

Gamera Super Monster

Gamera vs. stock footage! Yes, rather than film any new Gamera footage, a bunch of his old fights were edited into a movie about some female superheroes trying to stop a space pirate.

This movie was dubbed for U.S. TV, but rarely seen. The TV version cut perhaps the most interesting bits for viewers today, some brief scenes where Gamera "met" the Space Cruiser Yamato and Galaxy Express 999.