Following a volcanic eruption off the coast of an Irish island the crew of a salvage vessel capture a giant monster with bright red eyes and wiggly ears. Ignoring the claims of the Irish scientists they take the creature, 'Gorgo', to London where it is put on display for the gawking masses until it's 200 foot tall mother, 'Ogra', turns up and rampages across the city.

Beyond the obvious stompy bloke in a rubber suit limitations of the movie and an over-reliance on stock footage there's some striking effects work here as 'Ogra' eats everything in her path in her desperate search for Chewits her lost baby. With barely a female in sight - beyond the 200ft tall one - this is a remarkably male-centred movie even for the time and in their absence Lourié puts the emotional heart of the movie in the hands of the young orphan, Sean (Vincent Winter), and the two kaijus and firmly establishing, through their greed and their voyeurism, the humans as the actual monsters.
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