Shin Godzilla is the Scariest Godzilla in the Franchise's History

Shin Godzilla was released back in 2016, a masterpiece that caught Godzilla fans by surprise. The story features a brand new version of Godzilla that is genuinely terrifying, one that scared the crap out of me the first time I watched the film. What makes this version so terrifying, is because Godzilla is technically a victim in his own way during the film.

Godzilla's transformation is physically harming his body, and he undergoes about four transformations during the film, each one more horrific than the last. Godzilla's fourth form is the one the film mostly focuses on, depicting a powerful creature that completely blows up the entire city of Japan. His atomic breathe is like a heat ray laser, easily cutting through an entire city. Since Godzilla is going through physical pain during his transformation, is he literally taking out his pain on the city?

It's an eerie concept, and it's a little sad, knowing that this large creature is struggling to adapt to it's new body every time it changes.

The government has no choice but to freeze the creature to stop the next transformation, and the main characters succeed, defeating Godzilla.

Then we get the crazy ending that is pretty sick to look at...and it left me with questions that I hated thinking about.

The film ends with the camera focusing on the frozen body of Godzilla, revealing an eerie peek into his possible next change. Godzilla's tail was showing bits of large teeth peeking through the flesh, including humanoid creatures that were emerging from the tail. It looked so disgusting and eerie, and it's the kind of ending that makes you wonder what the hell was going to happen to the survivors that were left.

There is a crazy reveal that the director talked about through a sort of documentary. The creature was apparently going to hatch out another Godzilla, which explains the teeth coming out of the tail, and the humanoids we saw was going to be Godzilla's own army. His own version of people...combined with Godzilla...what the hell was going to happen here?

I honestly think the entire world would have been doomed here.

There is no way that the government would have been able to take on a bunch of mini Godzillas, including a possible second Godzilla.

Then we got another creepy reveal that left me so uncomfortable.

The director revealed the sixth transformation of Godzilla, one that is unlike anything I have ever seen with the creature.

He was supposed to transform into a large human like angel, that had the look of a calm and beautiful entity...I'm not playing when I say this. Godzilla was going to transform into a large angel...how did the director even imagine something like this? It's pretty awesome, but also very scary at the same time.

It leaves me with more questions than answers about Godzilla's true nature.

Was he secretly a demon that emerged from Hell, taking on the form of a fake angel to destroy the entire world?

I think a sequel was meant to happen, but it unfortunately never came to life. I think this would have been amazing, giving out something so different from this creature that gained a lot of fans over the years. I would have been so scared to watch the sequel...it's a crazy idea that is honestly super genius.

I kind of hope we get a television show adaptation of Shin Godzilla, maybe a horror anime would definitely work in it's favor! Shin Godzilla is the freakiest Godzilla ever created, and I hope it one day makes a return for the fanbase one day!

What do you think of Shin Godzilla?

Thank you for reading!

Emy Quinn