Hollandazed: Thoughts, Ideas, and Miscellany — Kaiju Table Battles

A LOVE LETTER TO MY MONSTERS (by Amabel Holland)

A LOVE LETTER TO MY MONSTERS (by Amabel Holland)

  Ever since I was a little girl – before I even knew I was a girl – I was obsessed with movies about giant monsters stomping around, knocking down buildings, and beating the snot out of each other. More specifically, I was obsessed with movies where people in rubber suits pretended to be giant monsters stomping around et cetera. The artifice was part of the appeal. The fact that the buildings were constructed, that the tanks and planes that annoyed the monsters were models, that the monsters were people sweating under a couple hundred pounds of poorly ventilated rubber...