Even for Toho studios which was never above reusing footage from their previous kaju films this is a mighty lazy film. Varan The Unbelievable is essentially a quick remake of Godzilla with some King Kong story line stuff thrown in.
It's the same old thing, some scientists on a remote island stumble onto a monster living in a lake. The monster gets pissed off and starts stomping on people and wrecking stuff. The military is called in but can't seem to find a weapon that will kill it until the last moment when a scientist develops some kind of explosive or something that will finally finish off the monster.
Even for Ishiro Honda who was always the good company man this film is mighty derivative. Apparently it started out as a TV show and was expanded into a feature film. Whatever the background story, the whole who thing just seems mighty tired story wise and special effects wise.
The film was written by Shinichi Sekizawa who is the author on many of these kaju films notably, Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster, Mothra and the insane fantasy Latitude Zero among many others.
The running time is 101 minutes.
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