Gyaos is the only Gamera movie I saw when I was a youngling. My gosh, you got the bird creature eating people, Gamera's poor arm is nearly severed, Gyoas escapes from Gamera by cutting off his own foot! And maybe I don't remember this too clearly, but there was a halfwitted attempt to lure Gyoas onto a spinning platform smeared with blood in order to make him dizzy!!
Still didn't bother me as much as Gargantuas did.

It wasn't just smeared with blood, it was a gigantic cauldron of (artificial) blood.

It's one thing for fairy tales to have monsters that want to "gobble up" kids; the Gamera movies were often sadistic and graphic beyond all call.

Gamera vs. Barugon was perhaps not intended for children, so maybe we can give it a pass. Still, it has a scene where a badly injured man is beaten with his own crutch, as well as pervasive unpleasantness from characters more concerned with their own greed than the welfare of anyone else.

Gamera vs. Gyaos, besides the child eating and blood drinking, has a subplot that makes people wanting to live in their ancestral homes in the face of progress into greedy, unreasonable parasites.

Gamera vs. Viras has a remarkable scene where one of the aliens decapitates four people with a swing of its tentacle. The people turn out to be aliens in disguise, but that's cold comfort as you watch the heads fly off.

Gamera vs. Guiron, of course, has a knife-headed monster that decapitates a Space Gyaos and does grievous harm to Gamera. And the aliens are intent on eating the children's brains, apparently while they're still alive judging from the way they strap the one kid into a restraining device.

Gamera vs. Jiger, I haven't seen recently, but I do remember there being documentary footage of an elephant infested with parasites.

Gamera vs. Zigra, is Gamera vs. Zigra. That is enough.

I saw the trailer to Gamera vs. Jiger and the only thing I remember is a death ray falling on some fleeing citizens and reducing them to skeletons.

That always terrified me in Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster as well.

I may squirm at some gore in films, but the most unsettling cinematic deaths to me usually involve disintegration. The scene on the balcony in the first Spider-Man film, not to mention similar scenes in classics like War of the Worlds and Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, freak the heck out of me.

Me too! I always had to look away as a child at the discovery of Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru's corpses in Star Wars and that one episode of TNG with the mute diplomat and his aides where they get shot with disintegrator guns. Just freaked me out.

If you are disturbed by disintegration scenes, you must have loved the transporter malfunction scene in ST:TMP

If you're referring to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, then I've never seen it. The only Star Trek movies I've seen are ST5:FF and and ST:FC.

Watched it last night. The shot you're remembering is some soldiers getting hit by Jiger's beam. It was probably inspired by the similar bit in Pal's War of the Worlds.

There is one scene where Jiger seems to randomly fire his (sonic? heat-ray? the dialogue suggests both) beam into the city, but we don't see any effects. From that perspective, the movie is quite a bit less hardcore than the movies that preceded it. Well, except for the part where a bunch of sick sailors are quarantined on a ship and Jiger plows right through it and they all die by fire. That was a little disturbing.

If you are disturbed by disintegration scenes, you must have loved the transporter malfunction scene in ST:TMP[/quote]

Yeah, that scene was scary to me. But so was the famous scene from 'The Fly' where we see the shrieking fly with the human head and arm. The senselessness and surrealism of that scene got to me.

I will be staying far away from teleportation devices!

I hear that Brad Pitt mentioned 'War of the Gargantuas' on the red carpet before the Oscars began. An interviewer was asking celebs about movies they saw as children that had an affect on them!
I don't believe the green gargantua spit up flowers! And I've heard this from someone else as well. I'm going to have to brave up and watch this myself. The scene is on youtube so I'm going to do it!!

The moment I knew I was in for a rough ride in Cronenberg's The Fly was the inside-out baboon. That really put me off of particle transportation, pretty much for life.

Oh yeah. that poor monkey!