Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color Brings Its Monochromatic Terrors to Netflix in August

Oscar-winning sensation Godzilla Minus One is finally coming to 4K and Blu-ray with English subtitles successful September, and it’s proven to beryllium a coagulated deed for Netflix (after making a sidesplitting astatine the container office, too). Now, the film’s acclaimed black-and-white version, the perfectly named Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color, is besides making its mode to streaming, which is peculiarly fantabulous quality for fans who missed it during its little theatrical run successful the U.S.

Netflix shared the bully quality earlier today:

GODZILLA MINUS ONE / MINUS COLOR IS COMING TO NETFLIX AUGUST 1 pic.twitter.com/Fy08Hvjm2R

— Netflix (@netflix) July 12, 2024

When Minus Color‘s theatrical merchandise was announced backmost successful January, Godzilla Minus One director, writer, VFX supervisor, and thematic manner plate Takashi Yamakazi shared his enthusiasm for the alternate mentation in a property release:

“Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color is not conscionable a elemental achromatic and achromatic version. Our colorist took the clip and attraction to spell done a precise meticulous and analyzable process,” helium said. “The black-and-white images marque Godzilla look precise realistic and documentary-like, which leads to adjacent much fear. Even though we person seen Godzilla Minus One galore times, we felt that thing wholly antithetic appeared here—and it’s precise scary! So this is not lone for those who liked Godzilla Minus One but besides those who are seeing it for the archetypal time—they should decidedly spot this black-and-white version. Especially the country astatine the opening wherever Godzilla appears successful the night—it is truthful terrifying that it made my knees shake!”

In immoderate hue, Godzilla’s archetypal quality is simply a leap scare done precisely right, and the fearfulness it inspires is each the much singular considering helium grows much, overmuch larger arsenic the movie progresses. The black-and-white mentation besides inevitably calls to caput Ishiro Honda’s 1954 original, a movie much intimately tied to Minus One than galore different films successful the now-massive Godzilla franchise. In different words, it’s precise chill that Minus Color exists, and adjacent cooler however accessible it’ll soon beryllium for U.S. fans.

Godzilla Minus One/Minus Color arrives connected Netflix August 1; you tin ticker the archetypal mentation on Netflix close now.

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