Today may be Halloween, but there’s another big holiday this week: Godzilla Day, which marks the anniversary of Godzilla’s release on November 3, 1954. As is tradition, Toho International has an array of festivities planned, including some that require you to stomp no further than your own couch.
First, there’s the “Godzilla Day Stream-Along” on Pluto TV, which Toho bills as “a movie marathon of fan-favorite Godzilla movies that span the last 69 years on Pluto TV’s Godzilla channel.” Enhance your binge by heading to the Mondo News Instagram on November 3 at 5 p.m PT/8 p.m. ET, where Mondo senior creative directors and Godzilla superfans Hector Arce and Peter Santa-Maria will be hosting a stream-along during 1974’s Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla. Pluto TV’s other picks for Godzilla Day include 1998’s Godzilla, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, and the movie that started it all, 1954’s Godzilla.
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Shout TV will also be streaming an “encore presentation” of the 2022 special Masters of Monsters, featuring horror icon John Carpenter hosting a quartet of Ishirō Honda-directed classics: 1954’s Gojira, 1956’s Rodan, 1964’s Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster, and 1966’s The War of the Gargantuas. The Shout TV-adjacent channel TokuSHOUTsu will—not surprising, given its name—also be screening Godzilla-themed programming all week.
Godzilla’s next big-screen bow, the absolutely brutal-looking Godzilla Minus One, releases in Japan for Godzilla Day but doesn’t hit U.S. screens until December 1. However, tickets for U.S. screenings will go on sale for the film on November 3.
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