Published May 3, 2026, 10:30 AM EDT

Cozzilla is the arthouse Italian Godzilla movie you never knew existed

The weirdest Godzilla movie of all time is finally getting a Blu-ray release, but there's a catch

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Of the 38 Godzilla films produced over the 72 years since the iconic oversized lizard was first introduced, none match the acid-fueled absurdity of Cozzilla . The 1977 Italian re-edit of Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (itself derived from 1954’s Godzilla ) was "directed" by Luigi Cozzi and is still widely considered one of (if not the) strangest Godzilla releases ever put to film. Fortunately, it’s finally getting the long-overdue Showa-era Blu-ray treatment after being largely confined to VHS bootlegs and being notably absent from the Criterion Collection's 2019 box set .

Cozzilla stands at odds with almost every Godzilla movie before and since.…