Mario Bava on Visual Tricks in 1960s Horror (1969) “I saw Gamera vs. Guiron (Noriaki Yuasa, 1969) recently: the papier-mâché gorilla was fighting the clay dinosaur and, at every blow, ten skyscrapers collapsed. At some point, a jeep full of soldiers approached the monsters… possibly to make things more suspenseful. A guy in the audience shouted, ‘Here comes the army to separate the contenders!’, and none of us in the theater could take the film seriously anymore… Filmmakers should never offer sp