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Brotherhood of the Wolf
Monster movies re-emerged and to a wider audience
during the late 1990s into the 2000s. An American remake
of Godzilla was made in 1998, but the "Godzilla"
featured in that film was considerably different than
the Toho Godzilla (so much that it has been officially
decreed by Toho an entirely separate monster) and the
majority of Godzilla fans disliked the film.
In 2002, a
French monster film Brotherhood of the Wolf became the
second-highest-grossing French-language film in the
United States in the last two decades. In 2004,
Godzilla was temporarily retired following Godzilla:
Final Wars. Director Peter Jackson, inspired by the
original King Kong and Ray Harryhausen films, remade
King Kong in 2005, which was both a critical and
commercial success. In 2006, a South Korean monster
film, The Host, involved more political overtones than
most of its genre.
The recent 2008 monster movie, Cloverfield, while
being much in the vein of traditional monster movies,
focuses entirely on the perspective of the human cast
and has been said to look at terrorism/9/11
metaphorically.
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