Obscure Kaiju: The Bubbles

Lovecraftean Horror from the ocean depths! Spawned from one of the geniuses behind The Eight Wonder of the World!



Although ”King Kong” and ”Mighty Joe Young” are now considered classics, and he is constantly praised as the godfather of the craft, stop-motion originator Willis H. O’Brien did not have a decent time, during his latter years. And many imaginative, and fantastic film concepts he had in mind never saw completion as motion pictures.

Or fell into the hands of unscrupulous producers, who than gutted the property, until they were no longer anything like what O’Brien had originally envisioned (SEE John Beck, and Edward and William Nassour).

Even producers who had positive connections with Willis O'Brien, like Merian C. Cooper and Irwin Allen, weren't much help in getting his ideas off the ground. And the few films O’Brien did work on during this period, were low budget monster fair, such as ”The Black Scorpion” (1957) and ”The Giant Behemoth” (1959).

One of these unproduced movie concepts was named ”The Bubbles” (supposedly around 1960-1962), which involved tentacled, jellyfish-like creatures (The Bubbles themselves), who rise up from the ocean floor to Baja, California. And begin eating up anything in their path.



The unmade film ”The Bubbles” is NOT to be mistaken with the 1966 3D science fiction movie of a similar name, ”The Bubble”. That later film title is in reference to a alien force field surrounding a small town, and was re-released under an equally simplistic title of ”Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth” in 1976.