Attack of the 50 Foot Woman

Episode 187: Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)

Theme: Kaiju Month
Hosts: Oz & Curtis

This week, Oz and Curtis wrap up Kaiju Month with Attack of the 50 Foot Woman — a movie marriage of Honey, I Blew Up the Kid + a Bond girl + TMZ + Spaceballs, complete with giant papier-mâché hands, nuclear diamonds, and the most chaotic small-town marriage in cinematic history. It’s short, it’s strange, it’s very 1958, and it somehow takes 57 minutes for the titular 50-foot woman to finally appear. But once she does? Oh, that’s gonna leave a mark.

Join your two favorite “put me in the booby hatch” scholars as they break down:

• A gaslighting husband, an entire town enabling him, and Honey Parker — the most chaotic sidepiece in the West.

• The giant alien bartender who steps out of Spaceball 1 and immediately becomes irrelevant to the plot.

• The doctors’ plan: keep Nancy in a morphine coma and chain her up until further notice.

• Deputy Charlie — the world’s worst comic relief and Tampa’s future HR nightmare.

• Nancy’s big debut: roof-ripping, Harry-hunting, and the shortest kaiju rampage ever filmed.

From exploding transformers to diamonds-as-fuel to 66 minutes of pure 1950s boner jokes (the innocent kind?), Oz and Curtis close out Kaiju Month with a relic that’s goofy, charming, and accidentally very funny.

Final Verdict

Oz — 5 misleading posters
Curtis — 47 spinning globes
Both — Still wondering why literally everyone in town covered for Harry.