Guilala | Monster Profile

Monster Profile: Guilala

Movie Appearances: The X From Outer Space, The Monster X Strikes Back / Attack The G8 Summit

Guilala is a very strange-looking monster from space. Its head is oddly shaped almost like it has an airplane for a head with two antennas, a strange tube-like appendage (maybe a nose or ear?), and a beak-like mouth. Guilala’s body is just as weird: it has the frame of a two-legged dinosaur, bulky shoulders, thick thighs, and a tail that ends with a strange crab-like claw.

Guilala can feed off almost any energy source, including heat, electricity, and nuclear radiation. It can also spit fireballs from its mouth and transform into a giant flying ball of energy that destroys everything in its path. On top of that, Guilala’s thick skin makes it nearly invulnerable to man-made weapons.

Originally, Guilala was just a spore brought back from space. But once the spore started absorbing energy at a science facility, it quickly grew into the massive kaiju we know. Guilala was finally defeated when the military coated it with a special compound called Guilalanium, which prevented it from absorbing energy. Unable to feed, Guilala shrunk back into its spore form, which was then launched into space doomed to orbit the sun forever.