Ranking the 25 best monster movies of all time, from “King Kong” to “Godzilla”
Although Godzilla takes the crown worldwide, this 1953 classic is perhaps the best American film from the cycle of atomic monster movies that sprung out of the decade's intense Cold War paranoia. Here, the big fella — identified by one of the film's lab coat-clad scientists as a "Rhedosaurus" — is freed from its Arctic prison by a nuclear blast.