- This article is about the film. For the 1970's anti-rock band see Destroy All Monsters .
Destroy All Monsters (also known as Attack of the Marching Monsters, and Koiju So Shingeki in the original Japanese) is a 1968 film. Part of the Toho studio's Godzilla series, it was directed by Ishiro Honda with special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya and Sadamasa Arikawa .
It is the ninth Godzilla movie, and Toho's 20th monster film. In it, a race of aliens called the Kilaaks control the Earth's monsters and destroy the cities of the Earth.
The monsters in the film included Godzilla, Anguirus, Rodan, Mothra, Gorosaurus, Baragon , Manda , Minya, Kumonga, King Ghidorah, and Varan .
Destroy All Monsters took their band name from the title of this film.
