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‘Size Does Matter’ was how Roland Emmerich’s Godzilla (1998) was advertised. Based on the Japanese old monster film of the same name, the movie was Hollywood's brand new take on monster movies. Like its slogan, Godzilla's monster was gigantic, and so was the film's budget. Unfortunately, the movie wasn’t as successful as expected. Although the production costs reached USD 130 million, which represents more than double that of Independence Day (1996), it made poor box office results in the United States but did well abroad, earning USD 379 million ticket sales. Of course, it is undeniable that many of the world's greatest monsters have returned to the theater after the film. King Kong (2005), Peter Jackson’s remake version of the Hollywood’s classic monster movie, attracted 3,470,059 moviegoers, while Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim (2013) gathered 2,539,114 moviegoers in Korea. Lots of monster movies were made in Korea as well, becoming box office or critical successes such as SHIM Hyung-rae’s Yonggary (1999 and 2001) and D-War (2007), SHIN Jung-won’s man-eating boar film Chaw (2009) and BONG Joon-ho’s monster feature blockbuster The Host (2006). How well can the local story of a man who becomes a monster after a genetic experiment, do in Korea? RAMPAGE has topped the box office in its first week and is going steadily. It has gathered 1,372,663 moviegoers so far.