Category Archives: Apocalypse

There Be Monsters on the Skyline

Posted on Saturday, October 2, 2010 by Robert Hood

Skyline (US-2010; dir. Colin and Greg Strause) I must have been living under a rock. When I saw the second trailer for this film I’d never heard of, and saw the huge invading spaceships, the slick production values and the … Continue reading →

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Will the Real Thing Top This?

Posted on Monday, September 27, 2010 by Robert Hood

With the imminent premiere of the much-anticipated zombie TV series, The Walking Dead, shambling ever closer (Halloween), one fan of the show has produced a title sequence that’s going to be hard to beat. Daniel Kanemoto utilises artwork taken from … Continue reading →

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More Zombies in Rammbock

Posted on Thursday, May 6, 2010 by Robert Hood

A new German zombie apocalypse film — using the viral infection paradigm — is to be premiered at the film market in Cannes on the 14th and 16th of May this year. Written by Benjamin Hessler and directed by Marvin … Continue reading →

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Weekend Fright Flick Festival: Post-Apocalypse

Posted on Sunday, April 18, 2010 by Robert Hood

Whereas disaster films such as Roland Emmerich’s ADD exercise in visual frenzy, 2012, are about immediate survival and in-progress destruction (with thrills coming from the destruction itself), post-apocalypse tales tend to explore in a more reflective manner the aftermath of … Continue reading →

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Destroying the World on a Budget

Posted on Monday, January 25, 2010 by Robert Hood

Review of Megafault (US-2009; dir. David Michael Latt) by Robert Hood The development of CGI as the standard methodology for SFX films, big and small, has not only increased the number of films that include giant monsters, even if only … Continue reading →

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Cuttings from the BBC’s new Triffids

Posted on Thursday, December 24, 2009 by Robert Hood

With the BBC’s new two-part series of John Wyndham’s classic 1951 scifi novel, The Day of the Triffids, to air in Britain over Christmas (28 and 29 December), three clips from the show have been released: Clip One: Clip Two: … Continue reading →

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Triffids: The Next Generation

Posted on Saturday, December 12, 2009 by Robert Hood

With the BBC’s new updating of John Wyndham’s classic 1951 scifi novel, The Day of the Triffids — one of my favourites, I might add — about to be aired in the UK on 28 and 29 December, we have … Continue reading →

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Review: Ba’al

Posted on Thursday, November 5, 2009 by Robert Hood

Ba’al [aka Ba'al: the Storm God] (US/Canada-2008; dir. Paul Ziller) Existing somewhere in the vast mid-range of cinematic quality, Ba’al is an entertaining B-film that aspires to originality (or maybe just deviation from the norm of low-budget genre films), even … Continue reading →

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Assault Girls Shine

Posted on Sunday, October 11, 2009 by Robert Hood

The newly released official trailer for Assault Girls [aka Asaruto gâruzu] (Japan-2009; dir. Mamoru Oshii) represents a massive upgrade on even the great potential we’ve seen before: Synopsis: In the aftermath of global thermonuclear war, the Earth’s surface has been … Continue reading →

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Dismember Me + Zombie Poetry

Posted on Wednesday, September 30, 2009 by Robert Hood

Want to amuse yourself while preparing for the zombie apocalypse to start? This is for zombie geeks everywhere… Product Features Plush Zombie can be ripped apart in various ways All limbs and head are removable and interchangeable Torso can be … Continue reading →

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