Category Archives: Cryptozoology

Yowie!

Various American friends and acquaintances occasionally express bemusement at the Aussie idioms than crop up in my writing and the slang we Antipodeans occasionally toss into the conversation. The term “Yowie” is one such. Since my childhood, I’ve used it … Continue reading

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Backwood Horror Emerges From the Forest

Lost Woods (US-2010; dir. Nathan and Philip Ellering) A monster-thriller written and directed by the Ellering Bros. Director of Photography: Lance Kuhns. Cast: Joey Brown, Garrett Vander Leun, Nina Brissey, Phillip Ellering and Nathan Ellering. A few days ago we … Continue reading

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Creating Oak Swamp

Swamps, marshes and backwater locations have provided evocative settings for horror films/stories in the past. From King Kong (US-1933; dir. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack), through the likes of Creature from the Black Lagoon (US-1954; dir. Jack Arnold) … Continue reading

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Hunting Trolls

No, the trolls we’re talking about here aren’t internet sociopaths who get their thrills from lurking in the dark corners of cyberspace, provoking trouble on blogs and forums — though the modern digital incarnation gets his/her name by analogy from … Continue reading

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There’s a Creature (or Two) in Lake Michigan

So it took James Cameron 15 years to make Avatar, eh? Big deal! Maybe he should have spent more time on the script. Jim Hardison worked on his cinematic magnum opus for 21 years, and it’s finally done. The film … Continue reading

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Big Troll Sighted

I’ve always thought of trolls as large and monstrous, but a new Norwegian monster film seems to have upped the ante considerably. Apparently (as you can see from the trailer below) the filmmakers have hitherto been careful to keep the … Continue reading

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What Up with Lake Okanagan?

The Beast of Bottomless Lake is what’s up with Lake Okanagan. Known as Ogopogo, the Beast is a classic lake monster that dwells in the darkest depths, rising every now and then to scare visitors, annoy rationalists and foster local … Continue reading

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New: Extraction

Maybe you’ve seen this picture before: It’s reportedly of a camel spider taken in the Middle East. OK, it’s big, though after this picture did the rounds of the internet some spoilsport pointed out how the arachnid is being held … Continue reading

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What Lurks Beneath the Bleak Sea?

One thing’s for sure — answering that question is going to be an exciting ride. Anything that uses Friedrich Nietzsche’s scarily evocation quotation as its tagline certainly gets my stamp of approval! Bleak Sea is an in-development undersea monster film … Continue reading

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Fred Olen Ray Joins the Versus Club

Godzilla and his mates started it, but these days everyone’s getting on the bandwagon. The first Giant Monster Versus Giant Monster film (GMV) was probably the sequel to the original 1954 Gojira — Godzilla Strikes Back! [aka Gojira no gyakushu] … Continue reading

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