Category Archives: Cthulhu

A Lovecraftian Invasion 5: The Valdemar Legacy

Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2011 by Robert Hood

With the cancellation of Guillermo Del Toro’s much-anticipated big-budget film adaptation of Lovecraft’s epic At the Mountains of Madness, the Lovecraft-inspired cinema invasion may have suffered a setback, but there are those who haven’t yet surrendered. Spanish filmmaker José Luis … Continue reading →

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Weekend Fright Flick: Terror From the Abyss

Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2010 by Robert Hood

As Guillermo Del Toro heads into his much-anticipated production of H.P. Lovecraft’s longest mythos story, At the Mountains of Madness, Undead Backbrain presents a much shorter, much cheaper version of the same tale. This one comes courtesy of Daniel Lenneér, … Continue reading →

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Comic Con News

Posted on Friday, July 30, 2010 by Robert Hood

While exciting (or controversial) news from the recent Comic Con about upcoming genre films and projects, as well as a plethora of new posters, trailers and other advertising collateral, exploded onto the blogsphere, Undead Backbrain was too busy with things … Continue reading →

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A Lovecraftian Invasion 3: Beyond the Wall of Sleep

Posted on Friday, January 1, 2010 by Robert Hood

In the previous post in this series, I made reference to the role of sleep and the Dreamland it gives access to in the stories of H.P. Lovecraft. Central to those is the so-called “Dream Cycle”, which consists of “The … Continue reading →

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More Sightings of Muckman

Posted on Thursday, October 8, 2009 by Robert Hood

Writer, director and all-round independent cinema Renaissance Man Brett Piper’s latest B-flick renovation is Muckman — an epic tale of swamplands, genetic mutation and tentacles. We last explored the heritage on which it draws here — and now have a … Continue reading →

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Weekend Fright Flick Festival: The Call of Cthulhu

Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 by Robert Hood

This weekend, Undead Backbrain’s Weekend Fright Flicks is a festival of short films based on H.P. Lovecraft’s story “The Call of Cthulhu”. The Casting Call of Cthulhu (Canada-2008; short [9:17 min.]; dir. Joseph Nanni) Synopsis: During a casting session for … Continue reading →

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Old Ones Open New Business

Posted on Thursday, April 17, 2008 by Robert Hood

The Great Old Ones have decided that all that lurking in dark dank places, waiting for the Call that will bring them shambling into our world in order to re-claim it, isn’t getting them anywhere, so they’ve decide to go … Continue reading →

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Call of Cthulhu’s Mum

Posted on Friday, March 7, 2008 by Robert Hood

A new story has been added to my website. It’s a comedic piece set in H.P. Lovecraft’s Old Ones mythos — or at least a version of it — and inspired by his classic tale “Call of Cthulhu”. For this … Continue reading →

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Cthulhu vs Godzilla

Posted on Monday, December 3, 2007 by Robert Hood

Now this would make a great addition to the Toho canon! This is the cover of a long-running American fanzine, Crypt of Cthulhu. The artist is the magazine’s original editor, Robert M. Price. The picture comes courtesy of Leigh Blackmore, … Continue reading →

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