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Category Archives: Fantasy
Jellyfish Eyes: The New Yôkai?
Images of the cute yet bizarre kaiju (that is, monsters) inhabiting Takashi Murakami’s much-anticipated fantasy Mememe no Kurage (Jellyfish Eyes) reveal an imagination that has taken its own established aesthetic and created a weird, toy-like pantheon of creatures very reminiscent, in … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Film, Ghosts, Giant Monsters, Japanese, Monsters in general, News, Trailers, Update
Tagged daikaiju, Giant Monsters, Jellyfish Eyes, kaiju, Miyazaki, Takashi Murakami, trailer, Yôkai
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First Sighting of Jellyfish Eyes’ Monsters
Two of the monster designs for Part 1 of artist Takashi Murakami’s proposed live-action fantasy trilogy, Mememe no Kurage (Jellyfish Eyes) [if you need to catch up, see The Art of Monsters: Takashi Murakami and Jellyfish Eyes], have surfaced — … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Daikaiju, Fantasy, Film, Giant Monsters, Japanese, Update
Tagged daikaiju, early artwork, Jellyfish Eyes, Takashi Murakami
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A Second Helping of Jellyfish Eyes
A while back the Backbrain discussed at length Japanese artist Takashi Murakami and his upcoming live-action giant monster film, Jellyfish Eyes. (See The Art of Monsters: Takashi Murakami and Jellyfish Eyes.) As exciting as that is, the website for the … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Film, Giant Monsters, Japanese, Update
Tagged in production, japanese film, Jellyfish Eyes, Takashi Murakami
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Now That’s Big
Going on the latest poster created for this year’s Comic-Con, the giant robots of Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim are utterly gigantic. Assuming their size is roughly comparable to that of the daikaiju enemies they are created to fight, we’re … Continue reading
Posted in Daikaiju, Fantasy, Film, Giant Monsters, Mecha
Tagged Charlie Hunnam, giant robots, guillermo del toro, Idris Elba, pacific rim, Rinkio Kikuchi, Ron Perlman
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Giant Monsters in Award-Winning Drama
Beasts of the Southern Wild (US-2012; dir. Benh Zeitlin) has been described as “a beautiful award-winning drama that just happens to include giant monsters”. In the aftermath of the film’s recent wins at Cannes and Sundance, words like “magical”, “moving”, … Continue reading
Posted in Apocalypse, Fantasy, Giant Monsters, Independent film, News, Trailers
Tagged aurochs, bayou, Benh Zeitlin, Cannes, Giant Monsters, Louisiana, New Orleans, Quvenzhane Wallis, Sundance
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Wrath Brings Out the Monsters in Us All
With Jonathan Liebesman’s Wrath of the Titans — a sequel to the much-spurned Clash of the Titans – about to be released upon us, a new, rather spectacular trailer has provoked the usual irrelevant internet complaints of “mythological” inaccuracy — … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Film, Giant Monsters, Trailers
Tagged clash of the titans, monsters, perseus, wrath of the titans
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It’s Happening Again: A Backbrain Exclusive
It happened before and now it’s happening again! Yes, from what is rapidly becoming the main enclave for the production of B-movie remakes, Franklin, Indiana, comes the news that the crapfest classic Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (US-1964; dir. Nicholas … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema of the Backbrain, Fantasy, Film, News, Remake, Robots
Tagged bill dever, jim wynorski, remake, santa claus conquers the martians
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Lost with Monsters on a Mysterious Island
A Backbrain Exclusive Lost Island [aka L'île: les naufragés de la terre perdue; The Island: Castaways of the Lost Island] is a new French adventure fantasy film from writer/director Olivier Boillot, released in mid-2011 in France and hopefully heading for … Continue reading
Posted in Fantasy, Film, Giant Monsters, News, Trailers
Tagged fantasy adventure, L'île, Lost, lost island, Mysterious Island, Olivier Boillot
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Old Fairy Tales Re-Told: Jack the Giant Killer
Having just watched the very excellent Norwegian found-footage giant monster film Trolljegeren [aka The Troll Hunter] (Norway-2010; dir. André Ovredal), which postulates the continuing existence of traditional trolls — straight from folktales, with bulbous noses and all — and an … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Fantasy, Film, Giant Monsters, Remake, Trailers
Tagged bryan singer, giants, jack the giant killer, jim danforth, kerwin mathews, troll hunter
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