Category Archives: Ghosts

New: Haunting of Winchester House

Posted on Wednesday, September 23, 2009 by Robert Hood

The Asylum’s latest film doesn’t so much make exploitative reference to an upcoming blockbuster, but to a “terrifying true story”. It is the story of a mansion in California, once the residence of Sarah Winchester, widow of gun magnate William … Continue reading →

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Bollywood’s First “Creature” Film

Posted on Sunday, August 23, 2009 by Robert Hood

Bollywood auteur Vikram Bhatt describes the impetus behind his filmmaking: Every filmmaker has a genre he’s comfortable with and every filmmaker is a peddler. Karan Johar peddles emotions. Yashraj peddles romance. Priyadrshan and David Dhawan peddle comedy. I peddle fear! … Continue reading →

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The Conquered: Curse of the Shaman

Posted on Monday, August 10, 2009 by Robert Hood

This is how director Benjamin Cooper (The Brink, The Omega Diary) describes his new film The Conquered: Curse of the Shaman: In this horror story, a Shaman’s daughter reanimates the mummified corpse of an ancient Indian brave to punish those … Continue reading →

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A History of Monsters

Posted on Tuesday, June 2, 2009 by Robert Hood

Pete Von Sholly — who is responsible for storyboards and design work on over 100 feature films including Mars Attacks!, James and the Giant Peach, Darkman, The Mask, The Shawshank Redemption, The Blob, Nightmare on Elm Street III and IV, … Continue reading →

Posted in Ghosts, Giant Monsters, Monsters in general, Pictorial art | 4 Comments

Weekend Zombie Flick: Bitten

Posted on Saturday, May 16, 2009 by Robert Hood

Bitten (UK-2009; short [15 min.]; dir. Mark Fieldhouse and Andrew Cairns) offers viewers the last moments of a man bitten by a zombie. It’s not action, or even horror as such, and is basically one character in a room — … Continue reading →

Posted in Ghosts, Independent film, Weekend Fright Flick, Zombies | 4 Comments

Kaaron Warren Has Us In Her Slights

Posted on Thursday, April 16, 2009 by Robert Hood

I first stumbled upon Kaaron Warren via her story “Bone Dog”, which she had submitted to my partner Cat Sparks for possible inclusion in the second Agog! anthology, Agog! Terrific Tales (Agog! Press, 2003). It was a perverse, nasty tale … Continue reading →

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Heeding the Banshee’s Call

Posted on Sunday, March 15, 2009 by Robert Hood

An Interview with Brett Anstey Damned by Dawn (Aust-2009, directed by Brett Anstey) Brett Anstey has worked with film and television editor Dave Redman among others as a longtime collaborator on the production of short films. He is currently completing … Continue reading →

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Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro Goes Beyond the Grave

Posted on Monday, February 2, 2009 by Robert Hood

There is a synchronicity between art, detectives and the restless dead and Brazilian director Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro has set out to explore the boundaries. In post-production is Beyond the Grave [aka Porto Dos Mortos] (Spain-2009; dir. Davi de Oliveira … Continue reading →

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Screech of the Fighting Owl

Posted on Sunday, February 1, 2009 by Robert Hood

Undead Backbrain frequently highlights small, independent film producers who are engaged in making exciting and (sometimes) innovative genre films. Fighting Owl is one such. Formed in 2003 as an umbrella company for student films, it is now engaged in the … Continue reading →

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Colin Theys and his Banshee

Posted on Saturday, January 3, 2009 by Robert Hood

[continued from Colin Theys and his Giant Rabbit] Yesterday we saw how SFX wiz Colin Theys had learned much of his craft working on a short comedic film about a giant rabbit with a giant tongue — Harold and Burns. … Continue reading →

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