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- Mine’s Bigger Than Yours
- Mad Gods and Ghibli…
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- A New Giant Monster Film?
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Category Archives: Giant Monsters
A Rim By Any Other Name
Well, giant monster fans — and devotees of Guillermo del Toro — are well aware that his next big film, in the absence of backing for the much mourned In the Mountains of Madness, is Pacific Rim. Due out in … Continue reading
Mine’s Bigger Than Yours
Talk about the Monster as metaphor! And wish-fulfilment… Beautifully expressive picture — and very funny, too. Source: via Peter Orullian. By Bobby Chiu.
Posted in Giant Monsters, Idle Thoughts, Monsters in general, Pictorial art
Tagged monster dog
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Mad Gods and Ghibli…
Here’s an interesting oddity: as part of a museum exhibition running from July 10 to October 8 at Tokyo’s Museum of Contemporary Art titled Hideaki Anno’s Special Effects Museum, Anno is working with Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli to make a short … Continue reading
American Godzilla ’94 Returns
Kaiju artist and Backbrain buddy Todd Tennant has finally hit us with the news we’ve all been hoping for — not simply the return of his long-time online project to create a graphic novel of the rejected American Godzilla 1994 … Continue reading
A New Giant Monster Film?
Actually, it’s not very new, and even if you could find a copy, it probably wouldn’t be what you expect. This one is from 1921 and I’ve so far been unable to hunt down much information on it. The following … Continue reading
Posted in Giant Monsters, Posters, Where's the Film?
Tagged Edmund Linke, German Expressionism, silent films
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New: Caught in the Mega Spider’s Web
Love spiders? Well, there’s a new one of the giant variety due in town. And Spider-Man will be quivering in his boots… Returning to our shared office at work the other day, a colleague reached to open the door, shrieked … Continue reading
Posted in Giant Bugs, Giant Monsters, Humour, Monsters in general, News, Posters
Tagged giant spiders, Greg Grunberg, Lin Shaye, mega spider, mike mendez, Patrick Bauchau, ray Wise
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Kong: King of the Apps
New approaches to storytelling are running rampant through the jungles of Skull Island, it seems. Though the film based on artist Joe DeVito and writer Brad Strickland’s illustrated novel Kong: King of Skull Island hasn’t materialised as yet (see this … Continue reading
Posted in Books, King Kong, Monsters in general, Pictorial art, Trailers
Tagged Animation, brad strickland, ipad app, joe devito, King Kong
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Ignorance is Bliss
This is excellent! Art by Elden Ardiente. Source: Deviant Art; shared by Kean Gilbert via Marianne Plumridge
Posted in Giant Monsters, Giant Squids, Humour, Pictorial art
Tagged giant sea monster, giant squid, humour, kraken
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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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Update: First Images of Gila
A Backbrain Exclusive Thanks to Producer Bill Dever, Undead Backbrain has acquired the first concept drawings of the new Gila! (see The Gila Monster Grows). It’s by Charles Chiodo (of the Chiodo Bros fame), who has been involved in many … Continue reading
Posted in Giant Monsters, Independent film, Remake, Retro, Update
Tagged charles Chiodo, first image, giant gila monster, gila, jim wynorski
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