Category Archives: Lovecraft

Crabby Piper Update

Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2013 by Robert Hood

Well, “crabby” in a good way… Independent producer Brett Piper’s tireless career in low-budget monster films continues with this report that his giant monster flick Queen Crab (which Undead Backbrain reported on back in August last year) has finished principle … Continue reading →

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Of Giant Crabs and Lovecraft

Posted on Saturday, August 4, 2012 by Robert Hood

Exclusive Details In the world of contemporary low-budget genre-film production, auteur Brett Piper is god! [Okay, maybe a demi-god...]  His deific stature is not simply a consequence of the volume of films he churns out but also the sheer, unbridled … Continue reading →

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A Lovecraft Invasion 6: The Black Goat

Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2011 by Robert Hood

The Black Goat Project sounds like some sort of covert Government operation — a secret-service incursion into an obscure mountainous principality in central Europe perhaps, or a scientific experiment in genetic manipulation focusing on the hybridisation of goats and trainee … Continue reading →

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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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Tentacles, Ancient Whispers and Monstrous Gods

Posted on Friday, March 4, 2011 by Robert Hood

An Overview of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos on Film Few filmmakers have been successful in translating New England horror writer H.P. Lovecraft’s dense, adjective-driven tales of Elder Gods, Great Old Ones and the Horrors That Lurk Just the Other Side … 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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A Lovecraftian Invasion 4: Outpost Doom

Posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010 by Robert Hood

The Cthulhu Mythos of horror writer H.P. Lovecraft has inspired more than just cinematic re-tellings of his stories. Many writers — among them such famous names as August Derleth, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch and Fritz Leiber, who were all … 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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A Lovecraftian Invasion 2: The Sleeping Deep

Posted on Tuesday, December 29, 2009 by Robert Hood

I have often wondered if the majority of mankind ever pause to reflect upon the occasionally titanic significance of dreams, and of the obscure world to which they belong. Whilst the greater number of our nocturnal visions are perhaps no … Continue reading →

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Weekend Fright Flicks: The Statement of Randolph Carter

Posted on Sunday, December 27, 2009 by Robert Hood

While we’re in the thick of a Lovecraftian Invasion, it seems a good time to show some reasonably recent short films based on H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Statement of Randolph Carter” (1919) — plus an older bonus. I repeat to you, … Continue reading →

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