Category Archives: Where’s the Film?

Nessie That Wasn’t

Posted on Saturday, December 20, 2008 by Robert Hood

I think this picture is of a monster from a Hammer Films / Toho co-production that never happened. I’ve been reading Sinclair McKay’s A Thing of Unspeakable Horror: The History of Hammer Films (Aurum Press, 2007) — which is a … Continue reading →

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Beast From Haunted Planet

Posted on Thursday, November 27, 2008 by Robert Hood

This concept trailer was made in 2006 by Terry Howald “as a previz for a future feature film project”. It offers excellent iconic 1950s rocketships and rayguns and the prospect of a gigantic alien creature. Beast from Haunted Planet from … Continue reading →

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Really Big Maggots!

Posted on Sunday, November 16, 2008 by Robert Hood

And now, a teaser trailer for Maggots, a film from unstoppable exploitation king Fred Olen Ray! THE MOST DISGUSTING GIANT MONSTER EVER FILMED! … though it looks a little like a giant claw (no, not THE Giant Claw)…. But wait! … Continue reading →

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The Monsters of Doctor Who: Morbius

Posted on Monday, October 27, 2008 by Robert Hood

I am still here. I can see nothing, feel nothing. You have locked me into hell for eternity. If this is all there is, I would rather die now… Trapped like this, like a sponge beneath the sea. Yet even … Continue reading →

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Another Lost Bird?

Posted on Thursday, September 4, 2008 by Robert Hood

At the instigation of Mysterious Pants, the Backbrain scouted out Attack of the Giant Gull (US/Canada-2002; dir. Jonathan M. Parisen), which does appear on the Internet Movie Database as a video release, though no release date is actually given. After … Continue reading →

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Big Bird?

Posted on Thursday, September 4, 2008 by Robert Hood

There’s a giant monster bird movie out there that is more recent than the infamous The Giant Claw (US-1957; dir. Fred F. Sears). It’s called Big Bird — but it’s not this one by artist Jonni Good (click here to … Continue reading →

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Poor Lost Dinosaurs

Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 by Robert Hood

Famed stop-motion animator Willis E. O’Brien made motion picture history when he animated a series of dinosaurs confronting modern humanity in the 1925 version of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. The SFX of this film were astounding at the … Continue reading →

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Gualagon

Posted on Saturday, July 26, 2008 by Robert Hood

What is Gualagon, I hear you ask? Well it’s a German-made, Japanese style kaiju film done as a radio play — inspired by such Toho classics as Furankenshutain tai chitei kaiju Baragon [trans. Frankenstein vs the Subterranean Monster Baragon] (1965; … Continue reading →

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The Hotel Room

Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 by Robert Hood

The story goes that Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy were keen to make a miniseries of it, but cost and backroom politics seem to have killed that. We’re talking about Stephen King and Peter Straub’s fantasy The Talisman here, the … Continue reading →

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Godzilla Zero Hour: Introduction Part 2

Posted on Friday, June 27, 2008 by Robert Hood

More Details on Godzilla Zero Hour Franz Vorenkamp reveals more about his GZH project in the lead-up to its 5 July G-Fest premiere. What’s the deal with the soundtrack? It’s all original stuff composed by Bob Harrington. Some of it … Continue reading →

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