Category Archives: Where’s the Film?

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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G: Where Did This Come From?

Posted on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 by Robert Hood

I don’t know what this is, or who directed it — but in the fashion of the time it seems to have the code-like title [G], which — when applied to a giant monster movie — automatically evokes the spectre … Continue reading →

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King Komodo: The Trailer

Posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 by Robert Hood

Having just read G-Fan #83, I’m suitably impressed by the new King Komodo graphic serial, Tales of King Komodo, which Todd Tennant (with Mike Bogue) has started in that issue. For one thing there’s a killer scene of a giant … Continue reading →

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Identifying an Evil Doll

Posted on Sunday, June 15, 2008 by Robert Hood

Correspondent Richard Duran asks: “For the longest time, I thought that the ‘Amelia’ chapter of Trilogy of Terror gave more background on the Zuni fetish. I have a distinct memory of seeing a movie/show on TV as a child where … Continue reading →

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Tuatara On the Move?

Posted on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 by Robert Hood

For a long time now, a project called Tuatara has been cooking away somewhere in an alternative universe known as Oregon. Kaiju Search-Robot Avery spotted it and the Backbrain wondered what it was and if the project still has life … Continue reading →

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Manda vs Godzilla

Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008 by Robert Hood

1968’s Kaiju soshingeki [trans. Parade of Monsters] (dir. Ishirô Honda) — better known in the West as Destroy All Monsters — was Toho’s anniversary celebration of the Godzilla franchise (as well as a last ditch effort to re-invigorate its box-office … Continue reading →

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