Monthly Archives: January 2008

Lost Continent

Posted on Sunday, January 6, 2008 by Robert Hood

Here someone has conveniently put together the stop-motion dinosaur sequences from the 1951 “lost world” film, Lost Continent, directed by Samuel Neufield. Edward Nassour was the stop-motion animation supervisor.

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Review: Trespassers

Posted on Friday, January 4, 2008 by Robert Hood

Trespassers is one of those not-quite-a-zombie-flick zombie flicks that draws on some of the aesthetics of recent successes in the genre without embracing the full package. It has a supernatural scenario that involves a curse and a horde of cannibalistic, … Continue reading →

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The Beast of Hollow Mountain

Posted on Friday, January 4, 2008 by Robert Hood

Here is the best part of the dino-western The Beast of Hollow Mountain (US/Mexico-1956: dir. Edward Nassour and Ismael Rodriquez): the climactic Allosaurus attack — all somewhat reminiscent of Harryhausen’s later The Valley of Gwangi (1969), what with the cowboys … Continue reading →

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Siegfried Slays the Dragon

Posted on Thursday, January 3, 2008 by Robert Hood

Fritz Lang’s 1924 Die Nibelungen: Siegfried — or at least the first Canto: “How Siegfried Slayed the Dragon” — probably should appear on any list of giant monster films, though of course many such lists exclude dragons as such. At … Continue reading →

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So it begins…

Posted on Thursday, January 3, 2008 by Robert Hood

2007 is officially over … everywhere. It seems like it’s been a rough one for many, with break-ups, family difficulties, tragic accidents, murders, natural disasters, the continuation of war — the whole shebang! As a race, these are always with … Continue reading →

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