Monthly Archives: February 2008

New: Onechanbara

Posted on Saturday, February 23, 2008 by Robert Hood

How about a bikini-clad Japanese cowgirl using her phenomenal skills with the katana blade to deal with a horde of flesh-eating zombies? Would that scenario have legs at the box-office? Oh, yes. It’s apparent based on an understandably popular video … Continue reading →

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Pure Spanish extravagence, with zombies and giant monsters

Posted on Friday, February 22, 2008 by Robert Hood

Star Wars meets the peplum genre epitomised in Maciste, they go on a date and then give birth to a mutant version of Krull (1983). That’s The Baron Against the Demons [aka El Barón contra los Demonios] (Spain-2006; dir. Ricardo … Continue reading →

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Got a Giant Hunger?

Posted on Thursday, February 21, 2008 by Robert Hood

Jess has drawn my attention to this Guide to Giant Monster Country Cuisine. Very appetizing! Visitors to Giant Monster Country often express an interest in sampling the delightful native cuisine. Here are some things you need to know. First, it … Continue reading →

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No Ghosts Allowed

Posted on Monday, February 18, 2008 by Robert Hood

Monsters unite! Seems like a case for the anti-discrimination board: ghosts and monsters are not welcome at the Beijing Olympics! In an attempt to make the city respectable in the lead up to the Olympics — that symbol of Unity, … Continue reading →

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More New GM films

Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2008 by Robert Hood

If I seem a tad fixated on Giant Monster films recently, there’s good reason for that — a reason I hope to be able to reveal soon enough. But at the very least it’s indicative of the fact that there’s … Continue reading →

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New: A Giant Something or Other

Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 by Robert Hood

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New: 100 Million BC

Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 by Robert Hood

Blockbuster knock-off studio Asylum Pictures’ latest giant monster opus is 100 Million BC, which might appear to knock-off 10,000 BC, the upcoming Emmerich unofficial remake of the old Hammer film One Million Years BC (which was a remake of the … Continue reading →

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New: Serpent Lake

Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 by Robert Hood

JFT Productions Film Corporation (basically an independent writer/director/producer by the name of Joel Trujillo) has announced that a new giant monster film will go into production later this year, for a 2009 release. The film is called Serpent Lake and … Continue reading →

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New: Aztec Rex

Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 by Robert Hood

It seems that veteran antipodean B-film auteur Brian Trenchard-Smith has got in on the giant monster act with his latest SciFi Channel monsterfest Aztec Rex (2008; aka Tyrannosaurus Azteca). In an interview on the Fangoria site Trenchard-Smith describes it thus: … Continue reading →

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New: Reptisaurus

Posted on Thursday, February 7, 2008 by Robert Hood

Exploitation doyen Fred Olen Ray has announced that his son Chris — clearly walking in  the dad’s footsteps — has just finished directing his first film, a giant monster epic based on an old Charlton Comic from the 1960s. The … Continue reading →

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