Monthly Archives: March 2008

Vintage Robots, Part Three

Posted on Saturday, March 8, 2008 by Robert Hood

It’s Attack of the Killer Metal Man from the Dimensions of the Unknown. No comment needed?

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New: Pop Skull

Posted on Saturday, March 8, 2008 by Robert Hood

Pop Skull (US-2008; dir. Adam Wingard) This drug-metaphor ghost film, written and directed by Adam Wingard, has apparently been doing the festival circuits, but hasn’t been picked up for distribution yet. Early reviews are very positive, and, frankly, I’m dying … Continue reading →

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Vintage Robots: Part Two

Posted on Saturday, March 8, 2008 by Robert Hood

Following on from The Mechanical Man, here is a modern independent scifi film that uses a retro look — including being in black-and-white — for its robots. It’s called Automatons (US-2006) and was directed by James Felix McKenny. Screenshots: The … Continue reading →

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Call of Cthulhu’s Mum

Posted on Friday, March 7, 2008 by Robert Hood

A new story has been added to my website. It’s a comedic piece set in H.P. Lovecraft’s Old Ones mythos — or at least a version of it — and inspired by his classic tale “Call of Cthulhu”. For this … Continue reading →

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New: Resident Evil: Degeneration

Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 by Robert Hood

Number four in the Resident Evil film series, this time all CGI! RESIDENT EVIL DEGENERATION TRAILERUploaded by PANZERDRAKO

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Mr T vs Godzilla

Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 by Robert Hood

  From here.

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Vintage Robots, Part One

Posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 by Robert Hood

The Mechanical Man [aka L’Uomo Meccanico] is a real find — a silent film, made in Italy in 1921 and directed by André Deed. It features a female evil genius, a “giant” rampaging robot and even a climactic battle between … Continue reading →

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New Journal on Weird Fiction

Posted on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 by Robert Hood

My first column of horror-related ramblings for Studies in Australian Weird Fiction has just appeared. Studies in Australian Weird Fiction (SiAWF) is a new non-fiction journal edited by Benjamin Szumskyj, James Doig, Leigh Blackmore, and Phillip A. Ellis, and published … Continue reading →

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You call that a Giant Snake? THIS is a Giant Snake!

Posted on Monday, March 3, 2008 by Robert Hood

Thanks to the Agressions Animales: Animaux tuers an cinéma website (an excellent resource, I might add) — and of course, Kaiju Search-Robot Avery — I’ve just learnt of the existence of a Hong Kong film from 1988 that features a … Continue reading →

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Now available: The Workers’ Paradise

Posted on Sunday, March 2, 2008 by Robert Hood

The Workers’ Paradise, edited by Russell B. Farr and Nick Evans and published by Ticonderoga Publications, is one of the most exciting anthologies I’ve been in for a while. Though the editors’ description of it may suggest that it is … Continue reading →

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