Author Archives: Robert Hood

New: Monster Movie

Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 by Robert Hood

More Truth-In-Advertising! A monster movie called Monster Movie. And it will be released to DVD in September this year. Monster Movie (US-2008; dir. Mark and John Polonia) Bigger and badder than CLOVERFIELD… more intense than BLAIR WITCH… it’s America’s most … Continue reading →

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Online Giant Monster

Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 by Robert Hood

Author Steve Niles and artist Nat Jones let loose a comic a while back under the title Giant Monster. Fortunately for us, the title is completely accurate according to Truth-In-Advertising guidelines and you get what you might expect to get … Continue reading →

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Craziest Kaiju Countdown Contest is Over!

Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 by Robert Hood

The contest is closed now, of course, as Guilala has been revealed as Kaiju Search-Robot Avery’s weirdness of choice. We seem to have two potential winners, Mike Hawkins and Tom R. VanSlambrouck, who both picked the Space Chicken. When I … Continue reading →

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Top 20 Craziest Kaiju: Number 1

Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 by Robert Hood

1 Guilala from Uchu daikaiju Girara [trans. Giant Space Monster Guilala] (1967; dir. Kazui Nihonmatsu) [aka The X from Outer Space (US, 1968)] Monsters have rights also! Guilala is best known and loved (not to mention derided) as the “giant … Continue reading →

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What Are You Waiting For?

Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 by Robert Hood

  Our long-running series of articles on the Top 20 Craziest Kaiju — with titles chosen by Kaiju Search-Robot Avery — is about to end. This time tomorrow I’ll be posting Avery’s Number One choice. So you have approximately 24 … Continue reading →

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Top 20 Craziest Kaiju: Number 2

Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 by Robert Hood

2   Gamera   first introduced in Daikaiju Gamera [trans. Giant Monster Gamera] (1965; dir. Noriaki Yuasa) [aka Gammera the Invincible (US, 1966)] Gamera! Gamera! You’re so groovy, Gamera! You’re so groovy, Gamera! You are groovy, Gamera! Sun, Moon, Mars, … Continue reading →

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The Elementals

Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 by Robert Hood

One of the famous “lost” films occupying the shelves of the Willis O’Brien Memorial Film Archive (you know, the one that exists in an alternate reality — a reality that we’re bound to stumble upon one day) is Ray Harryhausen’s … Continue reading →

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Cleavagefield

Posted on Sunday, May 18, 2008 by Robert Hood

You had to ask, didn’t you? This is an ad for a new giant monster film that’s just gone into production. No, really! It is! The film’s called Cleavagefield — for reasons no one could possibly guess, though I’m sure … Continue reading →

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Ted V. Mikels Rises from the Dead!

Posted on Sunday, May 18, 2008 by Robert Hood

Ted V. Mikels was one of those directors who lurked at the edge of my consciousness a few decades ago thanks to the low-rent notoriety of such genre B-flicks as The Astro-Zombies (1968) and The Corpse Grinders (1972). Well, actually … Continue reading →

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Update: Reptisaurus Poster Art

Posted on Sunday, May 18, 2008 by Robert Hood

Source: BMovieNews Previous Backbrain article 

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