Author Archives: Robert Hood

Top 20 Craziest Kaiju: Number 19

Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 by Robert Hood

19   The Big Bird   from The Giant Claw (US-1957; dir. Fred F. Sears) “Something, he didn’t know what, but something as big as a Battleship has just flown over and past him.” This is definitely one of the … Continue reading →

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Willis O’Brien’s Frankenstein

Posted on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 by Robert Hood

I’ve long been familiar with this sketch by Willis O’Brien (famed animator of the 1933 King Kong): But I only stumbled upon this one yesterday while looking for something else: Source These are both conceptual sketches by Willis O’Brien. O’Brien … Continue reading →

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Top 20 Craziest Kaiju: Number 20

Posted on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 by Robert Hood

20   The Monster Crystals   from The Monolith Monsters (US-1957; dir. John Sherwood) “Rocks, Joe? Towers of rock crashing down and then growing up again?” The monsters in this “atomic age” classic are skyscraper-sized obsidian crystal towers. They arrive … Continue reading →

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Update: Guilala Still (and Godzilla 3-D)

Posted on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 by Robert Hood

Some daikaiju updates from DreadCentral: First, further to the recent Backbrain article regarding the new film, Girara-no Gyakushuu Touyaku Samitto Kiki Ippatsu [lit. Guilala’s Counter Attack: the Touyaku Summit One-Shot Crisis] (dir. Minoru Kawasaki) [aka The Monster X Strikes Back: … Continue reading →

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Craziest Kaiju Countdown

Posted on Monday, April 21, 2008 by Robert Hood

Over the next month, Undead Backbrain will be running a special feature put together by Kaiju Search-Robot Avery. The Backbrain has a propensity for lists and that’s what Avery has created — a Top 20 list that has sparked his … Continue reading →

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Crawler aka Killdozer Redux

Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 by Robert Hood

Kaiju Search-Robot Avery asks: “Does this count as a kaiju?” I’m a bit dubious myself. It might be 50 tons of terror, but is unnatural size really an issue? What do y’all think?

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New: 20th Century Boys

Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 by Robert Hood

Though I’m not entirely sure what it is, it looks big, robotic and partial to destruction. At any rate we get a momentary glimpse of it in the trailer for the upcoming live-action film of Naoki Urasawa’s manga 20-seiki shônen … Continue reading →

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More Sushi…

Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 by Robert Hood

For Kaiju Search-Robot Avery, who runs a Squid Training School: The Monster

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Sushi anyone?

Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 by Robert Hood

Razortooth (US-2006; dir. Patricia Harrington) Deep in the Florida Everglades, something is alive that should have died eons ago. Something is feeding, when it should be full. Something is moving, in ways that seem all but impossible to its pursuers. … Continue reading →

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Ya Game, Ultradude?

Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 by Robert Hood

A rather nice compendium of Ultra-kaiju weirdness in this video for the Ultraman FE3 game, even if they’re animated rather than suited up.

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