Author Archives: Robert Hood

Zombies Everywhere

Thanks to Avery (my kaiju search-robot, who moonlights as a zombie search-robot), I have just updated the zombie film list. 2008 is looking scarily full of the carnivorous dead. Here is a list of zombie flicks appearing in 2008 and … Continue reading

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Black Box 2

   

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MORAV: Giant Robots Rule!

This looks like it will be worth keeping an eye on. Titled M.O.R.A.V. (which is an acronym for Multi-Operational Robotic Armored Vehicle), it is an in-development scifi TV series set in the fictional country of Tangri Island, where a military/political … Continue reading

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New: The Wawa, Sea Serpent

Looks like some good ol’ boys and luv’ly ladies from down Alabamee way have been getting so much hooch into ’em they’ve gone made a movie about radioactive fish, a sea-serpent named the Wawa and Sweet Tee’s beach volleyball team. … Continue reading

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New: Onechanbara

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

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?

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

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

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

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