Author Archives: Robert Hood

Daikaiju! 2 Appears in the US

Posted on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 by Robert Hood

I’ve just found out that the main US edition of Daikaiju! 2: Revenge of the Giant Monsters is now available on Amazon. Yay! To buy a copy, go here. Daikaiju! 3: Giant Monsters Vs the World should be along soon. … Continue reading →

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Wanna Buy a Ghost?: A Short Ghost Film

Posted on Monday, October 15, 2007 by Robert Hood

I can see this being done as a serious ghost flick…

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Readings to Get Chilled By

Posted on Monday, October 15, 2007 by Robert Hood

Once again, members of the Australian Horror Writers Association will be reading their creepiest work on The Writing Show in the days leading up to Halloween. Readings take place via podcast and are followed by a chat between host Paula … Continue reading →

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Review: The Quick and the Undead

Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2007 by Robert Hood

“A decent concept, classy cinematography and splatterings of blood and brain matter do not alone add up to an effective zombie film.” Full review available on the Hoodreviews website.

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Review: Snoop Dogg’s Hood of Horror

Posted on Friday, October 12, 2007 by Robert Hood

No puns please! The rapper hasn’t made a biographical film about me. But my review of this new horror anthology film is up at Horrorscope. You can also access it, slightly amended, here.

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Squidsquatch Monster Query

Posted on Thursday, October 4, 2007 by Robert Hood

Over at the Talking Squid, there’s a Squidsquatch running — that is, “A new interview (almost) every day. A single question. The subject one day becomes interviewer the next.” I’ve just posted an answer to the question (asked by Chris … Continue reading →

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Meeting the Tooth Fairy

Posted on Tuesday, October 2, 2007 by Robert Hood

I’m just back from the Australian speculative fiction convention Conflux 4, which was held in Canberra over the long weekend. It was a packed few days, which saw the launch of Daikaiju! 3: Giant Monsters vs the World, the screening … Continue reading →

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Don’t eat my brains!

Posted on Tuesday, September 25, 2007 by Robert Hood

Have I mentioned that Cat Sparks does things to my head? Actually she was showing me her new work computer — and the grosser capabilities of a program called Photo Booth. Reminds me of the orgy scene from Brian Yuzna’s … Continue reading →

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Unnaturally Human

Posted on Monday, September 24, 2007 by Robert Hood

“… an uncanny effect is often and easily produced when the distinction between imagination and reality is effaced, as when something that we have hitherto regarded as imaginary appears before us in reality, or when a symbol takes over the … Continue reading →

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The Bats Get Mutated!

Posted on Friday, September 21, 2007 by Robert Hood

Three great new pages in Todd Tennant’s graphic novelisation of the original US Godzilla ’94 script have just gone up on his American Kaiju site. For those who haven’t been following it from the beginning, there are 41 pages so … Continue reading →

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