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Author Archives: Robert Hood
What’s Due to Escape from the Asylum in 2010?
I’m sure it’s the question on everyone’s lips: what is the notorious schlock film production company, The Asylum, planning to offer up in 2010? To start with there’s the just released Princess of Mars (US-2009; dir. Mark Atkins), based on … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Monsters in general, News
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A Lovecraftian Invasion 3: Beyond the Wall of Sleep
In the previous post in this series, I made reference to the role of sleep and the Dreamland it gives access to in the stories of H.P. Lovecraft. Central to those is the so-called “Dream Cycle”, which consists of “The … Continue reading
Crying in the Deadlands: An Interview with Jeremiah Sayys
Actor/writer/director Jeremiah Sayys has been working on a slew of ambitious genre films. Just completing post-production for release in 2010 is his first self-directed film, a horror thriller — Of Silence (US-2010; dir. Jeremiah Sayys): After returning home, a scuba … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Horror, Independent film, Interviews
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Weekend Fright Flicks: The Statement of Randolph Carter
While we’re in the thick of a Lovecraftian Invasion, it seems a good time to show some reasonably recent short films based on H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Statement of Randolph Carter” (1919) — plus an older bonus. I repeat to you, … Continue reading
Posted in Horror, Lovecraft, Weekend Fright Flick
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Solomon Kane
It’s about time that Hollywood really began to exploit the legacy of Weird Tales alumni and creator of Conan the Barbarian, Robert E. Howard, who wrote much more than just the Conan stories. With a new Conan film on the … Continue reading
A Lovecraftian Invasion 1: Dirt Dauber
Few filmmakers have been successful in translating New England horror writer H.P. Lovecraft’s dense, adjective-driven tales of Elder Gods, Old Ones and the Horrors That Lurk Just the Other Side of Reality into effective cinema. Despite interesting earlier forays such … Continue reading
Posted in Giant Monsters, Horror, Independent film, Lovecraft, News, Trailers
Tagged dirt dauber, Horror, insect monsters, Lovecraft, Shub-Niggurath
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Cuttings from the BBC’s new Triffids
With the BBC’s new two-part series of John Wyndham’s classic 1951 scifi novel, The Day of the Triffids, to air in Britain over Christmas (28 and 29 December), three clips from the show have been released: Clip One: Clip Two: … Continue reading
Posted in Apocalypse, Film, Science Fiction, Update
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A Rival for Gamera?
Well, this one — though it features a giant turtle — seems to be the product of a completely different genre to that of the Friend of Children — a daikaiju eiga subgenre all its own. In fact it looks … Continue reading
Posted in Daikaiju, Film, Giant Monsters, Japanese, News
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