Author Archives: Robert Hood

Why Not [To] Be A Writer?

Posted on Sunday, October 19, 2008 by Robert Hood

Unfortunately, this will need no comment for those of us who are writers. And those who aren’t … take note! Source: via Cat Sparks

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More Pics from Zone-X

Posted on Thursday, October 16, 2008 by Robert Hood

Thomas R. Dickens, the director of Alien Grey: Zone-X (US-2009) has sent Undead Backbrain some rather cool images from the movie — and a new poster. In the one below, you can get a much better view of the flying … Continue reading →

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Trailing Lake Monsters

Posted on Sunday, October 12, 2008 by Robert Hood

Speaking of cryptozoology, here, just for the hell of it (and for Avery, who found some of them), is a collection of movie trailers featuring the ever popular — and often cute — lake monsters of legend: Serpent Lake (US-[in … Continue reading →

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Update: Attackazoids, Deploy!

Posted on Friday, October 10, 2008 by Robert Hood

Brian Lonano, the man behind the elegant short SF fascist-state robot invasion film Attackazoids, has just written to me to confirm that they are indeed planning on another installment in the ATTACKAZOIDS series. He says that it will (hopefully) be … Continue reading →

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Can Cryptozoologists Replace Indiana Jones?

Posted on Friday, October 10, 2008 by Robert Hood

If archeologists can be cinematic heroes, why can’t academic investigators into unknown fauna play the same role? In the excellent Scottish TV series Sea of Souls, academic researchers into psychic phenomena take centre-stage — though they do come over as … Continue reading →

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Films from the Mesozoic

Posted on Thursday, October 9, 2008 by Robert Hood

Thomas R. Dickens and Mesozoic Inc. Special Visual Effects studio are in various stages in the production of two rather interesting-looking scifi monster flicks. From information currently available, they fit perfectly with all those gigantic shapes lurking around in the … Continue reading →

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New: Bollywood Zombie

Posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 by Robert Hood

The upcoming horror comedy Bollywood Zombie (Canada-[?]; dir. Maninder Chana) has been getting a fair amount of scorn from those websites that have report on it. But I reckon it’s about time we had singing zombies in saries! Bollywood is … Continue reading →

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Coming Soon: Coming Soon

Posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 by Robert Hood

This Thai ghost flick looks like a winner to me: Coming Soon (Thailand-2008; dir. Sophon Sakdaphisit) Synopsis: What kind of scenes in a horror film scares you the most? When a ghost appears totally unexpectedly? When the main character does … Continue reading →

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Attackazoids Trailer!

Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 by Robert Hood

We just noticed that there seems to be a trailer for the short robot-invasion film Attackazoids available. It includes some cool scenes, such as this one: Have a look at it on the official website. I notice that there is also … Continue reading →

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Update: Attack of the Giant Leeches Trailer

Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 by Robert Hood

A trailer for Brett Kelly’s remake of the 1959 monster flick Attack of the Giant Leeches has gone online. Here it is: Interesting use of colour saturation to suggest the monotone nature of the original. Source: Official website via Avery … Continue reading →

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