Author Archives: Robert Hood

Big Bird?

Posted on Thursday, September 4, 2008 by Robert Hood

There’s a giant monster bird movie out there that is more recent than the infamous The Giant Claw (US-1957; dir. Fred F. Sears). It’s called Big Bird — but it’s not this one by artist Jonni Good (click here to … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Where's the Film? | 5 Comments

Update: Cleavagefield Trailer!

Posted on Wednesday, September 3, 2008 by Robert Hood

Director Jim Wynorski has just emailed notice of the Cleavagefield trailer. Follow the link below and you can see: and … not to mention this: and plenty of… See all this and more here. Source: Jim Wynorski Information on Cleavagefield

Posted in Cloverfield, Film, Giant Monsters, Trailers, Update | 5 Comments

New Guilala Pics

Posted on Monday, September 1, 2008 by Robert Hood

Hey, because I can never resist pictures of Guilala, when Twitch posted a clutch of stills from the new Girara-no Gyakushuu Touyaku Samitto Kiki Ippatsu [lit. Guilala’s Counter Attack: the Touyaku Summit One-Shot Crisis] (Japan–2008; dir. Minoru Kawasaki), I grabbed … Continue reading →

Posted in Daikaiju, Giant Monsters, Update | 1 Comment

Godzilla Never Dies

Posted on Monday, September 1, 2008 by Robert Hood

Stu Hiatt has sent Undead Backbrain this very early test reel for a Godzilla fan film he is working on. Stu is creating the monster business using stop-motion animation — a challenging approach but not one without precedent. I have … Continue reading →

Posted in Daikaiju, Film, Giant Monsters, Godzilla | 1 Comment

Giant Spider Graveyard

Posted on Monday, September 1, 2008 by Robert Hood

Amazing revelation! The skeletal remains of not one but two giant spiders that rampaged through Lincoln County, Wisconsin, in the US in 1975 have been discovered by arachnid wrangler Bill Rebane. Rebane was responsible for recording the twin mega-spiders’ murderous … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, It's True! Really!, News | 10 Comments

Spike Makes A Point

Posted on Sunday, August 31, 2008 by Robert Hood

Sometimes fairy tales make excellent (or at least interesting) horror films. Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) [aka El Laberinto del Fauno] is something of an epitomé of the approach, of course; but others, such as Michael Cohn’s Snow White: … Continue reading →

Posted in Faery, Film, Horror, News, Teaser | 7 Comments

J.T. Petty’s The Burrowers

Posted on Saturday, August 30, 2008 by Robert Hood

My awareness of J.T. Petty’s work, as writer and director, is pretty well restricted to Mimic: Sentinel (2003) — the third film in the series that originated with Guillermo Del Toro’s Mimic (1997) and one that hasn’t gained much of … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Horror, News | 3 Comments

In the Post: The Ghosts

Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 by Robert Hood

The Ghosts (Australia-2009 [in post-production]; dir. Mathew J. Wilkinson) Tagline: There are 36 claimed haunted locations in Australia. They missed one. Synopsis: A family vacation in the Australian outback turns horribly wrong when the family is taken hostage by a … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Ghosts, News, Teaser | 1 Comment

Update: Gualagon

Posted on Friday, August 29, 2008 by Robert Hood

Sometimes you get to influence the makers of movies and related works — it has to be one of the best features of the internet’s ability to provide cross-cultural and virtually instantaneous communication between fans and creators. The makers of … Continue reading →

Posted in Daikaiju, Giant Monsters, Update | 34 Comments

B-Flick Invasion

Posted on Thursday, August 28, 2008 by Robert Hood

During a routine close encounter the other day — somewhere between an orgy of cornfield art and the usual anal probing — I got into conversation with my tall, google-eyed captor, whose long, pointy teeth should have been a serious … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, News | 3 Comments