Category Archives: Daikaiju

Review: Komodo vs Cobra

Posted on Saturday, December 29, 2007 by Robert Hood

[Jim] Wynorski is responsible for Komodo vs Cobra, about which the best I can say is that it isn’t anywhere near as awful as Attack of the Sabretooth — another recent sub-Jurassic Park, low-budget, TV-oriented, monster-on-the-loose effort. Read the full … Continue reading →

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American Godzilla Page 56

Posted on Friday, December 28, 2007 by Robert Hood

There has been a glitch with the American Kajiu site, a glitch that resulted in the reinstatement of an older version of Todd Tennant’s graphic novelisation of the 1994 Jan De Bont script, and the subsequent removal of the most … Continue reading →

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Godzilla 1998 Designs

Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2007 by Robert Hood

Here are some of Tatopoulos Studio’s design elements for the 1998 film — a film I rather like, not as a Godzilla remake but as a remake of The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, which it more closely resembles. The Beast … Continue reading →

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Giant Creatures: New Anthology

Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 by Robert Hood

Meanwhile, hot on the heels of the release of Daikaiju! 2: Revenge of the Giant Monsters and Daikaiju! 3: Giant Monsters vs the World comes news of a proposed anthology of “giant creature” stories: Permuted Press is now open to … Continue reading →

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Cloverfield

Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 by Robert Hood

OK, I’ve been a bit negligent about “Cloverfield” — the new giant monster film from producer JJ Abrams, directed by Matt Reeves. Abrams has coordinated an effective lead-in campaign, using the internet to leak hints and snippets, cannily teasing the … Continue reading →

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More Godzilla 1994

Posted on Friday, December 14, 2007 by Robert Hood

Speaking of the “Lost Godzilla”, Todd Tennant’s graphic novel based on the original “Jan de Bont” script is proceeding very nicely indeed. Seven new pages went up this week, culminating with this: The new sequence begins here. For those who … Continue reading →

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Daikaiju! 2 Scores a Nomination

Posted on Friday, December 7, 2007 by Robert Hood

The finalists in the 2007 Aurealis Australian Speculative Fiction Awards have just been announced — and Chris McMahon’s epic giant monster story from Daikaiju! 2: Revenge of the Giant Monsters, edited by Robert Hood and Robin Pen, is on the … Continue reading →

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Cthulhu vs Godzilla

Posted on Monday, December 3, 2007 by Robert Hood

Now this would make a great addition to the Toho canon! This is the cover of a long-running American fanzine, Crypt of Cthulhu. The artist is the magazine’s original editor, Robert M. Price. The picture comes courtesy of Leigh Blackmore, … Continue reading →

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Review: Kraa! The Sea Monster

Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 by Robert Hood

Charles Band has a lot to answer for! Desperate to fill every gap on the video rental shelves, Full Moon exploitation filmmaker Charles Band clearly decided that he hadn’t done the kaiju genre yet and really should get his act … Continue reading →

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Review: Yongary, Monster from the Deep

Posted on Friday, November 16, 2007 by Robert Hood

It’s 1967 and South Korea leaps in at the shallow end of the daikaiju pool! The Host is a long way off! South Korea’s response to the success of the Japanese kaiju eiga craze, at a time when Daiei’s Gamera … Continue reading →

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