Category Archives: Film

Early Vampire Cinema 1916 to 1974: Part 1

Posted on Sunday, August 8, 2010 by Robert Hood

The following two-part article was written for Mark Deniz’s excellent Vampire Awareness Month, which is still running on his blog. Go there to check out a plethora of top-notch writings on the subject of vampires, ranging from reviews of significant … Continue reading →

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Weekend Fright Flick: Space Bugs

Posted on Sunday, August 1, 2010 by Robert Hood

Jesse Blanchard is a self-taught filmmaker who only recently discovered what he describes as “the joys of horror films”. Note: on that subject, John Carpenter says (on the commentary track for his Masters of Horror film Cigarette Burns): “Anyone who’s … Continue reading →

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Sucker Punch Hits the Blogsphere

Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 by Robert Hood

Director Zack Snyder (of the Dawn of the Dead remake and, more pertinently as it happens, Watchmen and 300) has hit on a winner here, I reckon. Sucker Punch not only sports an somewhat off-beat scenario, but from all appearances … Continue reading →

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Trailer for Gareth Edwards’ Monsters

Posted on Saturday, July 24, 2010 by Robert Hood

Monsters (UK-2010; dir. Gareth Edwards) — with its District 9, pseudo-realistic approach to a notoriously unrealistic genre — has been greeted with huge enthusiasm among those who have been lucky enough to see it. If you don’t know what we’re … Continue reading →

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A Strange Attraction to Blood and Rotting Flesh

Posted on Friday, July 23, 2010 by Robert Hood

A gross-out mainstay of monstrous horror flicks everywhere are leeches and maggots. At small size, their nasty habit of wallowing in human body fluids and attaching themselves to live and dead flesh respectively for the purpose of consumption and generally … Continue reading →

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Update: House of the Wolf Man

Posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 by Robert Hood

The retro-horror flick, House of the Wolf Man (US-2009; dir. Eben McGarr) — a logical modern addition to Universal’s monster mashes, House of Frankenstein (US-1944; dir. Erle C. Kenton) and House of Dracula (US-1945; dir. Erle C. Kenton) — picked … Continue reading →

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Interview with Daniel Lee: Ocho and Beyond

Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2010 by Robert Hood

Director? Artist? Auteur? I’m just a guy who loves movies. As we’ve seen many times of late, the best way to make a micro-budget sci-fi horror film these days is to make a homage to low-budget monster flicks from the … Continue reading →

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Sharktopus Trailer … A Classic in the Making?

Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2010 by Robert Hood

OK, this is probably everywhere by now — but after the speculation that’s gone into it, I have to run it here on Undead Backbrain. It’s the official Sharktopus trailer and it’s a beauty — cheap but imaginative CGI and … Continue reading →

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The Millennium Bug Has Finally Arrived!

Posted on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 by Robert Hood

But don’t panic! We’re talking about the horror thriller by director Kenneth Cran and his brother James rather than the fanciful computer scare that led us into the new millennium. The Cran Brothers’ millennium bug isn’t a programming glitch and … Continue reading →

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Gone Fishin’

Posted on Friday, July 2, 2010 by Robert Hood

British filmmaker Chris Jones found that successfully teaching folk how to make films guerilla-fashion (as he did when he wrote the popular The Guerilla Film Maker’s Handbook series and when he tutored hopefuls on how to do it, face-to-face) had … Continue reading →

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