Category Archives: Film

Gaining Altitude

Posted on Saturday, November 14, 2009 by Robert Hood

Snakes on a Plane I wasn’t particularly interested in. Huge Tentacled Monsters Just Outside a Plane? — now that’s more like it! Altitude – Temp Trailer by dreadcentral Altitude (Canada/US-2010; dir. Kaare Andrews) Synopsis: After a mysterious malfunction sends their … Continue reading →

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Getting Muckier

Posted on Friday, November 13, 2009 by Robert Hood

Awesome independent filmmaker Brett Piper, acting on his mission to “keep B-movie clichés alive”, has released some new images from his upcoming Muckman. No news, just a couple of pics — but they’re looking good. As usual, click to enlarge. … Continue reading →

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First World: New Designs on the Future

Posted on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 by Robert Hood

First World (US-2007; dir. Adam Starr) is a both a short scifi film and an on-going project that aims to result in a full-length feature. I first interviewed writer and producer Mark Lund back in 2007, when I was programming … Continue reading →

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New: Fish Bait

Posted on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 by Robert Hood

Fish Bait (US-2009; dir. Jeff Joslin, Darby Lynn Totten) Tales of monster cat-fish inhabiting US lakes provided inspiration for Fish Bait, an independent comedy horror monster flick that is, in the words of the directors, “a cross between Deliverance and … Continue reading →

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First Look at “Amphibious 3D”

Posted on Saturday, November 7, 2009 by Robert Hood

We’ve met Amphibious before, though it was a brief meeting and you may not recall it. It’s a giant monster film made by genre veteran Brian Yuzna, who rose from the demise of Fantastic Factory to film under the auspices … Continue reading →

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Dinocroc in Motion

Posted on Thursday, November 5, 2009 by Robert Hood

Courtesy of the director, Undead Backbrain has a new image and first view of an SFX moment from Jim Wynorski’s Dinocroc vs Supergator, which is due for release to TV in the near future. Click image to enlarge SFX Sequence: … Continue reading →

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Nagira, Mutant Monster From Germany

Posted on Sunday, November 1, 2009 by Robert Hood

You’d think that the need for difficult SFX work would be daunting to ultra-low-budget filmmakers and would lead them to work in intimate, less spectacular genres than kaiju eiga. Well, not everyone takes the easier route. Check out this new … Continue reading →

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Face the Faces

Posted on Friday, October 30, 2009 by Robert Hood

Faces only an undead mother could love! I’m not sure what to make of this one, but with Halloween upon us this weekend it seems appropriate to highlight one of the oddest horror DVD releases I’ve seen for a while. … Continue reading →

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Mummies, Pteradactyls and Luc Besson

Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 by Robert Hood

There is something extraordinarily appealing about retro scifi and fantasy tales set in an historical context, introducing monsters and steampunk technology into what is an otherwise familiar past. The Indiana Jones films drew on that appeal — as did The … Continue reading →

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Yatterman: The Movie

Posted on Sunday, October 25, 2009 by Robert Hood

Costumed superheroes and sexy super-villian. Semi-mechanoid mutant henchmen. Huge mechanical dog. Giant robots. Rampant dinosaurs. Nuclear holocaust. Japanese pop songs. Weird dance routines. Takashi Miike. What more can I say? Yatterman [aka Yattâman] (Japan-2009; dir. Takashi Miike) Trailer: Trailer 2: … Continue reading →

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