Category Archives: Film

Review: Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend

Posted on Saturday, March 1, 2008 by Robert Hood

Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend (US-1985; dir. B.W.L. Norton) Though the dinosaurs in this dinosaurs-in-the-modern-world epic aren’t presented as monsters, the mother brontosaur is given a chance to do the classic monster rampage as she desperately tries to rescue … Continue reading →

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New: Rule Number One

Posted on Saturday, March 1, 2008 by Robert Hood

Rule Number One is a new supernatural thriller from Kelvin Tong, whom I last heard from as director of the excellent Singapore ghost flick The Maid. This new one follows the fortunes of an injured rookie cop, Lee, assigned to … Continue reading →

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The Great Sea Serpent

Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 by Robert Hood

Worth adding to the Giant Monster List is James Williamson’s The Great Sea Serpent (UK-1904). Information on this very early silent short is hard to find, but the Silent Era website offers the following synopsis, suggesting that the sea serpent … Continue reading →

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New: American Zombie

Posted on Tuesday, February 26, 2008 by Robert Hood

American Zombie (US-2007; dir. Grace Lee) This latest take on the zombie apocalypse genre is a mockumentary that examines the “lives” of four zombies as they attempt to fit into human society. Here’s the official synopsis: Filmmakers Grace Lee (The … Continue reading →

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Zombies Everywhere

Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2008 by Robert Hood

Thanks to Avery (my kaiju search-robot, who moonlights as a zombie search-robot), I have just updated the zombie film list. 2008 is looking scarily full of the carnivorous dead. Here is a list of zombie flicks appearing in 2008 and … Continue reading →

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New: The Wawa, Sea Serpent

Posted on Saturday, February 23, 2008 by Robert Hood

Looks like some good ol’ boys and luv’ly ladies from down Alabamee way have been getting so much hooch into ’em they’ve gone made a movie about radioactive fish, a sea-serpent named the Wawa and Sweet Tee’s beach volleyball team. … Continue reading →

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New: Onechanbara

Posted on Saturday, February 23, 2008 by Robert Hood

How about a bikini-clad Japanese cowgirl using her phenomenal skills with the katana blade to deal with a horde of flesh-eating zombies? Would that scenario have legs at the box-office? Oh, yes. It’s apparent based on an understandably popular video … Continue reading →

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Pure Spanish extravagence, with zombies and giant monsters

Posted on Friday, February 22, 2008 by Robert Hood

Star Wars meets the peplum genre epitomised in Maciste, they go on a date and then give birth to a mutant version of Krull (1983). That’s The Baron Against the Demons [aka El Barón contra los Demonios] (Spain-2006; dir. Ricardo … Continue reading →

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More New GM films

Posted on Saturday, February 16, 2008 by Robert Hood

If I seem a tad fixated on Giant Monster films recently, there’s good reason for that — a reason I hope to be able to reveal soon enough. But at the very least it’s indicative of the fact that there’s … Continue reading →

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New: A Giant Something or Other

Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 by Robert Hood

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