Category Archives: Film

New: 100 Million BC

Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 by Robert Hood

Blockbuster knock-off studio Asylum Pictures’ latest giant monster opus is 100 Million BC, which might appear to knock-off 10,000 BC, the upcoming Emmerich unofficial remake of the old Hammer film One Million Years BC (which was a remake of the … Continue reading →

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New: Serpent Lake

Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 by Robert Hood

JFT Productions Film Corporation (basically an independent writer/director/producer by the name of Joel Trujillo) has announced that a new giant monster film will go into production later this year, for a 2009 release. The film is called Serpent Lake and … Continue reading →

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New: Aztec Rex

Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 by Robert Hood

It seems that veteran antipodean B-film auteur Brian Trenchard-Smith has got in on the giant monster act with his latest SciFi Channel monsterfest Aztec Rex (2008; aka Tyrannosaurus Azteca). In an interview on the Fangoria site Trenchard-Smith describes it thus: … Continue reading →

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New: Reptisaurus

Posted on Thursday, February 7, 2008 by Robert Hood

Exploitation doyen Fred Olen Ray has announced that his son Chris — clearly walking in  the dad’s footsteps — has just finished directing his first film, a giant monster epic based on an old Charlton Comic from the 1960s. The … Continue reading →

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Query: Baguzu

Posted on Monday, February 4, 2008 by Robert Hood

I’m looking for information on an independent Japanese film called Baguzu [aka Bugs], released in 1997 and starring Ren Yamamoto. It’s about giant insects. In particular, if anyone knows who the director was, could you let me know?

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Equinox

Posted on Sunday, February 3, 2008 by Robert Hood

Equinox [aka The Beast] (US-1970; dir. Jack Woods) Equinox is a B-monster flick that manages to combine various giant monsters with surreal supernatural adventure, time travel, a Lovecraftian sensibility, holes in the space-time continuum, rampant cavemen, teenagers doing what teenagers … Continue reading →

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Giant Snails!

Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 by Robert Hood

This is probably the only film ever made about an invasion of Paris [well, some French city or other] by rampaging giant snails! A farmer cries!  The population flees, screaming! Bare-breasted women run, screaming! It’s all rather cute and delicately … Continue reading →

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Trailer: Strange World of Planet X

Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 by Robert Hood

The Strange World of Planet X [aka Cosmic Monsters] (UK-1958; dir. Gilbert Gunn) When the inevitable 1950s mad scientist blows a hole in the ionosphere, a swarm of photographically enlarged insects from another dimension invade Earth and cause women to … Continue reading →

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More Cloverfield

Posted on Tuesday, January 22, 2008 by Robert Hood

With Cloverfield‘s opening weekend box-office clocking in at $41 million (from a budget of $25-30 million) — a record for January — it seems certain we’ll get a sequel. But what will it be? The Cloverfield “shadow” website (which consists … Continue reading →

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A US Godzilla?

Posted on Sunday, January 20, 2008 by Robert Hood

This isn’t a review. That will come later. These are just some initial thoughts on Cloverfield, producer J.J. Abrams’ (of “Lost” fame) and director Matt Reeves’ excellent giant monster film. In literally the first moments, while the production company logos … Continue reading →

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