Category Archives: Film

Preview: Diary of the Dead

Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 by Robert Hood

George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead – an alternative view of the beginning of the zombie apocalypse he began in Night of the Living Dead in 1968. What with the soon-to-be-released Cloverfield (giant monster apocalypse seen from “street level” … Continue reading →

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The Las Vegas Monster

Posted on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 by Robert Hood

This animation is a rare piece of stop-motion footage, featuring a very peculiar and intriguing monster. It is a test animation for a film, The Las Vegas Monster, that never went through to completion. The designer was Pete Peterson, who … Continue reading →

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Lost Continent

Posted on Sunday, January 6, 2008 by Robert Hood

Here someone has conveniently put together the stop-motion dinosaur sequences from the 1951 “lost world” film, Lost Continent, directed by Samuel Neufield. Edward Nassour was the stop-motion animation supervisor.

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Review: Trespassers

Posted on Friday, January 4, 2008 by Robert Hood

Trespassers is one of those not-quite-a-zombie-flick zombie flicks that draws on some of the aesthetics of recent successes in the genre without embracing the full package. It has a supernatural scenario that involves a curse and a horde of cannibalistic, … Continue reading →

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The Beast of Hollow Mountain

Posted on Friday, January 4, 2008 by Robert Hood

Here is the best part of the dino-western The Beast of Hollow Mountain (US/Mexico-1956: dir. Edward Nassour and Ismael Rodriquez): the climactic Allosaurus attack — all somewhat reminiscent of Harryhausen’s later The Valley of Gwangi (1969), what with the cowboys … Continue reading →

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Siegfried Slays the Dragon

Posted on Thursday, January 3, 2008 by Robert Hood

Fritz Lang’s 1924 Die Nibelungen: Siegfried — or at least the first Canto: “How Siegfried Slayed the Dragon” — probably should appear on any list of giant monster films, though of course many such lists exclude dragons as such. At … Continue reading →

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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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Review: Angel on My Shoulder

Posted on Thursday, December 27, 2007 by Robert Hood

In the first few minutes of this supernatural gangster comedy-drama, Eddie Kagle (imbued by Paul Muni with all the appropriately iconic tough-guy mannerisms we’ve come to expect from the era of Cagney, Bogart and Edward G. Robinson) is released from … 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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The Lost Godzilla

Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 by Robert Hood

Up for sale on eBay is evidence of what Jan de Bont’s unmade American Godzilla movie might have been like, if the job hadn’t be passed on to Roland Emmerich, in a studio-led decision that left fans torn between despair … Continue reading →

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