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Category Archives: Ghosts
Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro Goes Beyond the Grave
There is a synchronicity between art, detectives and the restless dead and Brazilian director Davi de Oliveira Pinheiro has set out to explore the boundaries. In post-production is Beyond the Grave [aka Porto Dos Mortos] (Spain-2009; dir. Davi de Oliveira … Continue reading
Screech of the Fighting Owl
Undead Backbrain frequently highlights small, independent film producers who are engaged in making exciting and (sometimes) innovative genre films. Fighting Owl is one such. Formed in 2003 as an umbrella company for student films, it is now engaged in the … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Ghosts, Giant Monsters, Horror, Independent film, Lake Monsters, Zombies
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Colin Theys and his Banshee
[continued from Colin Theys and his Giant Rabbit] Yesterday we saw how SFX wiz Colin Theys had learned much of his craft working on a short comedic film about a giant rabbit with a giant tongue — Harold and Burns. … Continue reading
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New: Book of Blood
Clive Barker’s short story collection, The Books of Blood, which was published from 1984-1986, was genuinely a revelation, rocketing him to the top of the horror heap — and with good reason. Visceral, bloody, outrageously inventive and undeniably powerful, these … Continue reading
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Coming Soon: Coming Soon
This Thai ghost flick looks like a winner to me: Coming Soon (Thailand-2008; dir. Sophon Sakdaphisit) Synopsis: What kind of scenes in a horror film scares you the most? When a ghost appears totally unexpectedly? When the main character does … Continue reading
Hammer Wakes Up in the Woods
The thing about Hammer Film’s iconic versions of Frankenstein and Dracula is that the monster doctor and the vampiric monster lord always return. You just can’t kill ’em! Seems we can say the same thing about the studio itself. Not … Continue reading
Watch Me … and Die!
Australia’s entry in the J-Horror revolution begun with (or at least given its major impetus by) Ring [aka Ringu] (Japan-1998, dir. Hideo Nakata) is a low-budget supernatural horror film called Watch Me. Watch Me (Australia-2006, dir. Melanie Ansley) Starring Frances … Continue reading
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New: Tales From the Dead
Horror-based anthology films don’t receive particularly favourable PR, though without a doubt there are several from earlier times that may be considered classics. Dead of Night (1945) is one such — a beautifully made, much-discussed supernatural portmanteau film that works … Continue reading
Those All-Singing, All-Dancing Ghosts
Here is a 7-minute scene from the Indian ghost comedy Bhoot Bangla [aka Ghost House] (1965; dir. Mehmood). R.D. Burman and Mehmood form a sort of Bob Hope/Bing Crosby combo in a haunted house — where everyone, in true Bollywood … Continue reading
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