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Category Archives: Giant Bugs
Parasitic: It’ll Get Under Your Skin
Want zombies with your giant monster bugs? Well, we might just have the perfect movie for you! We have it reliably from writer/director Timothy Martin that Parasitic, which started life a few years back under the title “Black Licorice”, is … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Giant Bugs, Horror, Independent film, Monsters in general, News, Trailers, Zombies
Tagged Giant Monsters, parasitic, production shots, Timothy Martin, Zombies
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Thems!
Remember Them (US-1954; dir. Gordon Douglas)? One of the great scifi horror films of the Cold-War era — eerie desert locations, the stink of formic acid and a weird, high-pitched whine, James Arness hunting giant ants through the sewers of … Continue reading
Posted in Exploitation films, Film, Giant Bugs, Horror, Humour, Independent film
Tagged Eliab Alvarez de la Campa, film parody, Horror, mutant cockroaches, sci-fi, Thems
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The Millennium Bug Has Finally Arrived!
But don’t panic! We’re talking about the horror thriller by director Kenneth Cran and his brother James rather than the fanciful computer scare that led us into the new millennium. The Cran Brothers’ millennium bug isn’t a programming glitch and … Continue reading
Posted in Daikaiju, Film, Giant Bugs, Giant Monsters, Horror, Independent film, Monsters in general, Update
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Weekend Fright Flick: MANT!
Matinee is an intelligent, moving and under-appreciated comedy directed by Joe Dante in 1993. Set in Key West (just the other side of water from Cuba) at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis (October 1962), it features John Goodman … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Exploitation films, Giant Bugs, Giant Monsters, Weekend Fright Flick
Tagged giant ant, Joe Dante, John Goodman, Mant!, Matinee, William Castle
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Bugs Born From a Book!
Daffy Duck might have run amuck in the classic Looney Tunes cartoon “Duck Amuck”, but when a bunch of creatures from the depths of an evil book, Necronomicon-style, run amok [amock] in this short French film they certainly do it … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Giant Bugs, Horror, Independent film, Weekend Fright Flick
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King Crab Attack!: The Full Version
And now, Undead Backbrain presents the complete 1950s giant monster spoof film, King Crab Attack! (France-2010; short [6:38 min.]; dir. Gregoire Sivan). The Backbrain first introduced you to the film via trailers, poster and assorted pictures in September last year … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Film, Giant Bugs, Giant Monsters, Humour, Independent film
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More From the Bug
The Cran Brothers’ in-production giant monster flick, The Millennium Bug (US-2010; dir Kenneth Cran) — which the Backbrain highlighted on 4 April — is getting weirder as we learn more about it. Of central interest is the fact that it … Continue reading
Posted in Giant Bugs, Giant Monsters, Horror, Independent film, Update
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