Category Archives: Giant Monsters

Building the Millennium Bug

Posted on Wednesday, April 13, 2011 by Robert Hood

Here’s the newly released official poster for The Millennium Bug (US-2011; dir. Kenneth Cran), the trailer for which premiered on Undead Backbrain a week or so ago: But that’s not all. The folk from The Squire Film Shoppe and No … Continue reading →

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Exclusive: First View of The Millennium Bug Trailer

Posted on Monday, April 4, 2011 by Robert Hood

The official trailer for the hillbilly/giant monster/alien bug movie The Millennium Bug (US-2011; dir. Kenneth Cran) has just been released and you can see it first here on Undead Backbrain. Note that it’s totally free of CGI monsters. The filmmakers … Continue reading →

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Green Light in the Blackest Night

Posted on Sunday, April 3, 2011 by Robert Hood

Okay, now I’m definitely interested. This is suddenly looking so close to spot-on, it has completely overturned my skepticism (exacerbated by the earlier, rather indifferent trailer) that they could effectively transform the epic DC comicbook franchise into a decent movie, … Continue reading →

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“Sector 7” Creature Revealed! Sort of…

Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2011 by Robert Hood

Under development by the company responsible for the rather excellent disaster film Haeundae (South Korea-2009; dir. Je-gyun Yun), Sector 7 has been long promised (see this previous Backbrain article), but now appears to be in production. At any rate, Kaiju … Continue reading →

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The Age of Dragons is Here!

Posted on Friday, March 18, 2011 by Robert Hood

Once upon a time, when we first reported on it, Age of Dragons was called Dragon Fire (see previous Backbrain article). Based on Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick, it translates the 19th Century setting of the novel into a land-based … Continue reading →

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Exclusive: The Flock

Posted on Tuesday, March 15, 2011 by Robert Hood

The Flock has moved into a landing pattern. Back in 2009 we reported on Undead Brainspasm that Don Murphy, producer of Transformers, Natural Born Killers and From Hell, was led to James Robert Smith’s novel The Flock in reaction to … Continue reading →

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Pacific Rim: Godzilla By Any Other Name?

Posted on Saturday, March 12, 2011 by Robert Hood

So by now everyone and their dog knows that Guillermo del Toro’s pet project, a big-budget version of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, isn’t going to fly. Universal has gone all whimpy in regards to it, dumping it … Continue reading →

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Tentacles, Ancient Whispers and Monstrous Gods

Posted on Friday, March 4, 2011 by Robert Hood

An Overview of H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos on Film Few filmmakers have been successful in translating New England horror writer H.P. Lovecraft’s dense, adjective-driven tales of Elder Gods, Great Old Ones and the Horrors That Lurk Just the Other Side … Continue reading →

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Review: Evangelion 1.11 You Are (Not) Alone

Posted on Tuesday, March 1, 2011 by Robert Hood

Evangelion 1.11: You Are (Not) Alone (Japan-2007; dir. Masayuki Yamaguchi, Kazuya Tsurumaki and Hideaki Anno) Blu-ray edition reviewed by Robert Hood Giant robots (known as mecha) and giant monsters (known as daikaiju): two of the most iconic elements of Japanese … Continue reading →

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Ultraman on Monster Awareness Month

Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2011 by Robert Hood

Click on this image now! Spectacular, isn’t it? These are some of the monsters that feature in the Ultraman franchise, one of two paintings by Toshio Okazaki published in Shōgakukan’s 1979 edition of Ultra Kaiju (Shōgakukan Nyūmon Hyakka Series #97) … Continue reading →

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