Category Archives: Giant Monsters

Nagira, Mutant Monster From Germany

Posted on Sunday, November 1, 2009 by Robert Hood

You’d think that the need for difficult SFX work would be daunting to ultra-low-budget filmmakers and would lead them to work in intimate, less spectacular genres than kaiju eiga. Well, not everyone takes the easier route. Check out this new … Continue reading →

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New: Serpent Wars

Posted on Saturday, October 31, 2009 by Robert Hood

Along with a collected edition of the Kong: King of Skull Island comic series, Markosia Enterprises has just announced the release of Serpent Wars: Written by Christoff Rodriguez and Chris Campanozzi, with art by Antonio Rojo, Serpent Wars is set … Continue reading →

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King of Skull Island Newly Released

Posted on Saturday, October 31, 2009 by Robert Hood

Persistent rumours that a film version of Joe DeVito (artist) and Brad Strickland’s illustrated novel Kong: King of Skull Island is underway were confirmed on the Ray Bradbury panel of the San Diego Comicon last July — though when it … Continue reading →

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Mummies, Pteradactyls and Luc Besson

Posted on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 by Robert Hood

There is something extraordinarily appealing about retro scifi and fantasy tales set in an historical context, introducing monsters and steampunk technology into what is an otherwise familiar past. The Indiana Jones films drew on that appeal — as did The … Continue reading →

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Yatterman: The Movie

Posted on Sunday, October 25, 2009 by Robert Hood

Costumed superheroes and sexy super-villian. Semi-mechanoid mutant henchmen. Huge mechanical dog. Giant robots. Rampant dinosaurs. Nuclear holocaust. Japanese pop songs. Weird dance routines. Takashi Miike. What more can I say? Yatterman [aka Yattâman] (Japan-2009; dir. Takashi Miike) Trailer: Trailer 2: … Continue reading →

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Demeking Plummets to Earth!

Posted on Sunday, October 25, 2009 by Robert Hood

In Godzilla’s absence, it’s good to know that Japanese daikaiju en masse haven’t forgotten to make an occasional excursion to the Big City. We’ve had news of an Ultraman movie, then there’s the exciting discovery of Daisuke Sato’s The Fog … Continue reading →

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Wavebreaking with Jules Verne in Sweden

Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2009 by Robert Hood

Vågbrytare or “The Wavebreakers” is a short (14:30 min.) film by a bunch of crazy Swedish guys — and it looks like lots of fun. Based, perhaps rather distantly, on Jules Verne’s classic undersea adventure 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, … Continue reading →

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American Godzilla: The Graphic Novel

Posted on Thursday, October 22, 2009 by Robert Hood

Artist Todd Tennant — midway in his ambitious task of converting the abandoned 1994 screenplay by Ted Elliott/Terry Rossio for director Jan De Bont’s US Godzilla film into a graphic novel — has just renovated his poster for the project … Continue reading →

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Carradine Takes on the Giant Reptiles

Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 by Robert Hood

He may have left the building last June, albeit rather unexpectedly, but legendary genre actor David Carradine will still be starring in quite a few movies over the next year or so, at least according to the number of “post-production” … Continue reading →

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Update on Bringing The Fog Horn to the World

Posted on Sunday, October 18, 2009 by Robert Hood

Such has been the extraordinary enthusiasm shown by those commenting on the Undead Backbrain article about director Daisuke “Daice” Sato’s short film version of Ray Bradbury’s famous story “The Fog Horn” that Mr Sato and his crew from Replica Co. … Continue reading →

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