Category Archives: Giant Monsters

Metallic Attraction: Kung Fu Cyborg is Imminent

Posted on Monday, August 17, 2009 by Robert Hood

Jeffrey Lau’s robotic love story, Metallic Attraction: Kung Fu Cyborg, is soon to be released in China. Begun as an oriental answer to the success of Michael Bay’s Transformers, it in fact appears to share only some moments of transformational … Continue reading →

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Gryphon Noir

Posted on Tuesday, August 11, 2009 by Robert Hood

Kaiju artist Todd Tennant has sent us a great image he’s created that irresistably reminds me of a sort of monster noir (I’ve been watching a lot of films noir lately). It’s the Gryphon — Godzilla’s opponent in the 1994 … Continue reading →

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Review: Monster Island

Posted on Monday, August 10, 2009 by Robert Hood

Monster Island (Canada/US-2004; dir. Jack Perez) On the most obvious level, the plot of this MTV “Special Movie Presentation” is driven by pop music aesthetics aimed at the typical MTV audience — hence the inclusion of Carmen Electra and Nick … Continue reading →

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Images from ICFBTS… Again

Posted on Thursday, August 6, 2009 by Robert Hood

As we’ve discussed before, kaiju artist supremo Todd Tennant is currently working on several issues in the Ray Harryhausen Presents It Came From Beneath the Sea… Again series for Bluewater Comics. Being the generous chap he is, Todd has sent … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Giant Monsters, Giant Squids, Pictorial art, Todd Tennant, Update | 2 Comments

Update: Galactic Raiders

Posted on Tuesday, August 4, 2009 by Robert Hood

Exclusively from director Larry Arpin comes this portrait of the main Big Bad creature from his film Galactic Raiders (US-[in post-production]; dir. Larry Arpin), named Vorax: Click on the image to view it super-sized! Comments Arpin: The background is not … Continue reading →

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Release Update: Serpent Lake

Posted on Tuesday, August 4, 2009 by Robert Hood

The independently made, micro-budget lake monster flick Serpent Lake (US-2009; dir. Joel Trujillo) has been in the making since early last year. Now we’ve had word that the film is not only finished but released on DVD. Yes, Tiny Tim … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Lake Monsters, Trailers, Update | 4 Comments

Death Kappa: Another Gojira Contender

Posted on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 by Robert Hood

Yōkai are a form of traditional Japanese monster spirits, best known to cinephiles from a trilogy of fantasy films from the 1960s: Yokai daisenso [aka Big Ghost War; Spook Warfare] (Japan-1968, dir. Yoshiyuki Kuroda); Yokai Hyaku Monogatari [aka The Hundred … Continue reading →

Posted in Daikaiju, Film, Giant Monsters, Japanese, Monsters in general, News | 9 Comments

Kong or Not Kong, That is the Question

Posted on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 by Robert Hood

Thanks to Variety and a report that Spirit Pictures has picked up the rights to Joe DeVito (artist) and Brad Strickland’s illustrated novel Kong: King of Skull Island, sites across the net are enthusing over the idea that a new … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, King Kong, News, Update, Where's the Film? | 5 Comments

Weekend Fright Flick: StopMo

Posted on Saturday, July 25, 2009 by Robert Hood

The Backbrain’s Weekend Fright Flick presentations have been veering into double features lately, largely because some great short films have been turning up and I’m too impatient to save them for later. This weekend is no exception. Expect a follow-up. … Continue reading →

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Of Sand “Whales” and Assault Girls

Posted on Friday, July 24, 2009 by Robert Hood

Think Dune meets Tremors meets any number of Japanese movies featuring combatic female warriors in a futuristic setting! It has been announced that Mamoru Oshii — most famous for the iconic hi-tech anti-cybernetic-terrorist anime Ghost in the Shell and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Japanese | 5 Comments