Category Archives: Giant Monsters

A Great Big Robot Ate My Homework

Posted on Monday, December 15, 2008 by Robert Hood

And now, a short animated film (A Great Big Robot Ate My Homework) by Mark Shirra, featuring a great big robot: The robot in this short film (U.N.E.D – Story about the brain-washed robot) is, though less giant, much more … Continue reading →

Posted in Animation, Film, Giant Monsters, Robots | 1 Comment

Another Loch Ness Monster

Posted on Friday, December 12, 2008 by Robert Hood

The Loch Ness Monster (US-2005; short [15 min.]; dir. Benjamin Williams) A terrible encounter with the Loch Ness Monster haunts a woman her entire life. This short, but ambitious-looking film stars Dee Wallace Stone (among others) and won the soundtrack … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Lake Monsters, Music, Mysteries, Uncategorized | 5 Comments

US President To Deal With Monster Attack

Posted on Friday, December 12, 2008 by Robert Hood

From the Onion:

Posted in Daikaiju, Fraudulent information, Giant Monsters | 2 Comments

Giant Monster Attack

Posted on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 by Robert Hood

The following are images from the Worth1000.com site. If you’re not aware of it, it’s a site where, among other things, members engage in thematic Photoshopping contests — reworking digital sources according to set themes. Many of those fake pictures … Continue reading →

Posted in Giant Monsters, Pictorial art, Weird stuff | 5 Comments

Potential Name Change

Posted on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 by Robert Hood

Thanks to an online anagram program, I’m thinking I should adopt this anagram of my name: Robot Horde. Perfect! If I put in my full name a lot of stuff turns up, but I rather like Extra Bold Wormhole…. (Let’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Giant Monsters, Idle Thoughts, Pictorial art, Robots | 2 Comments

Review: Guilala’s Boyish Grin

Posted on Monday, December 8, 2008 by Robert Hood

Girara-no Gyakushuu Touyaku Samitto Kiki Ippatsu [lit. Guilala’s Counter Attack: the Touyaku Summit One-Shot Crisis; aka Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit!] (2008; dir. Minoru Kawasaki) Though the Japanese daikaiju eiga subgenre of giant monster films was arguably … Continue reading →

Posted in Daikaiju, Film, Giant Monsters, Japanese, Review, Update | 4 Comments

Rock-fishing Can Be Dangerous

Posted on Sunday, December 7, 2008 by Robert Hood

You have to check out this brilliant CG-animated short sci-fi film about a man, his “companion animal” and rock-fishing on an alien world. Rockfish (US-2003; short, 9 min.; animation; dir. Tim Miller) Fantastic! Rockfish is set to be made as … Continue reading →

Posted in Animation, Giant Monsters, Weekend Fright Flick | Tagged | 3 Comments

More on Terminator: Salvation

Posted on Saturday, December 6, 2008 by Robert Hood

Just a few Terminator: Salvation teasers in passing. Below is the new poster (at rest) … but click here to see it as it was meant to be seen (in motion). Doing the rounds is also a segment of America’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Posters, Robots, Teaser, Update | 1 Comment

Update: Outlander

Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2008 by Robert Hood

Another trailer for the vikings-vs-alien-monster movie, Outlander: And, yes, they speak in English. Despite the whingers that have been appearing on my YouTube site scorning that fact, I’m rather grateful myself — as my grasp on Old Norse is a … Continue reading →

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Coming: Shambling Towards Hiroshima

Posted on Sunday, November 30, 2008 by Robert Hood

With its elegant referencing of W.B. Yeats’ poem, “The Second Coming”: And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? James Morrow’s Godzilla-allusive new novel, Slouching Towards Hiroshima, slouches towards a release date … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Daikaiju, Giant Monsters, News | 2 Comments