Category Archives: Giant Monsters

mSCORPIO vs King Komodo

Posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 by Robert Hood

Kaiju artist Todd Tennant has sent us a preview of King Komodo’s next opponent. Cool, eh? For those who don’t know, Tales of King Komodo is a kaiju-based graphic novel serial by Todd Tennant and Mike Bogue. It appears in … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Daikaiju, Giant Monsters, Graphic novels, Preview | 2 Comments

Update: Zero Trooper-F

Posted on Monday, August 18, 2008 by Robert Hood

The US Ultraman-inspired film Zero Trooper-F looks like it is coming along very nicely indeed. Check out this reel of SFX moments. They’re rather impressive on a miniscule-budget, I would have thought: Previous posts on Zero Trooper-F Source: Avery

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Poor Lost Dinosaurs

Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 by Robert Hood

Famed stop-motion animator Willis E. O’Brien made motion picture history when he animated a series of dinosaurs confronting modern humanity in the 1925 version of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. The SFX of this film were astounding at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Dinosaurs, Film, Giant Monsters, Where's the Film? | 10 Comments

Update: Chaw

Posted on Sunday, August 10, 2008 by Robert Hood

SciFi Japan has a detailed article on the South Korean giant mutant boar movie, Chaw (South Korean-[in post-production, 2009]; dir. Jeong-won Shin), which the Backbrain introduced a while back. Here is the synopsis: Mysterious, gruesome deaths plague Sammae-ri, a peaceful … Continue reading →

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Godzilla ’94 Trailer

Posted on Saturday, August 9, 2008 by Robert Hood

With the aid of Dennis Davison, artist Todd Tennant has produced a “trailer” advertising his graphic novel version of the abandoned 1994 script for Jan De Bont’s US Godzilla. Check it out, and then go read the graphic novel itself! … Continue reading →

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Update: Sea Monsters

Posted on Sunday, August 3, 2008 by Robert Hood

In lieu of more substantial writings (the Backbrain has been busy of late), here’s the trailer to the iMax doco-drama Sea Monsters, featuring some very impressive CGI critters: Original article Source: Avery

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Gualagon

Posted on Saturday, July 26, 2008 by Robert Hood

What is Gualagon, I hear you ask? Well it’s a German-made, Japanese style kaiju film done as a radio play — inspired by such Toho classics as Furankenshutain tai chitei kaiju Baragon [trans. Frankenstein vs the Subterranean Monster Baragon] (1965; … Continue reading →

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A Giant Egg

Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 by Robert Hood

Here is a brief clip from a Disney short called Glago’s Guest. Apparently the full thing will be in front of the Disney feature film Bolt, when it premiers on 26th November. Rather intriguing. What’s in the egg, I wonder? … Continue reading →

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New South Korean Giants

Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 by Robert Hood

With the upsurge in international awareness of Asian genre films, collaboration has become even more desirable and will hopefully inject some originality into such subgenres as the B-schlock “rampaging giant monster” film. Polygon Entertainment (a film production company based in … Continue reading →

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New: Showdown of the Godz

Posted on Friday, July 18, 2008 by Robert Hood

Yes, Virginia, there is a Godzilla. As we (meaning those likely to visit the Backbrain on a regular basis) know, fans can be obsessive. Kaiju fans aren’t much different from the rest of fandom, except in the fact that their … Continue reading →

Posted in Daikaiju, Film, Giant Monsters, Godzilla, Posters, Weird stuff | 3 Comments