Category Archives: Horror

Weekend Fright Film: Paul Dowers Festival

Posted on Saturday, November 6, 2010 by Robert Hood

This weekend’s Fright Flick Festival features a sequence of four low budget horror spoof films about a vengeful dummy — and a supernatural flick, A Vengefull Ghost. All are the work of producer/writer/director Paul Dowers, who set up Barking Mad … Continue reading →

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Of Monsters, Banana Burritos and the King

Posted on Saturday, November 6, 2010 by Robert Hood

After the success of their comic series Robot 13, writer Thomas Hall and artist Daniel Bradford of Blacklist Studios have branched out with a second series, this one looking at monster fighting from a different perspective — different in terms … Continue reading →

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Backwood Horror Emerges From the Forest

Posted on Friday, October 29, 2010 by Robert Hood

Lost Woods (US-2010; dir. Nathan and Philip Ellering) A monster-thriller written and directed by the Ellering Bros. Director of Photography: Lance Kuhns. Cast: Joey Brown, Garrett Vander Leun, Nina Brissey, Phillip Ellering and Nathan Ellering. A few days ago we … Continue reading →

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This is a Big ‘N!

Posted on Wednesday, October 20, 2010 by Robert Hood

“It’s the size of a mountain!” “It is the mountain!” It’s called Behemoth (US/Canada-2010; dir. David Hogan) But not this one! At this point, the new Behemoth has a small poster, even if his presence in the film is gigantic. … Continue reading →

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Zombies. Tits. Dragon?

Posted on Sunday, October 17, 2010 by Robert Hood

Sometimes, there’s nothing you can add, except that it seems as though the infamous Takao Nakano’s The Big Tits Dragon is being released in the West as “Big Tits Zombie” — a title that’s probably inaccurate but clearly indicates that … Continue reading →

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If People Can Get Turned Into Zombies, What About Werewolves?

Posted on Friday, October 15, 2010 by Robert Hood

This profound existential question, asked by all of us at some point, I’m sure, is set to be answered by Zombie Werewolves Attack! (US-2010; dir. Chris Green). Synopsis: Zombie Werewolves Attack! The name says it all, a hilariously fun B-Movie … Continue reading →

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Parasitic: It’ll Get Under Your Skin

Posted on Wednesday, October 13, 2010 by Robert Hood

Want zombies with your giant monster bugs? Well, we might just have the perfect movie for you! We have it reliably from writer/director Timothy Martin that Parasitic, which started life a few years back under the title “Black Licorice”, is … Continue reading →

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Getting an Inkling of the Frenzy

Posted on Monday, October 4, 2010 by Robert Hood

Feeding Frenzy is a new independent film that directors Mike Stoklasa and Jay Bauman of Red Letter Media describe as “a tongue-in-cheek homage to the rubber puppet monster movies of the 80s such as Critters, Ghoulies, and all the other … Continue reading →

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New: Attack of the Indian Werewolf

Posted on Thursday, September 30, 2010 by Robert Hood

Touted as the most ambitious film ever to come from South Africa, Attack of the Indian Werewolf (South Africa-2010; dir. Masood Boomgaard) is a horror comedy of a somewhat wacky kind — Indian style. “Get dalad”? Synopsis: Brandon (Neville Pillay) … Continue reading →

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Slime on the Walls of the Spaceship

Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 by Robert Hood

Highly respected Japanese filmmaker, Kinji Fukasaku, who died in 2003 at the age of 73, having just directed a hugely successful sci-fi/horror satire, was responsible for several classics of Japanese, and indeed world, cinema. His films include the “The Yakuza … Continue reading →

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