Category Archives: Horror

Weekend Fright Flick: It Came From Beyond the Mountain

Posted on Saturday, September 18, 2010 by Robert Hood

So you reckon “they don’t make ’em like that any more”? Well, maybe they do. Director Douglas Bankston’s retro-50s giant monster film, It Came From Beyond the Mountain is here presented in its full 10:38 minute version. According to Bankston, … Continue reading →

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Do the Troll Stomp!

Posted on Saturday, September 18, 2010 by Robert Hood

This is just an 18 second clip, but it’s so cool I had to run it here on the main site. It’s from the upcoming “camera verité”, fake doco monster flick from Norway Trolljegeren [aka The Troll Hunter] (Norway-2010; dir. … Continue reading →

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Sharktopus Trailer

Posted on Friday, September 17, 2010 by Robert Hood

Be part of the ongoing collision between shark, octopus and the human quest for novelty monsters by celebrating Undead Backbrain’s 1001st post with the new extended trailer for the Roger Corman produced SyFy monster flick Sharktopus (US-2010; dir. Declan O’Brien). … Continue reading →

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You Can Haz Chawz

Posted on Friday, September 17, 2010 by Robert Hood

Though the South Korean giant boar flick, Chaw (directed by Jeong-won Shin), has already been released to DVD elsewhere in the Western world (such as here in Oz) under the title Chaw, it seems some folk want to “subtly” sledgehammer … Continue reading →

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Bunyan: The Legend as Monster

Posted on Tuesday, September 7, 2010 by Robert Hood

Sometimes it’s fun to re-imagine legendary heroes as bad guys and monsters. I recently did it myself, in a sci-fi horror story about the Assyrian hero Gilgamesh. Sometimes even superheroes become embittered and darken up their act. Superman did it … Continue reading →

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Jump-Starting the Ghost Shark

Posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 by Robert Hood

Want another mutant shark movie? A good one? Or would you prefer a ghost movie? Can’t decide? Well, we’re here to help. Check out this really cool trailer. Yes, it’s Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws (NZ-[in development]; dir. Andrew Todd … Continue reading →

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Thems!

Posted on Friday, August 20, 2010 by Robert Hood

Remember Them (US-1954; dir. Gordon Douglas)? One of the great scifi horror films of the Cold-War era — eerie desert locations, the stink of formic acid and a weird, high-pitched whine, James Arness hunting giant ants through the sewers of … Continue reading →

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Up By The Roots

Posted on Friday, August 13, 2010 by Robert Hood

In horticultural mythology, the mandrake plant (family Solanaceae, genus Mandragora) — the roots of which supposedly resemble human organs, and in folklore, even whole human forms — was used in various mystical rituals and was said to have aphrodisiac and … Continue reading →

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Early Vampire Cinema 1916 to 1974: Part 2

Posted on Thursday, August 12, 2010 by Robert Hood

Continued from Early Vampire Cinema 1916 to 1974: Part 1 Part 2: From Lugosi to Lee If Dracula dominated popular imagination as the defining representative of vampire kind up until recent times, it was Hungarian actor Béla Lugosi whose performance … Continue reading →

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Early Vampire Cinema 1916 to 1974: Part 1

Posted on Sunday, August 8, 2010 by Robert Hood

The following two-part article was written for Mark Deniz’s excellent Vampire Awareness Month, which is still running on his blog. Go there to check out a plethora of top-notch writings on the subject of vampires, ranging from reviews of significant … Continue reading →

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