Category Archives: Horror

What’s For Breakfast? Ask the Oatmeal Man

Posted on Friday, April 30, 2010 by Robert Hood

Is there a horror film tradition of monstrous food? Let’s see, offhand (and ignoring cannibal movies and movies about poisoned edibles) I can think of The Stuff (US-1985; dir. Larry Cohen) [sentient killer yoghurt], The Gingerdead Man (US-2005; dir. Charles … Continue reading →

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Wolf Man vs Dracula? Way Too Passé!

Posted on Thursday, April 29, 2010 by Robert Hood

Now that pitting monsters of different species against each other has become the norm, no one feels obliged to stick to traditional match-making. Aliens, Predators, Jason, Freddy, Vikings, ninjas, mega sharks, giant octopi, Sharktopus, Dinoshark, giant komodo lizards, vixen assassins … Continue reading →

Posted in Exploitation films, Horror, Independent film, Monsters in general, News | 2 Comments

Update: Even Muckier

Posted on Monday, April 26, 2010 by Robert Hood

Muckman (US-2010; dir Brett Piper) A quick addition to the Backbrain’s growing accumulation of muck on the old-school independent monster flick, Muckman. Synopsis: Deep in the Blackwoods Forest, a sexy TV host, Asia Buchanan, and her crew of Producer, Cameraman … Continue reading →

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Weekend Fright Flick Festival: Post-Apocalypse

Posted on Sunday, April 18, 2010 by Robert Hood

Whereas disaster films such as Roland Emmerich’s ADD exercise in visual frenzy, 2012, are about immediate survival and in-progress destruction (with thrills coming from the destruction itself), post-apocalypse tales tend to explore in a more reflective manner the aftermath of … Continue reading →

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More From the Bug

Posted on Saturday, April 17, 2010 by Robert Hood

The Cran Brothers’ in-production giant monster flick, The Millennium Bug (US-2010; dir Kenneth Cran) — which the Backbrain highlighted on 4 April — is getting weirder as we learn more about it. Of central interest is the fact that it … Continue reading →

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Primitive: The FX Strike Back

Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 by Robert Hood

Monsters are special effects, right? Well, Primitive — a new film by Thunderhead Entertainment and director Benjamin Cooper (The Conquered: Curse of the Shaman, The Brink) — takes the somewhat post-modern approach of having an “actual” monster arise from the … Continue reading →

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Fred Olen Ray Joins the Versus Club

Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 by Robert Hood

Godzilla and his mates started it, but these days everyone’s getting on the bandwagon. The first Giant Monster Versus Giant Monster film (GMV) was probably the sequel to the original 1954 Gojira — Godzilla Strikes Back! [aka Gojira no gyakushu] … Continue reading →

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Bikini (Monster) Gallery *Update*

Posted on Monday, April 12, 2010 by Robert Hood

Somehow, bikinis and monsters — particularly in conjunction — say “schlock horror” more forcefully than almost any of the other possible components that can contribute to an archetypal exploitation film. This fact alone is bound to get Bikini Monsters (US-2010; … Continue reading →

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Update: Alien vs Ninja

Posted on Monday, April 5, 2010 by Robert Hood

Here’s the trailer for Alien vs Ninja (Japan-2010; dir. Seiji Chiba), a must-see exploitation mash-up from the newly formed Sushi Typhoon. Yuji Shimomura (Versus, Aragami, Alive, Death Trance) is handling the fight choreography. Synopsis: Once upon a time in Japan, … Continue reading →

Posted in Fantasy, Film, Horror, Independent film, Japanese | 9 Comments

The Millennium Bug Will Get Us Yet

Posted on Sunday, April 4, 2010 by Robert Hood

Surreptitiously working away in relative obscurity, director Kenneth Cran and his brother James have been developing a new film called The Millennium Bug. Unlike the Year 2000’s Millennium Bug — which was digitally tiny and proved something of a non-event … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Horror, Independent film, News | 8 Comments