Category Archives: Independent film

Yowie!

Posted on Monday, November 22, 2010 by Robert Hood

Various American friends and acquaintances occasionally express bemusement at the Aussie idioms than crop up in my writing and the slang we Antipodeans occasionally toss into the conversation. The term “Yowie” is one such. Since my childhood, I’ve used it … Continue reading →

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Millennium Bug In Post-production

Posted on Sunday, November 21, 2010 by Robert Hood

The hillbilly/giant monster/alien bug movie The Millennium Bug (US-2010; dir. Kenneth Cran) is close to being ready for submitting to the Cleveland Film Festival, the deadline of which is this coming Tuesday. The final sound mix is done and colour … Continue reading →

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Zombies Arise!

Posted on Saturday, November 13, 2010 by Robert Hood

If there’s one thing that zombies do with startling regularity, it’s ARISE. And ARISE again. And again. The modern zombie apocalypse phenomena, part of a 21st Century obsession with apocalypse as a whole but huge in its own right, has … Continue reading →

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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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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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Creating Oak Swamp

Posted on Wednesday, October 27, 2010 by Robert Hood

Swamps, marshes and backwater locations have provided evocative settings for horror films/stories in the past. From King Kong (US-1933; dir. Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack), through the likes of Creature from the Black Lagoon (US-1954; dir. Jack Arnold) … 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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Weekend Fright Flick: Terror From the Abyss

Posted on Sunday, September 26, 2010 by Robert Hood

As Guillermo Del Toro heads into his much-anticipated production of H.P. Lovecraft’s longest mythos story, At the Mountains of Madness, Undead Backbrain presents a much shorter, much cheaper version of the same tale. This one comes courtesy of Daniel Lenneér, … Continue reading →

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