Category Archives: Independent film

A Strange Attraction to Blood and Rotting Flesh

Posted on Friday, July 23, 2010 by Robert Hood

A gross-out mainstay of monstrous horror flicks everywhere are leeches and maggots. At small size, their nasty habit of wallowing in human body fluids and attaching themselves to live and dead flesh respectively for the purpose of consumption and generally … Continue reading →

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Update: House of the Wolf Man

Posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 by Robert Hood

The retro-horror flick, House of the Wolf Man (US-2009; dir. Eben McGarr) — a logical modern addition to Universal’s monster mashes, House of Frankenstein (US-1944; dir. Erle C. Kenton) and House of Dracula (US-1945; dir. Erle C. Kenton) — picked … Continue reading →

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Update On The Giant Monsters Attacking Hawaii

Posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 by Robert Hood

Undead Backbrain has obtained some images from Dane Neves, whose project Giant Monsters Attack Hawaii — featuring a group of monster puppets doing their best to stomp all over the Hawaiian islands — looks like it will be a total … Continue reading →

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Interview with Daniel Lee: Ocho and Beyond

Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2010 by Robert Hood

Director? Artist? Auteur? I’m just a guy who loves movies. As we’ve seen many times of late, the best way to make a micro-budget sci-fi horror film these days is to make a homage to low-budget monster flicks from the … Continue reading →

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Sharktopus Trailer … A Classic in the Making?

Posted on Saturday, July 17, 2010 by Robert Hood

OK, this is probably everywhere by now — but after the speculation that’s gone into it, I have to run it here on Undead Backbrain. It’s the official Sharktopus trailer and it’s a beauty — cheap but imaginative CGI and … Continue reading →

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What Up with Lake Okanagan?

Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2010 by Robert Hood

The Beast of Bottomless Lake is what’s up with Lake Okanagan. Known as Ogopogo, the Beast is a classic lake monster that dwells in the darkest depths, rising every now and then to scare visitors, annoy rationalists and foster local … Continue reading →

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Crawler: Exclusive Images

Posted on Friday, July 9, 2010 by Robert Hood

Independent horror filmmaker Sv Bell and Black Flag Pictures is going great guns in the production of impressive-looking low-budget genre films, the latest being Crawler — a film about a monstrous bulldozer that goes several steps beyond Jerry London’s 1974 … Continue reading →

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The Millennium Bug Has Finally Arrived!

Posted on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 by Robert Hood

But don’t panic! We’re talking about the horror thriller by director Kenneth Cran and his brother James rather than the fanciful computer scare that led us into the new millennium. The Cran Brothers’ millennium bug isn’t a programming glitch and … Continue reading →

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Gone Fishin’

Posted on Friday, July 2, 2010 by Robert Hood

British filmmaker Chris Jones found that successfully teaching folk how to make films guerilla-fashion (as he did when he wrote the popular The Guerilla Film Maker’s Handbook series and when he tutored hopefuls on how to do it, face-to-face) had … Continue reading →

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Keeping the Werewolf Drugged

Posted on Sunday, June 27, 2010 by Robert Hood

Making a connection between lycanthropy and drug addiction should add an effective metaphorical texture to Joel Potrykus’ short film, Coyote. Drugs and addiction have been effectively applied to the vampire mythos, where an obvious synchronicity exists between the vampire’s need … Continue reading →

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