Category Archives: Independent film

Nagira, Mutant Monster From Germany

Posted on Sunday, November 1, 2009 by Robert Hood

You’d think that the need for difficult SFX work would be daunting to ultra-low-budget filmmakers and would lead them to work in intimate, less spectacular genres than kaiju eiga. Well, not everyone takes the easier route. Check out this new … Continue reading →

Posted in Daikaiju, Film, Giant Monsters, Independent film, Interviews, News | 5 Comments

Face the Faces

Posted on Friday, October 30, 2009 by Robert Hood

Faces only an undead mother could love! I’m not sure what to make of this one, but with Halloween upon us this weekend it seems appropriate to highlight one of the oddest horror DVD releases I’ve seen for a while. … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Horror, Independent film, Weird stuff | 1 Comment

Wavebreaking with Jules Verne in Sweden

Posted on Saturday, October 24, 2009 by Robert Hood

Vågbrytare or “The Wavebreakers” is a short (14:30 min.) film by a bunch of crazy Swedish guys — and it looks like lots of fun. Based, perhaps rather distantly, on Jules Verne’s classic undersea adventure 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Giant Squids, Independent film, News, Science Fiction | 2 Comments

New Daikaiju Appears Through a Fog of Obscurity

Posted on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 by Robert Hood

A previously unknown and unsuspected Japanese giant monster film has just come to light — one that resonates backwards right to the start of the daikaiju eiga tradition. What is it? You’ll have to read on to find out. Background … Continue reading →

Posted in Daikaiju, Dinosaurs, Film, Giant Monsters, Godzilla, Independent film, Japanese, Kaiju Search-Robot Avery, News, Where's the Film? | 193 Comments

She-Rex Rises!

Posted on Saturday, October 10, 2009 by Robert Hood

Prolific independent filmmaker Brett Kelly’s latest production — hot on the heels of his 1950s remake Attack of the Giant Leeches — has entered the lost world of slapstick comedy. Kaiju Search-Robot Avery reports! Now this one’s gonna be a … Continue reading →

Posted in Dinosaurs, Film, Giant Monsters, Humour, Independent film | 3 Comments

More Sightings of Muckman

Posted on Thursday, October 8, 2009 by Robert Hood

Writer, director and all-round independent cinema Renaissance Man Brett Piper’s latest B-flick renovation is Muckman — an epic tale of swamplands, genetic mutation and tentacles. We last explored the heritage on which it draws here — and now have a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cthulhu, Film, Horror, Independent film, Monsters in general | 1 Comment

Crustacean: The Movie

Posted on Saturday, September 26, 2009 by Robert Hood

There is, in the heart of the horror genre, an undoubted fascination for freakshow and carnival flicks, be they good stuff such as Tod Browning’s classic Freaks (1932), the brilliant TV series Carnivàle (2003-2005) and David Lynch’s tragic The Elephant … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Horror, Humour, Independent film, Monsters in general, Posters, Trailers | 3 Comments

Zombie Kings

Posted on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 by Robert Hood

This short take on the zombie apocalypse — using stylised green-screen techniques to create semi-animated SFX spectacle — looks both bizarre and hilarious. Zombie Kings: The King of the Zombies (US-2008; dir. Paul Steiner) Synopsis: Mad Dr ‘D’ has the … Continue reading →

Posted in Apocalypse, Film, Giant Monsters, Humour, Independent film, Zombies | 10 Comments

The Moleman Cometh!

Posted on Friday, September 11, 2009 by Robert Hood

Beats me why Americans have basements. There’s always something nasty living down there and you just know there’s gonna be trouble sooner or later. The basement — as the “underground” area of a house or building — becomes a metaphorical … Continue reading →

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Plan 9 is launched — Again!

Posted on Thursday, September 10, 2009 by Robert Hood

A while back, director John Johnson announced that he would be remaking “one of the worst films ever made”, Ed Wood’s Plan 9 From Outer Space (US-1959; dir. Edward D. Wood Jr.), in which invading aliens resurrect the dead to … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Horror, Independent film, News, Zombies | 3 Comments