Category Archives: It’s True! Really!

Giant Spider Graveyard

Posted on Monday, September 1, 2008 by Robert Hood

Amazing revelation! The skeletal remains of not one but two giant spiders that rampaged through Lincoln County, Wisconsin, in the US in 1975 have been discovered by arachnid wrangler Bill Rebane. Rebane was responsible for recording the twin mega-spiders’ murderous … Continue reading →

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Giant Poo Goes on a Rampage

Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 by Robert Hood

You know the world is in deep shit when giant dog droppings are rampaging across the countryside. Makes you wonder what the giant dog that produced them is up to. Maybe Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World (US-1973; dir. … Continue reading →

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Sentient Vacuum Cleaners Attack!

Posted on Saturday, July 19, 2008 by Robert Hood

Oversexed Rugsuckers From Mars (US-1989; dir. Michael Paul Girard) I don’t have a lot to say about this, except… well, it was the ’80s… Tiny Martians use Earth as a laboratory to try out new life forms. They return after … Continue reading →

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After the Dragon Wars

Posted on Saturday, July 12, 2008 by Robert Hood

Having finally seen Shim Hyung-rae’s D-War — otherwise known as Dragon Wars in the West — and having discovered it to be an entertaining giant monster lark, albeit flawed by some dodgy acting and a poorly structured script, I now … Continue reading →

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An Encounter with Anacondas

Posted on Friday, July 4, 2008 by Robert Hood

It’s not often that a tourist visit to Fiji offers a chance to engage with giant monsters. It happened to me just the other day. We’ve been on Viti Levu (“Big Fiji”), in Suva to be precise, visiting fellow horror … Continue reading →

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Take That, Zombie… um, Vampire Shakespeare!

Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 by Robert Hood

It had to happen! As soon as someone thought of it, the result was inevitable. Tom Stoppard did his postmodern take on Hamlet in an absurdist tragicomedy called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead back in 1966, by re-viewing the events … Continue reading →

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And Plan 10 is … Plan 9!

Posted on Monday, June 9, 2008 by Robert Hood

Edward D. Wood’s 1959 film Plan 9 From Outer Space is a “classic”. It’s badly made, amateurish, and outright embarrassing for all concerned, but it’s a “classic”. That “classic” stature comes from the very qualities that make it such a … Continue reading →

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Cleavagefield

Posted on Sunday, May 18, 2008 by Robert Hood

You had to ask, didn’t you? This is an ad for a new giant monster film that’s just gone into production. No, really! It is! The film’s called Cleavagefield — for reasons no one could possibly guess, though I’m sure … Continue reading →

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