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Lost with Monsters on a Mysterious Island

A Backbrain Exclusive Lost Island [aka L’île: les naufragés de la terre perdue; The Island: Castaways of the Lost Island] is a new French adventure fantasy film from writer/director Olivier Boillot, released in mid-2011 in France and hopefully heading for … Continue reading

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Hitmen, Alien Parasites and Zombies

An Undead Backbrain Exclusive Interview Life gets difficult enough when you’re a hitman just trying get the job done so you can make it to your kid’s birthday party on time. But things get worse after you stumble across an alien … Continue reading

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Forward to the Past with George and a Big Squid: Exclusive

As Undead Backbrain heads into the new year, it’s rather appropriate that the first new film on offer is an Australian pseudo-historical comedy-drama featuring a giant squid. George Jones and the Giant Squid was written and directed by Dan Osborn and … Continue reading

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Giant Monster Musical Horror Film? A Backbrain Exclusive

Has anyone made a giant monster horror film as a period musical before? Off-hand I can’t think of any. Japanese flicks such as Furankenshutain no kaiju-Sanda tai Gaira (1966; dir. Ishiro Honda) — otherwise known as War of the Gargantuas — … Continue reading

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When Faux Cicadas Get Real: A Backbrain Exclusive

At the moment The Attack of the Giant Killer Cicadas is the subject of a faux movie trailer for a 1950s style sci-fi/horror movie that doesn’t exist … but which, in the words of its creator “probably should!” You know … Continue reading

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A Lovecraft Invasion 6: The Black Goat

The Black Goat Project sounds like some sort of covert Government operation — a secret-service incursion into an obscure mountainous principality in central Europe perhaps, or a scientific experiment in genetic manipulation focusing on the hybridisation of goats and trainee … Continue reading

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The Emergence: Exclusive Glimpse Behind-the-Scenes

As the new killer mutant-insect creature-feature style short film, The Emergence (Canada-2011; short [11 min.]; dir. Jeff LeBlanc) nears its release date (1 December 2011), Undead Backbrain takes you behind the scenes of the production, via an exclusive series of … Continue reading

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New RetroMonster: The Tentacle’s Claw

I’m not sure what the title of this new film from director/writer/dp/editor Michael Rigler says about the titular beastie (… it’s a big tentacle with a claw at the end? … hmmm, maybe… stay on until the end of this … Continue reading

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Coming Soon: The Emergence Premieres Here!

It’s with great pleasure that I announce that Undead Backbrain will be hosting the premiere release of a new film — a exciting horror creature-feature from director Jeff LeBlanc. The date to look out for? December 1! The Emergence (Canada-2011; … Continue reading

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Danger 5 Coming to a Computer Screen Near You!

Now, does this look too good to be true or what? [youtube 0Z09bNgSeMI] Eye-busting retro design, bizarre concepts, nostalgic stop-motion dinosaurs! What Danger 5 seems to be — in case you haven’t heard of it and haven’t guessed from the … Continue reading

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