Category Archives: News

The God of Clay: Forward to the Past

Posted on Saturday, May 28, 2011 by Robert Hood

A new daikaiju eiga (Japanese giant monster movie) is about to make its world premiere next month: God of Clay (Japan-2009/2011; short [13 min.]; dir. Koichi Kawakita and Nobuaki Sugimoto). God of Clay is a short film — the last … Continue reading →

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Exclusive: Rotgut Is Coming

Posted on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 by Robert Hood

You’ve no doubt seen bottles of mezcal con gusano with the worm in them? Maybe you’ve drunk the mezcal from one. Maybe you ate the worm. They told you it was safe, didn’t they? Well, maybe they lied! Rotgut is … Continue reading →

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A Lovecraftian Invasion 5: The Valdemar Legacy

Posted on Saturday, April 16, 2011 by Robert Hood

With the cancellation of Guillermo Del Toro’s much-anticipated big-budget film adaptation of Lovecraft’s epic At the Mountains of Madness, the Lovecraft-inspired cinema invasion may have suffered a setback, but there are those who haven’t yet surrendered. Spanish filmmaker José Luis … Continue reading →

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Creeping in Reptile Flesh Reprint

Posted on Monday, April 11, 2011 by Robert Hood

It was announced today that Morrigan Books — “Specialists in Dark Fiction” — are re-printing my 2009 collection, Creeping in Reptile Flesh, as part of their e-book series, for the international market.  The distribution for the first edition was somewhat … Continue reading →

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Incidental Demonic Zombie Update

Posted on Sunday, April 3, 2011 by Robert Hood

Director Mariano Cattaneo has sent the Backbrain an update on, and some extremely evocative images from, his demon/zombie film Incidente (Argentina-2011; dir. Mariano Cattaneo), which we reported on 13 February. Cattaneo says: Facts about Incidente: We’re three independent production companies … Continue reading →

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“Sector 7” Creature Revealed! Sort of…

Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2011 by Robert Hood

Under development by the company responsible for the rather excellent disaster film Haeundae (South Korea-2009; dir. Je-gyun Yun), Sector 7 has been long promised (see this previous Backbrain article), but now appears to be in production. At any rate, Kaiju … Continue reading →

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Evil Dolls, Replicants and Dead Eyes

Posted on Sunday, March 27, 2011 by Robert Hood

Dolls might be surrogate friends to children and kitsch collectibles to many adults, but there lingers deep beneath the surface of our cultural awareness of them a dark and unsettling fear. A whole cinematic genre explores the idea of “evil … Continue reading →

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Backbrain Zombies Invade the Aurealis Awards

Posted on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 by Robert Hood

Some good news today. My story “Wasting Matilda” from Zombie Apocalypse! edited by Stephen Jones (Robinson UK and Running Press, US) has shuffled its way onto the shortlist for the Aurealis Awards, Best Horror Short Story category. For those who … Continue reading →

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New: Snow Beast

Posted on Tuesday, March 22, 2011 by Robert Hood

Cryptozoological horror films seem to be on the ascendant right now. Fortunately we here at Undead Backbrain are amongst those who think there can’t be too many. Over the years there have been a few Abominable Snowman or Yeti movies. … Continue reading →

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The Age of Dragons is Here!

Posted on Friday, March 18, 2011 by Robert Hood

Once upon a time, when we first reported on it, Age of Dragons was called Dragon Fire (see previous Backbrain article). Based on Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick, it translates the 19th Century setting of the novel into a land-based … Continue reading →

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