Category Archives: News

Sinbad Voyages Again in Dynamation!

Posted on Thursday, July 29, 2010 by Robert Hood

At least one production studio — aptly named Giant Flick Films  —  is hell-bent on ensuring that their addition to a great cinematic tradition will replicate the sort of mythic monsters that made the originals so enchanting. Sinbad: The Fifth … Continue reading →

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Sucker Punch Hits the Blogsphere

Posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 by Robert Hood

Director Zack Snyder (of the Dawn of the Dead remake and, more pertinently as it happens, Watchmen and 300) has hit on a winner here, I reckon. Sucker Punch not only sports an somewhat off-beat scenario, but from all appearances … Continue reading →

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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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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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It’s a MM(+9)ystery!

Posted on Sunday, July 4, 2010 by Robert Hood

This post is about a mystery contained in a mystery. Last week Undead Backbrain’s Avery Guerra stumbled upon a video posted to YouTube by tomoro55 — a Channel that concentrates on the work of Japanese director Kiyotaka Taguchi. Taguchi is … Continue reading →

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Destroy All Planets 2010

Posted on Friday, June 25, 2010 by Robert Hood

No, not a remake, but a digitally tarted-up reissue from Fred Olen Ray’s Retromedia. Gamera tai uchu kaiju Bairasu [trans. Gamera vs the Outer Space Monster Virus] (1968; dir. Noriaki Yuasa) was the fourth Gamera film from would-be rival to … Continue reading →

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Monster vs Monster: the Asylum is Listening!

Posted on Saturday, June 19, 2010 by Robert Hood

Remember The Asylum’s biggest hit ever, the internet sensation Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus (US-2009; dir. Ace Hannah)? Who can forget it, right? It was a splendid example of a playful, tongue-in-cheek recreation of those extravagant, delightfully absurd giant monster … Continue reading →

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Help Boost Aussiecon 4’s Wattage

Posted on Monday, June 14, 2010 by Robert Hood

Undead Backbrain wants to help Canadian author Peter Watts get to this year’s World SF convention! Why? Read on. Peter Watts has written some of the best hardcore science fiction available today. On reading his first Rifters novel, Starfish, I … Continue reading →

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Future Fighters: The Next Big Thing?

Posted on Saturday, June 5, 2010 by Robert Hood

In the 22nd Century, the darkest region of space lies in the hearts of men. News of a huge in-development 3D SFX extravaganza from China-based production company Agog Films — with multi-national backing and creative input — has hit the … Continue reading →

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A 9 on the Monster Magnitude Scale!

Posted on Friday, May 28, 2010 by Robert Hood

Great news for daikaiju fans! It has been confirmed that Japanese SFX wizard Shinji Higuchi (best known as the man behind the excellent effects for Shusuke Kaneko’s Gamera re-boot trilogy, which set the standard for daikaiju eiga imagery in the … Continue reading →

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