Category Archives: News

Sinbad Gets Lost in Time

Posted on Saturday, April 17, 2010 by Robert Hood

In The Asylum’s upcoming take on the Arabian Nights tale of Sinbad, The 7 Adventures of Sinbad (US-2010; dir. Adam Silver and Ben Hayflick), Sinbad seems to have found himself in modern times, going on the poster and the pictures … Continue reading →

Posted in Fantasy, Film, Giant Monsters, Monsters in general, News, Posters, Update | 2 Comments

Fred Olen Ray Joins the Versus Club

Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 by Robert Hood

Godzilla and his mates started it, but these days everyone’s getting on the bandwagon. The first Giant Monster Versus Giant Monster film (GMV) was probably the sequel to the original 1954 Gojira — Godzilla Strikes Back! [aka Gojira no gyakushu] … Continue reading →

Posted in Cryptozoology, Exploitation films, Film, Horror, Monsters in general, News | 1 Comment

The Millennium Bug Will Get Us Yet

Posted on Sunday, April 4, 2010 by Robert Hood

Surreptitiously working away in relative obscurity, director Kenneth Cran and his brother James have been developing a new film called The Millennium Bug. Unlike the Year 2000’s Millennium Bug — which was digitally tiny and proved something of a non-event … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Horror, Independent film, News | 8 Comments

He’s Back!

Posted on Tuesday, March 30, 2010 by Robert Hood

Rumours of a new Godzilla film have been flying for some time now — not a Japanese film (which would be excellent enough), but another US stab at the Big G, giving the world’s most iconic giant monster a chance … Continue reading →

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Monster! Monster!

Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 by Robert Hood

Monsters (UK-2010; dir. Gareth Edwards) Gareth Edwards’ Monsters project has been shrouded in mystery. Now, on the brink of its premiere showing at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas during March, a clip has appeared, along with the above image … Continue reading →

Posted in Giant Monsters, Independent film, Monsters in general, News, Teaser | 3 Comments

New: Alien vs Ninja

Posted on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by Robert Hood

So we’ve had AVP: Alien vs Predator (not to mention Aliens vs Predator), AVH: Alien vs Hunter (hint: that’s the Asylum one), GVA: Yûrei vs. uchûjin 03 (that’s Ghost vs Alien), ZCVAT: Zombie Cop vs. the Alien Terror (no, really…), … Continue reading →

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Moby Dick Goes Dragon

Posted on Saturday, March 6, 2010 by Robert Hood

Herman Melville’s seminal American novel, Moby Dick, has always been a giant monster tale, particularly as depicted in what remains the best film version, the 1956 John Huston one starring Gregory Peck as the obsessed Captain Ahab. If you can’t … Continue reading →

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Aussiecon 4 and Shaun Tan

Posted on Monday, March 1, 2010 by Robert Hood

This typically whimsical sketch by great Australian artist and illustrator Shaun Tan adorns the cover of Aussiecon 4 Progress Report #2, celebrating the fact that Shaun is one of three Guests of Honour at this year’s 68th World Science Fiction … Continue reading →

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Fin Fang Foom To Cameo in Iron Man 2

Posted on Sunday, February 28, 2010 by Robert Hood

According to ScreenRant, Marvel’s most aristocratic giant monster, the Great Dragon Fin Fang Foom, will be making an appearance in Iron Man 2 (US-2010; dir. Jon Favreau). Don’t get too excited though, as he will only be there as an … Continue reading →

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Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations

Posted on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 by Robert Hood

Just in is the next beautiful hardcover volume in editor (and academic) Danel Olson’s Exotic Gothic series of anthologies: Exotic Gothic 3: Strange Visitations (Ash-Tree Press, 2009). The Exotic Gothic anthologies, which deliberately seek out new work that pushes the … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Horror, My Writing, News | 11 Comments