Category Archives: News

Giant Ants Ate the Blues Player

Posted on Sunday, April 19, 2009 by Robert Hood

Kaiju Search-Robot Avery has discovered that Bakersfield, California country blues player Hank Ray is making a movie about giant ants. Taking the classic truth-in-advertising approach to titles, it’s called Giant Ants Eat Bakersfield. It will be about 30 minutes long … Continue reading →

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Exotic Gothic 2 and Shirley Jackson

Posted on Friday, April 17, 2009 by Robert Hood

The excellent new Gothic anthology Exotic Gothic 2, in which my story “Kulpunya” appears, has just been announced as a finalist in the Shirley Jackson Awards anthology category.  These Awards salute original works for their “outstanding achievement in the literature … Continue reading →

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New: Bong of the Dead

Posted on Sunday, April 12, 2009 by Robert Hood

Smoking cannabis can invoke paranoid delusions. We all know that. I remember the effect lengthy sessions of weed indulgence had on the minds of friends during the halycon days of the 1970s. But now — a film that supplies its … Continue reading →

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They Hope Mold Will Grow On You!

Posted on Thursday, April 2, 2009 by Robert Hood

Mold! (US-2009; dir. Neil Meschino) is an independent horror comedy that plays in the mold (sorry!) of such gross-out films as Herschell Gordon Lewis’ Blood Feast (1962), Jackie Kong’s Blood Diner (1987), Larry Cohen’s The Stuff (1985), and the Aussie … Continue reading →

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Book Release: Patient Zero

Posted on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 by Robert Hood

A zombie apocalypse/crime thriller hybrid novel sees release today: Patient Zero by Jonathan Maberry (St. Martins Griffin; trade paperback). Synopsis: When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week there’s either something wrong with your world or … Continue reading →

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New Daikaiju: Gehara the Hairy

Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 by Robert Hood

Word has leaked out via ENSHOHMA on the Kaijuphile forums about a new daikaiju film, Gehara. Postscript: for the record the film is called Chohatsu Daikaiju Gehara [Long-haired Giant Monster Gehara] (Japan-2009; short; dir. Kiyotaka Taguchi) As you can see … Continue reading →

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New: Dire Wolf

Posted on Thursday, February 12, 2009 by Robert Hood

Straight from one of the reigning B-horror superstars, Fred Olen Ray, comes a new monster flick that combines prehistoric throwbacks with the werewolf genre (minus standard human-wolf lunar transmogrification, I assume). Dire Wolf (US-[post-production, 2009]; dir. Fred Olen Ray) Starring … Continue reading →

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Hater Optioned by Del Toro

Posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 by Robert Hood

This is a dramatisation based on page 102 of British author David Moody’s novel, Hater. Sometimes self-publication works — and produces spectacular results. Moody’s self-published horror novel appeared online in 2006. Without an agent, Moody managed to sell the film … Continue reading →

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Poddying the Blob

Posted on Friday, January 16, 2009 by Robert Hood

A gross, slime-dripping blob from another dimension who wants nothing more than to achieve stardom as a Shakespearean actor! An overweight, insecure loser who might be the key to the amorphous creature’s diabolical plan! All he has to do is … Continue reading →

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Under the Monster’s Skin

Posted on Tuesday, January 6, 2009 by Robert Hood

The Backbrain doesn’t usually do birthdays, but there was a highly significant one that occurred in 1 January and we missed it! 1 January 2009 was the 80th birthday of Haruo Nakajima. Don’t know who he is? Here’s a clue? … Continue reading →

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