Category Archives: News

New: 100 Million BC

Posted on Thursday, February 14, 2008 by Robert Hood

Blockbuster knock-off studio Asylum Pictures’ latest giant monster opus is 100 Million BC, which might appear to knock-off 10,000 BC, the upcoming Emmerich unofficial remake of the old Hammer film One Million Years BC (which was a remake of the … Continue reading →

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New: Serpent Lake

Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2008 by Robert Hood

JFT Productions Film Corporation (basically an independent writer/director/producer by the name of Joel Trujillo) has announced that a new giant monster film will go into production later this year, for a 2009 release. The film is called Serpent Lake and … Continue reading →

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New: Aztec Rex

Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2008 by Robert Hood

It seems that veteran antipodean B-film auteur Brian Trenchard-Smith has got in on the giant monster act with his latest SciFi Channel monsterfest Aztec Rex (2008; aka Tyrannosaurus Azteca). In an interview on the Fangoria site Trenchard-Smith describes it thus: … Continue reading →

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New: Reptisaurus

Posted on Thursday, February 7, 2008 by Robert Hood

Exploitation doyen Fred Olen Ray has announced that his son Chris — clearly walking in  the dad’s footsteps — has just finished directing his first film, a giant monster epic based on an old Charlton Comic from the 1960s. The … Continue reading →

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Black Box

Posted on Saturday, February 2, 2008 by Robert Hood
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Big Win for “The Arrival”

Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2008 by Robert Hood

Back in 1991 I sold a story called “Groundswell” to Aurealis magazine — my first in that now-venerable Australian SF journal. The story was illustrated by a then little-known WA artist by the name of Shaun Tan. It was a … Continue reading →

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At the Aurealis Awards

Posted on Monday, January 28, 2008 by Robert Hood

Cat Sparks and I just did a flying visit to Brisbane over the Australia Day weekend for the Aurealis Speculative Fiction Awards (for fiction written in 2007). I was a presenter in the Horror Short Fiction section (it went to … Continue reading →

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So it begins…

Posted on Thursday, January 3, 2008 by Robert Hood

2007 is officially over … everywhere. It seems like it’s been a rough one for many, with break-ups, family difficulties, tragic accidents, murders, natural disasters, the continuation of war — the whole shebang! As a race, these are always with … Continue reading →

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Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror 2007

Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2007 by Robert Hood

Brimstone Press have announced the arrival of the 2007 edition of Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror, edited by Angela Challis — the only dedicated Best of in the horror genre in this country. It showcases stories published in 2006, but … Continue reading →

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Giant Creatures: New Anthology

Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2007 by Robert Hood

Meanwhile, hot on the heels of the release of Daikaiju! 2: Revenge of the Giant Monsters and Daikaiju! 3: Giant Monsters vs the World comes news of a proposed anthology of “giant creature” stories: Permuted Press is now open to … Continue reading →

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