Category Archives: Posters

First Ripple from the Depths of Sector 7

Back in July 2008 Undead Backbrain reported on the work being done by Polygon Entertainment (a film production company based in Marin County, California). Polygon was set up by founders Hans H. Uhlig and Doo Jin Kim specifically to work … Continue reading

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Astro-Zombies Back For More!

Low-budget exploitation legend Ted V. Mikels has been in touch with news on his latest project. It is, of course, the second sequel to his original space zombie “cult” film, The Astro-Zombies (US-1968),  following upon 2002’s return to the distinctive … Continue reading

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More Tentacles, More Bio-Slime

You might want to put your breakfast aside for a moment to check out these pictures of the central creature from John Lechago’s coming-soon ooze-drenched horror flick, Bio-Slime, which we last had a look at in February. No more news, … Continue reading

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The Last Week (or Two) on Undead Brainspasm

O.C. Babes and the Slasher of Zombietown (24 May 2009) Orange Country zombies attack Orange Country zombies! (That’s what it says…) Update: Mortis Rex (20 May 2009) More images from the Ancient Romans vs Giant Demonic monster flick Update: Metallic … Continue reading

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The Virtues of Recycling: Resiklo

In Hollywood, considering its current obsession with doing remakes, recycling hasn’t proven an unmitigated success. So a recent film from the Philippines is taking a different tack. Resiklo [aka Recycle] (Philippines-2007; dir. Mark A. Reyes) may be recycling tropes as … Continue reading

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What amazes me most is not that someone actually comes up with these concepts, but that when the hangover passes, they decide to go ahead and make the film anyway! On that note, I apologise for exposing your poor battered … Continue reading

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Bio-Slime Drips from the Walls

John Lechago, diirector of the in-production sentient-ooze-themed horror flick Bio-Slime, has kindly offered the Backbrain a bunch of exclusive pictures. The plot involves … well, slime and ooze and tentacles and folk being absorbed into the muck, and features good … Continue reading

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[Man-]Beastly Remake

“30 Corpses… 1 Man Beast… 0 Plot.” So what’s the least likely film to get a remake? No doubt a plethora of z-grade and just-plain-awful mainstream flicks spring to mind — and really, the one I’m about to tell you … Continue reading

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Obscure Godzilla Posters

We’re all familiar with the standard Godzilla posters, beginning with the original Japanese one: But there are many many others. As an excuse to reveal a poster that Kaiju Search-Robot Avery discovered on the Kong is King messageboard, here is … Continue reading

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Nessie That Wasn’t

I think this picture is of a monster from a Hammer Films / Toho co-production that never happened. I’ve been reading Sinclair McKay’s A Thing of Unspeakable Horror: The History of Hammer Films (Aurum Press, 2007) — which is a … Continue reading

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