Category Archives: The Lost

The Elementals

Posted on Monday, May 19, 2008 by Robert Hood

One of the famous “lost” films occupying the shelves of the Willis O’Brien Memorial Film Archive (you know, the one that exists in an alternate reality — a reality that we’re bound to stumble upon one day) is Ray Harryhausen’s … Continue reading →

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Bloodthirsty Dinosaurs!

Posted on Monday, April 7, 2008 by Robert Hood

Over at the Giant Monsters Attack blogspot, Mysterious Pants has discovered a wonderful set of trading cards that prove once and for all that dinosaurs were bloodthirsty giant monsters that would have brought about a general apocalypse if they hadn’t … Continue reading →

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The Untold Godzilla 1994 Story Continues

Posted on Thursday, April 3, 2008 by Robert Hood

Todd Tennant, whose graphic novel version of the unused Ted Elliott/Terry Rossio script for the US Godzilla can be viewed on his American Kaiju website, has stumbled upon another piece of the Godzilla 1994 puzzle. He’s been in touch with … Continue reading →

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Probe-Bats

Posted on Monday, March 31, 2008 by Robert Hood

At the end of last year, I reported on the sale of Stan Winston Studio’s maquette for Jan de Bont’s unmade American Godzilla movie. Now another maquette from the “lost” film has been sold on eBay. This is one of … Continue reading →

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Godzilla vs the US Navy

Posted on Thursday, March 27, 2008 by Robert Hood

Godzilla does what he does best in the next installment of Todd Tennant’s American Godzilla ’94 graphic novel: For those who don’t know, kaiju artist Todd Tennant has for some time been engaged in an ambitious project to create a … Continue reading →

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Kong’s Ancestors

Posted on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 by Robert Hood

Over the years, there has been much discussion of King Kong‘s descendants — including in an article of my own. Analysis of the 1933 film’s ancestors, however, has usually been confined to accounts of Kong co-directors Merian C. Cooper and … Continue reading →

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More Than One Iron-eater

Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 by Robert Hood

A Special Report by Kaiju Search-Robot Avery The history of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il’s propagandist foray into the giant monster genre is a more convoluted one than has previously been known. Our story begins back in the year 1978 … Continue reading →

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The Great Sea Serpent

Posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 by Robert Hood

Worth adding to the Giant Monster List is James Williamson’s The Great Sea Serpent (UK-1904). Information on this very early silent short is hard to find, but the Silent Era website offers the following synopsis, suggesting that the sea serpent … Continue reading →

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The Las Vegas Monster

Posted on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 by Robert Hood

This animation is a rare piece of stop-motion footage, featuring a very peculiar and intriguing monster. It is a test animation for a film, The Las Vegas Monster, that never went through to completion. The designer was Pete Peterson, who … Continue reading →

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The Lost Godzilla

Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007 by Robert Hood

Up for sale on eBay is evidence of what Jan de Bont’s unmade American Godzilla movie might have been like, if the job hadn’t be passed on to Roland Emmerich, in a studio-led decision that left fans torn between despair … Continue reading →

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