Category Archives: Trailers

Attack of the Found Footage

Posted on Sunday, November 9, 2008 by Robert Hood

Here’s a clever and very funny faux trailer for a non-existent schlock-horror B-film, Attack of the Killer Parasites. Inspired by real life parasitic monsters and using public domain footage, mentalfloss.com has added to the ambiant level of paranoia currently terrorising … Continue reading →

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A Glint in the Eye of Poseidon

Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 by Robert Hood

Harris Films — an independent production company run by cinematographer Nick Harris — has a giant monster film bubbling away deep in its backbrain. The monster goes by the name of “the Eye of Poseidon” (for reasons that are obvious … Continue reading →

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Monsters vs Aliens vs DreamWorks

Posted on Wednesday, November 5, 2008 by Robert Hood

The trailer for the newest DreamWorks film, Monster vs Aliens, has appeared, referencing 1950s monster flicks including The Blob and Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman. There’s a gigantic alien robot, a yeti, a mad scientist, a giant insect thing … Continue reading →

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The Giants of Leroy

Posted on Monday, November 3, 2008 by Robert Hood

Last week the Backbrain featured the latest film from Jeff Leroy — Rat Scratch Fever, a low-budget epic about giant rats from outer space that actually looks like it will be a lot of fun. Now Kaiju Search-Robot Avery has … Continue reading →

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Ode to Mr BIG’s Food of the Gods?

Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Robert Hood

It’s about time LA got a bite of some giant monster action. Godzilla? Na. King Kong? Of course not. Giant robots? Not this time. Dinosaurs? Nothing so classy. It’s just a horde of giant rats from outer space! Rat Scratch … Continue reading →

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New: George’s Intervention

Posted on Sunday, October 19, 2008 by Robert Hood

So your friend is a zombie. How would you handle the problem? With group therapy? George’s Intervention (US-[in production]; dir. J.T. Seaton) George’s friends have gathered for an intervention… George’s intervention. You see, George is a zombie. And his friends … Continue reading →

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Films from the Mesozoic

Posted on Thursday, October 9, 2008 by Robert Hood

Thomas R. Dickens and Mesozoic Inc. Special Visual Effects studio are in various stages in the production of two rather interesting-looking scifi monster flicks. From information currently available, they fit perfectly with all those gigantic shapes lurking around in the … Continue reading →

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Coming Soon: Coming Soon

Posted on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 by Robert Hood

This Thai ghost flick looks like a winner to me: Coming Soon (Thailand-2008; dir. Sophon Sakdaphisit) Synopsis: What kind of scenes in a horror film scares you the most? When a ghost appears totally unexpectedly? When the main character does … Continue reading →

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Attackazoids Trailer!

Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 by Robert Hood

We just noticed that there seems to be a trailer for the short robot-invasion film Attackazoids available. It includes some cool scenes, such as this one: Have a look at it on the official website. I notice that there is also … Continue reading →

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Update: Attack of the Giant Leeches Trailer

Posted on Tuesday, October 7, 2008 by Robert Hood

A trailer for Brett Kelly’s remake of the 1959 monster flick Attack of the Giant Leeches has gone online. Here it is: Interesting use of colour saturation to suggest the monotone nature of the original. Source: Official website via Avery … Continue reading →

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