Category Archives: Update

Dinocroc in Motion

Posted on Thursday, November 5, 2009 by Robert Hood

Courtesy of the director, Undead Backbrain has a new image and first view of an SFX moment from Jim Wynorski’s Dinocroc vs Supergator, which is due for release to TV in the near future. Click image to enlarge SFX Sequence: … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Horror, Independent film, Monsters in general, Update | 3 Comments

King of Skull Island Newly Released

Posted on Saturday, October 31, 2009 by Robert Hood

Persistent rumours that a film version of Joe DeVito (artist) and Brad Strickland’s illustrated novel Kong: King of Skull Island is underway were confirmed on the Ray Bradbury panel of the San Diego Comicon last July — though when it … Continue reading →

Posted in Dinosaurs, Giant Monsters, Graphic novels, Horror, Update, Where's the Film? | Leave a comment

Carradine Takes on the Giant Reptiles

Posted on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 by Robert Hood

He may have left the building last June, albeit rather unexpectedly, but legendary genre actor David Carradine will still be starring in quite a few movies over the next year or so, at least according to the number of “post-production” … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Update | 3 Comments

Tales of an Ancient Empire

Posted on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 by Robert Hood

Back in January I reported on Undead Brainspasm that Albert Pyun — whose previous epic fantasy was 1982’s The Sword and the Sorcerer, the first memorable sword-and-sorcery film I recall seeing — was working on an epic fantasy follow-up, after … Continue reading →

Posted in Demons, Film, News, Posters, Update | 4 Comments

Traci Lords Over Mars

Posted on Monday, October 19, 2009 by Robert Hood

The Backbrain has already shown you how John Carter (Antonio Sabato, Jr.) and Tars Tarkas are to be depicted in The Asylum’s upcoming version of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Princess of Mars (US-2009; dir. Mark Atkins), but what of the titular … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Science Fiction, Update | 2 Comments

Update on Bringing The Fog Horn to the World

Posted on Sunday, October 18, 2009 by Robert Hood

Such has been the extraordinary enthusiasm shown by those commenting on the Undead Backbrain article about director Daisuke “Daice” Sato’s short film version of Ray Bradbury’s famous story “The Fog Horn” that Mr Sato and his crew from Replica Co. … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, News, Update | 9 Comments

Make Your Own Infestation

Posted on Monday, October 12, 2009 by Robert Hood

So the giant bug movie Infestation (US-2009; dir. Kyle Rankin) has crawled out of its pupal stage and appears on DVD in the US on 13 October. Synopsis: A slacker wakes up to find himself weak, wrapped in webbing and … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Bugs, Film, Giant Bugs, Giant Monsters, News, Trailers, Update, Zombies | 1 Comment

New: Ultra Galaxy Legend

Posted on Friday, September 18, 2009 by Robert Hood

After two interrelated TV series — Ultra Galaxy: Mega Monster Battle [aka Urutora Gyarakushii Daikaiju Batoru] (2007) and Ultra Galaxy: Mega Monster Battle – Neverending Odyssey [aka Urutora Garakushii Daikaiju Batoru Nebaa Endingu Odessei] (2008) — Tsuburaya Productions is in … Continue reading →

Posted in Daikaiju, Giant Monsters, Trailers, Ultraman, Update | 3 Comments

Empires of the Deep, Once Mermaid Island

Posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 by Robert Hood

Once upon a time it was called Mermaid Island — a US/China co-production to be helmed by the French mono-monikered Pitof [aka Jean-Christophe Comar], visual effects supervisor of such films as Delicatessen (1991), Les Visiteurs (1993), and Alien: Resurrection (1997), … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Monsters in general, Update | 13 Comments

Evangelion Re-Build

Posted on Sunday, September 6, 2009 by Robert Hood

Like many, I became rather obsessed with the ultimate mecha-kaiju crossover series Neon Genesis Evangelion in its multiple incarnations and offshoots (including its still-running manga version by artist Yoshiyuki Sadamoto), as its creators (especially writer/director Hideaki Anno) fought with inadequate … Continue reading →

Posted in Animation, Apocalypse, Daikaiju, Giant Monsters, Mecha, Robots, Update | 2 Comments