Category Archives: Update

Release Update: Serpent Lake

Posted on Tuesday, August 4, 2009 by Robert Hood

The independently made, micro-budget lake monster flick Serpent Lake (US-2009; dir. Joel Trujillo) has been in the making since early last year. Now we’ve had word that the film is not only finished but released on DVD. Yes, Tiny Tim … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, Lake Monsters, Trailers, Update | 4 Comments

Kong or Not Kong, That is the Question

Posted on Tuesday, July 28, 2009 by Robert Hood

Thanks to Variety and a report that Spirit Pictures has picked up the rights to Joe DeVito (artist) and Brad Strickland’s illustrated novel Kong: King of Skull Island, sites across the net are enthusing over the idea that a new … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Giant Monsters, King Kong, News, Update, Where's the Film? | 5 Comments

Update: Bikini Monsters

Posted on Sunday, July 26, 2009 by Robert Hood

Bikini Monsters (US-in production; dir. Terence Muncy) Director Terence Muncy has sent Undead Backbrain some images and local newspaper articles relating to his new film, Bikini Monsters, which is currently in production. Newspaper articles (the first from the Tampa Bay … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Horror, Independent film, Teaser, Update | 8 Comments

Gehara Becomes Geharha On DVD and Blu-Ray

Posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 by Robert Hood

And the good news is that Kiyotaka Taguchi’s short daikaiju eiga Chohatsu Daikaiju Gehara [Long-haired Giant Monster Gehara] (Japan-2009) is being released in Japan on DVD and Blu-Ray, but with English subtitles, under the Anglicised title Geharha, the Dark and … Continue reading →

Posted in Daikaiju, Film, Giant Monsters, Japanese, News, Update | 4 Comments

Update: The Land That Time Forgot

Posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 by Robert Hood

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel The Land That Time Forgot was previously adapted in 1975 by director Kevin Connor for Amicus — a studio that was at the time trying to pick up the market from the failing Hammer Studios and … Continue reading →

Posted in Dinosaurs, Film, Giant Monsters, News, Update | 3 Comments

Infestation by Giant Insects!

Posted on Thursday, July 2, 2009 by Robert Hood

The full title of this Modern Mechanics article from December 1930 read “Will Monster Insects Rule the World?” Though offered here as a mere speculative possibility, the idea that giant insects will eventually dominate life on Earth is one that … Continue reading →

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“Burton-izing” Alice

Posted on Monday, June 22, 2009 by Robert Hood

Whether or not you are interested in Alice In Wonderland and the potential it has for being filmed by Tim Burton, the following conceptual art might at least make you “curiouser and curiouser” about the project. Me? Lewis Carroll’s Alice … Continue reading →

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Transmorphers Come, Man Falls

Posted on Sunday, June 21, 2009 by Robert Hood

Next on The Asylum’s agenda (as I’ve indicated on Undead Brainspasm) is Transmorphers: Fall of Man (US-2009; dir. Scott Wheeler). This one is actually a prequel to The Asylum’s Transmorphers (US-2007; dir. Leigh Scott) — a film that was apparently … Continue reading →

Posted in Film, Robots, Trailers, Update | 5 Comments

Update: Haeundae

Posted on Saturday, June 20, 2009 by Robert Hood

Haeundae (South Korea; in production [2010?]; dir. Je-gyun Yun) Back in August last year the Backbrain reported on a new Korean disaster film that was then going into production, set in and named after Haeundae Beach — a wealthy sea-side … Continue reading →

Posted in Apocalypse, Film, Trailers, Update | 3 Comments

MORAV: the Comic

Posted on Sunday, June 7, 2009 by Robert Hood

Whatever the state of play of the in-development TV series of M.O.R.A.V., creator Fon Davis has been speeding ahead with a comic version of the story, which features 30-foot robots and “a global arms race to build the greatest giant … Continue reading →

Posted in Comics, Giant Monsters, Robots, TV, Update | 5 Comments