Category Archives: Where’s the Film?

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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Giant Monster Dreaming

Posted on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 by Robert Hood

As illustrated by the rabid speculation that recently ran on many kaiju noticeboards (that Edgar Sean of the Dead Wright was about to embark on a remake of Gorgo), it’s clear that unofficial pronouncements need to be taken with a … Continue reading →

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Brontosaurus!

Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 by Robert Hood

Today I came across mention of a 1980 Czechoslavakian film, Brontosaurus (Czechoslavakia-1980; dir. Vera Plívová-Simková), which I’d never heard of. But while looking for information on it, I instead stumbled upon these clips from an earlier Czechoslavakian dinosaur flick called … Continue reading →

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Willis O’Brien’s Frankenstein

Posted on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 by Robert Hood

I’ve long been familiar with this sketch by Willis O’Brien (famed animator of the 1933 King Kong): But I only stumbled upon this one yesterday while looking for something else: Source These are both conceptual sketches by Willis O’Brien. O’Brien … Continue reading →

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He Whose Limbs Shatter Mountains, Part 1

Posted on Sunday, April 6, 2008 by Robert Hood

As comic giant monsters go, Fin Fang Foom is one of the green-blooded aristocrats. Ranging in size somewhere between 32 feet and 100 feet (though he has been known to be reductive enough to sit in a park playing chess … Continue reading →

Posted in Article, Comics, Dragons, Giant Monsters, Graphic novels, Interviews, Where's the Film? | 4 Comments