{"id":8087,"date":"2010-07-17T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=8087"},"modified":"2010-07-17T08:56:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T21:56:12","slug":"sharktopus-trailer-a-classic-in-the-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/17\/sharktopus-trailer-a-classic-in-the-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharktopus Trailer &#8230; A Classic in the Making?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this is probably everywhere by now &#8212; but after the <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/02\/18\/sharktopus-vs-dinoshark\/\" target=\"_blank\">speculation that&#8217;s gone into it<\/a>, I have to run it here on Undead Backbrain. It&#8217;s the official <em>Sharktopus<\/em> trailer and it&#8217;s a beauty &#8212; cheap but imaginative CGI and fake blood, lots of exploitation pizzaz and cheesy pop-tune theme song along the lines of Burt  Bacharach&#8217;s 1958 <em>The Blob<\/em> theme. It comes courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchfilm.net\/news\/2010\/07\/roger-corman-i-applaud-your-sharktopus.php\" target=\"_blank\">Twitch Film<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sharktopus<\/em> is produced by B-Film legend Roger Corman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sharktopus<\/strong> (US-2010; dir. Declan  O&#8217;Brien)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"364\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/ictv-tf-ec.indieclicktv.com\/player\/embed\/97b1fda2ca43d6c29eaf63ed1ec347c6\/4c3feeafa3d30\/31\/0\/defaultPlayer-player.swf\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"364\" src=\"http:\/\/ictv-tf-ec.indieclicktv.com\/player\/embed\/97b1fda2ca43d6c29eaf63ed1ec347c6\/4c3feeafa3d30\/31\/0\/defaultPlayer-player.swf\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Roger! You&#8217;re an inspiration to B-flick filmmakers everywhere.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Summoned from the depths by Kaiju Search-Robot Avery<\/li>\n<li>Writer: Robert Hood<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this is probably everywhere by now &#8212; but after the speculation that&#8217;s gone into it, I have to run it here on Undead Backbrain. It&#8217;s the official Sharktopus trailer and it&#8217;s a beauty &#8212; cheap but imaginative CGI and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/17\/sharktopus-trailer-a-classic-in-the-making\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[145,4,44,83,91,104,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8087"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8090,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8087\/revisions\/8090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}