The Leviathan (2015)

I suppose you could call it a cautionary tale: Back in 2015, Ruairi Robinson created this stunning Proof of Concept Teaser Trailer for a film he hoped to sell to the studios, with the help of Bord Scannáin na hÉireann/ the Irish Film Board and a script by Jim Uhls, who wrote the screenplay for

Living with Monsters (2024)

There are a lot of people out there creating absolutely incredible little films. There problem is that very few of them appear to be in Hollywood these days. Lost Utopia films is one of those fairly new YouTube channels which has put out a lot of interesting Godzilla footage. However, most of it has been

Ijon Tichy Returns — For the First Time…

Last time, we talked about the 1999 short film which kicked off one of my favorite TV series of all time, the incredible German lo-fi production, Ijon Tichy: Raumpilot. But, as I pointed out, it was one of two films the creators made while they were in college. Here is the second, Aus den Sterntagebüchern

More of what We Didn’t Get: A Peek at Guillermo del Toro’s At the Mountains of Madness

Not long after dropping some images of giant albino penguins from his failed Lovecraft project, At the Mountains of Madness, Guillermo del Toro has finally released a snippet of CGI test footage: While the project has been officially dead for several years now, you have to wonder if he is trying to build up enough

What Might Have Been…

I have to admit that I love the old practical effects, particularly stop motion, which I’m afraid may become a lost art one of these days, even with creators like Brett Piper, Richard Svensson, and Ray Lengel still hard at work. Recently I came across a lost treasure: Pete Peterson worked as Willis O’Brien’s assistant

The Lone Animator Strikes Again…

Richard Svennson, otherwise known as the Lone Animator continues to amaze me with his incredible Stop Motion shorts.  His combination of quirky creatures and nerdy interests means that he has explored a lot of strange corners with his work. Perhaps my favorite is this spin on the classic bad sci fi movie, Robot Monster, which

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (2003)

I’ve long had a somewhat uneasy relationship with H.P. Lovecraft in these pages, both on my main site and here on the blog. His dark vision of cosmic horror has at its core a large and deeply hostile universe, with parallel dimensions, super powered beings and strange alien races. But at the same time, it

A Brief Moment With the Critters…

Look, I just reviewed Critters: A New Binge. And it hasn’t been that long since I suffered through the far more dire Critters Attack! That’s a lot to ask of anyone, and I desperately needed something to remind me just how good the series was — and could be. So naturally I turned to a

Brian Lonano Returns!…

It’s been a few months since I published my review of Brian Lonano’s fascinating little short, Content: The Lo-Fi Man. At the time, I’d gathered up several of the science fiction shorts he had up on YouTube, but never quite got around to publishing them. But this seems as good a time as any to

Galgameth [The Legend of Galgameth] (1996)

Sometimes the story behind a film is far more interesting than the film itself. That was definitely the case with the North Korean film, Pulgasari. When his ex-wife, Choi Eun-hee, disappeared while on a trip to Hong Kong, South Korean director Shin Sang-ok was upset that he was being blamed for her disappearance and went