La Bicha
Via Undead Backbrain, we got another short, this one is La Bicha, an animated/stop motion faux giant monster trailer with shades of Godzilla/Gamera/Bert I. Gordon movies/Toonces the Driving Cat. Directed by Paco Rocha, the short is the trailer for a 1968 Spanish movie based upon the dropped atom bomb incident two years before on the Palomares Coast. Born of the radiation, a giant reptile rises from the sea. No, there is not a real movie called La Bicha. The script is by Juan Fernando García and Paco Rocha, based on and idea from J. F. García and Paco Villanueva, with sound, editing and post-production by Juanjo de Latorre.Thanks to Avery for the head’s up!
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King Crabs Attack
King Crabs Attack started as a faux-trailer, and has now been turned into a 7 minute short film. Giant king crabs attack, people scream, pinchers pinch, all that stuff. Grégoire Sivan is the creator. Undead Backbrain has a bit more on the short.Here is the trailer that sparked the short:
KING CRAB ATTACK ! from Jérôme Lozano (Headeater) on Vimeo.
Thanks to Avery for the head’s up!
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The Mole Man of Belmont Avenue
A new horror comedy with Robert Englund has wrapped production and is now in post. Englund seems to be showing up in several cult films recently that will outlive their DVD releases, and hopefully The Mole Man of Belmont Avenue is no exception.Official Site
IMDB
The plot:
The story follows two brothers (Bradecich and LaFlamboy) who have recently inherited a brownstone apartment building from their mother. After two years of running the building into the ground, the brothers must now contend with a monster living in the basement that is threatening the lives of the tenants and their pets.
Mole Man wraps in Chicago
It’s not every day you hear about a film being made by co- writers, co- producers, and co- directors who are also co- starring in over sixty percent of their own film, a monster movie comedy titled The Mole Man of Belmont Avenue, which finished production late in July. But then again John Laflamboy and Mike Bradecich are not your everyday filmmakers, they’ve been making short films and music videos together for years and come from very rich theater and improv backgrounds, which anyone will tell you are founded in trust and creative collaboration.
The Mole Man of Belmont Avenue is quite possibly the first feature length narrative film of late to draw so extensively from Chicago’s rich pool of improv comedy actors and in fact both directors freely admit that nearly all of the roles were written specifically for each actor. With the help of local casting agency TP&R, the all star line up includes Susan Messing, Dina Facklis, Greg Hollimon, Brad Morris, Dan Jessup, and an improvised scene between TJ Jagodowski and Dave Pasquesi, sure to be cutting edge hilarity.
The Mole Man of Belmont Avenue also brought Robert Englund to Chicago, ironically during the production of the latest Nightmare on Elmstreet to play a role in the film. Englund thanked the entire cast and crew for the experience and praised the screenplay while predicting the film was sure to become a cult classic. John Laflamboy and Mike Bradecich expressed how excited they were to combine the best forces of talent for comedy and horror nerds alike.
For more information check out www.molemanmovie.com
And be sure to keep up with John Laflamboy and Mike Bradecich at www.bigtreemovies.com
I would like to add that it IS probably every day I hear about such a film, thus is the life of low budget cinema.
Thanks to Avery for the head’s up and Undead Backbrain for the scoop
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Assault Girls trailer
UPDATE: Read our review of Assault Girls here!Japanese girls vs giant sand worms in the post-apocalyptic future. NipponCinema brought the trailer to the outside world.
Plot: In the aftermath of global thermonuclear war, the Earth’s surface has been turned into a desert battlefield. Three beautiful female hunters: Gray (Meisa Kuroki), Lucifer (Rinko Kikuchi), and Colonel (Hinako Saeki) traverse the barren landscape armed with powerful assault rifles to fight a group of deadly sand-dwelling monsters called “sunakujira” (sand whales). When the the epic battle eventually seems to be coming to an end, the sparkle of muzzle flash dies down and assault ship flies overhead. Suddenly, a gigantic super mutation called “Madara Sunakujira” attacks.
Mamoru Oshii directs and it hits theaters in Japan in December, no word on if it will show up in the US.
previous story here
thanks to Avery for the head’s up
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Rumors of Godzilla getting restarted
Godzilla might be getting rebooted in the US, as rumors have hit the net with almost no sources, so I am not holding my breath, both because of the vague details and because the previous American Godzilla was beyond horrible. I shall just sort of pay attention to this unless something real emerges. Legendary Pictures is the American company.
Thanks to Avery for the head’s up
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Serpent Lake now available to order
Serpent Lake, which we have been reporting on several times, has now hit DVD status and is available to order off of their website. If you forgot what Serpent Lake was, just watch the trailer and get refreshed. Or read the stuff below. I don’t make any money off of this, for the record.
Every 30 years, in the summer there is a mysterious unidentified creature claimed to inhabit Astaire’s freshwater lake in Minnesota.
Along with Loch Ness monster Nessie and Lake Champlain’s Champ, this monster is one of the best-known mysteries of crypto zoology. Most scientists and other experts find current evidence supporting the creature’s existence unpersuasive and regard the occasional sightings as hoaxes or misidentification of known creatures or natural phenomena. Minnesotans believe in this legend, even though their theories may vary. The creature thought to be a plesiosaur being the most popular of these theories. But unlike Loch Ness or Lake Champlain, there is no canal linking Serpent Lake to the sea raising the question,” Where does this creature come from? And during this time some people in or around the lake come up missing.
Official site
Order form (that needs spellcheck)
Written and directed by Joel Trujillo
Thanks to Avery for the head’s up.
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Bikini Monsters – Killer Mermaids movie
Bikini Monsters is another microbudget horror film filming now, this one with killer mermaids. Ariel wishes she took an axe to the human race, this girl will! Hopefully they kill that stupid lobster, also! Directed by Terence Muncy
RoboJapan has pictures and more info
Synopsis
In a laboratory somewhere along the coast of Florida a scientist is working feverishly on a grisly experiment. Known by the local transients only as the “Beach Bum” he is trying to create his vision of ultimate beauty, a mermaid. But test after test end up in failure, leaving behind a series of mutated abominations. Still, the experiment continues.
At a nearby beach the mutilated body of a man turns up, his female companion, missing. Detective Elizabeth Wayne heads up an investigation to find the killer, her only leads being the body of the murdered man, a single witness so drunkenly asleep that he claims to have neither heard nor observed anything, and a group of strange looking scales found at the scene.
Enlisting the aid of marine biologists Craig and Mike, Detective Wayne attempts to unravel the mystery behind the strange scales which defy identification. She feels that somehow they are key to what is going on.
As the bodies of more men pile up and more girls end up missing, Detective Wayne tries one last ploy to draw out the killer; use herself as bait!
Thanks to Avery for the info!
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