Teaser Trailer for Clash of the Titans

Speaking of stopmotion vs computer-generated SFX, here's the first trailer for a CGI blockbuster remake of a stopmotion classic, Clash of the Titans.

Clash of the Titans (US-2010 [currently in post-production]; dir. Louis Leterrier)

Clash of the Titans (US-1981; dir. Desmond Davis)

It's interesting the way our view on what makes for appropriate epic music scoring has changed....

• Source: Twitch via Avery

Creating the Raiders

Larry Arpin, who is currently working on a scifi monster film that utilises the stop-motion technology made famous by the 1933 King Kong's Willis O'Brien and the great Ray Harryhausen, has sent along an exclusive SFX reel showing how he creates the pre-CGI magic.

The film is Galactic Raiders and you can read more about it on Undead Backbrain and on this site:

• General Information
  
• The main monster
• The first clip of monster action 
• Behind the scenes 

Also check out Arpin's newly revamped website.

Thanks to Larry Arpin, Avery, and RoboJapan.

Update: She-Rex

Low-budget genre auteur Brett Kelly's prehysterical dino-comedy She-Rex has just wrapped and can be downloaded from The Content Bay for viewing on your PC/Mac. It will be released to DVD very shortly (27 November).

Synopsis:

Dan and Stan are the world's greatest adventurers -- at least in their own minds! When the two morons are sent to a lost island to rescue a wealthy pair of treasure hunters, chaos ensues. The adventurers encounter a tribe of sexy jungle girls who worship a flesh-eating T-Rex! She-Rex is a tribute to the classic comedy of yesteryear.

Trailer:

• Source: Official website via Avery
  
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More Images from Assault Girls

TwitchFilm has dug up some new images from Assault Girls [aka Asaruto gâruzu] (Japan-2009; dir. Mamoru Oshii) -- the Ghost in the Shell director's first live-action film since the excellent Avalon.

 

 

 

 

There's plenty more on the Twitch site.

Previous Undead Backbrain article.

Thanks, Avery.

Update on Alien Grey: Zone-X

A restricted research area designated Zone-X -- reminiscent of the legendary Area 51 perhaps -- spawns aliens, alien-reengineered dinosaurs and invasive conspiracies. This is the premise of the independent scifi flick Alien Grey: Zone-X (US; dir. Thomas R. Dickens), which Undead Backbrain reported on a while back.

Director Dickens has dropped by to supply us with a new snapshot of one of the alien greys, just to keep things rolling.

Dickens reports:

The only thing new on AGZ-X is that I am continuing forward with the "Reptile Attack" section.  It is still in post-production.  It is looking great, but still a few shots to do.  The above is an image of an Orion Grey in the film, at the end of the Reptile Attack Sequence.  It looks a little goofy but is based on actual sightings.

Part of the film (65 minutes of an anticipated 120 minutes) has screened at the New York International Film and Video Festival,  where it gained awards for Best Actor, Best SFX and Best Film.

Here's the director being interviewed:

Go to the website for more information.

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Update: Sherlock Holmes vs the Monsters

Up until a few moments ago, I was wondering what sort of "enormous monsters" the great detective Sherlock Holmes would be up against in The Asylum's in-production fantasy film -- Sherlock Holmes (US-2010; dir. Rachel Goldenberg).

Synopsis:

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective faces the ultimate challenge when enormous monsters attack London.

Now we know!

• Source: Official website
  

G on DVD

Short, traditionally imagined daikaiju eiga by independent filmmaker Taguchi Kiyotaka are suddenly appearing on DVD. First there was his Gehara. Now it has been announced that G (2008), a short [48 minute] film featuring a huge (and weird) rampaging monster, Garaemon, and a gigantic robot, is to be released to DVD on 23 October.

Unfortunately this one doesn't appear to have English subtitles.

• Sources: Amazon.co.jp; Geneon Universal Entertainment; hero-material.jp; via Kaiju Search-Robot Avery
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