Moldy (Not-So-Old) Update

Undead Backbrain previewed the imminent release of a nice bit of moldy exploitation back in May when Avery Guerra interviewed Mold! director Neil Meschino.

Mold! (US-2010; dir. Neil Meschino).

Now we have the first teaser trailer for you, which should thoroughly enthuse all the putrescence-horror fans out there. Putrescence horror boasts a venerable tradition, full of slime, decay, gore and (of course) mold (as well as scientific and political corruption), that includes such classics as Body Melt, Street Trash, The Stuff, and the Toxic Avenger films. This one fits right in.

More Posters (and some concept art):

 

Source: via Avery. Written by Robert Hood

Posters and Cast of The Scout

The Scout is, you may recall, the most recent Thai giant snake movie by Vengeance director Pleo Sirisuwan. It has just been released to DVD in Thailand.

The Scout [aka Bit Pi-Pop Ta-Lu Lohk] (Thailand-2009; dir. Pleo Sirisuwan)

Synopsis:

Scouts visit an ancient temple to witness a lunar eclipse. Hearing campfire stories of the legendary god who protects the temple, they decide to go on a treasure hunt. Finding themselves lost in a parallel universe, they must find the way back before the end of the eclipse traps them.

Full Trailer:



Here are another couple of posters, one in English:

Below are some pictures of the cast and crew (at a premiere event) and in character:

Bogus:

Ing:

Sara:

Oat:

• Sources: 8888winner; MovieThai; IMDb
• Previous Update; original Brainspasm article (this one with a teaser trailer)

The Hulk As A Really Big (Indian) Kid

Comment is probably superfluous here.  

Athisayan (India-2007; dir. Vinayan T. Rajendarum) is about a kid who for some reason gets angry and Hulk-like grows very large. Unlike the Hulk he appears to stay that way. Naturally it all ends in tears.

There's a touch of King Kong in this Malayalam-language Indian fantasy-comedy, too.

Gird your loins and check it out:

Source: TarsTarkas via Avery

New US Trailer for MONSTERS

The US theatrical trailer for Gareth Edwards' classy giant monster flick, Monsters, has been released. Here it is:

Via Avery Guerra.

For more about the film, see the previous Undead Brainspasm article.

More from Monsters

Monsters (UK-2010; dir. Gareth Edwards) comes to cinemas in the US (October 19) and UK (November 12). Australia? Who knows? Madman Entertainment might. They have the rights, so it's very likely. The film did screen recently at the Melbourne Film Festival.

Here's the new poster:

Monsters takes a "realistic" approach to the giant monster genre, and as such looks like it's definitely worth watching. At the very least I'll be hanging out for the DVD. It reportedly cost only US$15,000 to make.

Synopsis:

Six years ago NASA discovered the possibility of alien life within our solar system. A probe was launched to collect samples, but crashed upon re-entry over Central America.

Soon after, new life forms began to appear there and half of Mexico was quarantined as an INFECTED ZONE. Today, the American and Mexican military still struggle to contain "the creatures"...

Our story begins when a US journalist agrees to escort a shaken American tourist through the infected zone in Mexico to the safety of the US border.

 

You can check out the trailer for the movie as well as other posters, plus there's links to earlier articles featured on Undead Backbrain and Undead Brainspasm here.

• Source: BloodyDisgusting; Fangoria; IMDb via Avery Guerra  |  Written by Robert Hood

Spike Comes to DVD

The modern-day Gothic fairytale, Spike (US-2008; dir. Robert Beaucage) has arrived on DVD. In case you haven't been paying attention, check out this article on Undead Backbrain to find out what it's about.

Synopsis:

Tales of beasts in love with beauties are as old as recorded history, spanning from the myth of Cupid and Psyche to The Hunchback of Notre Dame; from Hades and Persephone to The Elephant Man to King Kong. While Spike nods at the archetypal precedents, it twists and overturns genre conventions to explore previously untapped strata of the fairytale turned nightmare.

Spike is the monstrously mutated suitor who builds a forest lair in which he dwells for several years while awaiting the arrival of his “beauty” - a girl with whom he shares a history, and whom he has idolized his entire life.

The girl and a group of friends find themselves, by no coincidence, stranded in Spike’s forest. The Beast kidnaps his Beauty. Spike also injures her boyfriend and holds him hostage. Thus begins the girl’s quest to recover her ill-fated lover from Spike -- whether through reason, charm, coercion, or violence -- while her friends try to recover her.

Spike maneuvers through the dark tensions of a monster’s love and the depths to which a beauty may sink to evade it, arguably becoming monstrous herself. In the end, we must uncomfortably agree that, as Spike himself says, “There is always some madness in love.” Spike gives that madness life. (Wonderphil Productions website)

Trailer:

Here's some more stills, in a video format:

Three very short clips from the film can be seen on the spikethemovie YouTube channel. One of them is below:

Fangoria quotes director Beaucage on the subject of his film's atypically cynical attitude toward Spike's romantic theme as saying, "That derives from my own pessimistic outlook. If a real-life Beast fell in love with a Beauty in a modern world without magic or enchantments, the resultant events, for all parties concerned, would be nothing short of dreadful.”

The monster itself was created via physical and makeup FX by Jordu Schell. Commented Beaucage:

Schell specializes in photorealism in building creature characters. I don’t want anyone thinking ‘monster suit’ while watching SPIKE; I want them to think, ‘What is that thing?’

Below is some test footage of man and monster suit:

For reviews of the film -- some very positive indeed, go to the Maverick Entertainment website.

The DVD can be bought from Amazon.

• Source: Information researched by Avery Guerra. Written by Robert Hood.
• Spike official website

Pilot Trailer for Empires of the Deep

The following video is rough and of rather poor quality (as someone has filmed it off their computer), but it gives an idea as to how good Empires of the Deep might actually be. If you're unsure what Empires of the Deep is, check out this Undead Backbrain article.

I must say that the spectacular nature of this rather surprises me. The film is starting to look as though it could meet its own hype.