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Here are striking images of “new animals” from Indonesia’s Foja Mountains.

Read: Why Are New Species So Glorious? »

Just wanted to tip everyone off to some interesting news that is breaking at Cannes.

According to a source at the movie festival, the newly revived, “Famous Monsters of Filmland” magazine has announced that they are getting into the movie making biz.

Read: Famous Monsters To Bring Back The Creature, The Mummy, Frankenstein And Others To The Silver Screen? »

Film maker James Baack has been working night and day for just over a year now to create what very well might be a very unique entry into the Bigfoot movie genre entitled, “The Bloody Rage of Bigfoot.”

Read: The New Poster For James Baack’s BLOODY RAGE OF BIGFOOT – Cast And Crew On MNBRT Radio »

They are in Maine. Image.

Read: Irish TV Visits CZ Museum »

This past week I was contacted by independent film maker, Andrew Stengele, about his plans to film a very Japanese Monster heavy documentary this upcoming summer, tenatively called “Kings of the Monsters”.

Read: Andrew Stengele’s Documentary KINGS OF THE MONSTERS Will Look At Creatures Real And Imagined »

Do you have any in your photo files? Images.

Read: Where Are The Black Florida Panther Photos? »

News out of the UK shouldn’t surprise anyone. How do you say “no” and sound like you are saying “yes”? Images.

Read: Royal Navy: No Easy Access To Files On Sea Serpents. »

One of the Editor’s 2010 Choice Awards for the “Best of New England” have gone to the International Cryptozoology Museum. The definition of quirky is idiosyncratic, offbeat, eccentric, unusual, unconventional, unorthodox, and strange. We can live with that.

Can you guess how many individual items the museum has on exhibition? Images.

Read: Yankee Magazine Editors: “Best Quirky Museum” »

Is there good cause for folks to worry? Images.

Read: What Happens If You Kill A Mystery Cat? »

This monster, for it can be called nothing else, has lately, it is said,
been seen by several persons.

Read: Utah’s Flying Prehistoric Monster »

In 1976 Dino De Laurentiis had scored a big hit internationally with their re-make of “King Kong”, which starred Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, and Jessica Lange. The Hong Kong based Shaw Brothers Studio wanted to catch the wave of “Kong’s” popularity by producing their own giant ape film. Not wanting to pay for the rights to use the name “King Kong” the studio created their own monster who was inspired by both the early human ancestor, the “Peking Man”, and the legendary Yeti of Himalayan folklore.

Read: The Mighty Peking Man (1977)(Shaw Brothers Studio) »

Here’s the list, followed by my grade, then reviews of these picks based upon the criteria of whether they are really cryptozoologically-worthy and whether I think they have already been exploited in film and television. Images.

Read: Future CZ TV: Top Ten Cryptids »

In monster movies, as well as comic books, eventually the two mightiest characters, or groups of characters, eventually find a way to square off against each other. King Kong fought Godzilla, Alien fought Predator, The Hulk fought The Thing and so on and so on.

Today, I have for you artsy types, an illustration that depicts yet, another, clash of the titans, Sasquatch taking on both the actor, and documentary film host, Peter Graves, and the horror movie host, Mr. Lobo, of the television series “Cinema Insomnia.”

Read: Bigfoot Pummels Both Peter Graves And Mr Lobo »

Look, I am directly sending you readers to TBE as well as conference attendees to the Ohio Bigfoot Expo. But come back here to share both sides of what you Cryptomundians think about this whole issue. Images.

Read: Secret Sauce: “The Bigfootery Enquirer” Blasts “Bigfoot Bully” »

The storyline revolves around failed pop star Kanako, who returns to her hometown to live with her beloved grandmother. Yet no sooner does she return home than a pair of crazed couples out on a drinking binge run over and kill her grandma. With the old woman gone, Kanako takes to running the family shrine, but to make matters worse, the drunken killers managed to disturb that structure—which is the keeper of kappa, one of Japan’s many yokai creatures, in this case a benevolent, human-like turtle. Resurrected, the kappa is welcomed into town by the villagers.

Read: The Brand-New Death Kappa Poster »