Category Archives: Dinosaurs

Update: The Land That Time Forgot

Posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 by Robert Hood

Edgar Rice Burroughs’ novel The Land That Time Forgot was previously adapted in 1975 by director Kevin Connor for Amicus — a studio that was at the time trying to pick up the market from the failing Hammer Studios and … Continue reading →

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Tragic Dino Love Story

Posted on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 by Robert Hood

The Wrong Door is a British comedy sketch show “set in a surreal parallel universe where film and TV special effects are part of everyday life. In this world, superheroes, wizards and dinosaurs are commonplace in the daily merry-go-round of … Continue reading →

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They Grow ‘Em Big in Texas

Posted on Sunday, January 4, 2009 by Robert Hood

Jurassic Park started it… you know, the whole commercial development of prehistoric throwbacks scenario. Thanks to a lower budget, lowered ambition and B-film legend Roger Corman as executive producer, Carnosaur (1993) got in first and for all that it could … Continue reading →

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More Monstrous Ads

Posted on Saturday, November 22, 2008 by Robert Hood

I haven’t posted any giant monster ads for a while, so here are a few I’ve just stumbled across. This first one not only has a Godzilla-esque monster, but it is done using stop-motion animation! This one features King Kong … Continue reading →

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Talk to the Crest

Posted on Friday, October 24, 2008 by Robert Hood

Recent palaeontological research suggests that those spectacular crests that adorn the heads of the duck-billed type of dinosaur may have been used to communicate. “The struc­tures con­tain ex­tremely long, con­vo­lut­ed na­sal pas­sages that loop up over the tops of their … Continue reading →

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Poor Lost Dinosaurs

Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 by Robert Hood

Famed stop-motion animator Willis E. O’Brien made motion picture history when he animated a series of dinosaurs confronting modern humanity in the 1925 version of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. The SFX of this film were astounding at the … Continue reading →

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Brontosaurus!

Posted on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 by Robert Hood

Today I came across mention of a 1980 Czechoslavakian film, Brontosaurus (Czechoslavakia-1980; dir. Vera Plívová-Simková), which I’d never heard of. But while looking for information on it, I instead stumbled upon these clips from an earlier Czechoslavakian dinosaur flick called … Continue reading →

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Sea Monsters!

Posted on Saturday, April 19, 2008 by Robert Hood

A Tylosaurus in action! Big Tylosaurus eats smaller cousin A Styxosaurus These are some of the stars of a National Geographic adventure documentary film made in 3D for IMax presentation that is currently doing the rounds worldwide. While strictly speaking … Continue reading →

Posted in Animation, Dinosaurs, Film, Giant Monsters | 5 Comments

Galactic Raiders

Posted on Saturday, April 12, 2008 by Robert Hood

Still following the retro theme, here’s a very exciting project — one that is using stop-motion SFX to create its monsters. From all indications the small, independent film is looking a lot like the movies of master monster animator Ray … Continue reading →

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Bloodthirsty Dinosaurs!

Posted on Monday, April 7, 2008 by Robert Hood

Over at the Giant Monsters Attack blogspot, Mysterious Pants has discovered a wonderful set of trading cards that prove once and for all that dinosaurs were bloodthirsty giant monsters that would have brought about a general apocalypse if they hadn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Dinosaurs, Giant Monsters, Pictorial art, The Lost | 6 Comments