THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT
It turns out that the Nagas are so advanced that they, completely isolated from all cultural influence in the rest of the world, have evolved to dress and fight exactly like medieval Japanese samurai, right down to the katanas, flag bearers, and big kabuto helmets with gruesome face masks. Despite all those advances, however, they still live in caves and are ruled over by a fat, hooting, grunting dude in a fur loincloth. It’s as if the nation of Japan decided one day that they wanted to be ruled over ruthlessly by George the Animal Steele. But instead of ripping open a turnbuckle cover with his teeth, Sabbala pencils in Charly and Ajor for sacrifice to the…wait for it…yep, the angry volcano god. Then he throws McBride and the biologist, Norfolk, into his skull wall prison. In the prison, McBride is finally reunited with Tyler. And now, with a couple of two-fisted, good ol’ American boys on the job, these merciless rulers of Caprona’s crappy non-dinosaur infested southern region are primed for a beat-down.
#1 by Blake Matthews on July 9, 2008 - 5:25 pm
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I saw this one when I was already 21, so I was pretty disappointed with it. You can tell it’s cheap as the monster that they were going to be sacrificed to was the same one Doug McClure took on in “At the Earth’s Core.”
#2 by PCachu on July 10, 2008 - 8:44 am
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Hollywood may have one of the largest collective carbon footprints in the country, but at least they know how to recycle their movie monsters…
#3 by Blake Matthews on July 10, 2008 - 9:08 am
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I’ll say. Larry Buchanan got 2-3 movies with one cheap Gill-man suit, didn’t he? I read somewhere that “The Monster from Piedras Blancas” was an amalgamation of three or four monster suits (Gill-man, Mole People, This Island Earth), although I’m not sure how true that is.
#4 by KeithA on July 10, 2008 - 10:45 am
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And how many times have we seen that footage of those two lizards with fins taped to their backs fighting each other, much to Lyz’s discomfort?
#5 by Blake Matthews on July 10, 2008 - 10:55 am
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I also read that the “Carnosaur” dinosaurs were used in “Dinosaur Island.” Can anyone confirm this?
#6 by JessicaR on July 10, 2008 - 4:45 pm
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I believe so, if I’m remembering a review of Dinosaur Island in Video Watchdog correctly. And really, it was New World Pictures so that was almost a given. I have a soft spot for this movie too, Land might be, well Land is better but there is enough goofy incident that if I had to rank them in order of my desire to rewatch them it would be Core, People, and Land. My friend and I laughed until we almost started crying when they land, spot a dino and not only do they not bat an eyelash they can only work up a half hearted interest in it with “ah what the hell, got a dinosaur, might as well use it to pull the plane out of the gulch…” And I like that Ajor may be dressed as another cheesecake cavegirl but as the “native” of the party she fulfills what her male counterpart would do, that is doing all the actual work and saving our heroes and figuring things out for no credit at all.
#7 by The Rev. D.D. on July 11, 2008 - 8:55 am
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Yes, the dinos in Carnosaur are also in Dinosaur Island. Although the ‘raptor doesn’t get much more than a couple of brief shots on the outskirts of the film and never plays an actual role in the storyline, the T-rex is the big bad of DI and probably gets a bit more screentime than he does in Carnosaur.
On the other hand, he doesn’t have a titanic battle against a Bobcat…
I would probably list Core after Land, albeit very close, and put People below ’em both. Core is unremittingly goofy and fun and sports plenty of Caroline Munro; Land comes close to being decent and has lots of dinos and cavemen; but People…just not nearly enough fun in that one. Although I love that prickly ankylosaur-type critter that keeps suddenly popping up to attack the heroes near the end of the film, almost like a slasher.
#8 by KeithA on July 11, 2008 - 9:16 am
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As I’ve been discussing on the comments section of the review, this is one of those movies that fools me into remembering it as being more fun than it was. Broken down into its smaller parts, it sounds good, so much so that I began doubting my own assertions, even though I’d just watched it. Rewatching it shortly thereafter to do screengrabs reminded me that I was correct, but right now, I’m still thinking, “Caveman samurai, Milton Reid is green, bosomy cavegirl…man, that movie sounds awesome!”
The many weird parts just don’t come together as a whole for me the way they did in CORE or LAND. I would much rather see the movie in between PEOPLE and LAND, about Tyler exploring Caprona, teaching cavemen how to fight like real men, and growing his beard out.
#9 by El Santo on July 11, 2008 - 10:02 am
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“I would much rather see the movie in between PEOPLE and LAND, about Tyler exploring Caprona, teaching cavemen how to fight like real men, and growing his beard out.”
So, basically, you wish Amicus had just done the sensible thing, and filmed the sequels Burroughs had already written. Seems like a pretty smart idea to me, too, but I’m not a studio boss, so what the hell do I know?
#10 by Tom Meade on July 11, 2008 - 9:47 pm
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Flying bat men in a city of skulls, people.
It’s a licence to print money.
#11 by MatthewF on July 13, 2008 - 2:44 am
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british 60-70s movie houses like Amicus were past masters at recyling stuff, indeed the need to save money meant that many films got show back to back and often didn’t even bother rearranging the props. this gets especially distracting if you watch a bunch of the hammer late 60s stuff at the same time as that pub/bar/country Inn turns up over and over again. Also dracula appears to have borrowed his house from rasputin.
#12 by KeithA on July 14, 2008 - 9:33 am
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dracula appears to have borrowed his house from rasputin.
And you, sir, have just written another sequel!
#13 by lyzard on July 14, 2008 - 2:16 pm
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Rasputin: Landlord From Hell. Of course, in this day and age, it will probably turn out to be a re-make of Pacific Heights.
#14 by KeithA on July 14, 2008 - 3:31 pm
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I’m hoping more for House of Rasputin, in which the mad monk Rasputin is touring Czarist Russia with the corpse of Frankenstein only to discover that Wolfman has crossed the border from Romania, with Dracula in hot pursuit because both are after a stone Rasputin possesses that grants eternal life…or takes it away!
#15 by MatthewF on July 15, 2008 - 11:00 am
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I’m not sure that Horror Icon Christopher Lee would demean himself so. Oh no, wait, he’s in the Holwing 2.
#16 by KeithA on July 15, 2008 - 11:10 am
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And An Eye for An Eye…and those Jess Franco Fu Manchu films…
#17 by Blake Matthews on July 15, 2008 - 6:45 pm
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“And An Eye for An Eye…and those Jess Franco Fu Manchu films…”
Talking smack about a Chuck Norris movie? That must be the second worst mistake that anyone could commit, right next to doubting the power of this roundhouse kick.
#18 by lyzard on July 15, 2008 - 7:37 pm
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Sigh….I’ve watched that film twice just because Chris is in it.
#19 by Blake Matthews on July 16, 2008 - 5:53 am
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If you watched that one twice, did you also watch “Jaguar Lives!” and “Circle of Iron”?
#20 by MatthewF on July 16, 2008 - 10:42 am
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…Deathline? In which Mr Lee has one scene.
#21 by lyzard on July 16, 2008 - 2:09 pm
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Yes, no, and no; I have much work to do….
#22 by KeithA on July 16, 2008 - 2:21 pm
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To watch everything in which venerated horror film icon Christopher Lee appears…that is a mighty task. Not quite as terrifying as Nathan’s quest to see everything ever produced by Full Moon and its subsidiaries, but daunting never the less. My “Champion of Reb Brown” quest pales in comparison, though the “dedicated to giving a mildly positive review to even the worst Jess Franco crap” goal may be more impressive.
#23 by hman on July 16, 2008 - 2:22 pm
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We all have much work to do…*remembering that I haven’t even seen an Ed Wood yet* (although I have owned a copy of Robot Monster in 3-D and watched The Giant Gila Monster several times as a kid)
#24 by The Rev. D.D. on July 16, 2008 - 2:53 pm
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I haven’t seen an Al Adamson or William Beaudine film yet, and they’re next on the list. I also need to become more familiar with Franco as I’ve only seen one of his many movies.
I get to knock another “Jabootu” film off my list next week at T-Fest, to which I say, “Umm…..yay?”
#25 by hman on July 16, 2008 - 2:59 pm
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“From Hell it Came”? I’ve seen that one. Curse TNT for canceling their MonsterVision!!!!
#26 by Baron Scarpia on July 17, 2008 - 1:39 am
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While we’re all chiming in with our ‘I-have-nevers’ – I’ve never seen any Larry Buchanan or Godzilla films. Shame on me!
#27 by hman on July 17, 2008 - 5:22 am
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Never seen a Godzilla film? *points and shrieks*….Yeah, yeah, I know…Pot and kettle…
#28 by The Rev. D.D. on July 17, 2008 - 7:00 am
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No, I’ve seen From Hell It Came. A few times. In fact, it was one of only a few Jabootu-worthy films I’d seen before I learned of the website.
No, I’m referring to The Harrad Experiment. And I’m dreading that one a bit, although not nearly as much as the Chris Pick.
As for the Baron…you’re absolutely right to go all “Body Snatcher” on him.
No Godzilla movies at all!?!
As they say here in Texas: “Get a rope.”
#29 by Baron Scarpia on July 17, 2008 - 11:41 am
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I think I should plead in mitigation that I only have so much free time, and I am working on it. Like everyone else here my list of films to watch is in the hundreds. And first I have to sit through rather boring Swedish films about 19th century villagers having dinner. Seriously.
#30 by lyzard on July 17, 2008 - 4:21 pm
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Only “hundreds”?? *POINT AND SHRIEK*
#31 by Baron Scarpia on July 17, 2008 - 4:32 pm
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I knew I’d get that reaction.
*Shakes fist in anger at tormentors*
#32 by lyzard on July 17, 2008 - 5:04 pm
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You should consider yourself fortunate. There was a time around here when we were given to flinging faeces, rather than merely pointing and shrieking. I guess we’ve mellowed with age.
#33 by The Rev. D.D. on July 18, 2008 - 10:20 am
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Plus when you get older it’s harder to just…give yourself ammo, as it were.
*ahem*
Anyway, at least make it a mission to get ClassicMedia’s double-disc set for Gojira, Baron. You will not regret it. Rent it if you must, but you might as well start with the best of ’em all.
Don’t make me start with the pointing and shrieking, now…
#34 by KeithA on July 18, 2008 - 11:54 am
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Rev, you apparently just claimed the original GOJIRA is the greatest Godzilla film ever made. Clearly, you meant to type “Godzilla vs. Megalon.”
#35 by Baron Scarpia on July 18, 2008 - 4:37 pm
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I’m in Britain. British Film Institute edition for me, then.
#36 by MatthewF on July 20, 2008 - 5:25 am
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I’m in britain too and your better off buying the america edition through amazon or somewhere because the BFI version is the same price and has only Gojira on it