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Category Archives: Dinosaurs

May 7th, 2013: Ghidorah, the Three Headed Monster

May7 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Aliens, Cops, Crime, Dinosaurs, Disaster, Event Film, Giant Insects, Hit Man, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Superheroes Tagged airplane, Akihiko Hirata, Akiko Wakabayashi, Akira Ifukube, alien possession, alien warning, assassin, assassination attempt, Bad Dubbing, Cassandra, cops, Eiji Tsuburaya, Emi Ito, fishermen, Ghidorah, Godzilla, hanging from a cliff, Hiroshi Koizumi, Japan, Kenji Sahara, lady reporter, model airplane, Mothra, mountains, music summons the monster, plane crash, power outage, princess, prophecy, quotably bad dialogue, reporter, Rodan, scientists, Shinichi Sekizawa, shock treatment, Takashi Shimura, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka, TV show, Yosuke Natsuki, Yumi Ito, Yuriko Hoshi

March 7th, 2013: King Kong Escapes

Mar7 by professormortis

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6 Comments Posted in Adventure, Dinosaurs, Espionage, Event Film, Giant Animals, Kaiju, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Robots, Sci-Fi, Sequel, So-Bad-It's-Good Tagged "apes love blondes", Akira Ifukube, Akira Takarada, apes, Arthur Rankin Jr, cash-in, co-production, doppelganger, Eiji Tsuburaya, Eisei Amamoto, goofy monster suit, gorilla suit, Ishiro Honda, Japan, killer robots, King Kong, Mie Hama, Paul Frees, Rankin/Bass Productions, Rhodes Reason, robot servant, scientists, submarine, suitmation, T-Rex, the declining years, Toho, Tokyo, Tomoyuki Tanaka, uncharted island, United Nations

June 29th, 2012: The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

Jun29 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Based on a Short Story(ies), Black and White, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Independent, Kaiju, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Stop Motion Animation, The Original Tagged Arctic, atomic, atomic testing, Cecil Kellaway, Coney Island, diving bell, Drive-In, Kenneth Tobey, Lee Van Cleef, New York City, radiation, Ray Bradbury, roller coaster, scientists, stock footage, Vera Miles, woman scientist with a man's first name

June 5th, 2012: Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster aka Godzilla vs. Hedora

Jun5 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Camp, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Kaiju, Monster, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, Sequel, Superheroes Tagged acid trip, AIP, annoying children, annoying teenagers, Drive-In, Godzilla, hippies, Japan, kenny, night club, pollution, Samuel Z. Arkoff, scientists, Takeshi Kimura, Toho, Tomoyuki Tanaka

June 3, 2012: The Land that Time Forgot (1975)

Jun3 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adaptation, Adventure, Based on a Book, Dinosaurs, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Sci-Fi, The Original, War Movies Tagged "This Lost World is Gonna Blow!", AIP, Alan Hume, Amicus, Anthony Ainley, Britain, double cross, Doug McClure, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Great War, Kevin Connor, message in a bottle, Michael Moorcock, rod puppets, Samuel Z. Arkoff, submarine

November 24th, 2011: King Kong (1933)

Nov24 by professormortis

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1 Comment Posted in Black and White, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Giant Animals, Kaiju, Lost World, Monster, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, The Original Tagged apes, biplane, Bruce Cabot, David O. Selznick, Edgar Wallace, Empire State Building, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Fay Wray, King Kong, Max Steiner, Merian C. Cooper, National Film Registry, natives, New York City, Noble Johnson, obligatory love interest, RKO, Robert Armstrong, sacrifice, Skull Island, Willis O'Brien

July 8th, 2011: Valley of Gwangi

Jul8 by professormortis

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Leave a comment Posted in Adventure, Dinosaurs, Event Film, Family, Kaiju, Lost World, Movie of the Day, Stop Motion Animation, Western Tagged Allosaurus, circus, cowboys, Drive-In, elephant, James Franciscus, Mexico, Ray Harryhausen, Richard Carlson, rip-off, Seven Arts Productions, Stegosaurus, Warner Brothers, Wild West Show

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