Monster of the Day #889

Updated on April 17, 2014 By Ken Begg 14 Comments



We’ve seen some of the earliest stop-motion dinosaurs this week. This is one of the earliest slurpasaurs. Amazing to think this sort of thing remained in use through the ’60s, and in some fairly big budget movies.

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  • Flangepart

    Dinner on a thread.

  • SteveWD

    I think the best (maybe the only passable) slurpasaurs were the “Dimetrodons” from Journey to the Center of the Earth. They looked pretty good and they looked….. pretty much, like what they were supposed to be. You didn’t have someone screaming “T-Rex!!!!!” and then cut to a pet iguana.

  • Gamera977

    Sigh, I’ll take even a poorly done dinosaur of pretty much any type of FX over an iguana stand-in.

  • Wow. I didn’t realize they remade Godzilla so early on.

    Actually, all I can think of is how close to this we came with King Kong

  • bgbear_rnh

    but there are so few opportunities in film for iguanas

  • Wade Harrell

    Is this supposed to be underwater? Or is it a deep sea diver suit standing in for a space suit?

  • bgbear_rnh

    so tell my agent “I am not a marine iguana, they have blunter snouts” but, he says I need the job and asks me how long I can hold my breath

  • Gamera977

    I think I’ve seen Andrew Zimmern eat a few on ‘Bizarre Foods’. I guess with one this size turn-about is fair game eh?

  • Rock Baker

    On the other end of the spectrum, I’d happily take a photo-enlarged lizard over cartoony CGI dinos any day of the week.

  • Scopi314

    Well, it’s a deep lake diver. Okay, a moderately deep lake diver.

    Secret of the Loch fascinating, because it came out so early in the Loch Ness Monster phenomena. The writers clearly weren’t sure whether the monster was a new phenomena, or something that had been going on for centuries. The main authority figure contradicts himself on the subject at different points in the movie. Obviously, monster lore now claims the monster was known for a long time, evidence be damned.

  • Gamera977

    I know what you mean Rock, I think it’s fine if it’s supposed to be a Dimetrodon as Steve listed above or just a giant iguana. My issue is the whole trying to pass off an iguana as a T-rex when even young children know T-rex was bipedal!

  • Wade Harrell

    Holy crap, that’s supposed to be the Loch Ness monster? Wow! That’s better than the “Gargan” from Teenagers from Outer Space!

  • Scopi314

    The really funny part is that the movie starts out with the aforementioned authoritative professor explaining that the monster is a Diplodocus, in a scene set in the British Museum so we can see the Diplodocus skeleton.

  • Rock Baker

    Well, sure, it always works best when the dinosaur in question is meant to be generic in nature. Allen’s version of THE LOST WORLD was just dandy, aside from Challenger pointing to a horned gecko and calling it a baby tyrannosaurus!