Monster of the Day #1171

Updated on June 22, 2015 By Ken Begg 28 Comments

Man, F/X have come a long way since the first Jurassic Park.

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  • Flangepart

    KING DINOSAUR! One of my earliest MST3Ks, and now I must ask…where is louie the Lemur?

  • Gamera977

    Nuke the sucka and make the planet safe!!!

  • This is the first Jurassic Park? an, I would have put money onDeanzilla. It’s been too long since I’ve sen ether film, I guess.

  • bgbear_rnh

    oh, that’s your answer to everything.

  • bgbear_rnh

    I never knew that Robert Lippert ran his own theater to run his films in. I discovered it when I was trying to find info on an old theater in my hometown that my mother frequently mention as a teenage memory and I only had a vague memory of since it closed before I started kindergarten. I was a Lippert owned theater so, I would not be surprised if she “King Dinosaur” there.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Great(?) photo.

    And this may be OT but that Christopher Lee movie marathon on TCM is running right now and not tonight. I wish TCM could stick with a decision once they make it.

  • Gamera977

    Well, unless the radiation turns it into Gojira!

  • Gamera977

    The FX is too good for Deanzilla.

    Ok, I apologize- cheap shot there.

  • sandra

    Eric Hinkel – Thanks for the warning. I’m just in time to watch Horror Express.

  • Ericb

    Oh the horror to have been gummed to death by that thing.

  • Rock Baker

    I’d rather watch a giant lizard than a computer cartoon any day of the week. The only thing that really hurts this particular film is having characters point at what is clearly an undressed iguana and flatly declaring it a tyrannosaurus rex. Even the youngest viewer must’ve sneered at that!

  • zombiewhacker

    There’s a great Ballyhoo Pictures documentary on Lippert. It’s a bonus on one of the MST3K DVDs, though I forget which one (for this movie, perhaps?)

  • Eric Hinkle

    Glad someone got it. And am I wrong or was that Telly Savalas playing the Cossack commander in that movie?

    And yeesh, that Four Musketeers movie? Some way to honor Lee with that one, I don’t think they even mentioned his name in the credits.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    Definitely Telly Savalas. He could be interesting in some roles, Lisa and the Devil is a good example.

  • Gamera977

    Yeap, Telly indeed, love that movie. I missed the whole thing but I’ve got all the movies on DVD except the Musketeers films.

  • The Rev.

    You’re not wrong, though.

  • Gamera977

    The whole lizardsaur thing doesn’t bother me that much except that couldn’t you just claim it’s some quadruped dinosaur? Or call it just a generic ‘dinosaur’? It’s calling it a T-rex that just makes me scratch my head.

  • Ericb

    Well it’s supposed to be a Space T-Rex.

  • Gamera977

    Shouldn’t it have tentacles or shoot laser beams out of it’s eyes or something like that then???

  • Flangepart

    Lizards with lasers, tonight on Sy-Fy!

  • Not nice dissing the film’s only selling point outside its name… ;-)

  • Rock Baker

    Yeah, I’ve always felt the same way. As a generic dinosaur, the giant lizard thing works just fine. It’s when you identify a horned iguana as a Brontosaurus that the concept falls apart!

  • Rock Baker

    “That explains the laseraptors.”

  • Eric Hinkle

    I thought it looked and sounded like him. Just never expected to see Telly playing a Cossack. And he had a great line at one point:

    Countess: “I will have you sent to Siberia!”

    Cossack Telly: “I AM from Siberia!”

  • The Rev.

    Still better than the Claude Rains Lost World where they stuck horns on a tokay gecko and proclaimed it a baby T-rex…although not by much.

  • Rock Baker

    Actually, it was THE LOST WORLD that gave me the brontosaurus example!

  • Rodford Smith

    Is that the one where the train’s whistle sounds like a woman screaming? :-)

  • Eric Hinkle

    I suppose you can say it sounded like a scream.