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You have entered the Reptoids Research Center's Video Market Place. Here is where you can find an extensive listing of films, videos and television shows that demonstrate our increasing fascination with dinosaurs, dragons and humanoid-reptilian, reptoid "alien" characters. Serious documentary and comedy are included for your review. Each cited title contains a short description of the production (if available) and any notes of relevance as they might apply to this subject of study. For your personal viewing of these titles, links are provided for immediate purchase of any Audio CD, Video and Book of your choice through the secure Amazon.com server. |
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chronological listing demonstrates how dinosaurs, dragons and reptoids have become increasingly more popular characters within the television and
motion picture industry since the beginning of the last century.
(The list does not include hundreds of Discovery Channel, Learning Channel, NOVA, Animal Planet, etc., cable documentaries regarding reptiles that have been broadcast in recent years. Too numerous to list here.) |
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Each year, more and more films are added to this page. With each new addition we are more able to clearly witness the evolution of the dinosaur and other bipedal, reptilian-humanoid images as they have been presented to us by the media throughout the years.
1913 1914 1916 1917 The Dinosaur and the Missing Link - Description N/A. 1919
1920'SSS. 1923 1925
1930'SSS. 1931 1933 Son of Kong - Live action film with stop action dinosaurs. 1934 1938 1939
1940'SSs 1940 One Million BC (a.k.a. Man and his Mate, The Cave Dwellers) - Description N/A. 1943 1948
1950'SSS. 1950 Two Lost Worlds - Starring James Arness - (" Gunsmoke" Sheriff.) Set in the 1830's, a young James Arness (credited "James Aurness") is shipwrecked upon an island with giant Lizards and Pirates in pursuit.-
1951 1953
The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms - Thawed out by an atomic test in the Arctic, the monster makes it way down the Atlantic seaboard, capsizing several boats on its way to
some submerged canyons off NYC. Coming ashore in Lower Manhattan, it kills many people and wreaks destruction until it is finally
destroyed by radioactive isotope shot into a wound while attacking the roller coaster at Coney Island ( it was actually filmed at Pacific
1955
1956 Godzilla, King of the Monsters - (Japanese) Starring: Inoshiro Honda, Raymond Burr. The Hideous Sun Demon - "Some yutz gets doused in gamma rays in his lab, letting a virus infect his blood, and now whenever he goes out in the SUN it turns him into some nutty, crazy, hideous sun demon [A Demonic REPTILIAN humanoid.] Now every time the guy turns into the creature he, for some reason, runs around, and accidentally kills stuff, both animals and people. Now he's not only a hideous sun demon, but also a WANTED, hideous sun demon. With hideous acting and a Marilyn Monroe look-a-like, the Hideous Sun Demon is everything you could want in a movie." (TAL) 1957
1958
1959 The Giant Behemoth - Description N/A.
1960'SSS. 1960 The Lost World - Starring: Bessie Love - Description N/A.
1961
Valley of the Dragons - Description N/A. 1962 1963 1965
1966
Sound of Horror (1965/66)
- Description N/A. Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1965/66) - Description N/A. 1967 One Million Years B.C. - Raquel Welch runs amongst the rocks, towering dinosaurs and rugged men of the caves. What more can a critic say about what to expect from this classical 60's beautiful Softskin-Meets-Scales movie.
1968
Snake People, The - Starring Boris Karloff, Julissa, Carlos East, Rafael Bertrand, Judy Carmichael and "Tongolee." Directors Juan Ibanez and Jack Hill. Story by Jack Hill. Azteca Productions-Columbia. Description N/A. 1969 H.R. PUFnSTUF - The original psychedelic children's show from the 1960's that was about a boy, who slips into another dimension, and has weekly adventures in a very strange land (that McDonald's eventually lost a law suit to the Kroftt brothers for 'borrowing' their set design as a model for McDonald Land. Was Mayor McCheese a symbolic representation of H.R. PUFnSTUF, the bipedal Dragon-Sauroid?)
1970'SSS.
1971
1972
1974
Valley of the Dinosaurs (1974-76, CBS-TV)] - Description N/A. 1975 The Land That Time Forgot - Starring: Doug McClure - Description N/A. 1976
1977
1978
Where Time Began - Description N/A.
1980'SSS. 1981 The Asteroid and the Dinosaur - Scientists explain the Asteroid-Earth impact theory and it's effects on the dinosaurs. - N/A 1982 1983 The Winged Serpent - Starring: David Carradine. - Description N/A. 1984 Dreamscape
- Starring Dennis Quaid, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Eddie Albert, Kate Capshaw and
George Wendt. A psychic (Dennis Quaid) avoids using his powers to live a normal life. An
old colleague conducting "Dreamlinking" research (projecting one's consciousness
into another persons dream) gets Quaid to participate. Another psychic participant begins
to murder people through their dreams. Quaid fights the murdering psychic in the
Presidents dream. As they battle, the murderer assumes the shape of a humanoid-reptilian,
attacking Quaid with extreme ferocity.
V: The Original TV Mini-Series - One of the most outstanding of all sci-fi television series regarding a race of reptilian "aliens" that arrive on Earth disguised as humanoids. The "Visitors" (Hence "V") manipulate the world's leaders into accepting their presence despite renegade human resistance groups trying to expose their ultimate plan of stealing Earths water and humans for food.
1985
Massacre in Dinosaur Valley - Description N/A. 1986 1987
1988
Terror Within - Starring Andrew Stevens. The Land Before Time:
- Starring Gabriel Damon, Pat Hingle. Animated. An orphaned
young dinosaur named Littlefoot, escapes the plague by journeying through the
post apocalyptic landscape to the paradise of the Great Valley.
Along the way he encounters and befriends other dinosaur species. Message here:
Dinosaurs Escape Extinction By Traveling Through Caverns to a Hidden Ecosystem. 1989
1990'SSS. 1990
1991
Dinosaur Babes - Description N/A. Dinosaur! - Birth of Legend / Tale of An Egg
- Walter Cronkite, narrates this highly educational production taking the viewer
from the discovery to the display of dinosaur fossils. Great show. Terror Within II - Starring: Andrew Stevens - Description N/A.
1992
The Lost World - "In 1912, an expedition journeys to an African plateau where dinosaurs still live. Rhys - Davies as Professor Challenger and Warner as his rival are good, but others in the too-large cast are amateurish, and the dinosaurs are not only badly done, but extremely scarce. A cheap, insignificant version of Conan Doyle's wonderful novel, which still deserves a lavish remake. Sequel, RETURN TO THE LOST WORLD (1994)"
1993
Dinosaur Island - Starring: Ross Hagen - Description N/A.
Jurassic Park and Lost
World - Producer/Screenwriter Steven Speilberg
resurrects dinosaurs from the dead and presents the human race with an
"impossible" threat....living dinosaurs! Somewhere on a remote and secret
island, scientists capture and regenerate saurian DNA and create a tropical wilderness
filled with various out of control and hungry dinosaurs. The film with the arrival of
another dinosaur bent on killing (and eating) the two saurian creatures that were
terrorizing the human heroes.
We're Back A Dinosaur's Story - A Steven Speilberg produced video animation production about bipedal, speaking dinosaurs that befriend two children and teach them how to be respectable and honest. Scenes include: A gecko-like E.T. taking a primitive T-Rex into his spaceship, endowing it with intelligence, traveling forward in time and depositing the intelligent REX on present day Earth. Amongst the many delightfull scenes is one in which children, watching a parade containing REX and his talking dinosaur friends (appearing as balloon-floats,) repeatedly wish out loud that the sauroid characters were real. The most significant message can be seen in the film's closing scene. A grandmother, looks out the night time window up into the stars and tells the children "Have your dreams of this beautiful world and tomorrow youll begin to fulfill the wishes of many children. We will make believe you're statues. Adults will wait outside as you reveal the miracle of yourselves to the youth. It will be very good. It will be very good indeed." Playtime for children or Prophecy for all...? We're Back-A Dinosaur's Story
1994
Carnosaur 2 - Starring: John Savage. - Description N/A. Cave Girl Island - Description N/A. Clifford
- Martin Short, Charles Grodin, Dabney Coleman and Mary Steenburgen. Martin
plays a 10 year old boy who terrorizes his uncle, Charles Grodin, when plans to
visit "Dinosaur World" fall through. Good comedy illustrating a child's
insatiable desire to play with the dinosaurs. Flintstones - Children have been fascinated and amused for years with the antics of Fred Flintstone and his neighbor / side-kick Barney Rubble. Dinosaurs abound in this legendary cartoon series. "Dino," the adorable, energetic and bouncy family pet is a featured cast member and long necked dinosaurs are used as cranes at Fred's demolition work site. Click on this VHS icon to review more about the movie version of the series. Oblivion - In this
science-fiction meets western movie, the son of a murdered sheriff comes
back to the desert town of Oblivion in 3033 AD to take revenge on the reptilian alien who killed his father. Sequel: 'Backlash: Oblivion 2.'
Return To The Lost World
- Starring: John Rhys-Davies. Sequel to
"Lost World" 1992. - Description N/A.
Stargate
- Starring Kurt Russell and James Spader. This movie linked ancient Egyptian mysteries, pyramids, slavery, time-space travel and the
return of, and conflict with, a reptilian God/alien to a planet where it once ruled. (The
true image of the alien can be seen as his skin is peeled away in the last scene.)
1995 Carnosaur 2 - As many people say when they see this movie, it's a rip off of the James Cameron "Aliens" plot, but is definately worth a look. Things go wrong in a government facility. A rescue team goes in to save the one lone survivor. Dinosaurs look great, but he acting is truly stiff. Mutant League - Description N/A. Prehysteria III - Starring: Fred Willard. - Description N/A.
The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure - (Animated) -
Description N/A.
Theodore Rex - Starring Whoopie Goldberg and a seven foot tall, upright walking, talking Dino-Sauroid. Whoopie and the sauroid work side by side against crime and injustice. At the end of the film there is a scene in which an audience is told "Soft-skin, scale, tell us that they are only words that keep us apart. Our survival rests in all species treating each other with compassion, kindness and respect." Following this, the Sauroid character tells his Whoopie Goldberg "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" and the words "SEE YA" are seen fading slowly to black.
1996
Carnosaur 3: Primal Species - Reviewers
hate the film and blast the actors, make-up, set designs, plot, direction. It
might be worth getting just to say we've see how bad things can get!
The Land Before Time IV: Journey Through the Mists - (Animated) - Description N/A.
1997
Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell
- Description N/A.
Stargate: SG 1 - This 'ShowTime' series, continues this reptilian theme by
presenting the malevolent aliens wearing armor shells of cobras with striking pose and
being "serpent-like" in their cold blooded aggression towards the human Stargate
travelers. The masters of these human "hosts" are the serpents living within
them. Serpentine images abound within the series scenery.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park - In this Jurassic Park sequel, Spielberg echoes the Dinotopian "World Beneath" theme in which a lost ecological niche is discovered in which dinosaurs live. In their "terrible Lizard" ways, a captive T-Rex breaks from his captors and terrorizes a metropolis. In the end of the film, the saurian young are used as bait to lure the dinosaurs back to the ship and to their eventual destruction. (NOTE: Just as the lost "V" series depict, both film portray the humans as being threatened by one form of reptilian life and saved by another.) Jurassic Park
1998
Godzilla - Starring Matthew Broderick.
Radiation poisoning causes a dormant ocean living bipedal dinosaur to rampage
throughout New York city. During the raucous, Godzilla is discovered to be
pregnant and soon becomes the mother of several hundred offspring that are
hungry for anything in their path.
Godzilla: The Album CD SOUNDTRACK
T-Rex - Back to the Cretaceous - 3D IMAX N/A
1999
National Geographic's Dinosaur Giants: Found - Follow three paleontologists in their own episodes as they discover new dinosaurs, search for dinosaur eggs and reconstruct the famous T-Rex, Sue.
2000'SSS.
2000 The Land Before Time VII - The Stone of Cold Fire - Description N/A.
Walking With
Dinosaurs
- One of the finest documentaries regarding
dinosaurs ever made. Ultra sophisticated animation techniques allow viewers to
see dinosaurs come to life. Watch them mate, fight, raise their young and
partake in other dinosaur activities in a historically accurate reproduction of
a Mesozoic environment.
Each year, more films are added to this page providing us a window through which we can witness our historical fascination with dinosaurs, reptoids and sauroid beings in film and television. If you can contribute to this list, we would appreciate hearing from you. Email us |