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Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991)
, 1h28Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Children's films
Actors Tony Doyle, Omri Katz, Paul Eiding, Kimberly Beck, R. A. Mihailoff, Patrick Labyorteaux
The story involves a trio of teenagers, named Timmy, Jamie and Mick, who enjoy watching their favorite TV show which features anthropomorphic dinosaurs. Wanting to watch it on a better screen, Timmy, the youngest of the three, suggests that they try watching it on his father's screen in his laboratory. The moment they turn it on, a vortex sucks the three into the TV screen, and into their favorite show. Upon entering the new world, the trio comes across a flightless Dimorphodon named Forry. Although reluctant at first to help them, his knowledge of Dinosaur City proves useful, as he guides the three to Tar Town, where they join up with Rex and Tops, two dinosaur freedom fighters willing to ignite a revolution against the villain, Mr. Big, and his caveman henchmen, "The Rockies".
The Eden Formula (2006)
Directed by John Carl Buechler
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Films about computing, La préhistoire, Cyberpunk films
Actors Jeff Fahey, Tony Todd, Dee Wallace, Robert Axelrod, Adam Green, Elina Madison
Dr. Harrison Parker (Jeff Fahey) is a scientist working at Calgorin Industries who developed the Eden Formula, a chemical which can reproduce organisms and cure various diseases. However, unknown to Parker, deep underground the general area of his industrial district, other Calgorin Industries scientists have created a Tyrannosaurus rex from Parker's formula, and keep it locked away in a subterranean location in order to impress stockholders. Soon enough, industry spies enter a laboratory at Calgorin Industries so they can steal the formula and pass it off as their own, making millions of dollars.
Mammoth (2006)
, 1h30Directed by Tim Cox
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror, Comic science fiction
Themes La préhistoire, Comedy science fiction films, Comedy horror films
Actors Vincent Ventresca, Summer Glau, Tom Skerritt, Leila Arcieri, Marcus Lyle Brown, Julia Lashae
Frank Abernathy is the curator of the natural history museum in Blackwater, Louisiana. He is a widower who doesn't seem to have time for his daughter, Jack. Frank's father, Simon, is a B-movie enthusiast who believes in extraterrestrials and shows his favorite movies at the local theater. The city loses its electrical power just as Simon, Jack and her boyfriend Squirrelly exit the theater. They watch an object streaking through the sky and crashing into the museum. Thought to be a meteorite, they later find out it is a craft containing an alien lifeform. Trying to adapt to the Earth's atmosphere, it latches on to the first organism it finds - the museum's most notable exhibit, a frozen Wooly mammoth.
Aztec Rex (2007)
Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire
Actors Ian Ziering, Dichen Lachman, Jack McGee, Shawn Lathrop, Marco Sanchez, Will Snow
Taking place in 1521 on the coast of Mexico, a group of Aztecs worships and makes sacrifices to a pair of living Tyrannosaurus rex. A group of conquistadores led by Hernán Cortés later arrive on the location and venture into the forest to make camp. One of the Tyrannosaurs crosses the path of one of the conquistadores and devours his horse. His fellow conquistadores do not believe his story and continue to venture through the dense forest. An Aztec who is not aware of the Tyrannosaur is eaten, while another witnesses the event with an expression of deep horror and surprise. Later, the conquistadores try to kill the tribe of Aztecs, but are put to sleep by a hidden Aztec with a tube of tranquilizer darts. Hernán Cortés surrenders and demands a truce, but realizes they cannot understand him. He murmurs to himself that they are savages, not realizing the chief can understand English, and is knocked out. Once he regains consciousness, he meets an English-speaking female Aztec. She tells him the Aztecs call the Tyrannosaurs "Thunder Lizards". Later, Hernán Cortés is offered up as a sacrifice, but is freed by his new friend, Gria. It is revealed that of Hernán's fault, the female, who was the chief's daughter, was consumed by one of the Tyrannosaurs. The chief becomes enraged, but he does not know that his daughter Ayacoatl is actually alive. The chief orders a sacrifice of all the conquistadores, but his mind changes when his daughter returns. The daughter's marriage is postponed when a Tyrannosaur kills an Aztec girl. The conquistadores set out on a mission to kill the Tyrannosaurs with cannons and muskets. They succeed in killing the male at the loss of one of their companions. At night Cortez and his soldiers rob the temple of gold and try to escape to the coast. They leave lieutenant Rios and sergeant Mendoza to the mercy of the Aztecs as they had become to friendly with them. In their escape to the coast all but Cortes are devoured by the female Tyrannosaurus. Sergeant Menoza is mortally wounded by the Tyrannosaurus. Rios and shaman Xocozin set out to try to kill the animal but Rios has been secretly drugged by Xocozin who tries to kill him. Xocozin leaves Rios to his fate and heads to the village where he is confronted by the Chief who found out his betrayal. Xocozin and the Chief fight with the latter being mortally wounded. Eventually Rios is found by Ayacoatl and Fra Gria, who marries them. At the altar Xocozin is mortally wounded by Rios. Ayacoatl then cuts out Xovozin's heart to use as bait for the female Tyrannosaurus who then is killed in a gunpowder explosion. Fra Gia and Cortes are picked up by a Spanish ship but are warned by Rios not to return to the valley, which Cortes never did when he conquered the Aztec empire. Fra Gia returned to Spain, became a saint and the inventor of Sangria. Ayacoatl and Rios become rulers of the tibe.
, 1h30Directed by Eric Brevig
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes La préhistoire, Films based on science fiction novels
Actors Rick Schroder, Peter Fonda, Greg Evigan, Dedee Pfeiffer, Victoria Pratt, Steven Grayhm
Heiress Martha Dennison (Victoria Pratt) seeks out professor Jonathan Brock (Rick Schroder) to help find her husband, Edward, who disappeared four years earlier on an expedition towards the center of the Earth. At first Jonathan is hesitant to go despite Martha's offer to handsomely pay him, giving him the opportunity to pay off the debts left to him by his recently deceased father, while his nephew and aspiring journalist Abel is excited for the opportunity to get real life journalistic experience. After reviewing Edward's notes Jonathan is persuaded to go along. The two of them, along with Abel, go to the newly acquired Alaskan territory to gather information about Edward and his expedition and find a Russian guide, Sergei, to aide their search of her husband. They struggle to cover a large amount of ground in only 10 days based upon information recovered from a crudely drawn map. They find and enter a mine shaft in a volcano, venturing deep into the center of the earth. Along the way small signs are found of the previous expedition along with the skeleton of Mikael, a friend like a brother to Sergei, and see it as an ominous sign of what's ahead. Abel constantly lags behind taking notes and pictures of the journey and discovers a passage to a strange new land.
Triassic Attack (2010)
Directed by Colin Ferguson
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire
Actors Steven Brand, Emilia Clarke, Christopher Villiers
Three dinosaur fossils are unintentionally brought to life by the Native American owner of a museum. The fossils - a Raptor, a Pteranodon and a Tyrannosaurus Rex - then wreak havoc in the city. It's up to a sheriff to stop them.
The Ballad of Nessie (2011)
, 5minutesDirected by Stevie Wermers-Skelton
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Children's films
Actors Billy Connolly, Sylvain Hétu, Viviane Pacal, Claude Gagnon, Hugolin Chevrette-Landesque
A legendary and friendly creature named Nessie lives happily in a small pond with her friend MacQuack, a rubber duck. When a rich developer takes the pond and land surrounding it to build a miniature golf course, Nessie is forced to search for a new home. She finds rejection everywhere and is always told to keep a stiff upper lip and not cry. Finally, Nessie loses all hope and starts crying for days, weeks, and months. When she can't cry anymore, she finds that her tears have created the Loch, a beautiful and perfect new home for her and MacQuack.
Speckles: The Tarbosaurus (2012)
, 1h30Genres Science fiction, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire
Actors Lee Hyung-suk, Veronica Taylor, Christopher Daniel Barnes
80 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period, a young Tarbosaurus named Speckles, for his unique birthmark, lives and hunts with his older juvenile brother and sisters and his mother. Speckles is left alone when a rogue, scarfaced Tyrannosaurus named One-Eye causes a stampede to kill Speckles' family in order to usurp their territory.
, 1h32Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, La préhistoire, Transport films, Musical films
Actors Tsunehiko Watase, Takashi Sorimachi
The year is 1977. A young woman wanders barefoot in the lush Aokigahara (青木ヶ原), also known as the Sea of Trees (樹海 Jukai) region of Mt. Fuji, and suddenly falls into an underground cavern. When she comes to her senses, she discovers that she is in an icy cave full of large eggs. To her horror, one of the eggs begins hatching, revealing a large yellow eye within. She goes into hysterics, runs for her life, and is eventually discovered by a construction crew. Though she goes into a coma, the girl apparently managed to babble about what she saw to a reporter.
Sharktopus vs. Pteracuda (2014)
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Action, Adventure, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Seafaring films, La préhistoire, Transport films, Films about sharks, Animaux préhistoriques, Natural horror films, Mise en scène d'un poisson, Giant monster films, Disaster films
Actors Robert Carradine, Rib Hillis, Conan O'Brien
After Andy Flynn destroyed the original Sharktopus (a half-shark half-octopus creature), its various pieces floated back out into the ocean. However, among the scattered anatomy was an egg sack and marine biologist Lorena finds herself the ward of the creature's sole offspring which she begins raising at her uncle's aquarium to mixed success. Meanwhile, Dr. Rico Symes is hard at work on his own biological weapon. After harvesting a pterodactyl's DNA, he used the DNA from a barracuda to fill in the gaps, creating a monster that can terrorize land, sea, and air. Things are looking pretty good during the initial test flight until the creature is hijacked by a rogue engineer, looking to sell it the highest bidder. He probably would have gotten away with it if he didn't spill his coffee all over his console, but now the Pteracuda is free to rampage the coast in search of food.
The Original Movie (1922)
, 8minutesOrigin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about films, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire, Animaux préhistoriques, Film d'animation mettant en scène un animal, Mise en scène d'un scénariste
« Qu’en était-il du triste sort infligé aux scénaristes à l’époque des cavernes ? Jugez par vous-mêmes ». Un personnage chauve et à lunettes, assis dans son bureau, producteur de la préhistoire — reconnaissable à son short en peau de bête — reçoit une proposition de script sous forme d’un rouleau de parchemin qu’il commence à réduire à grands coups de ciseaux. Il auditionne d’abord une jeune femme qui se livre à un numéro de charme se terminant par un grand écart, puis il reçoit un clown coiffé d’un chapeau melon (qui pourrait être Charlot), avant d’engager un athlète qui lui montre sa force en malmenant une chèvre que l’on a remarquée auparavant broutant le short du producteur et les pages refusées. « Et maintenant, ils tournent ce qui reste de l’histoire ». On assiste à une querelle entre l’athlète et celui qui doit être le réalisateur, qui se termine par un K.O. général. Puis la vedette, chevauchant la chèvre comme un pur-sang, galope dans la nature, suivi par un dinosaure qui sert de grue pour effectuer un mouvement de caméra, l’appareil de prise de vues étant très drôlement actionné par le caméraman qui fait tourner un pédalier de vélo et non pas une manivelle. L’homme au petit chapeau s’exerce ensuite au lancer de couteaux sur l’athlète, ligoté par un singe, puis fait la cour à la belle. Le couple reçoit enfin la bénédiction d’un chaman perché en haut d’un cocotier. Le film doit encore subir les outrages de la censure, représentée ici par trois hommes à chapeau haut-de-forme qui menacent le producteur à qui il ne reste plus qu’à mutiler la pellicule. « Et c’est alors que s’avance le fier scénariste pour voir ce qu’on a fait de son chef d’œuvre ». La projection commence avec le titre à double sens : « Qui est le bouc ? bâclé d’après l’histoire d’Aloysius Flintpebble ("pierre à silex")». Film qui a obtenu le « visa N° 7-11 » ! Il ne reste de l’histoire filmée que des débris sans queue ni tête mais qui se termine par un mariage. Le scénariste s’arrache les cheveux et met au tapis le producteur. « C’est un bon scénario qui reconnaît son auteur… Après, ça devient un film » (It’s a wise scenario that knows its own author… after it gets in the movies).