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What was up with the tiny dinosaur thing?

posted 14 years ago by Happy_Evil_Dude
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Anyone?

Drop it like it's legal precedent!

[–] bixdugan1 14 years ago

I don't know either. It was a great little piece of stop-animation, if I remember correctly. It's also the only definite scene I remember from seeing this movie at the drive-in, and that would've been around 1979!

It worked, I think, because they never did explain it.

[–] galdana30 14 years ago

I was wondering about the same thing !! I saw the movie yesterday but it never explained what was of the creature? Maybe it was for a sequel that never been done...

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[–] LightningLad 14 years ago

Bit of a red herring, wasn't it? - it really portended a lot of the monster effects of the eighties.

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[–] HenryCW 14 years ago

I think it was a suggestion that these guys, other than breeding the "enhanced" piranhas, were also doing "research" on other new species - such as that dinosaur look-alike and the other odd creatures we saw in that lab.

[–] spookyrat1 10 years ago

I think it was a suggestion that these guys, other than breeding the "enhanced" piranhas, were also doing "research" on other new species ...

I'm sure you're on the money, but it's just different the way it bobs up for a few scenes only to disappear entirely from the story. Classic Corman!🐭

[–] evebay39 14 years ago

Isn't that a bit the wrong way round? It looks like a straight and very nice Harryhausen homage rather than looking to the future.

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[–] CasseroleWorshipper 13 years ago

Some of the best stop-motion I've ever seen.
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