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When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth

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6.2/10 • 89

1970-10-251h 40m

AdventureFantasyScience Fiction

Enter an age of unknown terrors, pagan worship and virgin sacrifice...

An ancient tribe attempts to sacrifice Sanna as an offering to the Sun god to save their tribe from dinosaurs. Tara, a young man from another tribe, saves Sanna and takes her along with him.

Directors
Val Guest
Writters
Val Guest, J.G. Ballard
Editors
Peter Curran

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  1. Victoria Vetri

    Victoria Vetri

    Sanna

  2. Robin Hawdon

    Robin Hawdon

    Tara

  3. Patrick Allen

    Patrick Allen

    Kingsor

  4. Drewe Henley

    Drewe Henley

    Khaku

  5. Sean Caffrey

    Sean Caffrey

    Kane

  6. Magda Konopka

    Magda Konopka

    Ulido

  7. Imogen Hassall

    Imogen Hassall

    Ayak

  8. Patrick Holt

    Patrick Holt

    Ammon

  9. Jan Rossini

    Jan Rossini

    Rock Girl

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Jan 30, 2024

5/10

This sat in my Watchlist for a long time. It's not been available to stream anywhere. Because I'm a nut for stop-motion effects, dinosaurs, and maybe even for cave women, I coughed up the $20 for the blu-ray and watched it. It's not a good movie. There are lots of barely clothed cave people shouting "AKEETA!!!!!" every other word. It's uncertain what that word actually means because all of the actors apparently just made up a language as they filmed. Basically, Sanna and Tara form a bond and everyone else chases them around. If caught, they will be killed because Sanna (Victoria Vetri) was supposed to be sacrificed, escaped, and has made the sun angry or some such thing. In the end, there's a happy ending as the moon is formed from the sun (???!!!), and everyone is killed by a massive tidal wave except Sanna and Tara, and a swinging couple that they've befriended. The stop-motion effects were very well done by Jim Danforth. There were a couple of lesser effects where they glued fins and stuff to a lizard, crocodile, and Komodo dragon, and I'd like to think that Danforth had nothing to do with those misfires. I'm assuming it was done by some other scrub who was forced to do so by cost-cutting executives. In summary, this was not much of a movie, but it was fun to watch. I liked the effects overall, and was very impressed with Victoria Vetri and Magna Konopka, for reasons that might be obvious, but that's my business.

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Status
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Original Language
English
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