Wednesday 30 November 2022

Flavours of the Month: October & November 2022...

Flooring it in Mexico, the (sort of) end of an undead era, and the calamitous closure of a horror franchise is just some of what has been setting the tone of my October & November 2022...


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Thursday 10 November 2022

Dinosaur Island (Fred Olen Ray & Jim Wynorski, 1994) Review

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You're about to hear one of the strangest stories in military history.” Funded by 'King of the B-Movies' Roger Corman, the intention behind Dinosaur Island was to cash-in on the likely success of the then soon-to-be-released Jurassic Park, with a thrifty-minded recycling of the T-Rex from the 1993's Carnosaur. Shot over twelve days on a budget of $190,000, with filming mostly taking place on cult movie icon David Carradine's ranch, the film was described by co-director Fred Olen Ray as “the kind of movie that if you were a fourteen year old kid, it would be your favourite movie”. Gathering a whole host of VHS-era Scream Queens and glamour models in animal hide bikinis (accurate to the prehistoric period, most surely) to scamper around betwixt natural spring hot tubs and none-more-fake-looking dino-beasties, Ray's description could quite possibly be the most spot-on statement of 1994...



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