#Prehysteria

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

Godzilla references in Prehysteria! If anyone has a clean version of "Rock Godzilla," hook me up.

[mediasaurs]

T. rex Madness Round 2: Prehysteria! (Elvis) vs. Prehistoric Planet (Flirt Man)

Prehysteria! (Elvis) – Debuting the same year as Jurassic Park, Prehysteria! asks the important question: what if dinosaurs were tiny and cute and could live in your house? For the real answer, you can look at pet birds, but either way, wacky shenanigans will ensue. Elvis is a miniature T. rex, part of a group of eggs accidentally obtained by an ordinary family. Each hatches into a different dinosaur (or pterosaur) and is named after a famous musician. The T. rex, naturally, is named Elvis because he was the king. These are fun, silly movies and the stop-motion animation is a welcome sight in the world of endless CGI.

Prehistoric Planet (Flirt Man) – Standing in contrast with Hank, and having no commonly used fan-nickname, Flirt Man is an older, single T. rex just minding his own business, cleaning his wounds after a narrow victory over a Triceratops, when a female of his kind appears on the scene. Prehistoric Planet excels at showing varied behaviors and avoiding unnecessary dino fights, and this scene is no exception. Rather than coming to blows, the older male presents his neck and courts the female instead and, based on his impressive battle scars, she accepts his offer. Thus, a new generation of T. rexes will be born. No doubt, Flirt Man will have his own adventures in fatherhood in the months to come.

[ararebreedstory]

What are your top 10 favorite Dinosaur Movies that aren't Jurassic Park?

(In no particular order.)

1. Planet Of The Dinosaurs (1976)

2. Carnosaur (1993)

3. The Last Dinosaur (1977)

4. At The Earth's Core (1976)

5. One Million Years B.C. (1966)

6. The Land Before Time (1988)

7. We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)

8. Prehysteria! (1993)

9. Adventures in Dinosaur City (1992)

10. Theodore Rex (1995)

[heavenboy09]

30 Years ago today, On June 30th , 1993

From MoonBeam Entertainment Presents

The 1990s Beloved Classic Kids Film Of The Century

A Film That 🎥 Tells The Story Of The Most Unbelievable Discovery

65 Million Years In The Making

A young boy finds some mysterious eggs 🥚🥚🥚,

which hatch in his family's basement to reveal

A Brood Of Baby Dinosaurs 🦕🦖.

The boy and his family must protect the small creatures as an evil archaeologist wants them for himself.

Its Up To This Young Boy & His Family To Save The Baby Dinosaurs 🦕 🦖 From Being Put On Display For The Whole World 🌎 To See.

From MoonBeam Entertainment Presents

The 1993 Beloved Classic Kids Film Of The Summer

They're The World's Oldest Party 🥳 Animals 🦖🦕

GET READY FOR SOME

PREHYSTERIA 🦖🦕

HAPPY 30TH ANNIVERSARY TO MoonBeam Entertainment

PREHYSTERIA 🦖🦕

[retrosaurus]

Prehysteria! (1993) VHS tape

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[adamwatchesmovies]

Prehysteria! (1993)

Do you ever feel like going back and revisiting that one obscure movie you saw as a kid that no one else has ever heard of but you know for sure exists? I distinctly remember seeing Prehysteria! as a child. Well, at least one of the three movies. All I remembered were those awesome miniature dinosaurs. I couldn’t recall ANYTHING about the plot… and there’s a reason for that.

Slimy museum curator Rico Sarno (Stephen Lee) returns from an expedition in South America with five mysterious eggs. When he accidentally swaps coolers with Frank Taylor (Brett Cullen), the widowed raisin farmer and his kids - Monica (Samantha Mills) and Jerry (Austin O’Brien) - discover that their dog is now the proud mother of 5 miniature - but fully-grown - dinosaurs!

The film is basically a mix of Gremlins and Jurassic Park but without any edge and only the blandest of human characters to keep the plot moving. I’m sorry, 6-year-old Adam, but this movie is bad. It isn’t devoid of merit, but it's sub-par entertainment, even for kids.

The best - and really, only redeeming - element of Prehysteria! is the dinosaurs. Even then, a lot more could’ve been done with them. Jerry and Monica’s new pets - Tyrannosaurus Elvis, Brachiosaurus Paula, Stegosaurus Jagger, Chasmosaurus Hammer and Geosternbergia Madonna - are pretty neat in a few ways. Of course, there had to be a t-rex and I wouldn't consider a stegosaurus an obscure species of dinosaur, but the rest are fairly unique, which will please amateur archeologists plenty. The creatures are brought to life with terrific puppetry and stop-motion effects. Considering the film’s low-budget (which shows whenever the use of a green-screen is required), the pint-sized thunder-lizards look great. If only the beasts were given any personality. At the end of the day, it hardly feels like you get to know them at all. It's a shame because the humans who adopt them? They’re complete throwaways who hardly convey the genuine sense of wonder you’d expect from meeting actual dinosaurs, miniature or not.

The unique animals are thrown in a plot that’s so generic it’s hard to care. Rico Sarno is a one-dimensional greedy… museum curator? Huh? The only ones stupider than him are the two goons he hires to help him steal the dinos: Ritchie (Stuart Fratkin) and Louis (Tony Longo). They’re so dumb even a kid could tell the peril in this film is non-existent. The kids are a bit better, I guess, but they’re just typical “younger brother who doesn’t like his older sister” type. The dad is another kind of enigma. He sells fossils to the museum - an opportunity to make doe eyes at Vicki (Colleen Morris), who works at the museum’s desk - but has no interest in dinosaurs whatsoever. It just feels weird. How does he even know what he’s digging up if he has no interest in archeology? I guess we can talk about her too. It’s no spoiler that she ends up on the Taylors’ side against meanie Mr. Sarno when she learns he wants to exploit the dinosaurs for money. As soon as you learn Frank is widowed, you know that means they’ll end up romantically involved. There are no surprises at all and the conclusion is so hurried some of it doesn’t make sense.

You might wonder if I’m upset at a “treasured memory” getting debunked. I’m not. I had a good time with the movie back then and I had a bit of fun with this rewatch… if only because it made me appreciate how much my taste has evolved. I think the funniest thing about Prehysteria! is that while all of the dinosaurs are named after famous musicians, only Elvis contributes to the soundtrack. Even then, it might’ve been an imitator. This movie does not have the budget for Madonna, not by a long shot. All it had was the money to make the dinosaurs look good. That's not enough. (September 25, 2022)

[zangtang]

I can't tell you how much I hate Police Academy, everything is so stupid. They keep discovering secret treasure maps, hidden passages and tombs, it's like this is what the police station in Resident Evil was up to before it was full of zombies. And yet, who else was brave enough to give us anything like Tony Longo's dirty socks. I keep forgetting the comparison shots, here he is in a transitional state from hunk to chunk in 1993's Prehysteria, where he'll have been about 32

[still-nix-d-goffic]

No propaganda just the covers.

[ticketmastersince2k4]

Just the Ticket #147: Prehysteria! 3

I am so happy, Ticketholders!

Happy because the Jurassic part of Jurassic Joy Ride June is finally over, so I get to watch a good movie next week!

I'll have the link inserts done for today's scathing review shortly, as well as drafts for tomorrow's Time Drops and the Anime Spotlight that I had to delay from last Monday.

Enjoy!

[showtimeriley]

remember movies Prehysteria 1 2 3

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

can only have 10 options, sorry for the things I missed

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

why does this ad for a bunch of random family movies go so ridiculously hard

[mediasaurs]

TRM Round 1: Fantasia (Rite of Spring T. rex) vs. Prehysteria! (Elvis)

Fantasia (Rite of Spring T. rex) – From the classic film comes an early animated depiction of T. rex. Here, we see Tyrannosaurus fighting with, and ultimately defeating, an anachronistic Stegosaurus. Though, sadly, like many of the entries in this competition, no success in hunting can save this T. rex from the extinction of the dinosaurs. Here, though, extinction comes not from a meteor but climate change.

Prehysteria! (Elvis) – Debuting the same year as Jurassic Park, Prehysteria! asks the important question: what if dinosaurs were tiny and cute and could live in your house? For the real answer, you can look at pet birds, but either way, wacky shenanigans will ensue. Elvis is a miniature T. rex, part of a group of eggs accidentally obtained by an ordinary family. Each hatches into a different dinosaur (or pterosaur) and is named after a famous musician. The T. rex, naturally, is named Elvis because he was the king. These are fun, silly movies and the stop-motion animation is a welcome sight in the world of endless CGI.

[ammonitetheseaserpent]

I haev so many OC story ideas I’ve been keeping mute abt. NO MORE I SAY-

Scales and Tails - talked abt this one before; there’s dragons. and these lil guys called fribbles (I named em before I found out the word actually existed AAJABSBAGGAGW) all living in this pocket dimension that’s slowly collapsing. details here: https://www.tumblr.com/ammonitetheseaserpent/744352394841817088/hmmm-scales-and-tails-masterpost-3-dragon

Prehysteria (working title) - hmm animated series idea I think abt sometimes. Post-apocalyptic earth with all kinds of sentient prehistoric species. details here: https://www.tumblr.com/ammonitetheseaserpent/712600530702172160/uhhh-who-wants-to-hear-about-the-kinda-crude-so

Pre-Sapient Arts - sort of a story ig? Mostly an excuse for me to draw all sorts of Dinosaurs and other critters. An organization (the aforementioned title is their name) is making all sorts of creatures; the main branch is just doing genetically modified dinos, while the hidden branch is doing… something a bit more. Hidden branch creatures here: https://toyhou.se/BumbleDippity/characters/folder:4401336

Jabber From Tabloid Jungle - so basically there’s this jungle that’s like. the main place of magic on earth. It’s inhabited by a pack of magic dogs, a demon, a birdlike spirit, and a… pretty out-of-place mountain in the middle. I’ve been feeling on-again off-again inspired by pocketss and their comics, and I were to ever do a webcomic, I think I’d want it to be this.

Galvin - some guy named Alvin wakes up as a Gallimimus in a town with a superstitious hatred of dinosaurs. He’s joined by his paleo enthusiast niece, who helps him figure out why he’s a dinosaur now. I have…. no idea what I’ll do with this alansbagtatsgsgsc

Turbulence Time - OOOOOO this one’s one of my favorites. it’s abt a torture dungeon that an eldritch being enhances into something a lot more existentially terrifying. and him and the secret society behind it take over the continent it’s on w/ their practices. It’s v dark and gritty and a little bit inspired by MD

Centennial Paradox - my most recent idea hehe. Takes place on a planet called Edoris, which is afflicted by some sort of time curse where every 100 years, something screwy happens, as if the past were changed. The residents catch onto the weirdness, and build robots that can act outside of time, as well as being aware of any changes made to it. I wanna write this as a book someday

[quasar1967]

Cinefantastique #96

Aug 1993

This issue includes the following: Stuart Gordon on filming Fortress; behind the scenes of Jurassic Park; previews of Dinosaurs Attack!, Prehysteria, and Witchboard 2; the making of Robocop 3; a production article on Jason Goes to Hell; the special effects of Body Snatchers; a piece on Carnosaur; and more. Jurassic Park cover painting