Me being a cinema fanatic, I've seen a lot of movies and many of them cheap and goofy. Now when it comes to cheap dinosaur movies some may argue that The Mighty Gorgo is the worst, or Mark Polonia's Saurians, but at least those tried. Now I'm not saying N.G. Moutier didn't try when he made this movie but my God this movie is bad. The movie is in French so I can't give a good plot synopsis, but no worry someone else already did. This film has horrendous special effects and scenes that go on for to long. It's a poor movie to see, with no redeeming factors. So stay away, maybe watch Moutier's other movie Mad Mutilator, which is a step up from this one.
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About As Bad You're Going to Get
Michael_Elliott2 May 2017
Dinosaur from the Deep (1993)
1/2 (out of 4)
Professeur Nolan (Jean Rollin) leads a group of scientists on a time travel experiment, which leaves them on a small island where soon they're fighting for their lives as they come under attack by a deadly dinosaur.
DINOSAUR FROM THE DEEP comes from director N.G. Mount and it's certainly one of the worst films of its type. I think the film enters a level of badness to where the viewer can get some mild entertainment just out of seeing and wondering how much worse it's going to get. I'd be shocked if the budget was over a couple thousand dollars as everything about this picture has a very cheap feel to it.
This here includes the dinosaur scenes, which are extremely bad and especially for 1993. These effects might have passed in the silent era but even those low-budget Roger Corman pictures of the early 80s featured better effects. Obviously you're not expecting the quality of JURASSIC PARK here but these effects are so awful that the ones seen in CARNOSAUR appear to be ground-breaking. Another major problem with this film is the fact that the special effects are just as bad. Just check out the scene where a man has his eye ripped out.
The one interesting thing about the picture is that it does feature French director Rollin in the lead role. If you've seen his films like THE LIVING DEAD GIRL and THE RAPE OF THE VAMPIRE then you might be interested seeing him in front of the camera. This too adds some minor entertainment but there's no question that DINOSAUR FROM THE DEEP is at the very bottom of the barrel when it comes to these type of monster movies.
1/2 (out of 4)
Professeur Nolan (Jean Rollin) leads a group of scientists on a time travel experiment, which leaves them on a small island where soon they're fighting for their lives as they come under attack by a deadly dinosaur.
DINOSAUR FROM THE DEEP comes from director N.G. Mount and it's certainly one of the worst films of its type. I think the film enters a level of badness to where the viewer can get some mild entertainment just out of seeing and wondering how much worse it's going to get. I'd be shocked if the budget was over a couple thousand dollars as everything about this picture has a very cheap feel to it.
This here includes the dinosaur scenes, which are extremely bad and especially for 1993. These effects might have passed in the silent era but even those low-budget Roger Corman pictures of the early 80s featured better effects. Obviously you're not expecting the quality of JURASSIC PARK here but these effects are so awful that the ones seen in CARNOSAUR appear to be ground-breaking. Another major problem with this film is the fact that the special effects are just as bad. Just check out the scene where a man has his eye ripped out.
The one interesting thing about the picture is that it does feature French director Rollin in the lead role. If you've seen his films like THE LIVING DEAD GIRL and THE RAPE OF THE VAMPIRE then you might be interested seeing him in front of the camera. This too adds some minor entertainment but there's no question that DINOSAUR FROM THE DEEP is at the very bottom of the barrel when it comes to these type of monster movies.
Wow...
BandSAboutMovies2 October 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Norbert Moutier also made Ogroff, a shot on video slasher. Moutier was an accountant who contributed to the zines Monster Bis and Le Petit bédéraste du 20e siècle before starting to make his own movies in 1982, often serving as the director, screenwriter, producer and sometimes even acting. He quit accounting and started a comic book and movie store, which really feels like a dream life.
Somehow, he got some of the biggest genre personalities in France to be in his movies, like Howard Vernon, Jean-Pierre Putters, Quélou Parente, Christophe Bier, Christophe Lemaire and Christian Letargat. In this movie, he got Jean Rollin to play Professeur Nolan, the leader of this strange experiment in which secret agents work alongside time travel scientists who are in the past to study dinosaurs. Those secret agents bring a war criminal with them to execute because killing is illegal in the future. They're using a spaceship to get there and also dumping tons of trash, using our past Earth as a trash pit.
Obviously, everything I knew about time travel is wrong.
Somehow, Moutier also convinced Tina Aumont (Fellini's Satyricon, Torso, Arcana) to be in this movie. There's even a striptease scene without nudity, which seems a strange thing to do when dinosaurs are attacking, but when you meet a cave girl, you just watch and be polite.
As for those dinosaurs, they are often rubbery puppets and other times straight up dinosaur toys moved in stop motion. Keep in mind this movie was made the same year as Jurassic Park. If you thought that Carnosaur was the nadir of dinosaur movies, you'll look at this and say, "Yes, the tar pit does deeper."
Most of all, this movie is worth watching because Rollin is in the lead. I can only imagine that he kept talking to Moutier, the auteur, and saying, "You sure we can't just a lot of fog and have a nude vampire woman look depressed and slowly walk through this scene?"
Also: the entire film was shot with the camera audio, so there's non-stop hiss all over everything.
Magical.
Somehow, he got some of the biggest genre personalities in France to be in his movies, like Howard Vernon, Jean-Pierre Putters, Quélou Parente, Christophe Bier, Christophe Lemaire and Christian Letargat. In this movie, he got Jean Rollin to play Professeur Nolan, the leader of this strange experiment in which secret agents work alongside time travel scientists who are in the past to study dinosaurs. Those secret agents bring a war criminal with them to execute because killing is illegal in the future. They're using a spaceship to get there and also dumping tons of trash, using our past Earth as a trash pit.
Obviously, everything I knew about time travel is wrong.
Somehow, Moutier also convinced Tina Aumont (Fellini's Satyricon, Torso, Arcana) to be in this movie. There's even a striptease scene without nudity, which seems a strange thing to do when dinosaurs are attacking, but when you meet a cave girl, you just watch and be polite.
As for those dinosaurs, they are often rubbery puppets and other times straight up dinosaur toys moved in stop motion. Keep in mind this movie was made the same year as Jurassic Park. If you thought that Carnosaur was the nadir of dinosaur movies, you'll look at this and say, "Yes, the tar pit does deeper."
Most of all, this movie is worth watching because Rollin is in the lead. I can only imagine that he kept talking to Moutier, the auteur, and saying, "You sure we can't just a lot of fog and have a nude vampire woman look depressed and slowly walk through this scene?"
Also: the entire film was shot with the camera audio, so there's non-stop hiss all over everything.
Magical.
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