Prehistoric Beast Is A 1985 Experimental/Historical Film Directed By Phil Tippett. The Film Is Famous For It's Effects By The Director, And Being One Of Those Films That Have No Human Speaken Dialogue, And No Narration.
Plot
Prologue
Set 65 Million Years Ago In What Is Now The Canadian Province Of Alberta, The Film Opens With A tracking Shot in the Middle Of A Forest At Night: A Tyrannosaurus Is busy finishing A Edmontosaurus Carcass. The Next Morning, A Herd Of Centrosaurus Are Seen Grazing. One Member Wanders Into The Forest To Find More Food. It Finds A Field Of Flowers and begins grazing. It Wanders Further And Starts To Be Hunted By The Same Tyrannosaurus.
The Tyrannosaurus Steps On A Twig, which makes The Centrosaur Worried. The Dinosaur Let's Out A Trumpet To Signal The Herd, Then, Possibly Curious, Keeps Walking deeper into the Forest. It Soon Stumbles Upon The Edmontosaurus Carcass Consumed By the Rex. While The Centrosaur ponders over The Body, The Tyrannosaurus Sneaks Up From Behind. The Dinosaurs Begin To Battle, The Tyrannosaurus Rex Bites Hard On The Centrosaurus'es Back. The Herbivorous Dinosaur Manages To Break Free From The Jaws Of The Enemy And Gores The Tyrannosaur In The Shin With It's Horn, Enraging The Carnivorous Beast. The Tyrannosaurus Corners The Centrosaur Near Some Trees. The Centrosaurus Let's Out One Last Cry Before Being Killed By The Tyrannosaurus. The Herd Starts To Call For Its Missing Member. The Next Night, The Tyrannosaurus Walks Across The Forest To Find A Place To Sleep And Digest It's Food.
The Rest Of The Film
A Baby Centrosaurus Finds The Bones Of The Same Centrosaurus That Was Killed, Being Reveled To Be It's Mother. Now The Baby Is Alone, After Accidentally Leaving Behind The Herd, The Baby Sets Off To Reunite With The Herd. While Stating It's Journey, The Centrosaurus Calf Finds Some Frogs And Chases After Them Playfully. The Coming Night, After Walking Through The Plains, The Baby Centrosaurus Rests, And Has A Nightmare About The Death Of It's Only Parent. The Baby Awakens In The Morning And Continues.
It Goes Deep Into A Forest, And Stumbles Upon A Ornithomimus Eating Eggs. It Falls Prey To A Pack Of Deinonychus, Which Later Pursues The Baby. However, A Deinonychus Pack Member Is Killed By A Large Stegosaurus, Which Then Walks Into A Valley Inhabited By A Herd Of Dinosaurs. The Baby Finds A Mating Pair Of Hadrosaurs Witch Only Have One Egg That Hatches. Another Juvenile Stumbles Upon The Baby Centrosaur And Play In The Forest. Suddenly, The Same Tyrannosaurus Rex Attacks And Almost Kills The Babies, But The Parent Hadrosaurs Arrive And Rescue The Babies, But The Centrosaur Runs Away Into A Coastal Mountain Range. The Baby Spends Most Of The Afternoon In A Cave Before Beginning To Continue The Journey To Find The Herd. It Is Attacked By A Flock Of Pteranodon But One Is Killed By A Plesiosaurus Witch Then Heads To Sea. Wounded, The Baby Centrosaurus Rests On A Bush So Predators Won't Find Him. The Dinosaur Wakes Up The Next Morning To A Group Of Gallimimus, Which Are Stalked By A Pack Of Carnotaurus. The Baby Dinosaur Retreats Deeper Into The Forest.
The Baby Centrosaurus Stumbles Upon A Herd Of Large Apatosaurus Grazing In The Trees. It Wanders Deeper And Deeper Into A Foggy Grassland, Where It Is Pursued By The Same T-Rex. But Luckily The Baby Escaped Via The Long Grass. Days Later, The Baby Stumbles Upon A Blue-eyed Female About The Same Age As Him. The Two Form A Bond With Each Other And Eventually Want To Start A Herd Of Their Own. However, When They Are Teenagers, The Dinosaur Couple Reunites With The Herd. Then, As Adults, The Couple Become Leaders Of The Herd. One Day, The Herd Is Attacked By The Same Tyrannosaurus Again, But Luckily The Alpha And Omega Centrosaurs Save The Herd But Wounding The Dinosaur. Two Weeks Later, The Alpha And Omega Have A Clutch Of Eggs That Hatch. The Baby Dinosaurs Play In A Pond. One Chases After Some Frogs, Just Like Their Dad During His Childhood.
One Day, The Family Continues To Enjoy Life. But Suddenly, A Earthquake That Is The Sign Of A Coming Volcano Eruption Triggers, Spooking The Family And Many Other Dinosaurs. Later In The Day, During A Walk To Find Some Food In Case They Have To Leave, The Babies Encounter Some Carnotaurus Fighting For Mates, A Stegosaurus Herd, And A Triceratops In A Lake. Back At The Nesting Ground, The Family Feeds On The Plants, Flowers, And Nuts To Prepare For Evacuation In Case Of The Volcano. Suddenly, The Volcano Erupts. Herds Of Dinosaurs Stampede In Fear, A Forest Fire Erupts, And Even Some Earthquakes. The Centrosaur Family As Suddenly Pursued By The Tyrannosaurus, Who Mortally Wounds One Of The Babies. The Family And Thousands Of Survivors Flee Into A Wasteland, But However, A Weak Hadrosaurs Cries Due To Her Nest Being Destroyed By One Of The Meteorites, And A Apatosaurus Looks Over The Sky In Shock.
The Centrosaurus Family Is Now Part Of A Herd Of The Migrating Dinosaurs. The Herd Is Stalked By Droves Of Deinonychus.
(More Coming Soon)
Release
(COMING SOON)
Reception
The Film Was Praised For The Stop Motion By Many Critics. Rotten Tomatoes Reports That 97% Of Critics Gave The Film A Positive Review.
Creatures
• Centrosaurus
• Tyrannosaurus Rex
• Deinonychus
• Ornithomimus
• Apatosaurus
• Pteranodon
• Hadrosaurs
• Plesiosaurus
• Triceratops
• Stegosaurus
• Carnotaurus
• Gallimimus
• Archaeopteryx
• Parasaurolophus
• Ankylosaurus
• Unidentified Prehistoric Crocodile
• Unidentified Prehistoric Bird
• Great Horned Owl (Live Act)
• American Bullfrog (Live Act)
• Opossum (Live Act)
Trivia
• The Trailers And TV Spots Where Narrated By Hal Douglas.
• A 10 Minute Proof Of Concept (Witch Is The Prologue To The Film) Was Released In 1984, This Proof Of Concept Would Be Shown At Various Screenings Of Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom.
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