Dinosaur Movies on Blu-ray

[starsteam]

Dinosaurs
-and Other Prehistoric Creatures-
on Blu-ray

Films


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Television Series


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Fantastic Dinosaurs


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Documentaries


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Films with Minor Dinosaur Scenes


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DVD Only (US)

Films

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Television Series

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Fantastic Dinosaurs

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Documentaries

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For the purpose of relevancy, I'm only including films with species related to the Mesozoic and, to a extent, the Paleozoic eras. So no films like 10,000 B.C., The Meg, or Walking with Beasts are included.
With Nessie/Loch Ness Monster, I'm only counting films with references to a prehistoric species, so ones like The Water Horse, which uses a mythical basis for the creature, are not included. Likewise, films with dragons are not counted.
Fantastic dinosaurs need to have some reference to prehistoric origins or dinosaur characteristics (besides some versions of Godzilla which are being included for completion reasons).
We don't mention Barney here.

[Mikezilla3k]

Considering you already have some international releases in there, here some other ones for DVD Only films:



Great idea for a thread.

[starsteam]

Originally Posted by Mikezilla3k

Considering you already have some international releases in there, here some other ones for DVD Only films:



Great idea for a thread.

First two are already there, I couldn't find a Blu listing the Asylum JCE. Thanks.

[Mikezilla3k]

Originally Posted by starsteam

First two are already there, I couldn't find a Blu listing the Asylum JCE. Thanks.

Whoops, missed Lost World. Might want to replace the UK release with the Australian one though since it's region free and includes the uncut workprint.

And I included the listing for a Blu-Ray the Asylum's Journey in there but here's the link to it in case it's necessary: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Journ...Blu-ray/25140/

For some reason, it's not noted as one for the film in the database...

[Kakihara]

I hope the Carnosaur films get a BD release someday.

[starsteam]

My personal Blu-ray wishlist

-The Carnosaur films
-Planet of Dinosaurs
-The Last Dinosaur
-US release for The Lost World (1960)
-US re-issue of Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)

Visual Vengeance is supposedly going to release Saurians to Blu-ray at some point. And we'll have 65's eventual BD (hopefully 4K too).

I've seen about 90% of the films listed, if anyone wants recommendations. Can't say there are really any hidden jewels here, but some decent films can be overlooked. My Pet Dinosaur is a attractive Spielberg-ian film (in a ET way) with really bad US DVD cover art. Claw is also fairly fun at times, gave me Shaun of the Dead vibes but with raptors.

[meremortal]

Kind of surprised there aren't Carnosaur movies from Shout's Corman deal. Also hope Full Moon releases Prehysterira 3 to complete the trilogy. There are some forgotten ones out there like Adventures in Dinosaur City and Theodore Rex.

[gbm82]

[starsteam]

Originally Posted by meremortal

Kind of surprised there aren't Carnosaur movies from Shout's Corman deal. Also hope Full Moon releases Prehysterira 3 to complete the trilogy. There are some forgotten ones out there like Adventures in Dinosaur City and Theodore Rex.

Apparently Charles Band has the Carnosaur movies, somehow. I just hope they license them out instead of releasing themselves. Vinegar Syndrome did go after them at one point, maybe it'll work out with them.

Dinosaur City has been absent since VHS. I'm not sure who currently has it, it's one of the films I haven't seen.
Theodore Rex is with New Line. I haven't seen it in years and never bought the DVD. I can't say I really want to revisit it, but I'd probably have to if I ever want to write about it.

Anonymous Rex is a superior andromorphic-dinosaur detective story, in the writing department at least (probably because it's based on a novel). Effects are a downgrade though, it was made for the Sci-fi Channel.

[Hypnosifl]

A few other David Attenborough blu-ray documentaries with CG recreations of dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles:



For anyone who likes this kind of thing I also highly recommend the Attenborough-narrated documentary Prehistoric Planet on Apple TV, unfortunately I don't know if they'll ever release it on blu-ray/4K.

And since you included Terence Malick's Tree of Life, he also made the movie Voyage of Time that was just about Earth history, it had dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals:



(BTW, I assume you're not limiting this strictly to dinosaurs since the top of the first post says "Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures" and you have Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure on there--but can we assume you want to limit it to prehistoric reptiles and maybe amphibians, leaving out movies that just have prehistoric mammals and birds from the Cenozoic era like 10,000 B.C., and also leaving out stuff like the prehistoric sea scorpion in Amphibious?)

[starsteam]

Originally Posted by Hypnosifl

(BTW, I assume you're not limiting this strictly to dinosaurs since the top of the first post says "Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures" and you have Sea Monsters: A Prehistoric Adventure on there--but can we assume you want to limit it to prehistoric reptiles and maybe amphibians, leaving out movies that just have prehistoric mammals and birds from the Cenozoic era like 10,000 B.C., and also leaving out stuff like the prehistoric sea scorpion in Amphibious?)

I have this written at the bottom of the OP

For the purpose of relevancy, I'm only including films with species related to the Mesozoic and, to a extent, the Paleozoic eras. So no films like 10,000 B.C., The Meg, or Walking with Beasts are included.

I wanted to be able to include films that had Pteranodons and prehistoric marine life, and some Paleozoic creatures like Dimetrodon get grouped in with dinosaurs so I'll count those. But I decided to leave out any animals after the Mesozoic. Maybe I'll do a sub-section with those in the future.

[Leslie Dame]

The Crater Lake Monster (1977)





No Idea in which category this one falls into.

[starsteam]

Originally Posted by Leslie Dame

The Crater Lake Monster (1977)



No Idea in which category this one falls into.

It's already listed. I don't think the species of the creature is identified in the film but it's referred to as a dinosaur. It's probably more similar to the Plesiosaurus.

[Doomhunter]

Hmm, I wonder if Buster Keaton’s Three Ages, he rides atop a bronto or something in that one

[starsteam]

Originally Posted by Doomhunter

Hmm, I wonder if Buster Keaton’s Three Ages, he rides atop a bronto or something in that one

I'll put it under Minor Scenes since it's a short scene in a short segment.

[Hypnosifl]

I haven't seen it, but based on the review here, Metamorphosis might belong in the "Films with minor dinosaur scenes" category (it's currently in the main section)--the review says the character has a final transformation into a human-sized dinosaur but the model "only appears for about thirty seconds during the film's anti-climax".

On the subject of minor scenes, there was this commercial in the first Robocop movie:

Robocop - Dinosaur Commercial - YouTube

And another documentary:

[starsteam]

Originally Posted by Hypnosifl

I haven't seen it, but based on the review here, Metamorphosis might belong in the "Films with minor dinosaur scenes" category (it's currently in the main section)--the review says the character has a final transformation into a human-sized dinosaur but the model "only appears for about thirty seconds during the film's anti-climax".

On the subject of minor scenes, there was this commercial in the first Robocop movie:

Robocop - Dinosaur Commercial - YouTube

In Metamorphosis, the character is slowly turning into a dinosaur/lizard throughout the movie (like how Brundle slowly turns into a fly in 1986's The Fly, which this movie is ripping off). He doesn't actually fully become the dino lizard thing until the very end, but it's still the driving factor of the film, so I count it as a dinosaur movie.

I haven't really settled on including very minor practically-seconds scenes like the Robocop commercial, or something like Wayne's World 2 or Doctor Strange and the MOM. I feel like there would be a lot of films that would be like that, but they're not quite the same as having dinosaurs appearing for a few minutes in a otherwise unrelated story. Though honestly, the dinosaurs in Aquaman are pretty easy to miss so it probably doesn't need to be listed either.
Completely fine to bring them up here though.

[bigdaddyhorse]

Doctor Mordrid has a (cool) scene with a stop-motion T-Rex skeleton. I'd say it should count for minor scenes.

[Hypnosifl]

It also occurs to me that although both live-action Flintstones movies are included, the original cartoon series should go in the TV series section; and another Hanna-Barbera series, Space Ghost and Dino Boy, would also fit.

[Dragon78]

So many dinosaur movies, some I haven't seen in years, others haven't seen yet.