Another fine review - the power of your sarcasm is simply a joy to behold 😁👍🏻 And in all honesty, Peter Cushing’s line “You cannot mesmerise me, I’m British!” is absolute gold!
I would love for someone to make a monster movie now and use rubber monsters. They could use the line "Doug McClure can't save you now". Then you know that the monster wins.
Saw this in a UK cinema at the age of 8. Thought it was amazing...my dad didn't since he fell a sleep 10 mins in. Was 76 so Star Wars hadn't come along to open our eyes. Happy days.
Another great review I met Caroline Munro at Bristol Horror Con in Bristol, England and she talked about this film in a Q&A at the end of the convention, such a lovely woman to talk too and she autographed my copy of Maniac as well.
Fun fact: once upon a time almost the entire Eurasian continent was COVERED end-to-end with a giant, mysterious "Soundstage-forest"... True! This was actually mostly filmed using archival footage... ;~]
I grew up watching this and Doug Maclures other monster movies. The special effects may have been very ropey, but the films were great fun and they got me into reading the original novels. Fun films😊
BTW if People are Wondering what the other monsters are called, the boars one is called "Bos", the frog is " Mosop", the parrot- dino is "The Falcon, and the quadruped is " The Saurus".
Brandon used WWF wrestler Hulk Hogans theme song "Real American" for the intro to his Doug McClure-a-thon. WWE was not impressed and the song was muted. At least it was just that and not the whole video
I enjoyed watching these films on the big screen in the 70's when I was a kid. If you saw them back then Mr Tenold, then you are younger than you look?
The area and the raid on the droid foundery are, literally, the only parts were anything happens. The rest is just a bunch of talking heads doing that thing where they try to make the politics of a made-up setting sound important and not at all like exposition for the audience who came just to see space battles and lightsaber fighting.
I fucking loved this book as a kid, even more than the Martian Chronicles. Dying Mars was so fucking gloomy, an Empire of former cavemen on the upward track after strange outlanders teach them the use of iron and inspire rebellion against their reptilian overlords makes for much less melancholy reading.
It's a TV movie so I don't know if you'd review it, but back around 1993 there was a movie/pilot for a Journey To the Center of the Earth TV show. I had it on VHS tape and watched it tons of times. I remember that there was a drilling machine, a hot girl in a midriff-baring outfit, and the main character's father was a villain who died but then got hooked up to Lord Zedd-style tubing machinery. It would be a perfect fit for your reviews if you can find a copy.
Holy shit. I thought I was the only person who remembered that. I was starting to wonder it I imagined it. I have never found a copy, though I can't say I've been looking hard.
I've always wondered if the thing Peter Cushing says at the end ("have you ever thought about going to the Moon?") was just a throwaway joke or possibly testing the water for a sequel that never got made?
Some smooth jazz shoulda played while those damn pterodactyls were on screen(Yes, I know this review was before legend of dinosaurs and monster birds, it is a joke)
I don't know about this movie, but Lucas is (or at least was) a fan of ERB's writings and took some stuff as inspiration. For example, in Star Wars there are Sith, right? Well, in ERB's John Carter series there are Sith too, except that ERB's Sith a giant firefly-like insects.
Gotta love Peter Cushing! I swear that man had more dignity and presence than even his perrenial costar, Christopher Lee...and that is saying a _lot_ !
Damn, Cushing was great value. Every. Single. Time. Still not quite as awesome as his three-days-awake and still leaps energetically across a room to haul down a curtain and kill Dracula with sunlight, but pretty darn good.
The screenplay was written by a British guy about the same time Jeremy Thorpe was head of the British Liberal Party and the film came out the month after Thorpe allegedly hired a hit man to murder his secret Gay lover to cover up their affair and got kicked out the British Liberal Party. The relationship between David and Abner is obviously the only one that the screenwriter had any personal interest in contrary to Edgar Rice Burroughs. I imagine we can all guess why and how that screenwriter got his job.
Doug McClure was in a lot of these low budget movies and even did beer commercials. He was married 5 times and passed at age 59 from lung cancer. Sounds like a rough ride.
Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote an entire series of books in Pellucidar, aka the Earth's Core, one of which is a Tarzan crossover novel. This idiotic movie does a poor job of adapting the first novel, and the book set it up for a sequel where Our Hero was intending to come back for the girl after picking up some modern weapons on the surface - hence the kind of bizarre ending to the film, which never got a sequel.
The Mahars don't look very aerodynamic, but remember in the original novel Burroughs thinks a Stegosaurus can glide by spreading its back plates like a row of little wings.
Love the Star Trek reference. As a kid when I saw this movie, watched Star Trek:The Menagerie a month later. The purple sky of Pellucidor and the fight between Doug Mclure’s character and that big guy reminds me of the Rigel 7 scene from Star Trek. Caroline Munro reminds me of the main female character from the Star Trek episode, Private Little War
Caroline Munro does look gorgeous, and after watching Peter Cushing as either a vampire hunter or mad scientist, it's nice to see him as goofy professor for a change.
Lol. I'd never thought that seeing Peter Cushing going cross eyed would be one of the easiest things to kill me.
"You can't mesmerise me! Im British!" Such an English thing to say :D
That's my favorite Peter Cushing quote. Thank you for mentioning that.
The dummy in the monsters mouth was LOL material.
He said that same basic line in
"Horror Express"...
.... ".. monsters...?... We're British...."
. gotta see it now...
"Tell THAT to Thomas Dolby! mwa ha ha ha!"
Another fine review - the power of your sarcasm is simply a joy to behold 😁👍🏻
And in all honesty, Peter Cushing’s line “You cannot mesmerise me, I’m British!” is absolute gold!
In Horror Express Cushing says something similar.
@@josepha5885 NO 🙄😠😡.
I would love for someone to make a monster movie now and use rubber monsters.
They could use the line "Doug McClure can't save you now". Then you know that the monster wins.
Pretty sure there's studios in Japan pumping that stuff out at break-neck speed.
"No one escapes from the Mahar city."
"No, no. It was super easy, barely an inconvenience."
Pitch Meeting references are tight, wowowow.
-"So how did you escape from the Mahar city?"
-"I didn't! I died!"
It's kinda cool that Tarzan exists in the universe of these books the movie is based on. He even visits Pellucidar in Tarzan at the Earth's Core.
Saw this in a UK cinema at the age of 8. Thought it was amazing...my dad didn't since he fell a sleep 10 mins in. Was 76 so Star Wars hadn't come along to open our eyes. Happy days.
7:31 so that's where the hypnotoad sound effect comes from.
I love that Gilbert Gottfried voice for the parrotsaur.🤣
Rip your crazy performer
As a guy who saw these films when he was a kid too, thank you for digging these up and reviewing them. Also love your channel. Cheers
Another great review I met Caroline Munro at Bristol Horror Con in Bristol, England and she talked about this film in a Q&A at the end of the convention, such a lovely woman to talk too and she autographed my copy of Maniac as well.
11:06 that was a gorgonopsid, fire Breath ing "frog" was ichytostega.
Fun fact: once upon a time almost the entire Eurasian continent was COVERED end-to-end with a giant, mysterious "Soundstage-forest"... True! This was actually mostly filmed using archival footage... ;~]
"You cannot mesmerize me! I'm Professor Van Helsing!"
I'm grand Moff Frankenstein Van Helsing!!!
@@AlejandroigarabideThat would be the coolest amalgamation ever. Surely there's some fanfic out there starring such a god-like entitiy.
I grew up watching this and Doug Maclures other monster movies. The special effects may have been very ropey, but the films were great fun and they got me into reading the original novels. Fun films😊
me2 but I got nightmares of these flying creatures who eat the women and the pumba‘s on steroids. hunted me a view years as a kid
Can't get any better than Caroline Munro.
Got that right!
I use to have a poster of her from Starcrash
She's almost on par with Elvira....almost
Did she ever do any photos for magslike Playboy?
Yeah! She's got nice boingers!!!
Brandon.... thank you for the VHS quality ...... thank you
It may very well be vhs. Brandon does a lot of obscure and hard to find movies. Not all of them are on Blu-ray or even DVD.
I actually saw this one when I was younger. I can't believe I didn't recognize Peter Cushing was the professor when I first saw it.
BTW if People are Wondering what the other monsters are called, the boars one is called "Bos", the frog is " Mosop", the parrot- dino is "The Falcon, and the quadruped is " The Saurus".
“Hakuna Matata motherfucker”
😂
That had me laughing hysterically
The electronic soundtrack is excellent.
Tangerine Dream provided the sound track. Some music used was on Rubicon
If you play the "Saygoth's" conversation backwards, turns out it's Ozzy Osbourne lyrics.
Have to love the combat soundtrack from Star Trek TOS.
What doesn't make sense, as any viewer and the commentator can clearly see, is leaving Caroline Munro behind :(
Hugo Zuniga If Caroline Munro won't come with me, I'll stay with her. She is a real keeper.
lucas is a fan of edgar rice burroughs in general. however the arena fight scene also appears in flash gordon.
Lucas was not exactly shy about how thoroughly he ripped-off Flash Gordon, too.
Saw it on late night TV as a kid (1987 ish?). Those pterodactyls controlling minds and killing the women absolutely terrified me.
5:32 No, they're actually what you'd get if Pumbaa and Baragon had two babies.
I thought maybe it was Rocksteady's rough later years.
When he said "Wait, someone fighting a silly monster in a primitive arena while the natives watch" I thought he was gonna say Star Trek...
Caroline Munro from the Starcrash. Wow...
She makes things better ❤️
How come there's no sound in the opening?
Rowan J Coleman Deleted by TH-cam. Copyrights stuff.
+Даниил Костромин
Don't you mean Copyright bullshit?
Brandon used WWF wrestler Hulk Hogans theme song "Real American" for the intro to his Doug McClure-a-thon. WWE was not impressed and the song was muted. At least it was just that and not the whole video
Just played the theme over the opening till the sound comes back
What a bunch of BS.
I enjoyed watching these films on the big screen in the 70's when I was a kid.
If you saw them back then Mr Tenold, then you are younger than you look?
I saw this film in the theater with my dad when I was 8. It's still great cheese to me. I love the fight scenes where everyone goes 'eh!' When hit. 😂
11:51 the best movie line goes to.....you can’t mesmerize me I’m British
To be fair, the arena sequence is one of the better parts of Attack of the Clones.
Agreed, that and the Battle of Geonosis sorta made up for the rest of the movie
Sorta....kinda
Scorpionspear77 I may not mind the prequels but apart from the arena sequence, attack of the clones was boring as hell
The area and the raid on the droid foundery are, literally, the only parts were anything happens. The rest is just a bunch of talking heads doing that thing where they try to make the politics of a made-up setting sound important and not at all like exposition for the audience who came just to see space battles and lightsaber fighting.
Attack of the Clones was pretty good, as long as Anakin and Padme weren't the only ones in the scene.
And watching the doctor lube his fingers was one of the better parts of my colonoscopy.
Fun fact, in the book Dia wears even skimpier clothes than she does in the movie
And her name is Dian. 👍🙂👍
Check out artist Frank Frazetta's fantastic paintings of Dian and Pellucidar@@morlokkurak4763
And I am pretty sure George Lucas is a big Edgar Rice Burroughs fan :)
Yeah, compare the opening desert sequence in "Revenge of the Jedi" with Burrough's Mars novels.
I fucking loved this book as a kid, even more than the Martian Chronicles. Dying Mars was so fucking gloomy, an Empire of former cavemen on the upward track after strange outlanders teach them the use of iron and inspire rebellion against their reptilian overlords makes for much less melancholy reading.
It's a TV movie so I don't know if you'd review it, but back around 1993 there was a movie/pilot for a Journey To the Center of the Earth TV show. I had it on VHS tape and watched it tons of times. I remember that there was a drilling machine, a hot girl in a midriff-baring outfit, and the main character's father was a villain who died but then got hooked up to Lord Zedd-style tubing machinery. It would be a perfect fit for your reviews if you can find a copy.
I'd like to find this show.
Holy shit. I thought I was the only person who remembered that. I was starting to wonder it I imagined it. I have never found a copy, though I can't say I've been looking hard.
@@charlesajones77 IT show up on the MGM cable channel now and then.
I've always wondered if the thing Peter Cushing says at the end ("have you ever thought about going to the Moon?") was just a throwaway joke or possibly testing the water for a sequel that never got made?
I loved this movie when it came out and I was I 4th grade!
11:35 John Carter?
Oh... Star Wars
i was thinking coneheads lol
Some smooth jazz shoulda played while those damn pterodactyls were on screen(Yes, I know this review was before legend of dinosaurs and monster birds, it is a joke)
OMG It's the sound of the Hypnotoad from Futurama.
Well it seems they weren't british
Sam the eagle had some rough years
I don't know about this movie, but Lucas is (or at least was) a fan of ERB's writings and took some stuff as inspiration. For example, in Star Wars there are Sith, right? Well, in ERB's John Carter series there are Sith too, except that ERB's Sith a giant firefly-like insects.
Would be great if Lucas actually remade At The Earth's Core and do ERB justice.
I remember this movie, I was about 13yrs old at the time!
It's always strange to see Peter Cushing being so "broad," but he makes it entertaining.
07:21. And then I saw them. A flight of Glidersaurus on Jack Daniels. XD
This was made only 1 year before Star Wars and yet the effects appear to belong to a much earlier era.
Gotta love Peter Cushing! I swear that man had more dignity and presence than even his perrenial costar, Christopher Lee...and that is saying a _lot_ !
This movie is further proof that I will watch anything with Caroline Munro in it. LOL
To be fair, the books have their great bits, but also their confusing bits
Eh...I like the MST3K joke better: "NO DOUG WAIT! THERE'S A PERSON INSIDE!"
Damn, Cushing was great value. Every. Single. Time. Still not quite as awesome as his three-days-awake and still leaps energetically across a room to haul down a curtain and kill Dracula with sunlight, but pretty darn good.
I saw these movies at various drive-ins near where I grew up. Usually had to watch one of them before we got the main feature, like Star Wars.
Brandon, you need to find yourself some licence free "action" music for your intro...
Beyond that, I love your vids 🙂👍🏻
"GOCTHYA BITCH"!!
"You thought it was a slave girl but it was me, Dia! WRYYYYYYYYYYYYY"
I just realized, he looks like Lawrence from Inside Gaming without his glasses!
In this video, I noticed that Brandon looks like Doug McClure.
This is a movie I used to watch on cable tv when I was a kid - who knows how many times it played back in the 70s and 80s...
The book develops the relationship between David and Dian (Dia in the movie) better and has them remaining a couple.
The screenplay was written by a British guy about the same time Jeremy Thorpe was head of the British Liberal Party and the film came out the month after Thorpe allegedly hired a hit man to murder his secret Gay lover to cover up their affair and got kicked out the British Liberal Party. The relationship between David and Abner is obviously the only one that the screenwriter had any personal interest in contrary to Edgar Rice Burroughs. I imagine we can all guess why and how that screenwriter got his job.
Doug McClure was in a lot of these low budget movies and even did beer commercials. He was married 5 times and passed at age 59 from lung cancer. Sounds like a rough ride.
i'm british has been my answer for most everything after seeing this movie. i'm not british.
Peter Cushing used the same joke in Horror Express.
Up there with "Not gods, Englishmen. Which is the next best thing."
Is "Thomas Jane" Dougs lovechild ???
I enjoyed the books when I was 16 years old.
Hahaha! I had this on VHS when I was a kid!
I think they're supposed to be Megacerops or Uintatherium. Really weird don't-give-a-crap versions of Megacerops or Uintatherium.
Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote an entire series of books in Pellucidar, aka the Earth's Core, one of which is a Tarzan crossover novel. This idiotic movie does a poor job of adapting the first novel, and the book set it up for a sequel where Our Hero was intending to come back for the girl after picking up some modern weapons on the surface - hence the kind of bizarre ending to the film, which never got a sequel.
I think it’s an okay adaptation
You get a lot of mileage out of the Star Trek fight theme.
Watching your early stuff you sure did refine your videos a good bit later on.
Peter Cushing's drunk, isn't he.
Yes, he is............
lets face it you couldn't do this film sober
Holy Trooper! It's Turkin!
Well and truly.
Love the Star Trek Area Music. For some reason, I was thinking that you would go with Benny Hill music.
I love the line I’m British
14:52
Thanks for reviewing this, I saw part of it years ago and I've lately been trying to figure out what it was.
13:48 honestly at this point Brandon, just do it.
The Mahars don't look very aerodynamic, but remember in the original novel Burroughs thinks a Stegosaurus can glide by spreading its back plates like a row of little wings.
Ya Know That Parrot Thing Always Reminded Me of Gappa.
Does Anyone Remember Gappa?
Duh....... nope
Gappa's awesome.
Reminds me.more of gabarah from godzillas revenge
It does look like Gappa, without the wings on it's back.
No, it was a burnt lizard.
I would fight for Caroline Munro! I would also watch anything that she is in.
Love the Star Trek reference. As a kid when I saw this movie, watched Star Trek:The Menagerie a month later. The purple sky of Pellucidor and the fight between Doug Mclure’s character and that big guy reminds me of the Rigel 7 scene from Star Trek. Caroline Munro reminds me of the main female character from the Star Trek episode, Private Little War
Dude I noticed that Ra is played by cy grant who also Played As lieutenant green from captain scarlet and the mysterons
I still love this one!!!! 😀
This was a double feature with Inframan. 😅
5:37 lol
Anybody else watching this from 2024?
Leaving Caroline Munro behind?! AFTER you just fought a duel for her?! What’s wrong with this guy?!
Brandon Tenold Sir: Your freaking awesome bro!!!!!!!! Yes, your da boss!!!!!!
doug mclure...you may remember him from such educational films such as "2 minus 3 equals negative fun!" and "firecrackers: the silent killer".
One of my favorites!
In 90s, I was reading the Pelucidar series, but didn't finish.
I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS MOVIE 🎥, I WAS EATING TV DINNER 🥘 WHAT GREAT 👍🏻 TIMES LOL 😂
You can't mezmerize me, I'm Gran Moff Tarkin!
Adam
All hail the hypnotoad!
the character David, kinda looks like you a little Brandon, okay well from a distance
Caroline Munro does look gorgeous, and after watching Peter Cushing as either a vampire hunter or mad scientist, it's nice to see him as goofy professor for a change.
Don’t forget general of army
This was really funny. And 14:03 yes puffballs are real, just not that big.
Saw this on TH-cam years ago. Cheesy but fun.
Hi, I'm Doug McClure! You might remember me from such educational films as 'Lead Paint, Delicious But Deadly' and 'Here Comes the Metric System. '
that hakuna matata joke got me rollin on the floor
"Gotcha, bitch!!" Love it!!!
Fan service at 13:12. You're welcome. XD