L Movies

Last Dinosaur, The

An Antarctic drilling company owned by billionaire/big game hunter Maston Thrust (Boone) finds a lost world inside an extinct volcano. Thrust arranges an expedition in to the volcano, but when the last living Tyrannosaur attacks everyone is stranded. Thrust becomes obsessed with killing the last dinosaur.

The dinosaurs in this laughable American/Japanese co-production were realized via suitmation, and they are only believable compared to the awful acting and dialogue. Incredibly, The Last Dinosaur was intended to be a theatrical movie, but someone realized it was a stinker and it became a network TV movie instead. It was released theatrically some places overseas, and a longer letterboxed print was available on Japanese laserdisc.

Lost World: Jurassic Park, The

Steven Spielberg returns to direct the sequel to Jurassic Park, which improves on the original only in that it features a wider variety of dinosaurs. The plot is too complicated to recount here; suffice it to say that characters old and new return to the Jurassic Park facility -- this time, "Site B," where most of the actual science took place -- and find themselves hunted by dinosaurs yet again. More violence, more gore, dumber dialogue. At least we get a T-Rex loose in civilization and the obligatory Godzilla homage.