'THE PRIMEVALS' - Adventure Film with Stop Motion, ready for release

About 2 weeks ago, I posted about 'The Primevals' regarding, it being very slow to complete. I was only 'echoing' the sentiments of the many fans who were getting impatient and concerned if the movie would ever be finished. 

Well ... Charles Band just made an announcement. 'The Primevals' was finished in late 2022. I am assuming it was going through post-production. We, the fans will not get a chance to watch it yet. Charles says ... they are going to do a Film Festival release first. That is interesting ... kind of giving 'The Primevals' an Independent 'Artistic' Film branding, so that it is not perceived as just another B-Movie??

WATCH and it includes a new Trailer ... you can jump to about the 2 minute video timeline mark, where he starts talking about The Primevals ....

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MAGIC ISLAND (1995) - Stop Motion in Adventure 'Family' Film

The low budget producers known as Full Moon Pictures (USA) and their subsidiary brand name, Moonbeam Films, released this movie. No comments about the story line as it is the common adventure fantasy movie for family entertainment.

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Even though Magic Island is a low budget feature, it does include some good Harryhausen style stop motion scenes. It is of a giant stone statue embedded in a rocky hill and then it comes to life and emerges from the hillside. 

Here is a Trailer ....

 You can watch the animation scenes here Magic Island stop motion

Joel Fletcher and behind the scenes of Magic Island ... you can also Watch (better video quality) the finished stop motion scenes and read Joel's experiences. He says, Magic Island might have been the last time Harryhausen style, 'Dynamation' was used in a feature movie. Is he referring to 'rear screen projection' combined with the stop motion? Read his article >> Read Joel's Article

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Jurassic June, Dinosaur Babes, & Stop Mo Dinos!

I did not know, there was this thing called 'Jurassic June' that was mentioned in a youtube video, where the voice-over was showing brief clips from an obscure B-movie called 'Dinosaur Babes' ....

 

 

I heard of Dinosaur Babes (released in 1996) many years ago and might have seen some still pictures. I knew Brett Piper was involved with the special effects, but also as the producer & writer.  Just for your information ... to the best of my knowledge ... Brett is almost the only current practitioner of Ray Harryhausen style animation. Not just a hobby, but he fairly consistently works on & produces B-movie projects. Similar to Ray, Brett does almost  all the effects, or oversees them, however one area of his expertise is, the hands-on animation which he solely does on his own ...  stop motion creature character animation, especially still doing it, in these past  years to present of  CGI saturation.

Well ...  this movie is on the interwebs. Here you go, 'Dinosaur Babes" (for mature audiences) The quality is not that good including the audio, but hey it's got stop motion!

 You can try this one on Youtube / Dinosaur Babes but also, it is sub-quality so-so. 

Brett's previous Dinosaur content B-Movie was, A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell which was made in 1990. Wow ... he has been doing this for a long time, as early as 1982  See Brett Piper's screen credits

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