Worst SFX No.22: The People That Time Forgot (1977)

In all fairness this can sit - in terms of quality - with its stable mates Warlords Of Atlantis (1978), At The Earth's Core (1976) and predecessor The Land That Time Forgot (1975), all but Warlords distributed by American International Pictures. The popularity of the papier-mâché Godzilla movies seemed to have convinced AIP that people raised on the first-class work of Ray Harryhausen were suddenly going to find Blue Peter-level monster suits an acceptable alternative. In this particular example, the dinosaurs attacking Patrick Wayne and cave-girl Dana Gillespie are particularly 'boxy', as if the clay solution was just slapped onto cardboard boxes. And exactly what species is that meant to be anyway…?

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