One Million Years B.C. (1966)
This is another movie from the Hammer Collection and I have to say I quite like it. The idea of it is completely ridiculous, set in this somewhat prehistoric time where men and dinosaurs live together. There is not much of a script as the movie has only a few lines of dialog in the beginning as the announcer tells us what's going on. Rest of the movie is just grunting and some other voices that appear remotely to be somekind of language. Though there are the occasional English word here and there, most likely unintentionally. Also all the people look quite modern, despite their outfit and the beard for the men. Especially it's funny that the women seemed to have makeup back then. But hey it was a good excuse of getting hot women in tiny rags on film. Anyways, the weak plot and the campy bits aside, the movie is quite stunning. It's one big adventure through this fantasy land where the turtles, lizards and spiders are as big as houses and all sorts of dinosaurs are out to get you. The stop motion effects from Ray Harryhausen are alone worth the watch, add to that the beautiful scenery and of course the beautiful Raquel Welch and you have tons of eye candy. Sure some of the effects are quite bad in modern standards, but still some of them work surprisingly well even today. Wether it's the camp values or the eye candy, this movie is surely entertaining. The picture quality on the DVD was not the best, but still not horrible either. Again there were no subtitles, but there were two interviews as extras, one with Raquel Welch and one with Ray Harryhausen.
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