The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms

The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms is a 1953 American independent monster film directed by Eugène Lourié, with stop motion animation by Ray Harryhausen. It is partly based on Ray Bradbury's 1951 short story of the same name, which was later reprinted as "The Fog Horn". The film's story concerns a fictional dinosaur, the Rhedosaurus, which is released from its frozen hibernating state by an atomic bomb test in the Arctic Circle. The beast begins to wreak a path of destruction as it travels southward, eventually arriving at its ancient spawning grounds, which includes New York City.

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Dinosaurs of the Dead

A throwback to cheesy 80's horror movies, Harryhausen stop-motion films, and dinosaur/monster flicks. In the cold of October, a strange and deadliest phenomenon occurs when large fossilized dinosaurs rise from their grave to eat the living. Danger escalates as humans bitten by the undead dinos begin to mutate into half-human, half-reptile abominations! A rag tag group of survivors must head over to a secret base and find the one weapon that can destroy them, giant mechanical dinosaurs!

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