Norbert Moutier also made Ogroff, a shot on video slasher. Moutier was an accountant who contributed to the zines Monster Bis and Le Petit bédéraste du 20e siècle before starting to make his own movies in 1982, often serving as the director, screenwriter, producer and sometimes even acting. He quit accounting and started a comic book and movie store, which really feels like a dream life.
Somehow, he got some of the biggest genre personalities in France to be in his movies, like Howard Vernon, Jean-Pierre Putters, Quélou Parente, Christophe Bier, Christophe Lemaire and Christian Letargat. In this movie, he got Jean Rollin to play Professeur Nolan, the leader of this strange experiment in which secret agents work alongside time travel scientists who are in the past to study dinosaurs. Those secret agents bring a war criminal with them to execute because killing is illegal in the future. They're using a spaceship to get there and also dumping tons of trash, using our past Earth as a trash pit.
Obviously, everything I knew about time travel is wrong.
Somehow, Moutier also convinced Tina Aumont (Fellini's Satyricon, Torso, Arcana) to be in this movie. There's even a striptease scene without nudity, which seems a strange thing to do when dinosaurs are attacking, but when you meet a cave girl, you just watch and be polite.
As for those dinosaurs, they are often rubbery puppets and other times straight up dinosaur toys moved in stop motion. Keep in mind this movie was made the same year as Jurassic Park. If you thought that Carnosaur was the nadir of dinosaur movies, you'll look at this and say, "Yes, the tar pit does deeper."
Most of all, this movie is worth watching because Rollin is in the lead. I can only imagine that he kept talking to Moutier, the auteur, and saying, "You sure we can't just a lot of fog and have a nude vampire woman look depressed and slowly walk through this scene?"
Also: the entire film was shot with the camera audio, so there's non-stop hiss all over everything.
Magical.
Somehow, he got some of the biggest genre personalities in France to be in his movies, like Howard Vernon, Jean-Pierre Putters, Quélou Parente, Christophe Bier, Christophe Lemaire and Christian Letargat. In this movie, he got Jean Rollin to play Professeur Nolan, the leader of this strange experiment in which secret agents work alongside time travel scientists who are in the past to study dinosaurs. Those secret agents bring a war criminal with them to execute because killing is illegal in the future. They're using a spaceship to get there and also dumping tons of trash, using our past Earth as a trash pit.
Obviously, everything I knew about time travel is wrong.
Somehow, Moutier also convinced Tina Aumont (Fellini's Satyricon, Torso, Arcana) to be in this movie. There's even a striptease scene without nudity, which seems a strange thing to do when dinosaurs are attacking, but when you meet a cave girl, you just watch and be polite.
As for those dinosaurs, they are often rubbery puppets and other times straight up dinosaur toys moved in stop motion. Keep in mind this movie was made the same year as Jurassic Park. If you thought that Carnosaur was the nadir of dinosaur movies, you'll look at this and say, "Yes, the tar pit does deeper."
Most of all, this movie is worth watching because Rollin is in the lead. I can only imagine that he kept talking to Moutier, the auteur, and saying, "You sure we can't just a lot of fog and have a nude vampire woman look depressed and slowly walk through this scene?"
Also: the entire film was shot with the camera audio, so there's non-stop hiss all over everything.
Magical.