edgaguirus wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 1:39 pm
I remember seeing that 85 tv show as well when I was a kid.
I'm kinda surprised I finally found it this time - even more surprised to learn this was shown regularly at schools for a bit? Like it barely qualifies as educational. I know for a fact I was at home when I saw it, but not sure what channel would've aired it back then.
So, these recent ideas/discussions have given me this idea/daydream of a "weredinosaur" movie. We go back to the mid-1980's to an old ranch turned dinosaur education/fossil digging themed summer camp. You've got your paleontologist/camp owner, your intern/volunteer/whatever college aged camp counselors, a nurse, cook, gaggle of kids/teens attending summer camp, and one crotchety rancher neighbor upset that the land went to some camp unearthing old bones instead of to the productive use of expanding his/her own ranch. So early on in the film one of the people in the cast finds a really cool fossil - maybe just a tooth, maybe part of or a whole jaw full of teeth. Important bit is the fossil tooth is still sharp and the person accidentally cuts themselves on it.
Over the rest of the movie this person starts acting strangely. They see at times the ghostly visage of a terrifying dinosaur, like they're having visions of it attacking people or turning on them before someone snaps them out of the trance/reverie. Cattle in the neighboring ranch gets killed and mutilated and devoured. The cursed camper or whoever occasionally discovers green scales covering their arms or similar dino-features. Eventually other camp counselors and campers start to go missing.
Eventually it all comes to a head with like the local sheriff shooting and killing the dinosaur-person after a big bloody rampage/massacre. The wounded, possibly dying, possibly cursed sheriff gets taken off in an ambulance. We get an overhead shot of the camp, and suddenly all these spots scattered across the camp start glowing green. Camera zooms down to reveal the source of the green glow - more cursed/possessed fossilized dinosaur teeth. Cue credits.
If I had any means of production or anything I would totally try to get this film made. Thinking retro throwback horror film, like grainy cheap movie film roll and everything, give it real vintage feel. But obviously much better practical effects for the dino-person monster.
Off the top of my head movie titles:
Camp Weresaur
Slaughter at Camp Fossil
Dino Camp Massacre
Paleontology of Blood
Beware the Weresaur
I unapologetically, wholeheartedly, and without a doubt hate Godzilla vs Kong.