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The Creature Walks Among Us


films, "The Creature Walks Among Us" was not filmed in 3-D. The underwater scenes were filmed at Wakulla Springs in North Florida, today a state park. Other locations in Florida were also utilized for location shooting. Principal photography ran from late August to mid-September 1955. Bosley Crowther of "The New York Times" reviewed "The Creature Walks Among Us" as a return to the "merman" series. "The producers have captured some misty but pictorial underwater footage and that the Messrs. Morrow and Reason,
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The Creature Walks Among Us


The Creature Walks Among Us is a 1956 American monster horror film and the third and final installment of the "Creature from the Black Lagoon" series from Universal Pictures, following the previous year's "Revenge of the Creature". The film was directed by John Sherwood, the long-time Universal-International assistant director, in his directorial debut. Jack Arnold, who had directed the first two films in the series, had moved on to "A-list" films, and felt he had no more to contribute
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Gill-man


The Gill-Man—commonly called the Creature—is the lead antagonist of the 1954 black-and-white science fiction film "Creature from the Black Lagoon" and its two sequels "Revenge of the Creature" (1955) and "The Creature Walks Among Us" (1956). In all three films, Ricou Browning portrays the Gill-Man when he is swimming underwater. In the scenes when the Gill-Man is walking on dry land, Ben Chapman plays the Gill-Man in the first film
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The Creature Walks Among Us


to the horror genre. He suggested that his assistant director, Sherwood, could move up to full director, which partly affected Universal's decision to allow him to direct the film. "The Creature Walks Among Us" starred Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, and Leigh Snowden, and, like the original "Creature from the Black Lagoon", had music composed by Henry Mancini, who at the time was under contract with Universal. Following the Gill-man's escape from Ocean Harbor Oceanarium in Florida, a team of
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Creature suit


creatures' legs in the 2005 film "", and to add facial expressions to the monsters in the 2009 film "Where the Wild Things Are". Creature suits have also been used in many live events and productions, such as the dinosaur suits used in "Walking with Dinosaurs − The Arena Spectacular". They are also used in LARPs to represent monsters and other creatures that have to interact with players. In addition, they are sometimes used in hoaxes, such as Bigfoot sightings. Creature suits are usually made by
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Creature from the Black Lagoon


), which was also filmed and released in 3D in hopes of reviving the format, and "The Creature Walks Among Us" (1956), filmed in 2D. The creature, also known as the Gill-Man, is usually counted among the classic Universal Monsters. A geology expedition in the Amazon uncovers fossilized evidence (a skeletal hand with webbed fingers) from the Devonian period that provides a direct link between land and sea animals. Expedition leader Dr. Carl Maia (Antonio Moreno) orders his two assistants to stay in
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The Creature Walks Among Us


and Gregg Palmer, who plays a guide with a yen for the blonde and statuesque Miss Snowden, behave fairly well in decidedly unusual circumstances. The "creature," of course, is frightening enough to scare the scales off a tarpon. However, he apparently hasn't terrified his Hollywood discoverers." Universal released "The Creature Walks Among Us" on DVD in a boxed set along with "Creature from the Black Lagoon" and "Revenge of the Creature", and added a bonus behind-the-scenes documentary
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Matinee (1993 film)


); "Main Title" from "Revenge of the Creature" (1955); and "Stalking the Creature" from "The Creature Walks Among Us" (1956). Joe Dante has cast character actor Dick Miller in each of his movies to date, casting him here as one of the men protesting the monster movie's release, and as a soldier holding a sack of sugar. Also appearing in supporting roles are William Schallert and Robert O. Cornthwaite (who both appeared in scores of low-budget films of
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Ricou Browning


Ricou Browning (born November 23, 1930) is an American film director, actor, producer, screenwriter, underwater cinematographer and stuntman. He is best known for his underwater stunt work, playing the Gill-man in "Creature from the Black Lagoon", "Revenge of the Creature" and "The Creature Walks Among Us". Other actors portrayed the creature on land. He is also the only actor to have portrayed the creature more than once. He is the only surviving Gill-man actor, and the
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Jeff Morrow


a leader and screen hero. Morrow carried over much of his acting persona from his radio days to his film acting roles, where his ability to rapidly alter both the tone and volume of his voice for dramatic effect frequently gave sound editors fits. He entered the science fiction/monster movie genre with "This Island Earth" (1955), followed by "The Creature Walks Among Us" (1956), "Kronos" (1957) and "The Giant Claw" (1957). He returned to television for
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Rex Reason


the science fiction "This Island Earth" (1955). Reason co-starred as sympathetic scientist Dr. Tom Morgan in the third—and final—installment of Universal International Pictures' "Creature from the Black Lagoon" horror film series in "The Creature Walks Among Us" (1956). He also appeared opposite Clark Gable and Sidney Poitier in "Band of Angels" (1957) for Warner Bros. He appeared in "Badlands of Montana" (1957) as an opponent of a corrupt Mayor played by John M.
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Tales of Frankenstein


western actor. Megowan also played the creature known as the Gill-man on land in "The Creature Walks Among Us". Disgusted with their lack of input, Carreras went back to England, leaving Anthony Hinds to represent Hammer. Soon, he also gave up. Though the series was never produced, Anthony Hinds commissioned several scripts that provided Hammer with material for their later Frankenstein films. In one story by A.R. Rawlinson, Frankenstein created a beautiful woman with no soul ("Frankenstein Created Woman"); in another
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Creature from the Black Lagoon


film they both survived. Maia is eaten by the Gill-Man, and Thompson is impaled by the creature, using a long tree branch like a spear (an apparent nod to a deleted scene from "Revenge of the Creature", wherein the Gill-Man kills a guard in this fashion). "Creature from the Black Lagoon" spawned two sequels: "Revenge of the Creature" (1955), which was also filmed and released in 3D in hopes of reviving the format, and "The Creature Walks
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Revenge of the Creature


Denver on March 23, 1955 and a "flat", non-3D sequel, "The Creature Walks Among Us", followed in 1956. "Revenge" was released as a double feature with "Cult of the Cobra". Having previously survived being riddled with bullets, the Gill-man is captured and sent to the Ocean Harbor Oceanarium in Florida, where he is studied by animal psychologist Professor Clete Ferguson (John Agar) and ichthyology student Helen Dobson (Lori Nelson). Helen writes a journal entry about the Gill
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Leigh Snowden


Film Studio". Snowden chose Universal Pictures because of the training provided by its film school; she began voice and acting classes with Mara Corday, Pat Crowley, Clint Eastwood, James Garner, and John Saxon. Snowden appeared in the films "All That Heaven Allows", "The Square Jungle", "The Creature Walks Among Us", "Outside the Law", "I've Lived Before" and "Hot Rod Rumble" in addition to television appearances. Her last performance in movies was as Evie in
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The Inside (film)


The Creature before being followed and stalked by it, she then runs back, escapes from the warehouse and abandons the camcorder. After finishing watching the video, The Man uses the footage as a guide to retrace the steps to where the events occurred. The man tracks down the warehouse and makes his way into the basement. He walks into the aftermath and finds Sian and Louise. Sian cries for help as The Creature approaches, The Man tells her to be quiet and hides, she is then attacked and consumed by The
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Dark Was the Night (2014 film)


and kill the creature within 24 hours. That night a heavy snow storm hits the surrounding area and most of the town evacuates. Paul theorizes that the creature had been pushed from its territory by the logging company and is looking for a new home and sees humans as a threat. One of the hunters shows Paul film footage of a large creature walking on two legs. As the storm gets worse the creature breaks into Paul's house, where Paul barricades himself and Adam in the bathroom until the arrival of Donny scares it
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Science fiction film


surrounding an entire planet in "Solaris", the ball shaped creature in "Dark Star", microbial-like creatures in "The Invasion", shape-shifting creatures in "Evolution"). Recent trends in films involve building-size alien creatures like in the movie "Pacific Rim" where the CGI has tremendously improved over the previous decades as compared in previous films such as "Godzilla". A frequent theme among science fiction films is that of impending or actual disaster on an epic scale. These often address
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The Creature Walks Among Us


colleagues Dr. Borg (Maurice Manson) and Dr. Johnson (James Rawley). While bandaging the Gill-man, the doctors notice that he is shedding his gills and even breathing using a kind of lung system. Now that the creature has more human-like skin, he is given clothing. The doctors attempt to get the Gill-man used to living among humans. Although his life is saved, he is apparently unhappy, staring despondently at the ocean. Barton ruins the plans when, in a murderous rage,
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Don Megowan


the University of Southern California on a football scholarship before serving in the United States Army during World War II. Megowan starred in the science fiction films "The Werewolf" in the role of Sheriff Jack Haines, in "The Creation of the Humanoids" (1962) as a captain in the anti-robot Order of Flesh and Blood, who must stop the Humanoids, and in "The Creature Walks Among Us" as the Gill-man. Megowan also appeared in westerns: "Davy Crockett, King of the Wild
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The Creature Walks Among Us


he kills Jed, jealous that he had made romantic advances towards his wife. Realizing what he has done, Barton then tries to put the blame on the Gill-man. The Gill-man, witnessing the killing, and apparently realizing that he is being blamed for the murder, goes on a rampage. After ripping down the confining electric fence, he kills Barton and then slowly walks back to the sea. He is last seen on a beach, advancing towards the ocean. Unlike the previous two "Creature"
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Godkiller


length films. Pizzolo and Muckcracker began by serializing "Godkiller: Walk Among Us" into a 6-issue comic book series (debuting in 2008) and a 3-episode film series (debuting in 2009) before the completed "Walk Among Us" feature film opened theatrically in 2010. The "Walk Among Us" film was slated for a unique release of limited edition, bi-monthly DVDs starting September 29, 2009, followed by a theatrical run of the full feature in January 2010 and a DVD/Blu-ray release in
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List of The Lego Movie characters


which causes the Master Builders to boo at him, the Swamp Creature asked "This is supposed to make us feel better?" In the second film, the Swamp Creature is seen. In "The Lego Batman Movie", a different Swamp Creature is among the inmates of the Phantom Zone. When Joker describes himself to the inmates, the Swamp Creature called Joker boring. The Texas Cowboy is a Master Builder from the Old West. He is among the Master Builders that meet in Cloud Cuckoo Land. The Traffic Enforcer
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Patterson–Gimlin film


in every walking cycle. ... René Dahinden ... filmed and studied how modern man walks, finding ... a maximum of 2–3 inches of distance between toes and the surface it is walking over. ... " No human has yet replicated this 10-inch-high lower leg lift while maintaining the smoothness, posture, and stride length (41") of the creature. Krantz pointed out the tremendous width of the creature's shoulders, which (after deducting 1" for hair) he estimated at 28.2 inches, or 35.1% of its
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Creature of the Walking Dead


Creature of the Walking Dead is a 1965 horror film adapted by Jerry Warren from a 1961 Mexican horror film "La Marca del Muerto", which translates as "Mark of the Dead Man". The original Mexican film was directed by Fernando Cortés, written by Alfredo Varela Jr., and released in Mexico on October 12, 1961. The special effects was handled by Nicholas Reye. The film is about a mad scientist who discovers he can keep a subject eternally young by injecting the blood of young women into their veins.
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Creature from the Black Lagoon


Among Us" (1956), filmed in 2D. A comedic appearance with Abbott and Costello on an episode of "The Colgate Comedy Hour" aired prior to the film's release. The appearance is commonly known as "Abbott and Costello Meet the Creature from the Black Lagoon". In 1982, John Landis wanted Jack Arnold to direct a remake of the film, and Nigel Kneale was commissioned to write the screenplay. Kneale completed the script, which involved a pair of creatures, one destructive and the other calm and sensitive
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Creature of the Walking Dead


into his subjects. He is hung for his crimes, but his grandson (who looks just like him) inherits his home and revives him from the dead. Malthus then resumes his rejuvenation activities using himself as the subject, enabled by the grandson who procures healthy young victims they can bleed. Fernando Casanova played both the mad scientist Dr. Malthus and his grandson in a dual role. plus cast members of the original Mexican film: Among the cast listed is Rock Madison who was an actor made up by Warren to make the
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Cold Skin (film)


drive the creatures off. The creatures have not attacked for many weeks. Friend takes to walking along the beach, collecting whalebones and carving them. One day, he discovers a lifeboat on the beach. Inquiring to Gruner, he discovers that it is the boat of a shipwrecked Portuguese individual who had been killed by the creatures. He also learns that the boat's cargo contained dynamite. Friend convinces Gruner to let him use an old dive suit to go down and get the dynamite from the ship. While down there,
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The Others (2001 film)


, and that she, her children and servants are the spirits. Following the display of spiritualistic activity, Victor's family is convinced to vacate the house and leave it in the occupancy of the six ghosts. The production crew visited Penshurst Place in Kent to film at the Lime Walk in the gardens. The Lime Walk was used in the scene where Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) went looking for a priest in the thick fog and instead met her husband who had returned from the war. Filming locations are, among other
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Endless Ocean 2: Adventures of the Deep


reef, and to help the player to be capable of diving for a longer time and with less risk of receiving damage from hostile creatures, running out of oxygen, or getting lost, among others. The aquarium returns and the player can now walk outside the tanks. Several new areas are introduced, for example with the Marine Life Annex, you can put shore species such as penguins, shorebirds and seals. Another new area is the Small World, where smaller fish and invertebrates can be displayed. Potentially dangerous creatures such
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Don Megowan


Don Megowan (May 24, 1922 – June 26, 1981) was an American actor. He played the Gill-man on land in "The Creature Walks Among Us", the final part of the "Creature from the Black Lagoon" trilogy. Don Megowan was born in Inglewood, California to Robert and Leila (née Dale) Megowan. His mother Leila worked as a negative cutter for Pathé. At 6'7" Megowan was very active in sports, playing baseball, football, and throwing discus. He went to
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Nightmare Creatures II


the structure, where he finds a grotesque monstrosity. Using dynamite, he explodes the creature, only to be thrown off the top of the spire. However, his fall is cushioned, and he is reunited with Rachel, whereupon they walk away together. The Gameplay is similar to the previous installment, seeing the adrenaline bar abandoned and the addition of fatality moves to execute weakened enemies. The game features licensed music from Rob Zombie in the cutscenes while the in-game music was composed by the "Nightmare Creatures" composer
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Walking with Dinosaurs (film)


were based on creatures found at fossil sites in Alaska and in Canada. Krentz initially designed the creatures in pencil then modeled them with the software ZBrush to send to animators. In addition, palaeontologists provided Animal Logic with technical drawings of dinosaur skeletons so animators could construct the skeletons virtually. The animators collaborated with the palaeontologists to validate the basic movements of the computer-animated dinosaurs. Software was used to overlay muscle to fit the movements. Animal Logic adapted the software Quill, which they used to animate penguin feathers in their work
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Henry Mancini


Everyman' Tex Beneke. After World War II, Mancini broadened his skills in composition, counterpoint, harmony and orchestration during studies opening with the composers Ernst Krenek and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. In 1952, Mancini joined the Universal Pictures music department. During the next six years, he contributed music to over 100 movies, most notably "Creature from the Black Lagoon", "The Creature Walks Among Us", "It Came from Outer Space", "Tarantula", "This Island Earth", "The Glenn
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Patterson–Gimlin film


suits he sold were used for a popular sideshow routine that depicted an attractive woman changing into a gorilla.) After the initial sale, Morris said that Patterson telephoned him asking how to make the "shoulders more massive" and the "arms longer". Morris says he suggested that whoever wore the suit should wear football shoulder pads and hold sticks in his hands within the suit. As for the creature's walk, Morris said: The Bigfoot researchers say that no human can walk that way in the film. Oh,
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Creature suit


have been made into lifelike creature suits, including lions, tigers, rhinos and elephants, kangaroos, penguins, common ostriches and walruses, among others. Japanese "Tokusatsu" movies often use "daikaiju", or giant monster suits. is a filmmaking technique initially developed by Eiji Tsuburaya for use in Godzilla films and then used for his Ultra Series productions. The suit actor, often moving through scale model scenery to give the impression of large size, is filmed at a higher framerate to make them appear slower. In addition
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The Thing (1982 film)


. Each encounter with the creature was planned for areas where they could justify using a series of small lights to highlight the particular creature-model's surface and textures. Cundey would illuminate the area behind the creature to detail its overall shape. He worked with Panasonic and a few other companies to develop a camera capable of automatically adjusting light exposure at different film speeds. He wanted to try filming the creature at fast and slow speeds thinking this would create a more interesting visual effect, but they were unable to accomplish this at
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The Creature Walks Among Us


scientists led by the deranged and cold-hearted Dr. William Barton (Jeff Morrow) board the "Vagabondia III" to capture the creature in the Everglades. Barton is mentally unstable and apparently an abusive husband to his wife Marcia (Leigh Snowden), as he becomes very jealous and paranoid when Marcia is with other men. Their guide Jed Grant (Gregg Palmer) makes numerous passes on Marcia (which she constantly rebuffs), with Barton becoming paranoid about the two. Marcia accompanies Jed and Dr. Tom Morgan (Rex Reason
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Revenge of the Creature


, ultimately abducting her from a seaside restaurant where the two are at a party. Clete tries to give chase, but the Gill-man escapes to the water with his captive. Clete and police arrive just in time and when the creature surfaces, police shoot him as Clete saves Helen. Using the working titles of "Return of the Creature" and "Return of the Creature from the Black Lagoon", filming took place at Marineland of Florida which played the part of the film's Ocean Harbor Oceanarium. The St.
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Creature Comforts


viewers of Channel 4 in April 2000. Their position among the classic advertisements of British television was confirmed when "Creature Comforts" was voted fourth in "ITV’s Best Ever Adverts" by viewers of ITV in 2005. Finally, in a YouGov survey during 2006, "Creature Comforts" topped the list of the United Kingdom's alltime favourite animated or puppet characters used in adverts. The "Creature Comforts" advertisements have now attained a place in popular culture, and are probably better remembered than the original film that spawned them
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Skull Island


creature that appears in the 1976 film is a giant snake. All the creatures in Peter Jackson's remake of King Kong do not appear to be any real species of animal, but do resemble certain ones. The companion book "The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island", elaborates on this stating that they are fictional descendants of real animals. Among the creatures in the 2005 remake are: The following creatures appeared in this companion book to the 2005 film: Many creatures in the 2017 reboot film and
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Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi


and various scenes on the soundstages at Elstree Studios near London where the interiors of Jabba's palace were filmed. Over 60 alien creatures were created for "Return of the Jedi" which were operated by a variety of techniques old and new. Footage from earlier films illustrated the various methods used, including using actors in costumes (as in "Creature from the Black Lagoon" and "Godzilla"), stop motion miniatures (as seen in "The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" and "King Kong"), and large
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Curse of the Swamp Creature


underwater. The webbed-fingered, hospital gown-clad creature was created using primitive prosthetic make-up and greyish green body paint and not the infamous cheap and phony-looking scalloped-scaled rubber wetsuit and fiercely-fanged fish head mask with painted ping-pong-ball eyes Buchanan later used in "Creature of Destruction" and "'It's Alive!'". The movie was filmed in Uncertain, Texas where the Fly-N-Fish Lodge and Airport seen in early scenes still exists. The film
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Hypothermia (film)


back to see that Steve's body is gone. The creature is eating the body under the water. As they continue walking, they see the shadow of the creature swimming under the ice beneath them. Ray urges Helen and Gina to get to the shore while he fights the creature off. The creature rams the ice under Ray so that it cracks and breaks under his weight. Ray is killed. The creature stalks Helen and Gina. When it catches them, it stares them down as Helen talks to it. It
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Creature suit


among others. While shows like "Star Trek" prefer prosthetic makeup, it has led to the term "rubber forehead alien" due to the fact that most of the aliens look extremely similar to humans save for slight differences in their eye color, skin color or facial prosthetics, and creature suits can allow for more alien body shapes. There have been many realistic bear suits created for film and television. They are also used for live performances, protests and scientific studies. Dinosaur suits were used in film and television,
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Yale (mythical creature)


creature found in Aethiopia "the size of a hippopotamus, with an elephant's tail, of a black or tawny colour, with the jaws of a boar and movable horns more than a cubit in length which in a fight are erected alternately, and presented to the attack or sloped backward in turn as policy directs." The creature passed into medieval bestiaries and heraldry, where it represents proud defence. The yale is among the heraldic beasts used by the British Royal Family. It had been used as a supporter for the
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Beautiful Creatures (2013 film)


computer-based ones for certain scenes, as Emmy Rossum described: "[W]hen we walked on to the stage and realized the chandelier does actually move, the chairs did actually spin, the table did actually spin... it was all very exciting." On September 19, 2012, the first trailer for "Beautiful Creatures" was released. Camille Balsamo played Genevieve Katherine Duchannes in a sequence cut from the film; LaGravenese said: "Beautiful Creatures"' release date was originally scheduled to be on February 13, 2013
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Dragonslayer (1981 film)


by Tippett, recorded the creature's movements in motion as a real animal would move, and removed the jerkiness common in prior stop motion films. Ken Ralston was assigned to the flying scenes. He built a model with an articulated aluminum skeleton in order to give it a wide range of motion. Ralston shot films of birds flying in order to incorporate their movements into the model. As with the walking dragon, the flying model was filmed using go-motion techniques. The camera was programmed to tilt and move at various
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Winged Creatures (novel)


where he rushes to save her. In the film Laraby is played by Guy Pearce. Charlie was grazed by a stray bullet as a result of the shooting, and survives. The doctors tell him he is some kind of lucky not to have been killed. A dazed Charlie walks out of the hospital, clinging onto the word "lucky". It is for this reason he begins to gamble incessantly, thinking his luck will work for him at the casino. In the film, Charlie is played by Forest Whitaker.
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The Cat Who Walked by Herself


years ago" that he would not do that. Upon seeing that the child doesn't remember, the Cat sighs and decides to tell him the story from the beginning. The story starts when the planet was young and life on Earth was emerging with early creatures among erupting volcanoes. The protagonists are the Wild Man and the Woman who is his mate. The film is available on DVD in the collection "Золотая коллекция мультфильмов 9" ("Golden Collection of Cartoons 9"), a PAL 2003 Russian release. It
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Hell's Bells (film)


comically flies away. An orchestra then plays some music, to entertain Satan. The orchestra is a mix between traditional instruments and nonsensical ones, as one of the creatures is playing a saxophone, whilst another one is comically playing a rib cage in place of a cello. A demon then begins to dance to the music, occasionally flying to it as well. Then, other devils begin to dance to the music. They do this until they cease naturally and walk away. However, one of the creatures walks into a
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Demon (novel)


of zombies. These are made from the corpses of humans who die in the wheel and — unless cremated — become infested with creatures called "deathsnakes" and arise to walk again as zombies. The increasingly demented and film-obsessed Gaea has replaced the Avatar that Jones destroyed at the end of "Wizard" with a new one, a replica of Marilyn Monroe. She spends her time in a travelling film festival of her own making, called "Pandemonium", where she is attended by various humans, zombies, and
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Terra Formars (film)


is an international team of misfits and criminals who are given the opportunity to take part in the mission to gain forgiveness for their crimes. They enter the new atmosphere aboard the BUGS 2 and find the terraforming to have been successful. They release a roach bomb but when they walk onto the surface they do not find any dead roaches among the moss. Eventually they come upon human-sized anthropomorphic cockroaches wielding clubs that quickly kill two of the humans with their superior speed and physical strength. They determine that these creatures are the
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Europa Report


the International Space Station and space walks from the space shuttle. The space ship was designed through computer graphics, giving high detail to the camera angles to be used in the film. Weightlessness was simulated with balance balls, suspension from wires was used for interior shots. The flooding ship was filmed on a one-third scale model. The aspect of the moon Europa was based for accuracy on data from NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) maps of the moon's surface. The creature's design included bio-luminescence
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Bhoomiyude Avakashikal


, another altruistic act of his attracts hatred from society. In the end, he feels that his being there would only bring trouble to those creatures living in that space. And he decides to walk out, one doesn't know where to. In an interview with noted film critic C. S. Venkiteswaran of "The Hindu" newspaper, T. V. Chandran said, Venkiteswaran notes that "Bhoomiyude Avakashikal" is "perhaps the first Malayalam film that leaves the human and the anthropocentric narration behind, and explores the realm of the non
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Passion Play (film)


find himself in a vehicle and being driven out into the desert, but he is helpless to do anything about it. His assailant then walks Nate away from the car and is about to kill him, but instead the assailant is shot dead by a band of Native Americans, and Nate is left unharmed. Nate wanders around in the desert and climbs a mountain, where he looks down upon a carnival and sideshow. He walks through the carnival, and asks the owner to use a telephone, and he wanders among the
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Cold Skin (film)


then sets off the secondary explosives which are much closer to the lighthouse, knocking both Friend and himself unconscious. In the morning, Gruner finishes off the wounded creatures, delighted at the results of their counterattack, while Friend, upon seeing one of the dead creatures wearing a necklace, becomes somewhat less pleased. The immediate night, the creatures do not attack, instead making a mournful wailing sound for their dead. Friend once again takes to walking along the beach, seeing the baby creatures playing in the water and by the
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Godkiller


, a nuclear holy war and an alien invasion, "Godkiller: Walk Among Us" follows orphan Tommy as he searches for a new heart for his ill sister, Lucy. Continues Tommy's quest from "Godkiller: Walk Among Us". Pizzolo developed the concept of an "illustrated film" with his producing partner Brian Giberson, mixing elements of anime, radio drama, video games, and motion comics. Utilizing the original artwork from the comic book, the "illustrated film" adds motion animation, visual effects,
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Stop motion


as further films by Sproxton and Lord. "Creature Comforts" won the Oscar for Best Animated Short in 1990. In 1980, Marc Paul Chinoy directed the 1st feature-length clay animated film, based on the famous "Pogo" comic strip. Titled "I go Pogo". It was aired a few times on American cable channels but has yet to be commercially released. Primarily clay, some characters required armatures, and walk cycles used pre-sculpted hard bases legs. Stop motion was also used for some shots
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Kaiju


". Where Western monster movies often used stop motion to animate the monsters, Tsubaraya decided to attempt to create suits, called "creature suits", for a human (suit actor) to wear and act in. This was combined with the use of miniature models and scaled-down city sets to create the illusion of a giant creature in a city. Due to the extreme stiffness of the latex or rubber suits, filming would often be done at double speed, so that when the film was shown, the monster
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Hell's Bells (film)


piece of crumbling rock, and comically becomes crooked as a result. He dances some more in order to cease his crooked state. However, once he ceases to be crooked and begins to walk back, he comically walks into the same rock again, which results in him comically becoming crooked again. Satan laughs at the occurrence, and rings a bell, to signal his lack of food and his desire to be fed. Upon hearing the bell, three creatures comically milk a cow-like creature for some milk which is
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Aasimar


tones. Aasimar, as planetouched creatures, are considered native outsiders. Aasimar are predisposed to good alignments, but other alignments, including evil, exist. The infernal counterparts of aasimars are called tieflings. Evil Aasimar are considered betrayers to their own ancestors and are hunted by their own race. In the "Forgotten Realms" campaign setting aasimar are most commonly found in the eastern lands of Unther and Mulhorand, where they are the descendants of the good deities who once walked among the mortals. Since the Spellplague however and the devastation
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Monsters (2010 film)


" where the creatures reside. Edwards conceived the idea for the film after seeing fishermen attempt to bring a creature in with a net, and imagining a monster inside. He pitched the idea to Vertigo Films, who suggested he watch "In Search of a Midnight Kiss", a low-budget film starring McNairy. Edwards cast McNairy and Able in the lead roles. Principal photography lasted three weeks and had a production crew of six people. Filming took place in five countries, and many locations were used without permission.
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Sphinx


always remembered the foreign origin of the Sphinx) to Thebes in Greece where she asked all passersby the most famous riddle in history: "Which creature has one voice and yet becomes four-footed and two-footed and three-footed?" She strangled and devoured anyone who could not answer. Oedipus solved the riddle by answering: "Man—who crawls on all fours as a baby, then walks on two feet as an adult, and then uses a walking stick in old age". By some accounts (
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List of Shrek characters


film, among the fairy tale creatures exiled in Shrek's swamp, where he rallies many rats with his enchanted flute. In "Shrek Forever After", he is hired by Rumpelstiltskin to capture the ogres by forcing them to dance and follow him with his enchanted flute. He can handle different species (rats, ogres, witches...) or even objects (Rumpelstiltskin's socks) by setting the "target" dial of his flute. He never speaks, only using his flute to communicate. The Piper has no real
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Clover (creature)


he considered the "mutant spider crabs" that came from it as "way scarier". Lawrence Person of "Locus Online" describes it as "like a cross between a truly giant mantis and Johnny the Skeletal Torso." Todd McCarthy of "Variety" found that the creature was more reassuring as it appeared more in the film, explaining, "Its very nature as a walking, stalking being suggests it can somehow be killed by conventional means". Chris Vognar of "The Dallas Morning News" applauded the creature
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Creature suit


and became popular for live-action appearances following the debut of "Walking with Dinosaurs: The Arena Spectacular". They are used in theme parks and educational shows. In addition to realistic gorilla suits used in film and television, dressing up as a gorilla has become a public phenomenon and is often done with humorous intent. Two-person horse and two-person cow costumes have often been used in theater. Most of them are used for comedic effect, however, realistic ones do exist as well. Many other animals
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Julius Caesar (1953 film)


stop Brando from dominating the film and "put the focus back where it belongs. Namely on me!" The subsequent shift in directorial attention didn't escape Brando, who threatened to walk off the film if Mankiewicz "threw one more scene to Mason", alleging a "ménage à trois" among Mankiewicz, Mason and Mason's wife Pamela. Despite the feuding, production continued with only minimal disruption, thanks to what Gielgud called, "Mankiewicz's consummate tact that kept us together as a working unit." O.
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Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague


throughout the preserve, it is clear that they can no longer protect the preserve. Creatures of light are transformed into creatures of dark. As light creatures can enter most places throughout the preserve, the same rules apply to their darker forms. Seth is stuck at Fablehaven, where he, his grandparents, Tanu, and Coulter must try to solve the mystery of a new plague that is transforming the magical creatures. Seth discovers that he has gained new abilities with destroying Fablehaven's revenant. He is able to shadow-walk
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Creature of the Walking Dead


The doctor is captured by the police and executed, but is brought back to life a hundred years later by his grandson, and resumes his insane experiments in modern times. Warren's contribution to the US version of the film consisted of extensive editing, some dubbing of the Mexican players in select scenes, voice-over narration over most of the Mexican footage, and the inclusion of several brief scenes filmed by Warren in the United States with American actors. The Americanized version was released on June 15, 1965. Warren wrote
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Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys


Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys is a science fiction horror film by The Asylum, which premiered on the Animal Planet cable TV channel (US) on Sunday May 25, 2014, at 8:00 p.m. EST and was released to DVD the following Tuesday. The film is directed by James Cullen Bressack. A small lake town is attacked by bloodthirsty, mutated lampreys that can walk on land and travel in water pipes. With the town under siege by the creatures, and the town's mayor refusing to acknowledge the threat
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The Wolverine (film)


They also replaced the Sydney cityscape on the horizon with views of Nagasaki. The walking bear featured in the Yukon scenes was created with computer graphics by Weta Digital, while Make-Up Effects Group built a 12 foot tall animatronic bear, that was used for shots of the creature dying after it had been hit by poisoned arrows fired by hunters. For a fight scene taking place on top of a speeding bullet train, the actors and stunt performers filmed on wires above a set piece surrounded by a greenscreen. The moving background
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Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (1973 film)


He leaves to meet their handyman regarding the history of the house and the fireplace. Sally tries to stay awake but the creatures put sedatives into her coffee and cut the electricity. They lock Joan outside when she checks the circuit breaker. Sally manages to walk downstairs, but the creatures trip her in the dark. While she is semi-conscious, they drag her into the basement den and into the unsealed fireplace. Sally, now one of the creatures, patiently waits for their next victim to move into the house.
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The Unholy (1988 film)


two mutant creatures crucify Michael. Millie enters the church and is confronted by the creature, but before it can harm her, Michael calls upon God for strength, and damns the Unholy to hell. He collapses, and when he awakens, is blind. As Millie walks him out of the church, the Immaculate Heart of Mary statue begins to weep tears of blood. English actor Ben Cross was cast in the film as the lead of Father Michael; at the time, he was a roommate of Cuban director Camilo Vila
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Dead Birds (2004 film)


that William has also transformed into a demonic creature and the soldiers mistook him for some deformed animal. Two of the soldiers discover gold coins which William dropped and go to investigate the house. As they walk through the fields, they discover the corpse of another demonic creature dead body, presumably that of Annabelle. "Dead Birds" was given a limited re-release on February 5, 2010, at the NuArt Theatre in Los Angeles. The film was released on DVD by Columbia TriStar on May 15th and 16th in 2005
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Dinosaur suit


Dinosaur suits are a type of costumed character or creature suit resembling a dinosaur. Dinosaur suits are also called dinosaur costumes. Such costumes were used in film and television and as mascots for decades, reflecting dinosaurs' prominence in the arts and entertainment. Usually operators use two cable-pulled handle to control the motions. Realistic dinosaur suits also gained popularity for live shows following the success of "Walking with Dinosaurs − The Arena Spectacular". An experienced performer can make lifelike movements with a dinosaur suit. They are also used in
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Jim Ojala


", "2012", "Where the Wild Things Are", "Thor", "" and "Pacific Rim". In 2005, Ojala established his own independent special effects studio and film production company Ojala Productions, specializing in makeup and creature effects for film and television as well as producing in-house projects written and directed by Ojala himself. Among others, Ojala Productions contributed special effects work for films like "" and the critically acclaimed "Deadgirl", television shows including "Tim and Eric Awesome Show
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Mushishi (film)


in Japan. "Mushishi" opens with Yoki and his mother walking along a mountain when a cliff suddenly collapses. This is followed by a nonlinear narrative that moves between the past and the present. A series of flashbacks reveal that only Yoki survived, coming under the care of Nui, who is a Mushishi (or Bugmaster)—an expert in Mushi, which are supernatural bug-like creatures that are invisible to most humans. She lives near a pond where there are two types of Mushi: a fish-like Ginko who swims
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Cold Skin (film)


Friend quite coldly. Soon the young meteorologist realizes that the death of his predecessor occurred not from typhus, which is the official explanation, but from the invasion of unknown creatures emerging at night from the ocean. Upon arriving at the island he walks around, seeing strange rock circles on the beach. When he returns to the cabin he finds the diary of the previous meteorologist which talks of strange creatures from the sea attacking; soon after reading this he is beset at night by strange creatures. Friend hides in the cellar and
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The Thing (1982 film)


helicopter pilot, R.J. MacReady, and Dr. Copper leave to investigate the Norwegian base. Among the charred ruins and frozen corpses, they find the burned remains of a malformed humanoid which they recover to the American station. Their biologist, Blair, performs autopsies on the remains and finds a normal set of human organs. Clark kennels the sled dog, and it soon metamorphoses and absorbs the station dogs. This disturbance alerts the team and Childs uses a flamethrower to incinerate the creature. Blair autopsies the new creature and learns that it
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Howling VI: The Freaks


are in the film which includes the solitary drifter who is cursed as a sympathetic werewolf and later recruited by a supernatural being as well as werewolves being used in carnival freak shows. Artisan Home Entertainment and Timeless Media Group has released this film along with "" as a double feature on DVD. A little girl runs through the woods being chased by a creature which corners her and eats her leaving behind nothing but the teddy bear she was holding. A young man named Ian Richards (Brendan Hughes) is walking along a desert
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Katherine Victor


"Mesa of Lost Women" (1953). Victor's work for Warren included "Teenage Zombies" (1959), "Creature of the Walking Dead" (1965), "House of the Black Death" (1965), "The Wild World of Batwoman" (1966), and "Frankenstein Island" (1981). She also co-starred in "The Cape Canaveral Monsters" (1960), directed by Phil Tucker. During the 1970s, Katherine (who used the film name Kathrin)
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Fear


confronting larger peers, or walking up to predatory creatures. Robert C. Bolles (1970), a researcher at University of Washington, wanted to understand species-specific defense reactions and avoidance learning among animals, but found that the theories of avoidance learning and the tools that were used to measure this tendency were out of touch with the natural world. He theorized the species-specific defense reaction (SSDR). There are three forms of SSDRs: flight, fight (pseudo-aggression), or freeze. Even domesticated animals
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The Creature Walks Among Us


) on their initial dive to look for the Gill-man, despite her husband's fierce objections. During the dive, Marcia swims too deep and is overcome with the "raptures of the deep," temporarily losing her mind, removing all her scuba gear. This forces Jed and Tom to abandon their hunt for the Gill-man to swim back and save her. When he is eventually captured, the Gill-man is badly burned in a fire leading to a surgical transformation performed by Barton, Tom and their
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Nicholas O'Neill (writer)


called "A Night of Angels", was directed by O'Neill's brother Christian and featured musical tributes as well as a fully staged production of "They Walk Among Us". O'Neill made this event the basis of an Emerson College master's thesis, "The Song of Nick", and later created a film version of "They Walk Among Us". He also was the assistant director of the award-winning New York production of the play in 2008 (produced by My Own Delirium Productions) and co-directed
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Walk Among Us


", the only live track on the album, was recorded on December 17, 1981, at The Ritz in New York, New York. The song "Astro Zombies" was inspired by the 1968 horror film "The Astro-Zombies". The cover for "Walk Among Us" features the famous "Rat-Bat-Spider" that menaces the intrepid astronauts in 1959's "The Angry Red Planet". The flying saucers were obtained from 1956's "Earth Versus The Flying Saucers". The first LP
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Displacer beast


vicious, and hate all other creatures. These sentient, magical cats often kill purely for pleasure, though they never fight among themselves. This beast uses a magical "displacement" ability, a form of illusion which causes it to appear to be a few feet away from where it actually is. This makes the creature hard to hit, while it attacks with its long tentacles. The displacer beast is the natural enemy of the blink dog. The hide of a displacer beast has many useful magical properties, making it highly
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Nightmare Creatures


into ungodly creatures, and that the dead are waking from their graves and walking among the living. All of London is in a panic and vulnerable to the schemes of Adam Crowley, a mad scientist and occultist enlisting the help of the Brotherhood. A book is dropped off at the home of Ignatius Blackward, a priest and occult expert. He finds it is the lost diary of Samuel Pepys, which contains the Brotherhood's research. Knowing he needs help, Ignatius sends the diary to a renowned American immunologist named Dr. Jean
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Insectoid


conspiracy theories.The skeptic ufologist Martin Kottmeyer argue the phenomenon of mantis alien may be explained by the effects of cultural factors such as science fiction films where these beings are protagonists. Insect-like creatures have been a part of the tradition of science fiction and fantasy. In the 1902 film "A Trip to the Moon", Georges Méliès portrayed the Selenites of the moon as insectoid. Olaf Stapledon incorporates insectoids in his 1937 "Star Maker" novel. In the pulp fiction novels, insectoid creatures were frequently used as the
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Patterson–Gimlin film


could not duplicate the observed pattern, which would suggest that the Sasquatch must possess a very different locomotor system to that of man." If filmed at the higher speed, Grieve concluded that the creature "walked with a gait pattern very similar in most respects to a man walking at high speed". Grieve stated, "I can see the muscle masses in the appropriate places ... If it is a fake, it is an extremely clever one." Like Krantz, Grieve thought the figure's shoulders were quite broad.
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Godkiller


the post-nuke world of the graphic novel and illustrated film "Walk Among Us." So "Silent War" is only a prequel insofar as it happens beforehand, but its events drive the "Walk Among Us" story, and many of the same characters appear in both. I'm super excited that the two stories can roll out together in this integrated way--everything about this project is unorthodox and crazy, hopefully everyone will enjoy the ride. The early chapters of "Silent War" (released in October
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They Walk Among Us


They Walk Among Us is a one-act play written by Nicholas O'Neill, the youngest victim of the Station nightclub fire, a 2003 blaze that claimed the lives of 100 people in West Warwick, Rhode Island. It is also the name of a film based on the play. The play deals with issues of grief and loss, as well as the search for meaning in the human existence, and features characters who are "guardian angels," all of whom were apparently teenagers who died young. One of these characters
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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom


series. Bayona wanted to include several new dinosaurs never seen in earlier films, including "Allosaurus", "Baryonyx", "Carnotaurus", "Sinoceratops", "Stygimoloch", and the fictional "Indoraptor". "Baryonyx" and "Carnotaurus" were among the creatures created through CGI. "Dilophosaurus" was in the film's original cut, but was removed. The film features more animatronic dinosaurs than any previous sequel, and the animatronics used were more technologically advanced than in the earlier films. Five animatronic
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Creature suit


remain well-regarded for their special effects, while CGI creatures quickly become dated as technology advances. This has led to the continued use of creature suits in modern-day films and commercials to provide additional realism, such as "Hellboy" and "". In other instances, CGI and creature suits are combined, using green parts of the suit to chroma key them and add or remove appendages in post-production. This technique was used to hide suit actors' heads in the 2005 film "", replace satyr
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Camel Spiders (film)


the end, a number of hardy fighters band together to make one last stand against the creatures. Camel Spiders was released on DVD and Blue Ray by Lionsgate on May 27, 2012. Brett Gallman from horror film review website "Oh, the Horror!" gave the film a mostly negative review. In his review, Gallman criticized the film's direction, and screenplay; stating that the film "starts with the potential to be among the best of these new-wave Corman creature features, but ends up just being
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Yehuda Barkan


Katz V'Carasso", "Charlie Ve'hetzi", "Hagiga B'Snuker", "Bo Nefotzetz Million" and more. Other films he appeared in during that time include among others: "Malkat Hakvish" (1971) where he played alongside Gila Almagor, in Menachem Golan's film "Attack at Dawn" (1970) and in the film adaptation of the novel "He Walked Through the Fields" (1967) where he played alongside Assi Dayan. During the 1980s Barkan began to direct and produce films, including the candid
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Jurassic World


creatures' skin and muscle tissue to be given additional detail that could not be achieved in the earlier films. As with previous films in the series, actors had to imagine many of the film's creatures, which were digitally added during post-production. Actors were aided by cardboard cut-outs and tennis balls on sticks, all of which represented the creatures that would later be added into the film. ILM used its V-scout application, which used an iPad to digitally depict dinosaur models in the filming environment,
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Walking with Dinosaurs − The Arena Spectacular


The Arena Spectacular is a live adaptation of the award-winning television series "Walking with Dinosaurs". Like the TV series, "The Arena Spectacular" has to recreate dinosaurs to the point of the viewers accepting the creatures as real. Created by late renowned Artistic Director and Visionary - William ‘Bill’ May. "The Arena Spectacular" was created by The Creature Technology Company. The production cost $20 million to stage and used puppetry, suits, and animatronics to create 16 dinosaurs representing 9 species. Each large dinosaur
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Gargantua (film)


. Jack's son, Brandon (Emile Hirsch), discovers and befriends a baby creature that is able to leave the ocean and walk on land, and the parent creature tries to find the baby and go on a rampage. After its first rampage, the military gets involved and kills the parent. On the next morning, it turns out that there is another parent, and it returns to the ocean with the baby. "Gargantua" was novelized by K. Robert Andreassi, a pseudonym for Keith R.A. DeCandido, and
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)


final edit, as the movie was 45 minutes too long. Therefore, several locations which were used for various scenes do not appear in the final cut of the film. In Virginia Water, scenes were shot where Professor McGonagall recovers from Stunning Spells, and Burnham Beeches was used for filming the scene where Hagrid introduces his fifth-year Care of Magical Creatures class to Thestrals. Harry skips stones in front of the Glenfinnan Monument in Glenfinnan in another cut scene. The film required over 1,400 visual effects shots, and the London
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