I'm still working my way through my dvdr's and sometimes I look at a title and wonder what it's about. Luckily my failing memory keeps me from being worried. I popped in Anoymous Rex to see what it was about. Oh, yeah, now I remember. It's a Sci Fi Channel original that might have been a pilot for a series. It's a movie based on a series of books. Dinosaurs live among us and kill everyone who finds out their secret. It's hard to get sympathy for creatures who kill humans even if it's to survive. I checked it out originally because it has Tamara Gorski in it. She turns up in lots of genre stuff, especially stuff shot in Canada. She's was born in Winnipeg, my old home town. You might remember her from Bruce Campbell's Man With The Screaming Brain or Hercules, The Legendary Journeys. She often plays evil women. Still, she's not enough to make the movie great. It's just average, plodding to some end after a couple of hours on the Sci Fi Channel. I'm not sure why I kept a copy of the movie, other than I keep too much. I'm kind of scanning through parts to get to the end sooner. The main character is a private eye who works with Daniel Baldwin. Faye Dunaway plays a higher up in the secret dino council, so does Isaac Hayes. The dinos use some sort of holgraphic body suit that covers them up. It just makes no sense that a brontosaurus could get into the Chevy, or sit behind a desk, but there you go. There's disharmony in the dino ranks and some want to bust out of their holosuits and chomp down on the humans. Our hero puts a stop to that.
I first saw The Bed Sitting Room at a science fiction convention in the early to mid 1970's. It was when they still had film programs that were actually shown on film. You could rent 16mm copies of many things pretty cheap. I have a dvdr copy from an old tape. It doesn't seem to be out currently and while no copies turn up on Amazon you can buy it as a bootleg. You can see it for free, in 9 parts, over at YouTube. The 1969 Richard Lester film is based on a play by Spike Milligan and John Antrobus. It's got a pretty interesting cast. The story is set in post-apocalypse Britian. The 20 or so known people are surviving as best as possible. No zombies though. And lately, I'm pretty bored with zombies. Can you say, "done to death". The war was quick, 2 minutes and 28 seconds, and left radioactivity about. Lord Fortnum is changing into a bed sitting room and is unhappy. Such a step down in social status. A yound lady gives birth to a monstrocity that dies. The police, both of them, hover about in their flying car, trying to keep the people moving so they don't present a good target for a possible renewed attack. Not for everyone, it's an odd ball.
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