Blog

Giant Creatures and Pirates Peril Shipwrecked Survivors on Jules Verne's "Mysterious Island" – Tonight!

Just in time for hot weather- we have a film that starts out in the frozen north- where an atomic blast releases a prehistoric creature upon the world! It’s more Ray Harryhausen stop- motion artistry as mankind  faces the “Beast from 20,000 Fathoms”!

In this 1953 film,  an experimental crew is up near the Arctic circle to check on the results of a nuclear bomb test. When checking near ground zero, two of the men are amazed to see what looks like a dinosaur lumbering through the snow! This mysterious beast causes an avalanche- and only one of the men survives!

Taken back to civilization, the survivor,  Prof. Tom Nesbitt, can’t convince anyone that what he saw ...

Continue Reading