The Primevals
Directed by David Allen
A team of scientists and an experienced explorer lead an expedition into the Himalayas to search for the mythical Yeti and discover a hidden world.
Scientists explore the Himalayas in search of the Yeti.
Cast: Richard Joseph Paul, Juliet Mills, Leon Russom, Walker Brandt, Tai Thai, Robert Cornthwaite, Billy Skudder, Kevin Mangold
Member Reviews
Was waiting for sleestack, bad 70s
Love Hellraiser. Still holds up today!
Definitely a film for the initiated - at its heart, a deep hommage to the work of Harryhausen, Tippett and other stop-motion whizzes; to think this was a project that started with a who's who of animation back in the 60s, including Dennis Murren. Had the pastiche/hommage aspect been deeper (and therefore made more of the now dated and pale story/dialogues) and less self-seriousness been added over the years, this could have been a fascinating project. As it stands, it's a relic from the past that gets a much better treatment than the object deserves. It's sad to see a brilliant concept fall into a puddle of surface clichés, carried by a wildly uneven set of visual effects. An artifact in and of itself due to its decades-long gestation, the film carries a lot less than it could have, unfortunately -- comes off as a mix between 60s Star Trek and cheap 80s TV - a far cry from Phil Tippet's just-as-involved passion project.
Most of the acting is laughably bad and the character are all flat archetypes, but it's meant to be a homage to pulp fiction. The stop motion was incredibly good and was a worthy throwback to the Harryhausen era. It's not a good movie, it's FUN movie.
Like a lost sequel to journey to the center of the earth, with a little bit of stargate-esque early 90’s sci-fi revival. Tonally and aesthetically beyond the reach of contemporary production, just tons of fun. In one scene “Sherpa” was seemingly spell checked to “shepherd” and no one caught it lol.