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Reptilian (Yonggary) (1999) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!

English-language South Korean monster film ... Despite being a South Korean production, the film's principal cast consists of Western actors ...

In Southeast Asia, Dr. Campbell and Dr. Hughes lead an archaeological party exploring caverns. Hughes is separated and finds an alien corpse with a fossilized diamond while Campbell uncovers hieroglyphics leading to the location of a dinosaur skeleton. Two years later, an alien mothership arrives near Earth's orbit...

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Chuck Arrington from DVD Talk gave the film a mixed review, criticizing the film's acting and dialogue, calling it "painful", but also wrote that the film was funny enough to merit renting it.[17] StompTokyo.com gave the film a negative review, criticizing the film's poor quality special effects, calling it "cartoonish".[18] In his book VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever, Jim Craddock awarded the film one out of four bones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonggary_(1999_film)

2.7 / 10 on IMDB. 13% popcornmeter on Rotten Tomatoes. Sounds like a real monster! Reptilian (Yonggary) (1999) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!

  • Just start watching that movie this Sunday, May 10 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
  • and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live text commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
  • I usually open two web browser windows side-by-side on a computer. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.

VERSION NOTE:

  • So way back in 1967 there was a Korean-Japanese movie with Korean actors called "Yongary, Monster of the Deep" - that is NOT the movie we are watching, tho you can find it online.
  • Then in 1999 a South Korean company released a new version of that movie, called "Yonggary" with Western actors and relased it in theaters - that is NOT the movie we're watching and it seems pretty hard/impossible to find online anyway.
  • In 2001 Yonggary was re-released. They re-did several special effects, added couple more scenes, and called it "Yonggary: the 2001 Upgrade Edition" or "Reptilian" and that IS the version we're watching.

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