#the primevals

[vintage1981]

Full Moon Announces David Allen's Lost Epic: The Primevals!

IT'S FINALLY HERE!

Full Moon's THE PRIMEVALS is arriving on Blu-ray in a massive limited edition box set, filled with extras, two cuts of the film and a few awesome items! The ultimate THE PRIMEVALS release!

Only 100 box sets are available for PRE-SALE, and each of those 100 will be signed by producer Charles Band. At a later date, more units will become available. 

Deep in the Himalayas, a group of Sherpas subdue and kill a towering humanoid creature, one that Dr. Claire Collier believes to be the legendary Yeti. Soon, Dr. Collier and her colleagues lead an expedition into the mountains to find other beasts like it, only to uncover a race of beings even more fantastical!

Stop motion FX wizard David Allen's long-planned passion project was shelved in the 1990's after Allen passed away from cancer. Finally completed in 2023 by Full Moon and former Allen associate Chris Endicott, THE PRIMEVALS is the ultimate retro-fantasy adventure, employing a wild array of arresting, 100% hand-rendered, stop-motion special effects and a rich orchestral score from composer Richard Band. Prepare yourself for the ultimate fantasy adventure, an epic over 30 years in the making!

Full Moon presents THE PRIMEVALS in a gorgeous leather collector's case, with three Blu-rays inside featuring the theatrical cut, a new documentary on the making of the film, tons of never before seen special features and vintage BTS footage and the never before seen "David Allen Cut", an extended version that contains storyboards and other footage assembled to even more accurately reflect Allen's vision! You'll also get postcards and a pair of incredible enamel pins of the monstrous Yeti and one of the evil lizard men!

Only 100 box sets are available for PRE-SALE, and each of those 100 will be signed by producer Charles Band. At a later date, more units will become available. 

COLLECTOR’S FEATURES:

Leather and Metal Case

Postcards (6)

Enamel Pins (2)

Theatrical Cut of the Film (Blu-ray)

David Allen Cut of the Film (Blu-ray)

Lost To Time - Making of Documentary w/ Bonus Features (Blu-ray)

DISC BONUS FEATURES:

A Celebration of Tenacity: Q/A at Industrial Light and Magic

Charles Band and David Allen on The Primevals

Randall William Cook visits The Primevals

The Primevals - 1984 promo reel

The Primevals - 1997 promo reel

Raiders of the Stone Ring - promo reel

The Primevals - Time-lapse animation

The Beginning and the End

David Allen at the Moviola

Primevals - A False Start

[randomdeinonychus]

There might still be a US release coming, but earlier this week Umbrella Entertainment posted their pre-order for a fancy deluxe release of THE PRIMEVALS and I pounced on it at once.

Though they are an Australian company, their releases are usually region free and I currently own their Blu-rays of KING KONG LIVES and SUPER MARIO BROS (their first release, not the recent fancy 4K anniversary version which I may yet upgrade to) and they're great discs. Plus, the extras for this one are simply incredible.

I'm excited to see how the film turned out, since it's not often you get to see a lost stop-motion epic get finished and released.

[thenefilim]

Review - The Primevals (2023)

Nearly 50 years after it was first announced, and 30 years after writer/director/animator David Allen's death, his dream project The Primevals is finally finished and in release.

https://www.voicesfromthebalcony.com/2024/06/14/the-primevals-2023-review/

[prowl-mun]

David Allen's The Primevals review.

I saw this online at the SIFF Virtual Film Festival. I loved it! It reminded me of a simpler time when my family would rent a film at Coborns or Mr Movies ( there wasn't a Blockbuster near us), like the 7th Voyage of Sinbad or Jurassic Park on the weekends.

I heard about this film when I was a kid, and I didn't think they would ever finish it due to the director David Allen's passing in 1999, but Charlie Band and Chris Endicott did it.

The Yeti was the best stop-motion primate ( or a primate, dog, or feline hybrid) since King Kong, and like Kong, you feel sympathy for the poor guy thanks to David Allen's fantastic stop-motion animation.

The lizardfolk are terrifying and cruel.

However, I wish it had more stop-motion creatures to make the Lost Valley feel more alive, like the cut River Lizard from the poster or the Monoclonus/Mammoth hybrid mentioned in an article in Cinemafantastique magazine about this long-gestating film.

All in all, it was a fun B-film for special effects fans.

i give it 4 stars.

[radiophd]

the primevals -- prairie chain

[gwarden123]

Watched The Primevals. Stop-motion adventure film finished long after the creator's death. Pretty good! Got the kind of designs in it that make you want to slap them and go oooh!

Also featuring:

Really good animation on the yetis. All of the stop-motion animation is very smooth and lifelike, very good at making you accept all these lizard creatures wandering around without them seeming obviously out of place, but the facial animation on the yetis is exceptionally good. Extremely emotive and subtle.

Younger hero banging his older lady professor. I presume that's what they were doing. There's even a hand-off to the younger lady anthropologist at the end like "oh, I'm sure you'll find someone else to help you finish writing your book *wink*"

Oooh, look at that matte painting! *slap-slap-slap*

90 minutes!!!

[visplay]

Chris: The Primevals is an adventure / sci-fi film about an expedition to find the yeti which encounters a secret valley inhabited by descendants of alien lizard men, great stop motion animation, been waiting for this film to be released for years, Watch: Rent.

Richie: It was fun, I loved the stop motion animation, Watch: Rent.

[cinemaquiles]

"THE PRIMEVALS" (2023), O FILME QUE LEVOU MAIS DE 4 DÉCADAS PARA FICAR PRONTO!

[buriedknight]

Stargazers

[vintage1981]

The Primevals Lives! Delirium #37 is On Sale Now!

Stop motion FX wizard David Allen's long-planned passion project THE PRIMEVALS was shelved in the 1990's after Allen passed away from cancer. Finally completed in 2023 by Full Moon and former Allen associate Chris Endicott, THE PRIMEVALS is finally unleashed and it's the ultimate retro-fantasy adventure, employing a wild array of arresting, 100% hand-rendered, stop-motion special effects and a rich orchestral score from composer Richard Band.

In this 37th issue, DELIRIUM shines a light on the making of THE PRIMEVALS with exclusive new interviews with Endicott and Band, plus a startling array of rare photos. Plus, we talk to Joe Dante about the making of his 1978 killer fish Corman classic PIRANHA, actor Alex Winter dishes on working with Michael Winner and Charlie Bronson on DEATH WISH 3, sex and vampires meet in the adult arena as we profile the Hungarian erotica line GetVampired, Lucio Fulci's favorite kid Silvia Collatina talks about her days in Italian horror and MUCH more.

[randomdeinonychus]

Today's arrival is rather less impressive than the deluxe release I originally ordered from Umbrella Entertainment before it got region locked, but it's still exciting just the same.

[goryhorroor]

horror sub-genres: aquatic

[dilfgifs]

BOYD HOLBROOK as CLEMENT MANSELL Justified: City Primeval S01E02 "The Oklahoma Wildman"

[mattdillon]

RAYLAN GIVENS "THE OKLAHOMA WILD MAN" JUSTIFIED: CITY PRIMEVAL, EPISODE TWO

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Animals of the Primeval World - art by Heinrich Harder (c. 1910)

[olyphant-tim]

RAYLAN GIVENS + @timothyolyphant's reactions happy birthday, sarah! 🥳💕