I know this is a weird request but there were these old 1980's trading cards called Dinosaurs Attack! They're well drawn and when you collect them all they put together a story.
That Dinosaur zombie story sounds really cool. I'd love an animated short based on this concept. Like you said its alot like the Plague of Madness, and i'd love if Gendy Tartakovsky did something with this story or adapted it into a future Primal episode
Honestly large adzharchid if portrayed as Lovecraftian thing was pretty great. Uncannily body proportion, extremely big beak, and can be added with eerie vocalization
@@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434 i agree, they are something that would look really uncanny for most people, i need to make something like that because it doesn’t exist yet.
The first Dino Crisis focused a lot on the horror elements of having dinosaurs in the present day, while the sequels leaned hard into the action side of things the first game really felt like you were being constantly stalked and hunted
everyone else is saying it, but Hell Creek's concept of a zombie apocalypse in the dinosaur age is really cool and creative: an apocalypse is always turned on its head when the point of view is through something other than a person, especially if that point of view is through dinosaurs.
Because human zombies are already boring and too usual, including the fast runner type. Zombies animals in fiction are extremely rare and mostly only used as transmission of whatever virus or radiation before strikes human
I had a dream about having to hide from both human zombies as well as a living T-Rex. It was scary and awesome. I want a video game version. Or at least a movie.
I want more dinosaur media that's from the point of view of dinosaurs and isn't just dinosaurs as monsters hunting and killing humans who somehow manage to bring back dinosaurs somehow. Something like a combination of The Land Before Time and Watership Down, preferably for adults.
@prehistorichero2755 I have an idea for a trilogy of jurassic films that take place after jurassic world, it's called jurassic wilds and it's from the point of a dakotaraptor and his pack trying to survive from human hunters. The dinos are also scientifically accurate.
If you want to go real deep into the origin story of how the Mokele Mbembe story formed, you should really read Abominable Science by Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero. Spoiler: The whole story was likely made up wholesale by colonialists to reflect tall-tales exactly like The Last Haunt of the Dinosaur and then was later used by the Congolese natives to exploit tourists and creationist missionaries out of their money.
The description of Mokelé-Mbembé in the original Congolese folklore also differs quite a bit from its modern pop culture depiction as a surviving sauropod, if anything local folkloric accounts have evolved with time to become less like spirits or deities and more like flesh-and-blood sauropods. Similar to how it wasn't until after WW2 that the the plesiosaur became the standard image of the Loch Ness Monster.
Dinosaur fan here, I thought the first story was interesting. Though, the dinosaur zombie horror story was the best one it was quite good, eerie, and sad as well. The author’s explanation on how the virus started in the book makes sense in some way.
the zombie one sounds really interesting! there is a haunting thought there that every 27 million years there's something out there resetting our planet with mass extinction. and it's sad to think no matter what the dinos we grew to like throughout the story are doomed. i liked it! very cool video ❤
You should do "Dinosaur Summer" it's like a steam punk "Jurassic Park" with a prehistoric island place, alot like the monster island in the "Kong" movies
Quick Mokele Mbembe report, Carl Hagenbeck isn't really associated with the Mokele Mbembe. He's associated with the Chipekwe, a cryptid more from the Zambian region like you mentioned. The Mokele Mbembe came from the Northern Republic of Congo during a 1913-1914 expedition by Ludwig Freiherr von Stein zu Lausnitz. Hypothetically they could be the same animal of course and some have associated them, but they're usually considered two different cryptids due to the distance between them and other reported features
Another story that should be mentioned is “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury. While not a horror story, it’s concept of time travel is unsettling. It is about people time traveling to the past, and hunting dinosaurs at the exact locations where they are going to die via markings on trees. One of the characters accidentally steps off a path and killed a butterfly. They then returned to the present to find that the printed words at the entrance no longer making sense.
@@brandoncruise6398 the movie kinda haunted me ngl. Like are those people sentient? Do they remember being human? How long until the buildings are gone? Chilling.
I think a movie or short film with a very basic premise - Humans having to survive a dinosaur encounter could be VERY thrilling and full of horror if done right. No mutations or grand spectacles like JP/JW, no need to bend over backwards to explain why the dino is there. Just humans having no control over the situation. Something akin to Cujo yk?
Ok, Hell creek sound really interesting and I'm going to have to read it. As for a story recommendation to cover - "Star Trek: First Frontier" by Diane Carey and Dr. James "Jim" Kirkland. It's an interesting little sapient dinosaur time travel story and Kirkland talked about writing the bits that took place on Cretaceous Earth on one of his appearances on the I Know Dino podcast.
Oh wow! The name of this dinosaur is even the same and species as the dinosaur in Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend. The dying chief that had eaten the unusual meat referred to it as that. When you said the name, I was caught off guard. I guess they must have referenced this story you found when they made it. Even some of the elements are the same like the location, the interaction with the native people, tracking the animal down, etc. Although, in the movie, it was just a regular herbivorous sauropod. Anyway, great video!
The tyrannosaurus in Dino Crisis 2 was called a one eyed menace by one of the protagonists sometime after losing one of it's eyes to a rocket. So, 4 I guess?
Dinosaurs and horror has so much untapped potential and what little of it we do get in today's media tends to be a little exaggerated the zombie plague one was so interesting it got my mind wondering
There's so much that can be experimented with it, I agree. I mean, if one author outside of the dinosaur community can deliver on making a decent dinosaur zombie story, just imagine what else could be done by those who are.
I am surprised you didn't mention the "Primal" episode "Plague of Madness" and it's Zombie Sauropod also the "Eerie" comic reminded me of an old Goldkey or Charlton comic anthology in which a guy hunts for a Lockness like monster near an small village. He catches it in a net and a beautiful woman from the village comes to see it, he tries to impress her with his catch but she knifes him. The other villagers show up and release it as they worship it. I couldn't tell you the name sadly but it's something to check out. A lot of those off the wall comic anthologies have some wild dino fiction, might want to do an episode on some.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who has thought of the potential of a zombie apocalypse among dinosaurs. I love dinosaur horror. Like, I love the depiction of dinosaurs as ths living, breathing animals they were, but sometimes you want a good dino horror
This is funny cause I just changed my phone background to the eerie magazine cover your talking about. Then I watch this video and boom I get to see the story being explained of the swamp god.
I’m planning on making a stop motion horror short with accurate dinosaurs (probably a feathered dromaeosaur) on my channel. Also I think Hell Creek would make a great movie or TV show. I know I’d watch it! RIP ankylosaur
I'm excited for the Primitive War adaptations. Hope it does bring good "dinosaur horror" the books had a little bit of. The sequel book's main antagonists are extremely interesting to me, and the Utahraptors in the book I hope will be faithfully translated as such.
The only thing resembling dinosaur horror I can really recall ever reading is the short story A Sound of Thunder by Ray Bradbury. It's not even really about dinosaurs, just time travel and the butterfly effect with dinosaurs thrown in.
Anyone remember the Star-Spangled War Stories comics from DC from the 1950s and 1960s? A lot of the issues covered what they titled “The War That Time Forgot”, where US soldiers and sailors battle dinosaurs during World War II.
Hey diego what if you made videos on underated/overlooked dinosaurs kinda like the lost paleo media series. I think that would be pretty cool to show off some dinosaurs that dont get a lot of love like shringasaurus.
Thanks for the suggestion, but no. There are already several other channels out there who's content matches the kind of video you're asking for. Mine isn't because my main focus is on paleomedia.
In The Walking Dead season 5 episode 12 or 13? There's a character Eugene he's one of the survivors in the main group. Smart guy who lies to everyone being an important scientist who can cure the zombie outbreak just to guarantee his own safety in the group. In the scene, they're walking on an empty railroad while being bored, and Eugene ponders what if dinosaurs and died to extinction because of the zombie outbreak. He talks to himself saying "it would be interesting to see ankylosaurus chasing down a diplodocus, that would be a videogame I would be playing."
I read a dino horror short story years ago. I don't remember much of the details but it was the typical story of indigenous people's revenge curse that befall on greedy city folks. The gist of it is about a paleontologist discovering and obsessing over the discovery of giant, perfectly complete T-Rex skeleton deep in the jungle. It was worshiped by villagers as a guardian deity so they vehemently refused his attempt to buy it off of them. The paleontologist then hired mercenaries to attack the village, kill everyone to silence witnesses and retrieve the skeleton to his museum. The paleontologist was later killed when the skeleton came alive one night and ate him.
Honestly, it does! Like, if Bill Watterson made a Calvin and Hobbes Halloween special with them playing with dinosaur toys that eventually turns into one of their imaginary adventures. Man, I miss Calvin and Hobbes.
For the last story... Not only does it portray a zombie apocalypse in the dinosaur realm, but it shows the infection hopping across species in a meaningful way (even the herbivores aren't immune). Too often with zombie apocalypses, the virus either only affects humans, or the effects on other animals is poorly explored (think Train to Busan, where a deer is the first creature to he zombified before we see any human zombies, but then the rest of the movie doesn't portray any other zombie animals at all, not even zombie pigeons at any of the tran stops). I very much applaud the author for portraying interspecies infection the way he did!
Wasn't One-Eye also the name of a very famous 2000 AD Tyrannosaur than terrorized the Flesh comics at one point? Her grandson was Golgotha in ABC Warriors.
And her son. Satanus was held in a zoo at the time of the atomic wars, and left to roam the Cursed Earth. Golgotha was his son. Flesh was a great series. I suspect Old One Eye in Flesh was the first, the Morrison one in DvA couldn’t be a coincidence considering his background.
I have been expecting such a topic like this one. Dinosaurs could be creepy if you looked at them the wrong way. Carnivore dinosaurs being mindless bloodthirsty beasts is a common trope in movies recently, it is a common misuse of predators.
ok what's the 2nd? The one from Dino Crisis or that one Turok video game? So at least four 1. One Eye the Edgelord 2. One Eye the Vengeful Mother 3. One Eye the Zombie 4. One Eye the Persistent Predator
I also liked "Hell Creek." I just liked the idea of dinos of different species banding together to fight a common threat. Who knows? Maybe Trikes and Ankylosaurs joined forces during migration to fight off predators. When I was a kid, I read comics entitled, "Star-Spangled War Stories," which featured the US military battling dinosaurs and marine reptiles in and around lost islands in the Pacific during WWII.
You should totally check out these two obscure short stories, “The Monster Of Lake LaMetrie” it is a Nessie meets Frankenstein type story and “The Monster of Partridge Creek” is a sort of Dino-western featuring a Ceratosaurus. Also “Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs” is a fun lesser known dinosaur novel.
I’m losing my mind, this was recommended to me and makes me feel like I’ve been transferred to a universe where dinosaur horror literature is the standard, I loved this video lol
I remember there were Jurassic Park comics in around 1994. Aside from the story lines advancing the story with Dr Grant there was another featuring dinosaurs set in the Jurassic period. No dialogue, no narration but the artist conveyed exactly what was going on with action and expression alone. I am going to go and find it now its surely out there.
Here’s my horror story; a Dino was in a small cage, screaming for a sky to lift its wings. A forest where to forage. A flock. But it had none that… All it had, was a maroon beak, & torn up talons.
The "Swamp God" story is probably my favourite out of these three; simple yet effective. Also, speaking of mokele mbembe, have you considered doing a video on dinosaur cryptids?
Maybe the triceratops and the ankylosaurus herd helped other dinosaurs to survive and tries to find a new home where there’s a hidden place for them to live
Late to the party... The Zombie Dinosaur story reminds me of an episode of "Primal" where the two main characters (a caveman and a dinosaur) are being terrorized by an infected dinosaur that looks a lot like a zombie. It is a pretty epic show.
Mokole Mbembe also appears in the Light Novel Goblin Slayer. It is considered as a young hydra, as they're supposed to grow more head with time (in GS's diegesis). Despite its classification as a hydra, it keeps it's sauropod-like appearance and the water-dwelling behavior
24:45 Elaborating on this “Three T Rex known as One Eye” thing, if I had a quarter for every Dinosaur character named “Fang” I knew, I’d have a dollar. Which, a dollar in today’s economy isn’t a lot *BUT ITS NOT A GOOD SIGN IMO*
