Looks as if Planet Of The Apes ripped the idea of the Forbidden Zone from this supposedly forgotten movie, or perhaps World Without End. This movie was interesting and cheap looking. An odd combination. The wild dogs from the pound looked really dangerous.
shareIt's actually a rip-off of the hoary old "By the Waters of Babylon" - from 1937 - which is about a primitive chap exploring a mysterious ruined city that turns out be be New York. It's always New York in this kind of thing. I'm sure the basic idea is as old as the hills.
Most ideas are unoriginal. Except for the idea of a bright pink ice lolly shaped like John Lennon, and it squeaks when you bite into it, and inside there's a hedgehog. That idea is original. No-one has thought it before. Cyndi Lauper smokes cigars made out of LEGO bricks whilst standing in the revolving restaurant at the beginning of "The Parallax View", that's another original idea. I have more.
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shareIt reminded me of "The Village". Group of people living as if they are from another era. Turns out it's modern times but they are stuck in a timewarp. and the Beast from the forbidden zone is really just another human being. I'd be shocked if M. Knight wasn't inspired by this flick even a little bit.
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The Village had one of the worst endings I have ever seen. M. Knight has never really recovered from that disaster.
shareThis film is not at all like The Village, since in that one the people were living in the modern world, but cut off from it. In Teenage Cave Man, the world actually is prehistoric. There's no modern society waiting outside Bronson Canyon (which, if you've been to L.A., is self-evident).
I don't know, I think this idea is pretty good, and in its treatment here at least somewhat original. Trouble is that, even by Corman's standards, it is pretty cheaply done.
the world actually is prehistoric