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Ahead of its time

posted 4 years ago by ReNduezVOl (44)
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What other movie was talking about coelacanths in 1983?

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[–] thingmaker (32) 4 years ago

Well, I don't know about in 1983... But in 1958 there was "Monster on the Campus" wherein the plot hinges on blood from a dead coelocanth. And I'm pretty sure that the coelocanth is mentioned in "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" (1954). Other than that I'm pretty sure the coelocanth has been one of the most popular examples of a, so called, "living fossil" in other movies and TV for as long as a justification was needed for some sort of prehistoric critter turning up in the present day.

[–] ReNduezVOl (44) 4 years ago

Interesting, Monster on the Campus seems like a movie I really wouldn't go looking for. This is good to know.