The Science Fiction Horror and Fantasy Film Review
The Loch Ness Monster is large reptilian creature that is purported to live in Loch Ness in Scotland. There have been numerous sightings ever since the first photograph was published in 1934 by Robert Kenneth Wilson, plus claims of sightings earlier than that. Despite numerous scientific searches of the loch, no evidence of any creature has been found.
Films about the Loch Ness Monster have fared sporadically on the screen, beginning with The Secret of the Loch (1934), released only a month after Wilson’s photo. There have been various monster movies, as well as severa; comedies and rationalised films that revealed the monster to be fabricated.
In the 1990s and beyond, more sophisticated effects allowed better depictions of the monster and there have been a number of films on the subject the sit between either being monster movies or more commonly ones that regard it as an endangered species.
There have also been a number of oddities on the subject that explain the monster in terms of everything from robots and aliens.
An anthology of comedy skits from several different directors including Joe Dante and John Landis. The result is fairly scattershot with moments of occasional humour falling between laughs that do not come off
This offers the novelty of a Loch Ness monster film that takes place in Canada! This is otherwise a routine monster of the era made for the Syfy Channel
A witty parody of the Found Footage form where the attempts by Werner Herzog to make a documentary about the Loch Ness monster are constantly upset by the director’s insistence on sensation and faked monster appearances
Big-budget film with a CGI creature made not long after Jurassic Park with Ted Danson as a zoologist investigating the existence of the Loch Ness Monster film. This only resorts to simplistic cliches
Z-budget filmmaker Larry Buchanan makes a Loch Ness Monster film. As with Buchanan’s other films, this is so painfully cheap it is a Loch Ness monster films that never travels beyond California state
A low-budget Loch Ness Monster film, this does capably well for the most part but then bizarrely enough turns into an Alien-copy part way through
Amiable knockabout stop-motion animated film from Laika Entertainment, although the title is a misnomer and the film is actually about a Bigfoot rather than a Missing Link
The very first film appearance of the Loch Ness Monster. A hardly auspicious debut, this came before there was such a thing as the monster movie and is played mostly as a comedy. We do eventually get an appearance of the Loch Ness Monster right at the very end
Earnestly made family film from Walden Media in which a young boy finds an egg that grows into the Loch Ness Monster