Thread:The King of the Monsters/@comment-831485-20150608143803/@comment-831485-20150609072646

The Las Vegas Monster - B&W test footage for the proposed film (about a mutant baboon from a failed NASA spaceship mission) was featured on the 2003 Warner Bros DVD release for "The Black Scorpion". Also featured on the DVD was color test footage for another unmade film dubbed "The Beetlemen". But despite the rather creepy footage (multiple Beetlemen crawling endlessly over a hillside), there's no confirmation on wither this too was meant as a giant monster movie.

Almost everything seen in the Ray Harryhausen section - There's three extremely informative books written by Ray, and British collaborator and friend Tony Dalton. These books are "Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life", "The Art of Ray Harryhausen", and "Ray Harryhausen's Fantasy Scrapbook". The official Ray Harryhausen web-site also lists these films, but don't go into full detail like the aforementioned books do.

RELATED LINK: http://www.rayharryhausen.com/filmography.php

"Breakout of the Loch Ness Monster" - The title author makes mention of this unmade 1963 film, in his book "Ray Harryhausen: An Animated Life". There's unconfirmed online reports stating that this film would eventually be made as "The Crater Lake Monster" in the 1970's, but I deeply doubt this. I have the text section from the book, BUT will share it with Titanollante at a later date.

"Behemoth the Sea Monster" / "Giant Behemoth" - Much like the early drafts for many Godzilla films, the original concept would have been very different, from the final version. The original plan was to have a radioactive slime mass, not unlike another British giant monster film "X The Unknown" (1957). And as such, this would have been a more ecological sci-fi thriller, than the dinosaur-on-the-loose film we ultimately got. This factoid has been made mentioned in various articles surrounding "The Giant Behemoth", including the audio commentary from the 2007 DVD release from Warner Bros. Elements from the original concept survive in the final film's first act, with the deadly atomic slime waste.

LINK: http://www.coolasscinema.com/2013/07/the-giant-behemoth-1959-review.html

More coming, but that should be a VERY strong star. Agreed?