Monsterquest - Complete Season 1 (History Channel) (Steelbook)
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Actor: Monster QuestDirector: The History Channel
Brand: A&E
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 611 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-27
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: A&E HOME VIDEO
DVD Reviews of Monsterquest - Complete Season 1 (History Channel) (Steelbook)
DVD Review: Things That Go Bump in the Night--or the Mind?
Summary: 4 Stars
"Monster Quest" is one of life's guilty pleasures. Each episode features high production values, good narration and a spooky story. The series clearly leans toward the "monsters are real!" side of the spectrum, but it presents the views of skeptics as well (albeit in a pretty perfunctory way).
Each hour creates an entertaining atmosphere of mystery, but the show is honest in reporting negative results. The camera traps that are set to take pictures of elusive beasts yield lovely shots of deer, horses, cows, cars and even eagles, but (so far, at least) never a Sasquatch, skunk ape, or dog man. DNA testing shows that the mutant monster dog is not a dire wolf--it's a big feral dog. The footprint of an elusive orang pendek (hypothesized to be a relict specimen of homo floresiensis) turns out to belong to a bear. And a clever experiment with high speed photography does a good job of refuting the theory that "rods" captured on ordinary video cameras are creatures from another dimension.
Whether you think of monsters as real or as folklore, this show will do nicely if you just want to sit back and enjoy a spooky, interesting story for an hour or so.
DVD Review: Cryptozoology All-Stars
Summary: 5 Stars
Cryptozoology enthusiasts will no doubt rejoice at the long awaited DVD release of the first season of History Channel's successful Monsterquest series. This deluxe metal case comes with four DVDs, containing all thirteen episodes of the original first season. Amongst the creatures covered are Champ (the lake monster of Lake Champlain), bigfoot, giant 'thunderbirds' sighted in the Midwest, the Florida skunk ape, giant squid, Indonesia's orang pendek, rods (strange rod like things caught on film), strange dog like creatures killing pets and livestock, mystery big cats in the US, the Bray Road Beast (a 'werewolf' in Wisconsin), giant fish, and the rumored ape-human hybrids Stalin wanted to create. Quite an exhaustive list of monsters, both well known and more obscure.
Each episode is relatively straight forward - they give an overview of the monster or creature in question, some interviews with witnesses, the camera crews go out looking for evidence or footage, and some comments from 'experts,' both skeptical and believing. Unfortunately, as interesting as the subject matter is, the show rarely comes up with anything new in the field. I mean, we still are no closer to 'proving' the existence of sasquatch one way or another. But it does give some interesting and up-to-date information on sightings, especially with the more obscure cases. Monster lovers young and old will no doubt appreciate the amount of background information given on these creatures, and the sightings aren't especially frightening for most children, so all ages can appreciate the show. Incidentally, the 'bonus' footage only consists of outtakes and unused footage from some of the episodes, mostly in the form of interviews with witnesses. This could be useful to researchers, but theres not alot of new data.
The biggest downside to this release is that, as nice as the packaging is, the individual discs are painfully difficult to get out of their little slots and I'm always afraid I will damage them. I really hope they change the packaging for season two, when/if they release that. Furthermore, the 'giganto' episode featuring the search for the extinct ape gigantopithecus is not featured on this DVD (hopefully we'll get that later on in season two). Still, in spite of these small flaws, this release is AWESOME. Anyone with an interest in the paranormal or unexplained will get a kick out of this. And if you like this, keep your eyes peeled for season two, which has more episodes (twenty or so I think) not only exploring new monsters (chupacabras, hogzilla, the beast of exmoor, ghosts, etc) but also re-visiting some of the cases from this season! More goodness indeed!
DVD Review: a complete season
Summary: 4 Stars
After being gone for nearly a year; I was finally able to see all of the programs episodes. Alot of them deal with the same equipment and the effectiveness is spotty, yet promising. At least someone is taking a professional and scientific approach to trying to find conclusive evidence of these mysterious creatures and happenstances. More or less the series is an updated version of an older TV series. If you're into the strange and spooky, this can help shed some more onfo on those subjects. DVD Review: Scary, very scary sometimes, but real!
Summary: 5 Stars
I only got to see part of the very cool (sometimes rather frightening) Monsterquest series originally, so I can't wait to get the DVD set to view the rest of it! I'm betting A&E will have some interesting bonus features on this series, too. DVD Review: a must-have for monster enthusiasts
Summary: 5 Stars
If you are one of those people who often wonders what might be roaming the woods behind your house, what might be lurking beneath the surface of the lake, or what made that bump in the night then I suggest watching one of these thirteen episodes before going to bed. This series is an overview of many of our local cryptozoological mysteries (Bigfoot, Champ, the Skunk Ape, etc). Several details set this series apart from many other such documentaries aired on television. First off, unlike National Geographic's "Is It Real?", this series doesn't try so hard to discredit the evidence. Also, unlike Sci Fi Channel's "Destination Truth", not all rumors and stories are accepted as fact. This series falls nicely in between, with a rational and scientific approach. Second, and more importantly, this series contains startalling new evidence that will make you gasp such as a digitally-enhanced close-up of the face of Roger Patterson's Bigfoot, recordings of sonic clicks coming from Lake Champalin (home of Champ), and the first ever video footage of a live giant squid!!
Each episode contains a computer-animated image of the creature based on eyewitness descriptions, dramatic reinactments of very recent sightings (some occuring in 2004), and equal voice time for believers and skeptics. Also in each episode, you get to follow a team of experts as they set out on their own expedition using old and new research methods to track the legendary beasts and uncover DNA evidence. Overall, I highly recomend this DVD for anyone who might be interested in the unknown, and I also believe those majoring in biology and zoology will get a kick out of it too. But mostly I recommend it to anyone who enjoys seeing the unusual.
Description of Monsterquest - Complete Season 1 (History Channel) (Steelbook)
Each episode of MONSTERQUEST is a mini-expedition to a remote far-flung corner of the world. Science and technology come together to give viewers a greater understanding of these mysterious monsters bones and key pieces of proof are analyzed and submitted to a battery of tests. Instead of relying on the clich grainy archival footage usually associated with these monsters the series goes on-location with high-tech gadgetry (special cameras listening posts even underwater lures) to further the quest for answers. While the monsters may not necessarily be real each episode does feature real scientists.The 13 50-minute episodes cover: Kraken: the Real Leviathon Night of the Monkey Man Stalin s Planet of the Apes Creature of Snellgrove Lake China s Lake Beast Werewolf of Bray Road Jurassic Fish Monsters Creatures from the Fourth Dimension America s Loch Ness Monster Man-Eating Birds Giganto II Bigfoot and the Hounds of Baskervilles.System Requirements:Running Time: 611 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DOCUMENTARIES/SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY UPC:?733961110913 Manufacturer No:?AAAE110910The History Channel's fun, scary-scientific Monsterquest roams the world in search of real-life monsters. A current inheritor of the style of the memorable Leonard Nimoy series In Search Of., the show digs up dirt on the best known urban-legends monsters. Or are they.real? Each episode, punched to the hilt with meaningful music and dramatic narration, serves up a well-documented (or at least much-rumored) freaky phenomenon. The titles of individual episodes give the flavor of the show: "America's Loch Ness Monster," "Mutant Canines," and "Birdzilla." This is not a skeptical enterprise, like National Geographic's Is It Real?, but an eager survey, complete with re-created scenes that visualize the beasties for us. One of the fun things about Monsterquest is that it introduces us to a collection of crackpots--er, witnesses--who have glimpsed the elusive monsters, such as the Wisconsin man who spotted a dog-creature and has since filled his home with lupine bric-a-brac. You're never far from some true believer who insists, "It looked like a friggin' werewolf." Naturally, there are also rational approaches: legitimate scientists examining bits of fur and tissue, DNA testing, lie-detector sessions. Snippets of historical monsters lend some pleasing shivers to the modern accounts. Watch a few of these in a row, and you'll feel like you're in the room with the UFO buffs in Close Encounters of the Third Kind ("I saw Bigfoot once!"), but the appeal is undeniable, especially for adolescent monster enthusiasts. And yes, Bigfoot gets not one but two episodes to his hairy self. Bonus wackiness: a 15-minute reel of unused footage and a few strange occurrences that happened to crew members while shooting. --Robert Horton
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