Monsterquest - Complete Season 1 (History Channel) (Steelbook)
by The History Channel
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Actor: Monster QuestDirector: The History Channel
Brand: A&E
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, 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: MQ, Season 1 - A Letdown
Summary: 3 Stars
I guess after reading the reviews I was expecting a lot more from this but I have to say it was somewhat of a disappointment. Not one of the shows in season one concluded with any proof of the creatures they spotlighted. The two episodes that held the most interest were "Giant Squid Found" and "Russia's Killer Apemen"; Those two at least had a viable amount of historical info that was indisputable. The shows are well paced and and the look is appealing but a bit more form over content.DVD Review: Very entertaining series, with poorly designed packaging
Summary: 4 Stars
I stumbled across this series on the History Channel and was hooked. The narrator has the perfect voice for this series, and (most of) the science involved is solid. The "witnesses" are of debatable believability, with some very quotable moments, but as long as you keep an open mind and don't expect conclusive evidence, the show will be entertaining. The case is metal and is very nice, until you try to get the DVDs out of their cradles. I don't know if this is just a problem with my set, but the discs were initially very hard to remove, and had to be almost bent in half to get them out the first few times.DVD Review: monster quest season 1
Summary: 5 Stars
this is great...hi quality production and great approach to tales of monsters people have been reporting for hundreds, even thousands of years...
like the paranormal? I highly recommend this video series!
DVD Review: A Pretty Good Series, Despite Some Flaws...
Summary: 4 Stars
The Monsterquest series follows a team of researchers as they try to gather evidence on monster myths and urban legends. Overall, it's a pretty decent and entertaining show. I really think they did a good job of using scientific techniques to try to test these legends. No psychics channeling the spirits here. Unlike some other shows on this topic, the team actually makes an effort to be appropriately skeptical without resorting to having a "token skeptic" talk for five minutes then leave. They also do a good job of using more believable methods than just eye-witnesses, such as hair analysis and DNA testing.
As much as I love this series, unfortunately, it has some flaws. First of all, they never come to any real conclusion in their episodes. I understand that you can't really prove that Bigfoot doesn't exist but some of the episodes do a really bad job of providing closure. One of my other complaints is lack of variety. How many types of Bigfoot are there, anyway?! My last complaint though is that this series seems to be about ready to jump the shark (or jump the Megaladon), so to speak. I've just noticed that episode quality seem to be degenerating as time goes on. The giant rat episode stands out in my mind as being particularly bad. I mean, they resort to interviewing homeless people and calling a domestic/wild rat hybrid a "big find". Why would the offspring of a domestic rat and a wild rat be anything special to get excited about?! It's not like they found a 5-foot tall rat or anything.
Strangely though, among the bad episodes, they still manage to have some that are pretty decent and interesting. Overall, I'd recommend the series just for it's entertainment value, just don't expect them to catch Bigfoot in a net or anything.
DVD Review: Good Monster
Summary: 4 Stars
I was pleases with this product , the speed of the delivery and how easy it was to get. Thanks.
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.
Bonus: Short-Form Featurettes
The 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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