If Jurassic Park Had Time Travelers, It Might Look Like Hell Creek

Back in 2020, we shared filmmaker Danny Donahue’s Evil Dead-evoking horror brief Beast of Prey. He’s received a brand new one with a killer logline: “a time traveler is hunted by a dinosaur,” and it’s absolutely value stopping what you’re doing to spend the subsequent couple of minutes immersed in Hell Creek. Check it out!

“I made it because dinosaurs were what inspired me to get into filmmaking in the first place. It’s only six minutes long, and acts like a prologue to a much larger story, but it took me an entire year to make. I’ve been creating short horror films for years, but I decided it was time to try something a little different,” writer-director-VFX creator Donahue informed io9 in an electronic mail. In Hell Creek’s YouTube video description field, he additionally breaks down the brief’s extra technical features (impressively, he’s self-taught!), and notes that “I studied all sorts of animal videos, watched Jurassic Park, Walking with Dinosaurs, and other pieces of dinosaur media to try to get a good understanding of realistic movement. Simultaneously I was planning out the short film … we filmed the short in two days with a two-person crew. After filming, I spent many months on my computer, animating, compositing, mixing, coloring, and doing everything else that had to be done to finish the film. It’s been a long time coming and I’m really excited to show everyone.”

The finish result’s brief, however hints at a world that would positively be expanded: who is that this time traveler, the place did he come from, the place’s he going, how does his know-how work, what’s he gonna do now that he has a large stowaway hitching a journey behind him? And right here’s a enjoyable truth: Donahue additionally informed io9 that “after the fact, I learned that one of our locations was actually used in the first Jurassic Park film (the raptor dig site scene) which felt like a good omen, given the subject matter.”

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