included · Mechanical

100 Million BC

Griff Furst · 85 minutes

A scientist from the failed Philadelphia Experiment leads a team of Navy SEALs back in time to the Cretaceous Period to rescue the first team he sent back during the 1940s. Things go wildly awry though, when on his return he accidentally brings a giant, man-eating dinosaur back through the portal and into modern-day, downtown Los Angeles.

Science Fiction, Adventure, Action

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Time travel drives much of the story.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Mechanical.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

A rescue mission into prehistory and a dinosaur brought back make two-way temporal displacement central to the action.

A scientist’s experimental portal sends rescuers to the Cretaceous and brings a dinosaur into the present.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan16.1

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance7/10

high confidence

Quality consensus3.5/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 27.28 base × 59.2% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Michael Gross, Christopher Atkins, Greg Evigan, Marie Westbrook, Phil Burke

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Releases & formats

4 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

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