Lassie & Nessie
Posted by: Loren Coleman on September 1st, 2006
The new Lassie movie opens September 1, 2006, and I predict it will be a runaway hit with babyboomers who use the excuse their kids want to go see it. 🙂
For Cryptomundo readers, I hope someone reports back soon on what happens during the appearance of the Loch Ness Monster and lochside researchers (Edward Fox playing one of them) during Nessie’s cameo in the motion picture.
Set just before World War II, this cinema version returns us to its original plot apparently, but was the Loch Ness Monster in the first version of this?
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
I don’t recall ever seeing the Loch Ness Monster mentioned in any of the original spate of Lassie films. I’m not a real expert, though.
Hey, thanks for mentioning the new Lassie film. I had no idea this was coming out. Knowing that Lassie is sharing the bill with Nessie makes it way more appealing, as I was never a huge Lassie fan.
“what’s that, Lassie? Nessie has Timmy trapped down at the shore?! Let’s go save him!”
Now, that’s funny.
You have to love the exposure this field of interest is getting. I think it’s wonderful that the general media have become more accepting of cryptozoology. More and more movies, books, childrens cartoons and toys are featuring cryptids and it’s awesome that such an icon as Lassie is including a famous cryptid in a new adaptation of an older movie.