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Monitor Lizards and Tegus In Movies |
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This is an alphabetical list of movies with Monitor Lizards and Tegus in them taken from the main Lizards in Movies List. Monitor lizards are lizards in the genus Veranus, which includes the Komodo Dragon, the largest species of lizard. They're native to Africa, Asia, and Oceania, including Australia, where they are called "Goannas" and are a food source for indigenous people. Tegus are lizards from Central and South America that resemble monitor lizards but are not related. They are thought to be an example of convergent evolution because they have physical and behavioral similarities to monitor lizards but they have no evoutionary relationship to them. (Most of the Tegus seen on screen appear to be the Argentine Black and White Tegu, Salvator merianae.) You can see more pictures and read a description of the Monitor Lizard and Tegu scenes by following the movie title link. Spoiler Alert ! Some of these pictures and descriptions may give away plot details that you might not want to know before watching a film. |
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| Altered States (1980) A Harvard scientist eats some Mexican magic mushrooms and hallucinates a bunch of lizards. |
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| Arabesque (1966) A chase scene through the London Zoo is punctuated musically to several shots of snakes and lizards sticking out their tongues. |
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| Crocodile Dundee (1986) Dundee roasts a large monitor lizard for dinner. |
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Crocodile Dundee II (1988) Dundee leaves a large monitor lizard wearing a red bandana in the bed of a man who always wears a red bandana to make the man's companions think that he was turned into a lizard by black magic. |
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| Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles (2001) Mick Dundee teaches his son Mikey how to identify a Goanna turd and not to throw rocks at a lizard unless he plans on eating it. |
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| The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002) The crocodile hunter Steve Irwin dives into the sand trying to catch a Perentie in the Australian outback. |
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| The Freshman (1990) A young film student is hired to pick up something that turns out to be a live Komodo Dragon, which gets loose and causes a real commotion. |
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| The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989) A woman suddenly dropped into the African wilderness is terrified by a monitor lizard. |
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| Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom (1984) Camped in the jungle at night, an annoying woman who's not much of a camper (played by Kate Capshaw) starts screaming when she grabs a fruit bat hanging on a line instead of her laundry and then finds a monitor lizard sitting on a branch. |
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| Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) Explorers hiking down to the center of the earth encounter giant monster lizards that try to eat them. |
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| The Killer Snakes (She sha shou) (1975) A bullied man uses snakes and monitor lizards to get revenge. |
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| Life of Pi (2012) A monitor lizard runs up to the camera at a zoo in India. |
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| Meltdown (Shu dan long wei) (1995) A terrorist throws snakes at a woman to force her to do what he wants and she is also attacked by a monitor lizard that eventually bites a man on the butt and hangs on as he is pulled up into the ceiling. |
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| One Million B.C. (1940 =Lizards, including Monitor Lizards and Tegus, and crocodiles stand in for dinosaurs in this movie about pre-historic cave people. |
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| Quantum of Solace (2008) A Tegu makes a brief appearance in the Bolivian desert. |
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| Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) A young Australian girl finds a monitor lizard in a tree and captures it for dinner. |
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| Skyfall (2012) A casino in Macao has a pit below the gambling floor full of hungry Komodo Dragons. |
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| Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) Luke finds a Green Iguana at a cave entrance and a monitor lizard inside. |
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| Swiss Family Robinson (1960) A juvenile and an adult Green Iguana scare a young girl when she's wading through a swamp on a tropical island. A large water monitor scares a woman on the beach of the same island. |
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| Venom (1981) A woman in a London pet store holds a large Tegu on her shoulder. |
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| Walkabout (1971) A boy and a teenage girl lost in the Australian desert encounter an Aborigine boy who catches and eats lizards. |
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| Yaksha: Ruthless Operations (2022) A spy keeps a large pet Tegu in his headquarters and in his car. |
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