they did what they wanted. I had no rapport with that new management. There was nothing I could do to change their minds." Critical reception Schneer later said he "wasn't very keen about" the film. "Because of the subject matter and the period in which it was set, it just didn't have the same appeal to me that our other pictures had. The central image of the cowboys roping the dinosaur was imaginative, but it didn't hold up for feature length." The film currently sits at an 80% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on an aggregate of ten reviews. Comic book adaption Dell Movie Classic: The Valley of Gwangi (December 1969) Legacy By the time of the film's release, interest in monster movies of this type was waning. Management at Warner Bros. and Warner Bros.-Seven Arts also changed, and the film was released with little promotional effort on a double-bill with a biker film; it thus missed its target audience and was not as successful as earlier Harryhausen efforts, but has since become a cult classic. Among the critics, The New York Times called it a "generally run-of-the-mill monster rally." The scene where Gwangi suddenly appears from behind a hill and snatches the fleeing Ornithomimus in his jaws was later copied in Steven Spielberg’s big-budget dinosaur film, Jurassic Park. During the 1980s hit TV series Scarecrow and Mrs. King, anytime a television was shown on in the series, The Valley of Gwangi was on the screen. In episode 2–28 (2000) of the American version of the TV series Whose Line Is It Anyway?, the scene of Tuck fighting the pterodactyl was used for the green screen video during the Newsflash segment. Artist Mark Cline's 2005 attraction Dinosaur Kingdom was inspired by The Valley of Gwangi. Justin Parpan's 2007 children's read-aloud book, Gwango's Lonesome Trail (Red Cygnet Press, Inc., ) features a prehistoric dinosaur named "Gwango" roaming the contemporary American Southwest. In the episode "The One Where Joey Speaks French" of the situation comedy Friends, Ross watches the film while in a hospital. In the 2011 animated film, Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur, during a night time chase scene through the town a movie theater can be seen in the background playing two dinosaur-themed monster movies, The Valley of Gwangi and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (another Harryhausen film from Warner Bros). In July 2018, The Valley of Gwangi was shown