- Carnosaur (film)
Infobox Film
name = Carnosaur
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director =Adam Simon
producer =Roger Corman Mike Elliott
writer = Novel:Harry Adam Knight
Screenplay: Adam Simon
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starring =Diane Ladd Raphael Sbarge Jennifer Runyon
music =Nigel Holton
cinematography =Keith Holland
editing =Richard Gentner
distributor =New Horizon Picture Corp
released =May 14 , 1993
runtime = 83 min
country = USA
language = English
budget = $1,000,000 "(estimated)"
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followed_by = "Carnosaur 2 "
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amg_id = 1:8317
imdb_id = 0106521"Carnosaur" is a 1993
horror film starringDiane Ladd as amad scientist who plans to recreate dinosaurs and destroy humanity. The movie claims to be based on a novel of the same name byHarry Adam Knight that was released in 1984, however it bears little resemblance to the novel. They share only a few scenes, the villain still has the same basic motive, and both contain explicit gore and violence. [ [http://www.stomptokyo.com/movies/c/carnosaur.html Stomp Tokyo: "Carnosaur" review] ]The movie grossed $1,753,979 - a success, given its extremely tight budget and very limited theatrical release. It also spawned two official Direct-to-Video sequels, and one unofficial sequel made up of
stock footage from the first three films.Plot
Doc (
Raphael Sbarge ) is a drunk security watchman protecting digging equipment from being damaged by environmental activists. However, he ends up making friends with one of them named Thrush. Meanwhile, Dr. Jane Tiptree of the Eunice Corporation is building a better and bigger chicken (as well as dinosaurs) with DNA from crocodiles, iguanas, albatrosses, and ostriches. One of her 'creatures,' a "Deinonychus ", escapes and makes a bloody mess out of the activists, as well as other civilians. Doc investigates and discovers that Tiptree is creating a virus in order for Carnosaurs and Raptors to reclaim the Earth as their own. The virus causes a terrible fever and impregnates women with raptor eggs, which gruesomely end the life of the woman giving birth to them. Doc and Thrush battle a "Tyrannosaurus " with skiploaders near the end of the film (an action that was repeated in the sequel). The government comes into the community in order to "sterilize" the situation by shooting all the civilians, infected or not. In the end, Thrush dies from the virus and Doc is shot by government soldiers and their bodies are burned.References
External links
*imdb title|id=0106521|title=Carnosaur
* [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/carnosaur/ "Carnosaur"] onRotten Tomatoes
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