Carnosaur (film)

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Carnosaur
Directed by Adam Simon
Produced by Roger Corman
Mike Elliott
Written by Novel:
Harry Adam Knight
Screenplay:
Adam Simon
Starring Diane Ladd
Raphael Sbarge
Jennifer Runyon
Music by Nigel Holton
Cinematography Keith Holland
Editing by Richard Gentner
Distributed by New Horizon Picture Corp
Release date(s) 1993
Running time 83 min
Country USA
Language English
Budget $1,000,000 (estimated)
Followed by Carnosaur 2
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Carnosaur is a 1993 horror film starring Diane Ladd as a mad scientist who plans to recreate dinosaurs and destroy humanity. Although the novel by Harry Adam Knight (John Brosnan) was released in 1984, the movie was clearly made to use the massive hype around Jurassic Park, and apart from a couple scenes, was nothing like the novel in any way. Unlike Spielberg's movie, Carnosaur has scenes of explicit gore and violence.

It grossed $1,753,979 - a success, given its extremely tight budget and very limited theatrical release - and spawned two official Direct-to-Video sequels, and one unofficial sequel made up of stock footage from the first three films. Gene Siskel gave the film 'thumbs up'.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Doc is a drunk security watchman protecting digging equipment from being damaged by GreenPeace members. 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, escape and makes a bloody mess out of GreenPeace members, 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 skidloaders 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 (actually the poisonous antidote she took) and Doc is shot by government soldiers and their bodies are burned.

Spoilers end here.

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