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)	May 14, 1993
Running time	83 min
Country	United States
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. The movie claims to be based on a novel of the same name by Harry 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.^[1]

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.

[edit] 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.