Carnosaur

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Frank J You have to respect the creativity. This came out before Jurassic Park aswell so stop complaining about it being a Jurassic Park rip-off Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/23/25 Full Review Joseph R Given its small budget, CARNOSAUR, is an underrated gem. It is its own beat. The atmosphere is somber and sour. The score is chilling, all actors play their character types well. Diane Ladd stands out as the villain from the 1984 Carnosaur novel, but I can't remember his damn name cuz I am too high right now. The gore and attack scenes are brutal. I don't care if it isn't CGI or Jurassic Park quality. No, creative miniatures and imaginative effects are the best. If you can accept Showa Godzilla, then you can appreciate all that went into film. Anyway, watch it, you chicken butt. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Jens B I couldn't figure out what the hell was happening most of the time but I will gladly watch every part of this franchise before I will even consider watching those Jurassic World Movies. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 07/20/22 Full Review Audience Member You have to love a movie that has a rubber dinosaur effect and also the budget to get Diane Ladd in its cast, much less one based on a book. Dr. Jane Tiptree's (Ladd) plan to exterminate the human race with a lethal virus and replace them with her own genetically created dinosaurs, which seems like something I can get behind. She's been creating special chickens — Death Laid an Egg? — that hatch lizards and give people the flu and you know, that's a very specialized plan for taking over the world. Doc Smith (Raphael Sbarge) and Ann Thrush (Jennifer Runyon) are our protagonists and man, they're ineffective throughout this movie and pay the price for it. I mean, for a movie with an obvious rubber dinosaur this is a movie that will shock you with scenes of families getting gunned down like they wandered onto the set of The Crazies. Within a secret bunker, the new world order plans to repopulate the human face through artificial wombs and strict fertilization rules; Diane Ladd gets herself sick off her own disease and dies but not before she gives birth to a baby dinosaur and Smith crashes a backhoe into another big lizard. But — and man, I feel like saying spoiler warning but I doubt anyone cares about Carnosaur as much as me — he gets the cure to Ann just in time for government troops to shoot them and burn their bodies. The really funny part is that Roger Corman rushed this out before Jurassic Park and had Laura Dern's mom — Ladd — in his movie, which is some kind of casting miracle. "The last thing we need is a biotech panic about chickens!" Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Audience Member The fact that this came out the same year as Jurassic Park makes me sad. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member A few weeks before Jurassic Park brought us wonder, awe, and intensity, we had Carnosaur. An annoying, ugly-looking trash-heap that to this day shocks me as to how it was released in theaters. 0/10 Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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