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Writers:
John Brosnan (novel)
John Brosnan (treatment)
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Release Date:
21 May 1993 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Driven to extinction. Back for revenge.
Plot:
A brilliant geneticist, Diane Ladd, plans to expose a lethal virus to every human being on the planet... more | add synopsis
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Unfairly slated b grade creature feature more (71 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Diane Ladd ... Dr. Jane Tiptree

Raphael Sbarge ... 'Doc' Smith
Jennifer Runyon ... Ann 'Thrush'

Harrison Page ... Sheriff Fowler

Ned Bellamy ... Fallon

Clint Howard ... 'Slim' Friar

Frank Novak ... Jesse Paloma
Ed Williams ... Dr. Sterling Raven
Andrew Magarian ... Swanson
Brent Hinkley ... Peregrine
Lisa Moncure ... Susan Mallard
Myron Simon ... Vogel

V.J. Foster ... Lt. Colonel Wren (as Jeff Foster)
Martha Hackett ... Miss Kroghe
Michael Elliott ... Siegel
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Runtime:
83 min
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1.33 : 1 more
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Certification:
Italy:VM14 | Germany:18 | UK:15 (video premiere) | USA:R | Canada:R (Ontario)

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The Tyrannosaurus Rex effects were achieved by means of a miniature remote-controlled puppet, a man in a suit, and a full-sized, 16-foot-tall robot. However, only a handful of shots involved the full-size robot, which had too narrow a range of movements to be convincing. The man in the suit proved equally cumbersome and was scrapped. Thus, most F/X shots were accomplished with the remote-control miniature and even some hand puppets. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: The captions at the bottom of the screen, shown occasionally throughout the movie, show "Infected cells per 1 million" followed by a percentage figure. A percentage figure is unitless and not "per" anything. more
Quotes:
Dr. Jane Tiptree: The earth was not made for us - she was made for the dinosaurs. more
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Soundtrack:
STRAIT TO THE BOOGIE more

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Unfairly slated b grade creature feature, 9 January 2008
7/10
Author: t-birkhead from United Kingdom

I saw this last night having read most of the mocking and negative reviews and expecting something not much good. I was surprised when the film revealed itself to be a perfectly decent low budget creature outing, with the main idea of killer dinosaurs well realised. Granted, the effects are rubbery and easy to slate, but I had more fun just accepting that they were cheaply made and then enjoying them wreak havoc. The havoc is fairly well portrayed with a handful of nice gory kills, more gruesome than one might expect of a film of this ilk. I though the acting to be pretty reasonable, with Diane Ladd particularly standing out with a suitably crackpot mad scientist performance. It was also nice to see the oddly watchable Clint Howard in a small role. The script isn't great, and the story is more than a tad silly, but these are acceptable faults, because the film is always fun and interesting, and it goes down the odd unexpected alley, which is always nice. Mt fondness for this movie may put me in a minority but I'd say this is a fun, mindless outing that whilst no classic should provide a good deal of fun to creature feature addicts. At the least, it certainly beats the hell out of watching the drecktastic family friendly nonsense of Jurassic Park or the majority of recent dinosaur themed movies.

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