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The Curse of the Komodo (2004) -- Genetically-engineered Komodo dragons have become ginormous creatures hunting people on a remote tropical island. A small group of scientists must stop the dragons before they escape the island and destroy the rest of the world.

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Director:
Jim Wynorski
Writer:
Steve Latshaw (writer)
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Genre:
Horror | Sci-Fi | Action more
Tagline:
It's hungry.
Plot:
Genetically-engineered Komodo dragons have become ginormous creatures hunting people on a remote tropical island. A small group of scientists must stop the dragons before they escape the island and destroy the rest of the world. | add synopsis
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Possibly The WORST Film Ever Made! A Complete Waste of Time! more (35 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Tim Abell ... Jack
Melissa Brasselle ... Tiffany
William Langlois ... Prof. Nathan Phipps
Gail Harris ... Dr. Dawn Porter

Paul Logan ... Drake
Glori-Anne Gilbert ... Rebecca

Ted Monte ... Hanson
Cam Newlin ... Reece

J.P. Davis ... Blake
Jay Richardson ... Foster

Arthur Roberts ... Casino Manager
Richard Gabai ... Jeffries
Daryl Haney ... Finton
Scott Fresina ... Hotel Guest

George 'Buck' Flower ... Cashier (as Buck Flower)
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated R for language, violence and some nudity.
Parents Guide:
View content advisory for parents
Runtime:
Japan:92 min | USA:92 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
Netherlands:12 (DVD rating) | Australia:M | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:14A (Ontario) | Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Italy:T | Singapore:NC-16 | USA:R
Filming Locations:
Arcadia, California, USA more
Company:
Royal Oaks Entertainment Inc. more

Fun Stuff

Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: When Professor Phipps and his companions are confronted at the disabled jeep by the giant komodo dragon, he starts shooting with a bolt-action rifle. He fires on semi-automatic (i.e. one shot per trigger pull). Bolt-action rifles are incapable of such fire. Firing one requires the shooter to operate the bolt in order to eject the spent cartridge casing and chamber a fresh round. Special effects were used to simulate semi-automatic fire. more
Quotes:
Tiffany: [in helicopter as it lifts off in a tropical storm] Can you fly in this?
Jack: What?
Tiffany: Can you fly in this?
Jack: No.
Tiffany: Wonderful.
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Movie Connections:
Remade as A.I. Assault (2006) (TV) more

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Possibly The WORST Film Ever Made! A Complete Waste of Time!, 7 March 2009
Author: Mermaidbronze from Atlanta, Georgia

Is Jim Wynorski kidding us? This is so bad, that calling it a "B" movie, insults the genre. If there is such a category, this is definitely a "Z" movie, and not in a way that it's so bad, it's good, either. Most of those "guilty pleasures" films are at least comical. This is so inane, you can't even laugh, because you're stunned at the lack of everything that makes a film worth making and watching. First, the casting is atrocious, not a fledgling actor among the whole lot of them. Some casting agent must be banging soft-core porn actress, Glori Ann Gilbert, for her to have been cast, as she may possibly be the worst, most dimwitted actress of all time. Just peruse her filmography on IMDb and you'll get the picture. Perhaps "Curse of the Komodo" was a 3-fer picture deal with "The Breastford Wives" and "The Witches of Breastwick" and that's why it's so awful. Second, the dialog is silly, smarmy, exaggerated, ridiculous, etc. I could go on for days with adjectives describing how deficient it is. The writer must really harbor contempt for the audience, since this is possibly the most moronic dialog, I've ever heard. Third, speaking of deficient, how about the plot? What plot? What little there is isn't even good enough to be cliché sci-fi/horror flick plot. Here's an example of the nonsense. As the genetically engineered, giant Komodo dragon looms over the group of characters, one character says "he can smell us, but he can't see us. We're too close." Then then female lead runs away from the group, and the dragon. Apparently she's not bright enough to run to safety. This bimbo runs just far enough away so that the dragon can see her, and she's backed up to a tree, with nowhere else to go. Then she cowers down against the tree as though she's thinking "if I make myself very small, the monster won't eat me". She jumps out of the frying pan into the fire! Then she worsens the situation by shooting at the dragon with a pea shooter, annoying him. How clever, and we're supposed to believe this woman is the type who can survive a situation like this? One of the characters is bitten by the Komodo and left for dead by the group. He pops up later, after having morphed into cannibalistic, reptile brained zombie ala "Dawn of the Dead", "28 Days Later" and "Resident Evil". He jumps out, makes them pee their pants, and they shoot him all to hell. Finally, the end really ticked me off, because it made it glaringly apparent that the writers didn't do their research, on the species they were exploiting in the film. In the finale, just as the last characters think they have escaped, and are on the beach awaiting their rescue transport, a gang of Komodos come toward them, THE END. Hello? Komodos are solitary creatures, they track prey by scent for days, ALONE! They're an ANCIENT species of reptile, that adapted and escaped the last mass extinction. Their brains aren't sophisticated enough to communicate to each other and launch an attack en masse, much less storm the beach to get their prey!

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