Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Costas Mandylor | ... | Dick Sydney | |
Charles Napier | ... | Sheriff Harper | |
Bruce Weitz | ... | Dr. Campbell | |
Matt Borlenghi | ... | Tom Banning | |
Jane Longenecker | ... | Diane Harper | |
Max Perlich | ... | Deputy Kerrigan | |
Jake Thomas | ... | Michael Banning | |
Price Carson | ... | Edwin Danders | |
Joanna Pacula | ... | Paula Kennedy | |
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Jamie Akhavi | ... | Judith |
Don Pugsley | ... | Janitor | |
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Fred Burns | ... | Deputy Collins |
Ric Sarabia | ... | Carl | |
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John Timmons | ... | Buddy |
Michael Waite | ... | Larry |
After an African dinosaur ancestor of the crocodile is found, Dr. Campbell uses its DNA to create prototypes at Paula Kennedy's Genetic Research Co. (Gereco) lab. However one must be put down after killing someone, another escapes and the information is kept from sheriff Harper. His daughter, county dog catcher Diane Harper, helps her ex (welding artist Tom Banning) with his kid brother Michael's beloved dog. They bump into Campbell and discover the dinocroc is growing, having escaped down a tunnel. Although Gereco hires Australian crocodile specialist and intrepid hunter, Richard 'Dick' Sydney, the beast proves impervious to bullets, so the body count rises alarming. Written by KGF Vissers
Roger Corman makes entertaining movies, and he's made several giant monster movies for the sci-fi channel. Out of them all, this follows his classic style the most, including not so good special effects.
The classic style that didn't work includes the monster not showing itself, lots of people shots that are just fillers, and slow story development.
The special effects croc is a joke. It has no believability to its character.
This is a cheesy movie what people expect from a borderline B movie. Since this was first in line of many of this type of movies to come, it may have had budget problems. In any case, the movie itself was successful, and spawned many different super beast movies. The later productions has much better quality.
I couldn't warm up to this movie, and this is not one of the best of super monster series that came from Roger Corman's production.