Triassic Attack

Upset about the building on his sacred land, an Indian shaman summons an ancient spirit to stop the construction, but when they take the form of the dinosaur skeletons housed nearby, he joins with the police to stop their rampage before they eat the entire town.

This here turned out to be quite the decent Sci-Fi Channel effort. One of the film's better features is some rather fun and enjoyable action scenes here that give this some fun and enjoyable scenes, as the ceremony to bring them back to life is one of these highlights. There's some fun to be had with the gathering of the different elements needed, the flashing images as the connection occurs unknowingly during the ceremony and then finally unleashing the skeletons which leads into the secondary attack on the construction site outside in a wholly impressive scene, while the student attacks in the forest that eventually results in their bloody discovery later and the escape in the police car trying to dodge the creatures always breaking in, bursting the creature to pieces before chasing them into a water- tower. Later action scenes here are a lot of fun as the big school-site ambush as it begins rampaging through the gathered faculty members at the ceremony which brings on plenty of fun action with the encounters of the staff and the others trapped inside while giving this some rather fun action. That doesn't even get to the film's two main highlight scenes, the big attack on the beach where skeleton creatures goes on a rampage at the fraternity initiation and begins chomping down on the members quite gruesomely in an extended and enjoyable sequence, while the finale comes off as a lot of fun with the secondary spiritual ceremony and the different attacks on the town before finally getting to the unique and creature finale that's wholly fun here. Along with the novel idea of the skeletons instead of the flesh-and-blood creations, there's some good parts here though it does have a few small issues. The biggest problem here is the film's use of those skeleton dinosaurs, as they're an absolutely horrendous execution filled with several problems as this absolutely kills off the gore here by never giving the kills anything to go on as this barely even contains any blood. None of the kills here have any of that, and it's such a detriment that the cheesy atmosphere is completely gone. That also gives way to the film's other problem with such ludicrous and pathetic CGI that's beyond laughable and becomes such a severe flaw considering the screen time they have as this continues on with the same flaws as usual. Otherwise, this was a decent enough effort.

Rated Unrated/R: Violence and Language.