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A genetically manipulated and very hungry dinosaur escapes from a bioengineering company and wreaks havoc on the local desert town. A security guard and a girl environmentalist try to stop b... Read allA genetically manipulated and very hungry dinosaur escapes from a bioengineering company and wreaks havoc on the local desert town. A security guard and a girl environmentalist try to stop both it and the company's doomsday bioweapon.A genetically manipulated and very hungry dinosaur escapes from a bioengineering company and wreaks havoc on the local desert town. A security guard and a girl environmentalist try to stop both it and the company's doomsday bioweapon.
Vincent Foster
- Lt. Colonel Wren
- (as Jeff Foster)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhile Diane Ladd appears in this movie, her daughter, Laura Dern appeared in another dinosaur film, Jurassic Park (1993). Ladd admitted she didn't think the script was very good and initially turned it down, until her old friend Roger Corman sent her a check with enough zeroes on it. Clint Howard's niece, Bryce Dallas Howard later starred in one of the Jurassic Park sequel, Jurassic World (2015).
- GoofsThe 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.
- Crazy creditsCredits scroll down instead of up
- Alternate versionsGerman VHS release by Empire cuts 27 seconds worth of gore to avoid being indexed by the BPjM. The "Not under 16" rated version is much further cut by 6 minutes to have pretty much all violent gore scenes removed or reduced. Only in 2009 was the movie released uncensored on DVD with a "Not under 18" rating.
- ConnectionsEdited into Dinosaur Island (1994)
- SoundtracksSTRAIT TO THE BOOGIE
Written & Performed by Regis McNicholas
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The world-famous dinosaur movie from 1993!
Well, here's a movie that for sure doesn't need an introduction! It's the biggest commercial success of 1993, or perhaps even of the entire 90s decade, and simultaneously the film that was single-handedly responsible for generating a massive dinosaur-hype that is still ongoing today! It's the...
Wait, what is it you say? Not this one?? Steven Spielberg?!?
Okay, "Carnosaurs" isn't "Jurassic Park", but surely proud producer Roger Corman never wanted this to be anything more than a joyously trashy and gore-soaked B-movie for undemanding audiences. You can't even call it a rip-off or an uninspired attempt to cash in on the success of Spielberg's hit, because "Carnosaur" unfolds like a typical 70s or 80s exploitation horror flick set in a remote little town and featuring deranged scientists and monsters on the loose.
While her daughter Laura Dern shines on the big screen in "Jurassic Park", Diane Ladd really steals the show here, as the brilliant but utterly bonkers Dr. Tiptree who allegedly works for the US Military but secretly performs experiments with dinosaur DNA, and somehow manages to hatch T-Rexes and Velociraptors via the eggs of regular chickens. Her mission: give the planet back to the dinosaurs, and thus, soon after, rapidly growing and always-hungry monsters are munching their way through the population of a little desert town.
Look at the poster image. Look at the names involved. In case you were disappointed by "Carnosaur", and co-responsible for the current IMDb rating of barely 3.6 out of 10, you only have yourself to blame. You can't expect great cinema in terms of plotting and suspense, or expensive special effects. However, you may expect a massive body count, unhinged and gooey splatter effects, and old-fashioned and dedicated handicraft effects (remote-controlled robots, suits, and puppets). Oh, and for the fans of dystopian Sci-Fi and horror, there's also a bleak and unhappy ending.
Wait, what is it you say? Not this one?? Steven Spielberg?!?
Okay, "Carnosaurs" isn't "Jurassic Park", but surely proud producer Roger Corman never wanted this to be anything more than a joyously trashy and gore-soaked B-movie for undemanding audiences. You can't even call it a rip-off or an uninspired attempt to cash in on the success of Spielberg's hit, because "Carnosaur" unfolds like a typical 70s or 80s exploitation horror flick set in a remote little town and featuring deranged scientists and monsters on the loose.
While her daughter Laura Dern shines on the big screen in "Jurassic Park", Diane Ladd really steals the show here, as the brilliant but utterly bonkers Dr. Tiptree who allegedly works for the US Military but secretly performs experiments with dinosaur DNA, and somehow manages to hatch T-Rexes and Velociraptors via the eggs of regular chickens. Her mission: give the planet back to the dinosaurs, and thus, soon after, rapidly growing and always-hungry monsters are munching their way through the population of a little desert town.
Look at the poster image. Look at the names involved. In case you were disappointed by "Carnosaur", and co-responsible for the current IMDb rating of barely 3.6 out of 10, you only have yourself to blame. You can't expect great cinema in terms of plotting and suspense, or expensive special effects. However, you may expect a massive body count, unhinged and gooey splatter effects, and old-fashioned and dedicated handicraft effects (remote-controlled robots, suits, and puppets). Oh, and for the fans of dystopian Sci-Fi and horror, there's also a bleak and unhappy ending.
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Box office
- Budget
- $850,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $1,753,979
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $142,127
- May 23, 1993
- Gross worldwide
- $1,753,979
- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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