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Summary: Carnosaur
Review: This is actually a very good movie with an incredibly dark tone. It is NOT for children, having extreme gore and language.
The SFX are decent at best. There are a few good FX, but the
deinonycus is mostly a hand puppet.
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Summary: CARNOSAUR RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: A mad scientist named Dr. Jane Tiptree (Diane Ladd) mixes dinosaur and chicken DNA together and hatches meat-eating dinosaurs (carnosaurs) from chicken eggs. Okay, she only hatches Velociraptors and T-rexes. She lets them loose on a Navada town, and the carnosaurs begin to eat people. She also makes a virus that makes women give birth to carnosaurs! Who can stop them? Doc Smith, a former doctor that guards construction equipment, and Ann Thrush, an enviormentalist. Okay, the special effects really, really bite. But the other stuff, plot, acting, screenplay, direction, are all fairly good. I love this movie, and I love it's sequels, too. Favorite Part: Doc and Ann battle a T-rex with bulldozers.
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Summary: This ones a stinker
Review: Carnosaur was well...a really crappy film. The acting was terrible, the dinosaurs were fake as...um you know the rest..
The plot go's like this. Mad scientist hates humanity so she does some wierd expriment which causes chickens(inculding humans..well just woman)to give birth to Dinosaurs. So she does this and creates some mad chaos which will eventually come to an end for mother earth! Oh no not another end of the world movie! Overall the Plot was O-k I guess but ruined by really lame characters and really "scary" Dinosaurs. The film had some really cliched moments. For some reason I just found it really funny though yet very disgusting for one example is when abunch of activists are killed by the dinosaur. One activist(Who I sware for one split second I thought it was George Carlen)says "greeting green brother". I was like "um ok....what the hell?" Either he was high on crack or he's just really stupid cause if any activist saw a green T Rex commin at them they would have ran for there life. For an example...I know this is pointless but If I knew there were some kind of crazy stuff goin around that place and there was a rubber dinosaur headed our way I would have atleast had a Loaded shotgun ready(Dawn of the Dead 04 style). This film was just plain stupid...
The gore in this film is pretty gory and yet sooooooo fake as...you know the rest. The only real gory scenes is when the activist gets his face torn off which he gets for saying something really stupid like that.. I overall enjoyed this film in a "fake yet really funny sort of way". Speaking of funny, funny man Clint Howard is in this movie!..And sadly he gets killed. To be honest I wish he was the hero in this film not some drunk idiot who gets all the credit.
Bad Acting, Fake Gore, a pretty average plot ruined by almost everything in this film only to be saved by Clint Howard(who dies later on) gives this film a
2.0 out of 5
....Clint saved this film..pretty much..
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Summary: BITING FUN
Review: Coming on the overwhelming reception for JURASSIC PARK, hence came CARNOSAUR. Long-time b-horror maven Bert I. Gordon got a bigger budget and has delivered a bloody but diverting monster movie.
Brilliant geneticist Diane Ladd has created a virus which she is putting in chickens, so that when they hatch their eggs, they are being sold and unwary citizens are eating the eggs and getting sick, and even worse...won't spoil the plot. Ladd's performance is so coldy calculating that she comes across as one of the most intriguing villainesses in some time.
Raphael Sbarge is a construction maintenance worker who guards the equipment from a group of protesters, wherein he meets Jennifer Runyon (a strong Mariel Hemingway lookalike) and they inevitably fall in love after being saved from the evil Carnosaur.
The dinosaur effects are nowhere near as brilliant as Jurassic's, but they are convincing enough---even when they're munching on someone's arms or legs. Harrison Page as the stalwart sheriff meets his fate in a rather ouch way...
I haven't seen the sequels yet, but this is an above average thrillfest.
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Summary: Another "The End OF The World" movie.
Review: Low budget little film about a crazy scientist, Diana Ladd, who alters chicken eggs so that human females can give birth to ... dinasaurs. Watchable & funny.
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Summary: Extremely Gory Dinosaur Action/Horror Flick!
Review: O.K. we can admit that this movie is in the wrong when the graphics take place. I mean its hard to enjoy this film looking at a dummy. besides that this film is pretty cool. it has a great storyline behind it. the acting though is kind of but besides that this movie is alright.
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Summary: Extremely Gory Dinosaur Action/Horror Flick!
Review: PLOT: A mad scientist, Dr. Jane Tiptree (Diane Ladd), has created a virus to wipe out humankind. The virus makes women give birth to carnivorous dinosaurs, who grow up quite fast and begin chomping on people. A security guard named Doc Smith (Raphael Sbarge) and a tree-hugging enviormentalist named Ann Thrush (Jennifer Runyon) find this out and try to stop Dr. Tiptree before it's too late. Color, 83 minutes, Rated R (Extremely graphic violence and language).
REVIEW: I think this was a pretty much okay dinosaur movie. Everything is pretty much good, but the dinosaur effects... well, let's just say they're no Jurassic Park (1993). Since it was made by Roger Corman, it's automatically a B-movie. Also, there is a subplot about government soldiers shooting people left and right just becuase of the virus, which I think is unneeded. Also, this movie is extremely gory, with dinosaurs ripping people to shreds. But, all the violence makes this movie sort of fun.
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Summary: Well, wasn't that special!
Review: The film isn't that bad. It's kind of interesting. The special effects (if you could call them special), however, aren't up to the standards established by "Jurassic Park." I mean what did you expect? But "Carnosaur" is quite impressive and entertaining. You'll probably like it if you're fond of Godzilla movies.The story of "Carnosaur" is about a female scientist (Diane Ladd) who wants to put an end to humanity and return the world to the dinosaurs, "The Age of Wonders." The dinosaurs are returned to the world at first by injecting DNA into chickens. The dinosaurs then hatch from the chickens' eggs. Later, a virus is formed, infecting people and causing women to give birth to the behemoths. The end to the film is not what one would expect, but if you enjoy some-what low-tech special effects, far fetched storys, and violance that's kind of cheezy, then "Carnosaur" is the one for you.
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Summary: Now here's a Dinosaur movie!
Review: This is a favorite movie of mine simply because (A) it's entertaining and (B) there is nothing else like it. Take a vicious pack of phony-but-awesome dinosaurs, morbid black humor, loads and loads of gory violence, creepiness in every shape and form, and a completely outrageous and very original plot, and you would get Carnosaur. I absolutely love this movie. The acting is excellent, the directing is excellent, everything is excellent with the exception of the special effects, which are still very entertaining if not entirely convincing. In the end, the only complaint I had about this movie was that it had almost nothing to do with the original novel by Harry Adam Knight (which I also read and loved). In fact, the only things this movie has to do with the book is that the movie took the basic premise of a mad scientist trying to give the world back to the dinosaurs by mixing fossil dino DNA with chicken DNA to create the beasts and then sick them on humanity. It also borrowed a few of the kill scenes from the novel. That's it. Everything else is changed. This doesn't detract from the enjoyment and thrill factor though, and this movie still is well worth seeing for those who aren't stupid enough to expect Jurrasic Park-like special effects in every dino flick they see, which was, last time I checked, about 90% of the United States population. If you liked this, you might also enjoy the two sequels which are just as much fun, but not as good, original, or dark.
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Summary: Who knew chickens would bring down mankind?!?!
Review: This is the story about how a crazy female scientist uses chickens in an attempt to destroy mankind. After years of research, she creates a chicken egg that hatches...a dinosaur! This is all nice and quiet and out of the government's reach, but sadly when a truck driver escapes with an egg inside a crate full of chickens. He then proceeds to escape and eat the residents of a southwestern town. The tables have turned! Now it's the chickens' turn to dip humans in sweet-and-sour sauce! Unfortunately, a drunk and down-and-out construction worker (who is battling local hippies who don't like people moving dirt because, after all, the dirt was here first) discovers bodies and encounters the carnosaur, then goes to meet the scientist who created the thing. He discovers that she has created a plot to destroy mankind. Sadly, all this is after forty-five minutes into the film. The next half hour is the scientist (played by Diane Ladd) blabbering on and on about how humans stink and the planet belongs to the dinosaurs (hey it's not our fault they can't survive one stinkin' meteor!). This made the film absolutely BORING! For the love of god, lady, SHUT UP! I was yelling at our hero to just shoot her so the scene would end! Diane Ladd is no Marlon Brando, and Dr. Tiptree is no Colonel Dax. I think the writer knew he had a cool idea for a sci-fi plot, then just overindulged himself. The film in general is just bad. Bad affects, horrible filmmaking (Roger, encourage your directors to PLAN their shots), and a script that is creative in it's content but fails to deliver. Yeah the idea was cool and the twist ending surprised me but...it's just a bad script. Maybe it was all the stupid side-jokes like, "Dinosaurs ruling the planet...that would make a great theme park." BOO!! There is one reason to see this movie: the part where the hippie says to the dinosaur, "Peace, green brother!" Ah, such fine last words...
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