I suppose it’s par for the course, but these “Sci-Fi Originals” just keep getting worse, and worse, we’re well beyond “B” movie level bad, we’re at “F” or “Z” level bad now…
Of course, since the director of this “original” is none other than the infamous bad movie maven Roger Corman, it’s to be expected
at the beginning of the movie, some oversexed teens drive out into the desert to get lucky, for some reason, they have their nerdy tagalong friend along with them, Nerdy gets out to relieve himself, and ends up getting attacked by something, his bloody corpse thrown against the soft-top Jeep of his humpin’ freinds, who are then attacked by…
a cheap rubber dinosaur puppet, it looked completely fake and unrealistic, like they had used a kids toy dinosaur
later on, the genetics lab that created it is being investigated, Dino-Chow # 2 gets attacked by a full-size T-Rex, the attack scene was clearly a forced-perspective puppet biting down on an ACTION FIGURE covered in ketchup, and shot through a red filter!
we’re talking sub-grade-school effects here
It’s clear Sci-Fi has no standards now and will air anything, especially if it has a one-word name
It’s awesome! Any movie with BOTH Eric Roberts and Corbin Bernson is worth whatever you have to do to see it. And that’s not even counting the dinosaur puppets.
In the final battle scene, the Sherrif goes after “Barney” with a white Bobcat front-end loader, first, it has a bucket with a set of articulated tines over the bucket
in the next set of scenes, the Bobcat’s bucket transforms into a set of forklift tines, used as stabbing weapons
in the final scene, the Bobcat transforms again, this time, it has a long, hydraulic arm with a forklift on the end, and is used to push the dinosaur into an elevator shaft with explosives
as the Sherrif exits his Transformer, it’s turned back into the white front-end-loader Bobcat…
They do it because it makes them money. For whatever reason, the Sci-Fi Originals are profitable, especially in the international market.
If it makes you feel better, just pretend that the executives at Sci-Fi are doing it for the noble purpose of subsidizing Battlestar Galactica and Stargate: Atlantis.
Note: Roger Corman hasn’t directed since 1990; he was the producer on Raptor. The director – the man who brought his epic vision to life for us, like Zeus popping Athena out of his forehead – was Jim Wynorski, using one of his many pseudonyms, in this case Jay Andrews.
I always thought both Eric Roberts and Corbin Bersen were decent actors. How did they both get stuck on the low-budget, direct-to-video road?
Old school birdwatching lesson –
“Raptors” are, and have always been, birds of prey. It has only been since (I believe) the Jurassic Park movie that the term started being applied to killer dinosaurs.
I came across this wile waiting “for a minute” for the little woman to come to bed, an then ended up waiting “for a minute” for about eighty of them.
This movie was just…aggressively bad. I’m not even talking about the rubber dinosaurs or the action figures. I’m talking about the “Hey Kirby. Since you’re quitting and threatening to send me to the cops, would you do me a favor and check on the remotely deactivatible laser fence that holds in the T-Rex? Okay, thanks, that’s great.”
All he forgot to do was “accidentally” slather him in A-1 before sending him out there.
Jim Wynorski is awesome. Evidence? Deathstalker 2. And I was deeply tempted to watch Raptor (which should have been about killer owls) but I turned it off after A Sound Of Thunder and it’s lizardapes.
In Roberts’ case, I think it’s because his kid sister hates him (and with good cause, or so I understand). The moment her career took off she made sure his wouldn’t.
oh yeah, I conveniently blocked out ASOT and its Monkeysaurs, from the previews, it looked like the timeline was going to be skewed because somebody lost their SureFire M4 Devistator flashlight in the Jurassic era, not because they squished a butterfly, the SF changing the future would have been more improbable, and more interesting
I have a feeling that if you asked ten people on the street what a raptor is, nine of them will say a dinosaur. I’m not a birder, but lets give the raptors their due respect!
