Raptor (2001) (V)

User Rating:

2.4/10   

Director:

Jim Wynorski

Writers:

Frances Doel (writer)
Michael B. Druxman (writer)

Release Date:

6 November 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Horror | Sci-Fi | Action

Tagline:

Fear will never be extinct

Plot:

When a series of unexplained vicious animal attacks strikes his community, Sheriff Jim Tanner and his assistant Barbara trace them back to a Dr...

Plot Keywords:

Sheriff | Military | Dinosaur | Helicopter | Exploitation

Cast

Eric Roberts	...	Sheriff Jim Tanner
Corbin Bernsen	...	Dr. Hyde
Melissa Brasselle	...	Barbara Phillips
Tim Abell	...	Capt. Connellly
William Monroe	...	Capt. York
Harrison Page	...	Deputy Ben Glover (as Harrison Paige)
Lorissa McComas	...	Lola Tanner
Frank Novak	...	Lyle Schell (as Frank Novack)
Grant Cramer	...	Josh McCoy
Teresa DePriest	...	Karen
Eric James	...	Brady
James Cromwell	...	Benny
Alexandra Raines	...	Devinger
GiGi Erneta	...	Henderson
Adam Gordon	...	Deputy Mike Baltin

MPAA:

Rated R for creature violence/gore, language and a scene of sexuality.

Runtime:

81 min | 89 min (special uncut DVD version) | UK:82 min (DVD)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Germany:16 | South Korea:15 | UK:18 | USA:R (certificate #38583)

Filming Locations:

Vasquez Rocks, Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park - 10700 W. Escondido Canyon Rd., Agua Dulce, California, USA

Company:

New Concorde

Trivia:

The Purex Poultry truck is a Mitsubishi Fuso.

Goofs:

Continuity: In many scenes in this movie you can see that the location of the events changes, from one place to another totally different place. Even in the same scene the location may change between shots. This happens because the movie took most of its scenes from other movies.

Quotes:

Dr. Hyde: [after Phillips states her suspicions about Hyde's work] Your lady friend isn't a very good poker player, Sheriff. She's just revealed her hand.
Barbara Phillips: Actually, I prefer dominoes.

Movie Connections:

References Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)

When is a movie not a movie?

Answer: When it's two movies edited together.

I saw this on the video shelf and thought, "Oh, good. Another low-budget dinosaur movie. Haven't seen one of those since Carnosaur 3." So I rented it and sat down to watch it. The first scene opens with three teenagers riding around the desert in a jeep. "Well," I thought, "This is sort of like that scene in Carnosaur." Then I realized, it WAS that scene from Carnosaur. At first, I thought they gave me the wrong tape, but this was a scene from the middle of Carnosaur, not the beginning. Actually, it was my favorite scene from Carnosaur. Now I was seriously disappointed. Instead of watching a new dinosaur movie, I had been tricked into watching clips from two old dinosaur movies edited together. The other reviewers of this movie miss one point in their otherwise on-target reviews. The movie doesn't just use stock footage in place of special effects; it exists for the sole purpose of using stock footage in place of special effects. The script was only added to string together scenes from the first two carnosaur movies. Every line of dialogue exists only to explain why these completely unrelated events are popping up like plastic gophers in a Chuck-e-Cheese game. If you want dinosaurs, rent the Carnosaur movies again.