Pterodactyl (2005)

User Rating:

3.3/10   

Director:

Mark L. Lester

Writer:

Mark Sevi (writer)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Ptowering Pterror

Plot:

A dormant volcano deep with the Turkish forest holds within it a deadly secret. Perfectly preserved, a nest of pterodactyl eggs are ready to hatch... |

Plot Keywords:

Volcano | Covert Operation | Prehistoric Egg | Prehistoric Monster | One Word Title

Cast

Cameron Daddo	...	Prof. Michael Lovecraft
Coolio	...	Capt. Bergen
Amy Sloan	...	Kate Heinlein
George Calil	...	Serling
Ivo Cutzarida	...	Yolen
Steve Braun	...	Willis Bradbury
Mircea Monroe	...	Angie Lem
Jessica Ferrarone	...	Zelazny
Danna Lee	...	Gwen Kemper
Howie Lotker	...	Jason Donaldson
Duke Faeger	...	Burroughs (as Dusan Fager)
Todd Kramer	...	Clarke
David Nykl	...	Herbert
Petr Jákl	...	Tezo
Mikulás Kren	...	Berk (as Miki Kren)

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Germany:18 | UK:18 | Canada:14A | New Zealand:R16 | Netherlands:16 | USA:Not Rated | Australia:MA

Filming Locations:

Milin, Czech Republic

Company:

American World Pictures (AWP)

Trivia:

Many of the characters are named after famous science-fiction and fantasy writers - Burroughs (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Clarke (Sir Arthur C. Clarke), Donaldson (Steven Donaldson), Heinlein (Robert A. Heinlein), Herbert (Frank Herbert, Brian Herbert), Lem (Stanislaw Lem), Lovecraft (H.P. Lovecraft), Serling (Rod Serling), Yolen (Jane Yolen) and Zelazny (Roger Zelazny).

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Angie's arm gets ripped off by the pterodactyl and you see bloody strands on the severed arm but in the next shot it's clean and neat as if it were cut instead of torn off.

Quotes:

Herbert: I got more holes in me than a Texas road sign.

Movie Connections:

References "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (1986)

Just as awful as you'd expect it to be

2 stars out of 10.

I've seen monster movies I really enjoyed, Pterodactyl wasn't one of them. It wasn't even awful enough to be unintentionally funny.

I've never seen so much shooting in my life with so little being hit-- at first I thought the pterodactyls must be bullet proof. Even when they did hit one, then the next 5,000 rounds of ammo did nothing.

The film does have some blood and gore in it, and if you have a weak stomach you might want to skip this one. There are graphic scenes of people being torn in half, and pterodactyl hatchlings pecking away at the bloody insides of people, some of whom are, amazingly, still alive.

Only a small group of people see the flying dinosaurs, the creatures seem to remain pretty close to one area. So I don't think they made the evening news.

The special effects are well done, probably by computer, and Coolio is well featured as an army captain. Other than that, there's nothing to recommend this film.

It is overly long with endless scenes of the pterodactyls flying and swooping, the humans running and screaming and endless shooting.