- Actors: Diane Ladd, Raphael Sbarge, Jennifer Runyon, Harrison Page, Ned Bellamy
- Directors: Adam Simon, Darren Moloney
- Writers: Adam Simon, John Brosnan
- Producers: Mike Elliott, Roger Corman
- Format: NTSC
- Language: English
- Number of tapes: 1
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- Studio: Lion's Gate Distrib.
- VHS Release Date: Sep 7 1994
- Run Time: 83 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
- ASIN: 6302917344
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Call it Jurassic Apocalypse. King of B movies Roger Corman beat Steven Spielberg's dinosaur monster mash to the theater by weeks with this nasty preemptive knock-off. Diane Ladd (yes, the mother of the star of Jurassic Park) plays a chilly genetics scientist who gives up a career in biological warfare to build a better chicken and emerges with a giant meat-eating lizard bred from ancient DNA and poultry embryos. Think of her as a misanthropic Earth mother, spreading her genetic virus across the country through supermarket chicken eggs, and hatching her scaly brood in unsuspecting women (the birth scenes echo the earlier Corman sleaze classic Humanoids from the Deep). Director Adam Simon, who adapts John Brosnan's novel, bounces between self-consciously serious scenes of scientists and government officials huddled in impossibly dark control rooms and hilariously phony foam-rubber monsters hunting the high desert for food on the hoof. The highlight is a veritable meat market of human flesh featuring protesting hippie environmentalists chained to construction equipment ("Greetings, green brother." Chomp!). Behind the buckets of blood and gore is a sinister, cynical "end of the world" thriller with sharp references to Dr. Strangelove and Night of the Living Dead. It's far more subversive and sinister than your average rampaging dinosaur movie, and, in its own perverse way, more fun than Spielberg's infinitely more polished classic. --Sean Axmaker
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Who knew chickens would bring down mankind?!?!,
By TrezKu13 (Norfolk, VA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Carnosaur 1 (DVD)
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...
5.0 out of 5 stars
AWESOME!!!,
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This review is from: Carnosaur (DVD)
Ahh, Carnosaur. One of the best underrated & low budget films of the 90's. Having owned both the VHS & DVD, I'm happy to say that I'm very proud of this movie!!My experience started on my 13th birthday when my grandma Rose asked me what I wanted for my birthday. It was at the time when large mass market stores still sold cheap VHS (DVD was still at a young age and the Blu Ray wasn't even thought of yet!!) I told her "Walking With Dinosaurs" because everyone in my family knows I've been in love with them since "Jurassic Park" came out when I was in ECS!! (People say we'll eventually out grow our childhood interests, but not me!! I still love dinosaurs!!) So anyways, my grandma and mother both couldn't find my movie and they bought me "Carnosaur" instead!! To tell you the truth, I was scared to death to watch this movie!! (I got scared very easily at the time, especially from gore!!) So as you can imagine, I had one heck of a time with this!! But it slowly grew on me!! Now I watch it all the time!! The Story is simple enough. Dr. Jane Tiptree (Diane Ladd) is a geneticist and a woman who dislikes mankind. She is well known for her radical ways in her work. And now, Dr. Tiptree has done the unthinkable. She has revived 2 carniverous dinosaurs (A full grown Tyrannosaurus Rex, which she keeps in the basement of the facility she works at, and a baby Deinonychus, of the raptor family) The Deinonychus baby escapes captivity (Or is rather aided in the escape by the malevolent doctor)and sneaks aboard a truck loaded with chickens. After violently devouring the truck driver when he pulls over to investigate the noises in the back of his truck, the raptor escapes and begins to viciously kill of the townsfolk of a nearby town (In Various Graphic & Gory Ways.) The only thing standing in the dinosaurs' way is a drunken night watchman named Doc (Raphael Sbarge) a green peace conservationalist nicknamed "Thrush" (Jennifer Runyon) and the local town sheriff. But can they stop these out of control beasts before they overrun and eventually over take mankind? The Chase Is On!!!
4.0 out of 5 stars
BITING FUN,
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This review is from: Carnosaur 1 (DVD)
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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