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Carnosaur (1993)

Diane Ladd (Actor), Raphael Sbarge (Actor) | Rated: R | Format: DVD
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)

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Product Details

  • Actors: Diane Ladd, Raphael Sbarge, Jennifer Runyon, Harrison Page, Ned Bellamy
  • Format: Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: New Concorde
  • DVD Release Date: April 18, 2000
  • Run Time: 83 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004OCXU
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #90,548 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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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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Item Name: Carnosaur; Studio: New Concorde

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What in the hell is wrong with you people?, September 17, 2000
By Lodi (Stockton, California United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Carnosaur (DVD)
this movie is sooooo good! Ok so its looks Bad on some parts but thats why its a B Movie. For me in General I like to watch all kinds of movies. This movie rocks. If your the Kind on person that likes Big movies with big Stars dont buy this movie.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars BITING FUN, December 31, 2003
By Michael Butts (Martinsburg, WV USA) - See all my reviews
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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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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Carnosaur (1993), June 22, 2002
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This review is from: Carnosaur 1 [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This is probably the most bizarre and dark movie ever to be made. The plot is pretty weird, and the special effects are terrible. The plot: A mad scientist, Dr. Jane Tiptree (Diane Ladd, mother of Laura Dern, who was in the other dino film of the year, JURASSIC PARK) uses chicken eggs to make an army of Velociraptors and T-rexes, and she sets them loose in a quiet town. There is a lot of gore, so it's no wonder why it's rated R. The acting and music is pretty good, and the dino vision is cool. Their vision is how it looks like when you have night vision goggles on; it's a greenish color. This is overall an okay movie, watch it more than once. CARNOSAUR 2 (1995), CARNOSAUR 3: PRIMAL SPECIES (1996) and RAPTOR (2001) are it's sequels.
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4.0 out of 5 stars just plain Awsome!!!
this movie is great! Carnosaur and Carnosaur 2 is magnificent, the rest are just awful. but Carnosaur and Carnosaur 2 are the best and are highly recomended for a day when you are... Read more
Published 4 months ago by David Blackwell

1.0 out of 5 stars A childhood flashback
This is my childhood memory, this is the movie my parents would never let me watch until now, this is carnosaur

Plot- a bit to much like jurassic park. Read more
Published 6 months ago by POD JAWS

3.0 out of 5 stars Yum-Yum-Eatum-Up!...
Eeevil scientist, Dr. Jane Tiptree (Diane Ladd) is hellbent to exterminate mankind by re-introducing super-killer-dinosaurs into the environment. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Bindy Sue Frønkünschtein

4.0 out of 5 stars "Greetings Green Brother!" Chomp!
Carnosaur is a very unique movie, one that is very hard to describe. ...I think I'll start from the beginning... O.k. I first rented Roger Cormans Carnosaur when I was 7. Read more
Published 22 months ago by brownie

5.0 out of 5 stars 2 of the worlds most dangerous speicies
i rented this a lot when i was a little kid cause i was a die hard dino fanatic!just now i am realizing how many fake effects it takes to screw in a light bulb. Read more
Published on January 21, 2006

4.0 out of 5 stars If You Love B-Rated Movies, This Is A Must Own!
Come on guys, since when did B-rated movies ever really become Oscar worthy. The gold hidden in these kinds of movies is the fun you get out of them, and this movie is full of it... Read more
Published on January 8, 2006 by GameraRocks

2.0 out of 5 stars This ones a stinker
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. Read more
Published on December 20, 2004 by Robert Evans

4.0 out of 5 stars Carnosaur
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. Read more
Published on August 1, 2004 by Brenda Atwell

2.0 out of 5 stars Who knew chickens would bring down mankind?!?!
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... Read more
Published on July 12, 2004 by TrezKu13

4.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Gory Dinosaur Action/Horror Flick!
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... Read more
Published on August 19, 2003

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