Raptor (film)
Raptor is a 2001 direct-to-video horror film directed by Jim Wynorski. It re-uses dinosaur footage from the Carnosaur films and cuts them together with new footage shot by Wynorski. The film was created through Roger Corman's company New Concorde, which had worked on the Carnosaur films.[2][1]
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Directed by | Jim Wynorski |
Produced by | Roger Corman |
Written by | Frances Doel Michael B. Druxman Jim Wynorski |
Starring | Eric Roberts Melissa Brasselle Corbin Bernsen |
Music by | James Horner |
Cinematography | Andrea V. Rossotto |
Edited by | Max K. Atkins |
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Distributed by | New Concorde |
Release date | November 6, 2001[1] |
Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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. Hyde, a former military researcher whose government funding for a dinosaur cloning project was cut.[3] When the Pentagon discovers Hyde obtained foreign backing to continue his experiments, they send in a strike team to save Tanner and Barbara and stop Hyde.
Cast
- Eric Roberts as Sheriff Jim Tanner
- Melissa Brasselle as Barbara Phillips
- Corbin Bernsen as Dr. Frank Hyde
- Tim Abell as Captain Connelly
- William Monroe as Captain York
- Lorissa McComas as Lola Tanner, Sheriff Tanner's Daughter
- Frank Novak as Lyle Shell
- Bruce Nozick as FBI Agent
- Harrison Page as Deputy
- Grant Cramer as McCoy, Hyde's Henchman
Reception
Psychotronic Video wrote that the dinosaur effects "are as painfully awful" as the Carnosaur films.[4] Riley Black, writing for Smithsonian in 2011, criticized the film's recycled footage for its lack of continuity.[5]
References
- Gross, G. Noel (November 18, 2001). "Raptor". DVD Talk. Retrieved November 20, 2020.
- Berry, Mark F. (2015). The Dinosaur Filmography. McFarland. p. 340. ISBN 978-1-4766-0674-3. Retrieved November 20, 2020.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-09-09. Retrieved 2013-09-09.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Raptor". Psychotronic Video. 2002. p. 65. Retrieved November 20, 2020.
- Black, Riley (September 21, 2011). "Dinosaur Drive-In: Raptor". Smithsonian. Retrieved November 20, 2020.