Raptor
Region 2 DVD cover
Directed byJim Wynorski
Written by
Produced byRoger Corman
Starring
Edited byMax K. Atkins
Music byJames Horner
Production
company
Distributed byNew Concorde
Release date
  • 6 November 2001 (2001-11-06)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Raptor is a 2001 American direct-to-video horror film directed by Jim Wynorski, produced by Roger Corman, and starring Eric Roberts, Melissa Brasselle, and Corbin Bernsen. It re-uses dinosaur footage from the Corman-produced Carnosaur film series, edited together with original footage shot by Wynorski. Raptor was produced by Corman's company New Concorde, which had worked on the Carnosaur films.[1][2]

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

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]

See also

References

  1. ^ Berry, Mark F. (2015). The Dinosaur Filmography. McFarland. p. 340. ISBN 978-1-4766-0674-3. Retrieved November 20, 2020.
  2. ^ Gross, G. Noel (November 18, 2001). "Raptor". DVD Talk. Retrieved November 20, 2020.
  3. ^ "Raptor (2001) | Worsemovies". Archived from the original on 2013-09-09. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
  4. ^ "Raptor". Psychotronic Video. 2002. p. 65. Retrieved November 20, 2020.
  5. ^ Black, Riley (September 21, 2011). "Dinosaur Drive-In: Raptor". Smithsonian. Retrieved November 20, 2020.

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Films directed by Jim Wynorski
Roger Corman
Carnosaur
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