7–18 november 2012

The brilliant but evil geneticist Jane Tiptree is planning to wipe out the entire human race with the help of a lethal virus. She wants to return the earth to the dinosaurs. Officially she is running a chicken farm, but this is only a cover. She receives support and a secret lab from the American govemment. Only the cynical night-watchman Doc Smith and the energetic environmental idealist T rush are able to stop her.
COMMENTARY
A real horror movie! With the prefix B as in better ... It contains everything you could ever wish for, monsters big and small, gory effects, heros, anti-heros, sex, love, excavators, madness, blood, the end of humanity - you name it!
Malice, sure, but not of the gothic kind.
There are no murderous corn fields, possessed babies or the devil and his aunt to mess things up. It is people themselves who allow, even encourage, their own extinction.
The mad scientist Doctor Jane (played by Diane Ladd, Laura ''Jurassic Park'' Dern's mother) wants to wipe out the human race, like a mad scientist in a horror movie ought to. She sits in her high-tech lab and longs for a better world. Without people. With dinosaurs. The ground is shaking as the monsters approach the inventive little people. Dino doesn't stand a chance, of course. But neither do the people, not against Doctor Jane's mega-virus.
The bloodthirsty audience really get their fill. Certain scenes, I am not going to mention which ones ... are reminiscent of Peter Jackson's Braindead, although with slightly
less blood and gOI-e. The whole story has a touch of the zombie classics Night of the Living Dead and Invasion of the Body Snatchers. No one escapes - neither the 50 ton heavy nor the microscopic monsters. By the time the hero gets there, the cavalry is firing live bullets at their own people.
A B-version of Jurassic Par/I? Pretty much not. True, it is a dinosaur movie, but this one is not likely to sell neither cuddly toys nor Nintendo games. The dinosaurs may not be as perfect as in the Spielberg movie, but maybe that is what mal(es them so charming ...
There is something weird and slimy in the egg at breakfast... Yuckl What is it? A tiny, tiny dinosaur ... how cute ... but hungry, ouch!
It grows and grows and eats and eats ..
Soon something big will come to town .
A triple Carnousaur burger, please! Very rare ... ':'
Lotta Kempe
| Titel | Carnosaur |
| Regi | Adam Simon |
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| Prod. år | 1993 |
| Längd | 88 min |
| Festivalår | 1993 |
| Sektion | American Independents |
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