Carnosaur II

Starring:John Savage, Cliff De Young, Don Stroud, Rick Dean, Ryan Thomas Johnson, Arabella Holzbog, Miguel A. NÃºÃ±ez Jr., Neith Hunter, Guy Boyd, Michael McDonald (XI), Christopher Darga, Jason Adelman, William G. Clark, John Davis Chandler, Christopher Murphy, Rodman Flender
Director: Louis Morneau
Studio: New Concorde
Product Type: DVD

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Disturbing.....over the top gore
The horror...the horror
Bad, annoying, lame
Lame, Lame, Lame
NOT ENOUGH BITE

Carnosaur II
Starring: John Savage , Cliff De Young , Don Stroud , Rick Dean , and Ryan Thomas Johnson
Director: Louis Morneau
Manufacturer: New Concorde
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Release Date: 2000-04-18

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Disturbing.....over the top gore.......2006-07-14

As i stated in the title this film is terrible not that its a cheap nockoff of the great scifi film aliens which is definatly a minus in anyones book, but also the fact that it features the singal most disturbling scene i have ever witnessed in a film and it has cause serious problems for me in my life. Im refering to the horrible scene where the female lead is torn form the elevator and has her arm brutally torn of with blood shooting everywhere and then is disembowled spewing guts everywhere and the camera shows every second of this would be snuff-film scene to top this off i was only 7 when i saw it and it was on thanksgiving so naturally my appetite was lost that day as a result, and everytime i closed my eyes the scene keep playing itself back giving me a vomiting sensation its taken many years to finally remove this scene from my subconsience and have a decent nights sleep but my heart really goes out to Arabella Holzbog who had to endure this horrible scene and has probably had mental damage form it to so please do not ever watch this film its absoulte trash and distgusting watch jurassic park instead

The horror...the horror.......2005-03-18

I am downright proud to announce that the DVD I watched contained only "Carnosaur 2," not both films as advertised here. While I am positive such a double feature disc exists, I am in no way thrilled at the prospect of watching it. Believe me when I say that spending roughly eighty-three minutes with this Roger Corman schlockfest doesn't inspire me to run out and watch any of the other pictures in what surely must rank as one of the master of the B-movie's most inane franchises. I'll invoke my theory of cinematic unintended consequences once again (a theory recently formulated and not fully mapped out as of yet) in order to place the blame for the Carnosaur series on Steven Spielberg. It's a fact that low budget film hacks watch the box office take of any given A-list blockbuster so as to churn out a cheap knockoff in an effort to cash in on public interest. Why blame them? It's the American way to turn a quick buck. We ought to blame the people responsible for the success of the original idea--in this case, Spielberg and his "Jurassic Park." If Stevie hadn't made a film about dinosaurs run amok, we wouldn't have to suffer through the unintended consequence that is the Carnosaur series.

Having not seen the original Carnosaur film, I can't say whether the sequel picks up where the first left off. It doesn't seem like it does, though. What we get here is a government operation called Yucca Mountain located in, predictably enough, Yucca Flats. On the surface, the installation employs a bunch of civilians to house uranium waste from the nation's nuclear weapons programs. Where do the dinosaurs, specifically carnosaurs, come into the picture? If you've spent any time watching science fiction films made in the last thirty years, the answer should be more than apparent: Yucca Mountain is a GOVERNMENT facility. That means everything we see is a sham concocted by Pentagon brass to hide a secret weapons program, in this case one using fossilized DNA to clone long extinct dinosaurs. Those crazy kooks at the Pentagon! Won't they ever learn that their top-secret programs always veer out of control and end up killing dozens of innocent people? Within minutes that's what happens in "Carnosaur 2." One of the toothy beasties emerges from the lab in the basement to make quick work of the hapless civilian employees up top. The only important survivor is the son of one of the workers, Jess (Ryan Thomas Johnson), who manages to escape the slaughter by hiding. Why the carnosaurs couldn't sniff this kid out with their acute sense of smell is never adequately explained.

Cue Major Tom McQuade (Cliff De Young), one of those secretive government intelligence operatives who always knows more than he's willing to let on. In this case, he hires an elite team of government electricians (!) to fly into Yucca Mountain in order to repair faulty wiring. Faulty wiring! Shouldn't they be sending in Navy SEALS, Green Berets, Delta Force, Sylvester Stallone, or any number of better suited, highly armed soldiers to deal with the problem? Not if they want to keep it a secret. Needless to say McQuade fails to inform his team about the dangers they face. Jack Reed (John Savage), helicopter pilot Joanne Galloway (Neith Hunter), Monk Brady (Rick Dean), computer programmer Ed Moses (Miguel A. Nunez), Sarah Rawlins (Arabella Holzbog) and Ben Kahane (Don Stroud) appear to have no idea that they are walking into a Roger Corman film let alone a lair of voracious dinosaurs. People start dying quickly, starting with pilot Galloway because her demise assures that the rest of the cannon fodder won't easily escape. Once inside the facility the movie degenerates into a lot of panicky running around punctuated with do or die action movie dialogue and capped off with a hilariously cheesy showdown between a bulldozer and the king of the carnosaurs. Whatever.

There is far more bad than good in "Carnosaur 2." The most pressing question dealing with the former centers on the presence of John Savage, star of such cinematic masterpieces as "The Deer Hunter" and "The Onion Field." What in the heck is he doing in this sludge? A look at his filmography provides a few clues: he's made far more bad movies than good ones, thus classifying him as a performer willing to throw artistic integrity out the door for a paycheck. Another issue that places this movie firmly under the "bad" rubric is the swiss cheese script. Why worry about dinosaurs out in the middle of the desert? They aren't going to go anywhere without food. Just seal the base off for a few weeks and starve the creatures out, right? Nope. Everyone knows it's far better to send in a lot of people to die in particularly gruesome ways. This last point provides the barest excuse to watch this tripe--the gore is good in places, especially a nasty "arm torn from socket" gag shown in gooey close-up, but the pedestrian pacing, action film cliches, and lousy dinosaur effects overwhelm any benefits rendered by good gore scenes.

Extras on the disc are standard for a Corman/New Concorde DVD release. Trailers for this film, "Death Race 2000," "Carnosaur 3," "Piranha," "Humanoids From the Deep," and cast filmographies round out the viewing "experience." I hate to say it, but I almost feel duty bound to seek out parts one and three after watching this film. As a self-professed lover of schlock it's almost a requirement. I'm not sure I can summon up the strength to follow through with this awesome responsibility, however. One can only watch so much dreck before thinking of better things to do with one's time, such as rearranging the sock drawer or shopping for shoelaces. But who knows? Maybe one of the other installments is worth a laugh...

Bad, annoying, lame.......2004-11-20

I usually like these low budget movies, but this one was just way too dumb. There's some problem at what we're originally told is a uranium mine, so a group of...I don't even know what they are - are called in to investigate. It's with these characters that the movie really lost all hope of being good. These folks all act like obnoxious teenagers, choosing to complain and whine loudly instead of trying to solve the problem. The dialogue doesn't make any sense; someone tells them something they don't want to hear and they say things like "You're sick!!!" I mean, that's not even a plauable reaction to have. I found myself wishing that when the characters were walking down a hallway, perhaps the writer and director would have actually engaged in the activity of walking down a hallway themselves, so as to come up with some idea of what people might actually say and do when walking down a hallway, instead of all this ridiculous stuff they've got these characters saying and doing.

Overall, this movie just took way too many liberties with my intelligence. Like, toss a hand grenade at a carnosaur that's five feet away, and it blows the dino to bits but doesn't injure the person who threw it. Who is still standing five feet away. Or the guy who falls three stories onto a bed of steel pipes, and then complains he broke a rib (wouldn't he have probably broken his spine, considering he landed on his back?), and then within a couple of minutes he's not injured at all. Or the dinosaur that breaks through a steel door that looks to be three inches thick. What, they have a three inch thick steel door and then put a latch on it like you'd use for the screen door on your porch? Or the entire ending of the film, which follows the ending of Aliens except on 1/1,000th the budget. After seeing it, if you think about it for even two seconds, you'll realize it made no sense whatsoever.

Lame, Lame, Lame.......2004-10-05

So much for relying on the stars rateing system. I paid $.79 and it was worth every penny but I got ripped off for the dimes, nickels and quarters. The plot of the evil top secret government instalation is so old that if I had known that was what it was I wouldn't have paid even that much for it. If you like that kind of thing get Resident Evil it's much grosser and equally plotless.

NOT ENOUGH BITE.......2004-01-02

CARNOSAUR II tries to outdo its predecessor by waiting a while to show us the monsters and by using more refined filming. However, somewhere in this translation, the movie failed to deliver the expected thrills.
First off, we have a very noticeable flaw in the script. This movie indicates that dinosaur DNA had been harvested; in the original, Diane Ladd took sole credit for creating this virus.
Secondly, the movie used the same device to battle the creature: the construction machine attacking and ultimately killing the dinosaur.
Third, how many more movies are we going to have the person who saves the day be a kid? Hard to believe this catatonic youngster can be so bright and brave and outmuscle the adults. I Have nothing against kids, but am tired of giving them such weight in a film, more than likely to attract a younger audience.
The acting is sub-par: John Savage and his Brooklyn accent; Cliff DeYoung chewing up the scenery in the expected governmental conspiracy role; seventies character actor Don Stroud with a patch on his eye is wasted; and Rick Dean who tries to be comic relief in the role of Monk acts like he's reading teleprompter cards.
There's not as much suspense as the original, and I will probably watch the third movie, just to see if they try anything a little more original. Highly overrated, but a good time passer.

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Starring: Diane Ladd , Raphael Sbarge , Jennifer Runyon , Harrison Page , and Ned Bellamy
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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

Customer Reviews:

2 of the worlds most dangerous speicies.......2006-01-22

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.this review is short cause i can't remember the entire story,but to make a long story short,i'm just gonna say this,the dino effects are cheap,just the way i like'em.

If You Love B-Rated Movies, This Is A Must Own!.......2006-01-08

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. I've been a fan of this movie almost as long as it has been released. Sbarge does a great job as the hero in the film. The villianess of the film does a great job as well, who in reality is the mother of Dern in Jurassic Park.

The dinosaur effects are cheesy, but you gotta love it anyway. This movie is pretty gorey, so I wouldn't recommend show this film to a young one unless they are used to seeing people's heads being bitten off. Overall a fun film with a sad ending, which is always my favorite kind of ending in a horror movie. If you love dinosaurs, get it, not because it is worthy of film of the decade, but because it is pure fun and that's all that really matters.

This ones a stinker.......2004-12-21

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. Mad scientist hates humanity so she does some wierd expriment which causes chickens(inculding humans..well just woman)to give birth to Dinosaurs. So she does this and creates some mad chaos which will eventually come to an end for mother earth! Oh no not another end of the world movie! Overall the Plot was O-k I guess but ruined by really lame characters and really "scary" Dinosaurs. The film had some really cliched moments. For some reason I just found it really funny though yet very disgusting for one example is when abunch of activists are killed by the dinosaur. One activist(Who I sware for one split second I thought it was George Carlen)says "greeting green brother". I was like "um ok....what the hell?" Either he was high on crack or he's just really stupid cause if any activist saw a green T Rex commin at them they would have ran for there life. For an example...I know this is pointless but If I knew there were some kind of crazy stuff goin around that place and there was a rubber dinosaur headed our way I would have atleast had a Loaded shotgun ready(Dawn of the Dead 04 style). This film was just plain stupid...

The gore in this film is pretty gory and yet sooooooo fake as...you know the rest. The only real gory scenes is when the activist gets his face torn off which he gets for saying something really stupid like that.. I overall enjoyed this film in a "fake yet really funny sort of way". Speaking of funny, funny man Clint Howard is in this movie!..And sadly he gets killed. To be honest I wish he was the hero in this film not some drunk idiot who gets all the credit.

Bad Acting, Fake Gore, a pretty average plot ruined by almost everything in this film only to be saved by Clint Howard(who dies later on) gives this film a

2.0 out of 5

....Clint saved this film..pretty much..

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Carnosaur.......2004-08-02

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. There are a few good FX, but the
deinonycus is mostly a hand puppet.

Who knew chickens would bring down mankind?!?!.......2004-07-13

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!!

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2 of the worlds most dangerous speicies.......2006-01-22

If You Love B-Rated Movies, This Is A Must Own!.......2006-01-08

This ones a stinker.......2004-12-21

Carnosaur.......2004-08-02

Who knew chickens would bring down mankind?!?!.......2004-07-13

Product Description

A crew of technicians is sent into a top-secret mining facility to investigate a mysterious power shortage. There, deep inside the cavernous tunnels, they discover a horrifying evolution that has occurred in complete defiance of Mother Nature... Dinosaurs have returned from extinction to wreak vengeance upon mankind! Now, man and beast clash in a battle to the end. But the survival of the fittest depends upon who can escape from the mine before it explodes in a nuclear meltdown!

Customer Reviews:

Better Than The Original.......2006-01-08

Carnosaur 2 is a great film, and is my personal favorite out of the three. With the help of a kid, a group of people have to escape from a government building full of dinosaurs! The action is fast paced and the characters are very enjoyable to watch. Michael McDonald from Mad TV is on this film towards the end, he plays the helicopter pilot.

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